Kevin Johnston's Movie Reviews

Hello to you all. My name is Kevin Johnston, design Manager of 300Bucks.ca, and long-time writer / designer. I have always loved movies, but what I love even more than watching them is letting my friends and family know what to spend their hard-earned dollars on, and what they should avoid wasting their time on. In the late nineties and early zeros... [more]

Hmmm, this will be an easy review to write. I like my zombie movies juicier, I like my action flicks action-ee-er, I like my movie babes babe-ee-er, and I like my thrillers to thrill me. This one is a cross between The Road Warrior, Land of the Dead, and Merry Christmas Charlie Brown! The zombies just aren't zombie-ish enough and rest of the goings... [more]

I admit it. I bought the Comics and the toys, and watched every episode of the original animated series, and saw the original animated movie three times in the theater. I even dusted off and waxed my original Optimus Prime Transformer figure and proudly placed it on the corner of my desk just before leaving for the 10:00 AM showing of this movie. I... [more]

It has often been said that “to unlock the true creativity in one's mind and soul, all they need is a doobie to roll”. Well, with the deep pockets of Dreamworks, they can afford doobies for all, and voluminous amounts of glue to sniff in all bathroom stalls. With crack provided free, and mushrooms galore, did Dreamworks create the world... [more]

By far this is the most anticipated movie of the year, and yah, I stood in line for three and a half hours to see it. Spiderman 3 does not disappoint. They got this one right, and followed the old Spiderman... [more]

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It’s been a while, in fact as far back as Conan the Barbarian since we’ve seen heads flying right off their shoulders. However, although we have severed heads in this movie which is not new, we do have something that is new: over the top, wild and crazy battle scenes, coupled with some of the best cinematography I have ever se... [more]

Marvel Comics have proven time and time again that they have better minds with better ideas than DC Comics. When I compare the two universes side by side, the obvious always comes out. In DC everyone is an alien, everyone can fly, everyone can pick up and throw Mac trucks and so on and so on. Stan Lee created Ghost Rider which ran from 1973 to 1983... [more]

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OK, let's see…there's a fat sheriff, a shy game warden, a loser paleontologist and….Oh Yah…There's a big crocodile that wants to eat them!  Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt and Betty White are big names, and I find myself wondering why they would want to attach their names to trash like this. An even more interest... [more]

A daring coup by a force of Russian and American troops is successful. The fundamentalist Dictator of Kazakstan, General Radek is imprisoned.  The President of the United States James Marshall (Harrison Ford) after giving a speech on a new hard line policy on terrorism, boards Air Force One, the American presidential airborne super-limo. ... [more]

Sigourney Weaver is back as Ellen Ripley.  200 years after Ellen Ripley threw herself into the prison colony furnace, a new corporation has resurrected her from a small blood sample.  All they want is the Queen Alien embryo that was implanted inside her.  Ripley’s clone discovers that her DNA has been mixed with the alien&rsquo... [more]

I’m sure you all remember Paul Verhoeven’s earlier movies, Robocop and Total Recall right?  Remember how good they were?  Starship Troopers is his newest achievement and it leaves all his previous work far behind.  In the future, the human race is at war with a powerful species of alien insects that are highly evolved.&nb... [more]

Will Smith displays something that he’s neglected to in his past features:  TALENT.  He almost goes the entire movie without reminding the audience of how good looking he is.  Tony Scott has done a great job showing us the stark cold reality of modern technology, and how privacy is obsolete.  Will plays Robert Dean an atto... [more]

Why, Oh Why did they have to continue on where Superman IV: The Quest for Peace left off? The original Superman movies were great in the 70's and 80's, keep in mind - I was still pre-pubescent when Superman II hit the cinemas, so I thought it was great; back then. The third and fourth movies starring Christopher Reeve were horrible, so when I heard... [more]

Never mind the fact that they couldn’t afford Christopher Lambert’s role reprisal.  Never mind the fact that Johnny Cage, and Sonja Blade were also replaced by no-names and Johnny didn’t survive the first 2 minutes of the movie, and never mind the special effects “wizards” who stuffed the effects budget in their p... [more]

Double Cross, conspiracy, and people who know too much are all in this one, kinda like the entire TV series.  When a building is bombed in downtown Dallas, Mulder and Scully discover that the victims who died in the blast were dead before the bomb went off, infected by an alien cancer deadlier that anything this planet has seen before.  O... [more]

Set in the 1800's, and based on the 1960's TV show, the Wild Wild West introduces us to special government agents James West (Will Smith), and Artemus Gordon (Kevin Kline).  West is a gun slinging sly cowboy with an attitude, and Gordon is a brilliant inventor and master of disguise, both prim and proper. Under the instruction of the President... [more]

His mama has kept him sheltered beyond the point of being ridiculous.  Bobby Boucher is out of place everywhere he goes.  His only goal in life is to be a Water Boy.  However, in doing his job, and speaking like Forest Gump he is world’s biggest bully magnet.  The coach of the college team fires Bobby, forcing Bobby to loo... [more]

When the Shiny LUCASFILM logo appeared, the crowd cheered.  When the off teal coloured sentence “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” faded in, the crowd cheered.  When the familiar Star Wars theme blared in the speakers, the crowd cheered.  Five minutes later, the crowd fell asleep.  This film has the ... [more]

I don't remember high school being this much fun, but what the hell!  This was nine bucks well spent! Four best friends, being 18 year-old virgin men, have made a pact to lose their virginity by prom night. In their numerous failed attempts, they learn a lot about the opposite sex, and themselves. Too bad these lessons come at the price of exp... [more]

James Cameron, the Niagara Falls, Ontario native who has worked on Terminator, T2, Aliens, Strange Days, and The Abyss, has brought his knowledge of Hollywood magic to the big screen once again. The Titanic is now the setting of the story, and not the focus unlike the dozens of Titanic documentaries at your local video store. The story be... [more]

The crew of the Enterprise have finally begun showing their age. When they cast The Next Generation, they should have gone with younger blood. To build on that, younger blood is exactly what Paramount Pictures needs in their writing department. This is the 9th Star Trek film, and is by far the worst. Most Star trek fans I speak to unanimously agree... [more]

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