Much Ado About Nothing (PG-13) A 8/1 3:15pm $4 Shadowood Square 12 Another excellent work from Kenneth Branagh, this light-hearted movie is filled with an entertaining, modern treatment of Shakespeare's classic. Never dull, well paced, and humorous. I especially liked Michael Keaton's small role as the shabby constable. This is a movie that won't make you think, has no political message, doesn't try to educate, but merely entertains. At the end, the audience applauded. Rising Sun A- 8/3 10:20pm $6 Delray 10 Wesley Snipes and Sean Connery play a couple of homicide detectives in this murder mystery that goes overboard with the difficulties of japanese culture in business. Snipes's character is basically given one hell of a ride throughout the film, he doesn't stand out and make differences like Connery's character does. Both performances were well-done, very entertaining. The best part for me was the hot red Vector W8, which is one orgasmically hot car. So, I Married An Axe Murderer C- 8/5 7:20pm $6 Delray 10 Well here's a movie that supposed to be funny or mildly amusing, but it just doesn't succeed. The characters are fair, but their scripts are lame. The plot is filled with holes, as if it wasn't important, but then the dramatic tone is kept up, as if it was. Overall it ends up being rather lame. The Fugitive A- 8/6 7:10pm $6.50 Town Center An exciting start, and very fast-paced, this movie does entertain very well. Of course, Harrison Ford is always great to watch. I had one minor problem with the film, and that was it was so predictable, really. You know how the movie's going to turn out, you know how each turn in the plot is going to go, so there aren't a lot of surprises. Tommy Lee Jones really saves the movie though, with his jovial manner in which he roughhandles his staff. Amongst Friends B+ Fineline 8/13 9:45pm $6 Shadowood Square 12 A movie about 3 kids in our generation. They grow up to be gangsters much like the bad guys of two generations before, a theme which is reoccurring throughout the film. It's a good film, considering it was extremely low budget. No special effects, just more of a character study. It's not boring though, the pacing keeps things very interesting. Meteor Man B 8/14 8:10pm $6 Delray 10 An entertaining film about a wimpy black guy who gets hit by a meteor, gains super powers for a while, and becomes a hero. This would have been a bad film if it weren't for certain touches that added a lot of entertainment value to it. The evil gang, the golden lords, have all spiffy black leather outfits, even the young kids 3' tall wear 'em. Bill Cosby plays a key role, but never says a single word. Robert Townsend makes Meteor Man an entertaining super-hero; it's just too bad he tried too hard to keep it "down to earth" and "real". Hearts & Souls C 8/17 7:30pm $6 Delray 10 Ho hum! Four people die and become angelghosts that drive a little boy crazy so that when he grows up he's all grouchy and messed up. So they realize that they have to make him do things for them before they can go to heaven, so they mess him up some more now that he's 30. The movie is about an hour and half long, and I swear one fourth of it is wasted on tearful goodbyes. All throughout the movie, people are saying goodbye. Pa-thetic. Hard Target A- Universal 8/20 12:30am $6.50 Mizner Park Awesome martial arts/shootemup flick, starring Jean-Claude VanDamme, and directed by John Woo. That alone should scream at you to want to go see it, if you're into that kind of movie, which I am. And oh yes, it is very exciting, gripping, and violent! But it also stars Miss Cold Fish 1993, Yancy something or other. You know, the chick who stars in "South Beach", which was supposed to be a sexual, action-packed crime drama, the best since Miami Vice, but then turned out to be a total opposite of Miami Vice, with Yancy acting frigid and cold, completely antisexual, and the TV show wasn't very violent either... I expected her to chase bad guys in high heels next. Well, I was talking about Hard Target, right? Yancy just plays an ornament in the film, to keep the plot together, and she basically wears a boggled, shocked expression ("oh my!") throughout the whole film, a typical helpless female that doesn't even know enough to stay out of the way, but rather tries hard to get herself in trouble so she'll need rescuing. This would spoil the film but really, most of the movie centers around the violence and VanDamme, which are downright excellent, of course. Manhattan Murder Mystery C- TriStar 8/21 7:15pm $6 Delray 10 Whee, another boring old Woody Allen film. I only saw it because I'm thinking of moving to NYC and wanted to be reminded of what the city is like. So, anyway, it's a movie about a couple and one of their single friends who are getting on in years, and when a murder happens near them, the wife takes it upon herself to investigate it, and drags everyone else into it. Throughout the film you don't know whether to cheer these people on or to curse them for being bumbling fools. Basically I think I could have spent the two hours more constructively and I'm sorry I saw it. But I'm not a major Woody Allen fan. Only the Strong B+ 20th Century Fox 8/28 5:30pm $4 Delray 10 Basically a martial arts movie. A young marine learns copeira while in Brazil, comes back to Miami to see his old high school taken over by gangs. So, he teaches some of the worst kids the martial art, and they start to care about who they are, and mature, and there's of course lots of fighting throughout the film. It's a pretty good movie, with an actual plot, but no real depth or sex scenes, which is a bummer.