L’Atlantide (1992)
Jun 5, 2000Lost City
The sixth film version of a classic lost world story about explorers finding Atlantis and its immortal queen in the desert. This is a more mundane version that waters down the fantastic elements
Tcheky Karyo
Nostradamus (1994)
Oct 28, 2001Historical Biopic of a Clairvoyant
Biopic of the so-called prophet Nostradamus, although this seems more interested in depicting him as a progressive thinker of his era than as a prophet. Directed by Roger Christian who next went on to make Battlefield Earth
Crying Freeman (1995)
Nov 1, 2009Manga Adaptation/Mysterious Assassin
The first feature film from Christophe Gans is a live-action adaptation of a manga about an assassin. Gans turns out a film that dazzles with the flamboyance of his action sequences
GoldenEye (1995)
Feb 1, 2001James Bond Film
The 17th James Bond film, the first featuring Pierce Brosnan who gives a dazzlingly ruthless performance. The series is rebooted and takes the opportunity to reconstruct the mythos in terms of modern politics in ways that often take you aback
Wing Commander (1999)
Dec 14, 2008Space Opera/Videogame Adaptation
Star Wars meets Top Gun - a concept it is surprising no one has thought of before - but alas this film adaptation of the popular videogame only regurgitates the cliches of either film
Babel (1999)
Oct 26, 1999Children's Film/Millennial Apocalypse
An inane French/Canadian-made children's film about three cute creatures that come to help a boy stop the resurrection of the Tower of Babel on the eve of the millennium
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
Nov 16, 1999Historical Epic
Luc Besson takes on the Joan of Arc story with then wife Milla Jovovich in the title role but in Besson's hands it becomes a crazed historical action film that unquestioningly accepts Joan's visions as real
Arabian Nights (2000)
Jul 2, 2005Tales of Arabian Nights
Hallmark tv mini-series adaptation of the classic tales has been granted a decent budget that allows the stories to emerge with lavish spectacle and the fantasy to fly with exceptional regard
The Core (2003)
Jun 9, 2003Journey to the Centre of the Earth
A CGI disaster film about a journey to the centre of the Earth to restart the magnetic core. This is a film construed as no more than a series of spectacular self-contained disaster set-pieces, often irrespective of any of them making sense
Taking Lives (2004)
May 12, 2004Serial Killer Thriller
Serial killer thriller with Angelina Jolie as an FBI profiler tracking a killer in Montreal and becoming involved with suspect Ethan Hawke. The plot falls apart in some shabby twists
The Gravedancers (2006)
Jan 9, 2020Haunting
Mike Mendez has gained a reasonable name as a genre director since the early 2000s. This is one of his earlier works, a venture into the ghost story where three friends are haunted after drunkenly dancing on a grave