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Unfortunately, the director cuts short the psychological drama--he was apparently afraid that he would drive away his audience if he lets too much time go by without spilling some blood--and turns a thinker's flick into a straight shoot-em-up. And that's where the movie fails...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Arnold May Leave You Feeling Less Than Pumped Up | 6/29/1990 | See Source »

...Arnold, I am criticizing the director--Paul Verhoeven of Robocop fame--for failing to make this flick different from any other Arnold movie. In every one, the indestructible Arnold runs around blowing things up and blowing people away, usually with the final goal of destroying something really important. Not that this can't be fun, but it just tends to get boring after a while...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Arnold May Leave You Feeling Less Than Pumped Up | 6/29/1990 | See Source »

...know I'll probably get voted biggest party pooper of the summer for saying this, but no matter what die-hard comic book fans tell you about Dick Tracy, if you haven't gone to see the much ballyhooed flick yet, save your $7 for something else. Spending your hard earned summer cash on this movie just isn't worth...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Cool Colors Do Not A Great Movie Make | 6/29/1990 | See Source »

...Disney company hopes to follow its Tracy flick with a new musical version of the classic comic strip. Oscar-winning screenwriter Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy) will pen the script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Cartoon Cash-In | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

While spinning its tale at warp speed, Total Recall creates a coherent world that is part prophecy, part satire. On future Earth the unit of money is, of course, a "credit." Folks flick on the wall-screen TV to check out ESPN's coverage of the Toronto-Tokyo game, then perfect their tennis stroke with the help of a teacher on hologram. Johnnycab, the robot taxi driver, chirps irrelevant pleasantries until passengers want to throttle him. A married couple debate whether to move to Mars -- as if it were the suburbs -- or to Saturn ("Everybody says it's gorgeous"). Perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mind Bending on Mars | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

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