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    • Frank Swietek

One Guy's Opinion

  
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Rating Title Year Quote Author

Splat
C+

U-571 (2000)

"Like the rusted old subs deployed in the story, the picture seems designed to stay in the safe shallows and not to plumb any real dramatic depths."

Frank Swietek

Splat
C+

The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)

"A solid but unremarkable piece...will be more at home on the tube."

Frank Swietek

Tomato
B

U2 3D (2008)

"While there's no denying that this is a fine concert film that should certainly please fans, it's not a watershed picture of its kind."

Frank Swietek

Tomato
B-

Uber Goober (2004)

"While one has to make allowances for its home-movie quality, this little movie's affectionately lowbrow treatment of an often-maligned subculture has a certain homely charm."

Frank Swietek

Splat
D

The Ugly Truth (2009)

"Plays like a busted Fox sitcom pilot, though heavier on the raunchiness and dragged out to a literally painful hour and a half."

Frank Swietek

Tomato
5/5

Ulee's Gold (1997)

No article available.

Frank Swietek

Splat
D+

The Ultimate Gift (2007)

"If one learns by suffering, as grandpa keeps saying here, this movie offers a good deal of instruction."

Frank Swietek

Splat
C

Ultimate X: The Movie (2002)

"Visually as buffed as the athletes it celebrates, but also as airheaded as most of them seem to be."

Frank Swietek

Splat
F

Ultraviolet (2006)

"An unholy combination of comic book and video game,...so awful that you'd swear it had been directed by Uwe Boll."

Frank Swietek

Tomato
B

Un Secret (2008)

"Avoiding histrionics and overstatement, Un Secret reveals a story about a family's past suffering that may not be unique, but in this telling is quietly powerful."

Frank Swietek

Splat
D+

Unaccompanied Minors (2006)

"Brash, annoying juvenile slapstick comedy...Once word gets around, these Minors probably won't be as much unaccompanied as unattended."

Frank Swietek

Splat
D-

The Unborn (2009)

"Shouldn't have been brought to term."

Frank Swietek

Splat
C-

Unbreakable (2000)

"Most viewers -- especially those swept up by The Sixth Sense -- are likely to find it a grave disappointment."

Frank Swietek

Splat
2/5

Uncle Buck (1989)

No article available.

Frank Swietek

Splat
C-

Uncle Nino (2003)

"There's a place for a movie like this--but it's really on the Hallmark Hall of Fame rather than in an auditorium you have to pay to get into."

Frank Swietek

Tomato
B

Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004)

"Basically preaching to the choir, of course. But that doesn't mean that the sermon isn't one that needs to be heard."

Frank Swietek

Splat
D-

Undead (2005)

"Doesn't even have the idiotic charm one might expect of a 'Plan 10 from Outer Space'...a home movie that ought to have stayed there."

Frank Swietek

Tomato
4/5

Under Fire (1983)

No article available.

Frank Swietek

Splat
2/5

Under Siege 2 - Dark Territory (1995)

No article available.

Frank Swietek

Splat
C-

Under Suspicion (2000)

"The makers hit us over the head with visual tricks ... that have the odd effect of diminishing the emotional wallop."

Frank Swietek

-

Under the Same Moon (2008)

"Interview with Patricia Riggen"

Frank Swietek

Tomato
B-

Under the Same Moon (2008)

"Engaging and touching--a manipulative tearjerker, but an effective one."

Frank Swietek

Tomato
B

Under the Sand (2001)

"While ultimately the picture is somewhat frustrating as simple narrative, Rampling's extraordinary performance makes it a powerful depiction of grief."

Frank Swietek

Tomato
B

Under the Sea 3D (2009)

"The extraordinary images compensat[e] for its lack of structure, less than stellar narration and musical missteps."

Frank Swietek

Splat
C

Under the Skin of the City (2003)

"Strikes a melodramatic, soap operatic tone...doesn't penetrate deep enough to touch a raw emotional nerve."

Frank Swietek

Splat
C

Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)

"Part travelogue and part Lifetime liberated-woman-of-the-week movie...little more than a standard-issue (and standard-tissue) women's picture."

Frank Swietek

Tomato
B

Undercover Brother (2002)

"A smart, shrewd, even charming spoof...easily beats 'Austin Powers' at his own game."

Frank Swietek

Tomato
B

Undertow (2004)

"Connoisseurs should find it the sort of dark cinematic delicacy that, if still more poetic reverie than prose narrative, is ultimately more filling than standard fare."

Frank Swietek

Splat
D-

Underworld (2003)

"For a movie about a centuries-old battle between vampires and werewolves, Underworld proves to be a surprisingly toothless affair."

Frank Swietek

Splat
F

Underworld: Evolution (2006)

"It's round two of the battle between vampires and werewolves. I won't reveal who wins, but the audience certainly loses."

Frank Swietek

Splat
D-

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)

"Every bit as inane and tedious as its predecessors."

Frank Swietek

Splat
D-

Undiscovered (2005)

"Just about the quality of a busted WB Network pilot, 'Undiscovered' certainly deserves to remain that way."

Frank Swietek

Splat
C

Undisputed (2002)

"The only thing indisputable here is that lots of talent has been frittered away on a really silly and formulaic story."

Frank Swietek

Splat
D

Unfaithful (2002)

"Slick, steamy smut served up in a series of scenes framed like Rembrandt paintings, with a soupcon of phony meaningfulness on the side."

Frank Swietek

Splat
C

An Unfinished Life (2005)

"An extremely old-fashioned story that comes across as a starrily-cast, determinedly middlebrow Hallmark Hall of Fame special."

Frank Swietek

Tomato
B+

The Unforeseen (2007)

"A thought-provoking documentary that's both informative and strangely poignant--as well as beautifully shot and edited."

Frank Swietek

Tomato
4/5

The Uninvited (1944)

No article available.

Frank Swietek

Splat
D

The Uninvited (2009)

"A prosaic thriller that needed a touch of visual poetry to make the grade...Kim's original is far scarier; come to think of it, so is Lewis Allen's The Uninvited from 1944."

Frank Swietek

Tomato
A

United 93 (2006)

"A viscerally lacerating, emotionally wrenching experience...that melds the starkness of documentary with the power of drama."

Frank Swietek

Splat
C-

The United States of Leland (2004)

"Deadly serious, almost funereal...a pretentious, dreary film, which is also frustratingly unenlightening."

Frank Swietek

Splat
1/5

Universal Soldier (1992)

No article available.

Frank Swietek

Splat
C-

Unknown (2006)

"Almost everybody's got amnesia in Unknown, and after watching it you might pine to be similarly afflicted."

Frank Swietek

Tomato
B

Unknown White Male (2005)

"Amnesia has been a staple of movies from time immemorial, but few, if any, of them have cut to the bone the way this modest documentary does."

Frank Swietek

Splat
C-

Unleashed (2005)

"High-concept schlock...mingles a thoroughly ridiculous action movie with an incredibly mawkish melodrama."

Frank Swietek

Tomato
B

An Unreasonable Man (2007)

"By presenting both sides, even if unequally, the film manages to do something like justice to an important if controversial figure."

Frank Swietek

Splat
C-

Untraceable (2008)

"Police procedural meets torture porn...sleazy and absurd rather than clever and surprising."

Frank Swietek

Tomato
A

Up (2009)

"An animated movie that's far more human than most live-action ones, and easily maintains the exalted standards we've come to expect from Pixar. It's guaranteed to raise your spirits."

Frank Swietek

Splat
C

Up and Down (2005)

"While parts of 'Up and Down' are effective, as a whole it doesn't measure up to its laudable ambition...the last word of the title proves more accurate than the first."

Frank Swietek

Tomato
C

Up at the Villa (2000)

"The result is entirely unconvincing as drama, but amusing as pulpish melodrama."

Frank Swietek

Tomato
B

Up for Grabs (2005)

"A jovial commentary on the cult of celebrity in modern America and a wonderful metaphor for today's crass commercialization of the sports industry."

Frank Swietek

  
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