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Written by Mark Caro, McClatchy-Tribune
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
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In case you need reminding that April is one of the dumping months for less-than-stellar movies, not one, not two, not three, but four — count 'em, four! — movies will open Friday without advance critics' screenings.
The assumption is you'll buy tickets without knowing or caring whether the movies are any good.
The destined-to-be-Unfantastic Four are "Kickin' It Old School" (Jamie Kennedy as a Rip Van Winkle '80s breakdancer in 2006), "The Invisible" (two teens turned invisible by dark events), "Wind Chill" (two college students attacked by ghosts) and the highest-profile, most heavily advertised movie of the bunch, "Next."
That's the one with Nicolas Cage as a Las Vegas magician who is amazingly able to predict what's going to happen. The generally critic-friendly Julianne Moore and Jessica Biel co-star.
Cage, whose best actor Oscar for "Leaving Las Vegas" is now more than 11 years old, also used to be known as an artsy, critic-movie kind of actor, but consider the makeover complete. "Next" will run his string of starring vehicles withheld from critics to three — the other two being "Ghost Rider" and "The Wicker Man."
The Internet Movie Database lists Cage's next two movies as "Bangkok Dangerous" (he plays a hitman who falls for a Thai woman and bonds with his boy runner) and the shouldn't-have-been-inevitable sequel "National Treasure: Book of Secrets." | Only registered users can write comments.
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