Author: Rubin Safaya

To describe this film as “pornographically violent” is an affront to pornography.

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Did the studio put so little faith in this snowball of ineptitude that the filmmakers couldn’t even afford a tripod?

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It’s a ship. It sinks. People die. Sound familiar?

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This is either bad writing, bad direction, bad acting or a combination of the three.

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We could have done just as well to watch the proceedings on Court TV — free, as it were, to flip channels or get up for a snack and skip the parts that disinterest us, rather than be held hostage by 125 minutes of drive-by clichés.

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The film quickly abandons biting sarcasm in favor of gumming you to a sloppy, slow death.

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Leave it to Hollywood to take a bad idea and make it terrible.

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… logic be damned if this film needs an artificial catharsis to keep audiences from falling asleep.

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How do you say, “I want a refund,” in Italian?

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I defy you to write a dumber screenplay.

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… as fascinating as chewing styrofoam – with the occasional firecracker jammed in to make you chew faster.

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Mr. [Channing] Tatum… gives Keanu Reeves serious competition – defining numerous shades of blank of which I had been thus far unaware.

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It’s an underestimation of the intelligence of your average eight year old to believe his or her rapt attention can be held for long by a film like this.

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It’s as if seven Vice Presidents of Production sat in a boardroom for three days straight, without food or water, and finally their collective genius, poring over reams of test screening data, resoundingly declared with one voice, “We Need More Rum Jokes.”

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“ …as fascinating as chewing styrofoam – with the occasional firecracker jammed in to make you chew faster.

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… if you’ve ever wondered what kind of jokes dogs would tell if they could speak, here’s your chance.

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The entire film seems to consist of three thoughts, cycled ad nauseum: Don’t leave me. I can’t live without you. Make me a vampire.

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[Lindsay] Lohan reads more like oak than Marilyn Monroe on her most inebriated day.

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I would much rather see two hours of [Robert Downey, Jr.] improvising without any script, than watch five minutes of Zach Galifianakis’ tired shtick.

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It’s disposable fun. Check your brain at the door on the way in. Drop all memory of the movie on your way out.

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A forgettable entertainment that might be worth a matinee if you can't think of anything else to do – laundry, for example.

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