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Reviews
Jesus (1999)
The "Wired" of Jesus films
What a mess this film is! This unneeded "update" of the story of Jesus Christ has the depth (and feel) of a Calvin Klein commercial. I guess they felt that no one would pay attention unless the dialogue was written to sound like a 1990's soap opera set in Los Angeles...and the devil made to seem like a game show host. I appreciate the effort, but unlike an earlier attempt at "modernizing" the Jesus story ("Jesus Christ Superstar"), this thing falls completely flat and really has a ludicrous, bad feeling to it...the power of the story is completely lost.
Perdita Durango (1997)
A dismal effort
Ugh. A dismal parade of hipness and "shocking" imagery with no real point being made. It has a desperate air to it, and the only shock is that something this miserable was ever exported. There's nothing here that hasn't been done much, much better by other filmmakers, but this film has a smugness and self-congratulatory feel to it that makes it even more appalling!