Leonard Maltin's 2014 Movie Guide by Leonard Maltin

Author:Leonard Maltin
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Film & Video, Performing Arts, Guides & Reviews
ISBN: 9781101609552
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2013-09-03T04:00:00+00:00

Live and Let Die (1973-British) C-121m. 1⁄2 D: Guy Hamilton. Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, Geoffrey Holder, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell. Barely memorable, overlong James Bond movie seems merely an excuse to film wild chase sequences; superagent goes after master criminal subverting U.S. economy via drugs. Works on level of old-time serial. This was Moore’s first appearance as 007; title song by Paul McCartney. [PG]

Live Flesh (1997-Spanish-French) C-100m. 1⁄2 D: Pedro Almodóvar. Liberto Rabal, Francesca Neri, Javier Bardem, Angela Molina, Jose Sancho, Penélope Cruz. Smitten son of a prostitute is jailed for accidentally shooting and paralyzing a cop during an altercation with a dishy drug user. Upon his release, he discovers that the woman is married to his victim! What might have been a melodramatic howler is instead Almodóvar’s best feature since WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. After a bumpy start, film becomes a model of how to change moods. The director scripted from the novel by Ruth Rendell. Panavision. [R]

Live for Life (1967-French-Italian) C-130m. 1⁄2 D: Claude Lelouch. Yves Montand, Annie Girardot, Candice Bergen, Irene Tunc, Anouck Ferjac. TV documentary producer Montand leaves wife Girardot for fashion model Bergen in glossy film helped by some good acting; picture was follow-up to Lelouch’s A MAN AND A WOMAN.

Live Free or Die (2007) C-90m. D: Gregg Kavet, Andy Robin. Aaron Stanford, Paul Schneider, Michael Rapaport, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Judah Friedlander, Kevin Dunn, Zooey Deschanel. Quirky comedy spotlighting John “Rugged” Rudgate (Stanford), a “legendary” criminal who thinks he’s a modern-day Al Capone/Billy the Kid but is actually a tenth-rate, self-deluded loser. Schneider does a Will Ferrell imitation as Rudgate’s trusting, mentally challenged protégé, and the bizarre scenario consists of an escalating series of misadventures and coincidences. The only problem is that none of it is particularly funny. The directors, who also coscripted, were occasional writers of Seinfeld. [R]

Live Free or Die Hard (2007) C-129m. D: Len Wiseman. Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant, Cliff Curtis, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Maggie Q, Kevin Smith, Željko Ivanek, Yancey Arias, Christina Chang. While snooping on his daughter, NYPD cop (and overprotective father) John McClane picks up a N.J. suspect for a federal sweep of computer geeks and brings him to Washington, just as cyber-lord Olyphant initiates a plan to shut down the entire country. DIE HARD is effectively reinvented for a post-9/11 world, with the techies proving no match for an indestructible old-school cop. Credibility gives way to preposterous action scenes toward the end, but it’s still fun to watch. Released overseas as DIE HARD 4.0. Also available in unrated version. Super 35. [PG-13]

Live Nude Girls (1995) C-92m. D: Julianna Lavin. Dana Delany, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Stevenson, Laila Robins, Lora Zane, Olivia d’Abo, Glenn Quinn, Tim Choate, Amber (Rose) Tamblyn. A bunch of galpals come together for a bachelorette party and pass the time talking, at which point assorted jealousies, fantasies, and feelings come to the surface. Well intentioned, to be sure, but oh so predictable. [R]

Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (1935) 109m.

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