1. The Cell

2. The Original Kings

3. Space Cowboys

4. The Replacements

5. What Lies Beneath

1. The Art of War

2. The Crew

3. Bring It On

4. Highlander: Endgame

5. Nurse Betty

1. The Green Mile

2. The Matrix

3. Independence Day

4. Jaws 25th Anniversary

5. Fight Club

 

The Art of War (R)
Wide Release;  New Line

Wesley Snipes assumes a new action pose as a deep-cover Secret Service agent falsely accused of assassinating the Chinese ambassador to the United Nations. Forced to fake his own death and vanish underground, he tries to crack a global conspiracy with the help of a non-combat-tested U.N. translator (Marie Matiko). From what we're told, the fate of the entire United Nations is at stake. Now are you impressed?

The Green Mile  (1999)

 

The Green Mile has a vivid, emotional story to tell before it sentences viewers to interminable spiritual uplift. It may be a bit much to expect searing, Ken Loach- style realism here. This is, after all, a Tom Hanks holiday movie based on a Stephen King novel — a big, gift- wrapped, Oscar- ready entertainment. Alas, writer- director Frank Darabont's strengths (storytelling mojo, deft touch with actors) are overwhelmed by his weaknesses (inability to grasp the concept of brevity, weakness for histrionics). As the third hour of mystical healing and predictable plot twists got under way, I realized there was even less compelling justification here for the gargantuan running time than in Darabont's first King adaptation (and first film), The Shawshank Redemption.


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Godzilla 2000 (2000)

A Godzilla expert has spent his life studying the habits of the great lizard, trying to uncover a pattern to predict the monster's next appearance and minimize the damage done. But, despite the scientist's research, Godzilla rises again from the ocean and attacks a nuclear power plant, destroying a city in the process. On his way back out to sea, the big guy encounters an out-of-this-world enemy. Will breathing a nasty atomic flame be enough to vanquish this foe?
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Highlander: Endgame  (2000)

The film and television series that began with Highlander in 1986 rolls forward. The fourth film reunites the hero of the first three films, Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert), with the hero of the TV series, Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul). The two MacLeods have shared the screen just once before (in the pilot episode for the television series) and may not share it again — the most persistent rumor swirling around Highlander: Endgame is that Lambert's Connor will finally lose his head. (Newbies: The Highlander heroes, or "Immortals," can't be killed except by decapitation.) The plot of the new movie has otherwise been kept almost entirely under wraps, but decapitations, immortal angst, and at least one luscious woman will almost certainly be involved.

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