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Shredder (2001)
Good: Based on Skier vs Boarder antipathy Bad: Poor script, almost no nudity
Weak script, and not enough T and A.
The snowboarders vs. skiers plot engine was good, but the snow boarding in the movie was more boring than shredding (ho ho). The box tries to make is sound like there is some extreme sports/snowboarding footage in it, but there isn't anything of note. Also the music was v. weak (something that snowboarding movies usually at least try to do).
As far as the writing goes, the lame references to the Scream (n+1) movies and other horror movies were a mistake.
As made clear by this movie, the slasher genre needs to grow in new ways. Perhaps the success of the Japanese/HK supernatural thrillers will help move things away from the obviousness of this movie. Another good horror/(semi-)slasher movie: May (2003).
**SPOILER** I will say, there were a few good gory moments, like when the killer is trying to stab someone hiding in a closet with a dead body and the killer's spike grabs the dead head, which separates from the body, and starts going back and forth towards the screaming girl. Innovative, I suppose.
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
Goes from pointless II pointless
A waste of Anthony Hopkins as an actor (there's nothing for him here), and why did John Woo do this? The fight choreographer (Billy Morts, also X2, Charlie's Angels 2) is weak compared to most John Woo films, and there's barely a drop of blood despite countless explosions. Blood is a good thing in the John Woo movies, but Hollywood doesn't like it.
The plot couldn't power a KIA up Beverly Hills, and Tom Cruise could barely push it.
For all the threat to the entire world (of course they never talk about the Greek myth that is the namesake of the threat), you are never really scared. And the ending is pure Hollywood.
Yuck.