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Man Who Viewed Too Much

Man Who Viewed Too Much is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Mike D'Angelo.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
84/100
Adaptation (2002) Mike D'Angelo What makes Adaptation more than just a clever stunt is the way that Laroche's fickle enthusiasm, Orlean's quiet longing and "Kaufman"'s paralyzing self-doubt dovetail to form a potent, funny-sad disquisition on the value of compromise.
Posted Dec 01, 2002  Edit critic review
42/100
Tadpole (2002) Mike D'Angelo Emotions remain tidy and controlled, while potentially farcical situations are handled with an unapologetic clumsiness that would give Feydeau a duodenal ulcer.
Posted Jul 20, 2002  Edit critic review
Sweet Sixteen (2002) Mike D'Angelo Behavioral nuance ultimately trumps sociological message-mongering, thanks largely to another superb central performance.
Posted Jun 29, 2002  Edit critic review
The Pianist (2002) Mike D'Angelo I understand that this story needs to be told again and again and again -- but really, must it be told in quite so pedestrian a fashion?
Posted Jun 29, 2002  Edit critic review
About Schmidt (2002) Mike D'Angelo Reasonably entertaining while it was in front of me, but it's leaving a sour aftertaste.
Posted Jun 29, 2002  Edit critic review
64/100
Lovely & Amazing (2001) Mike D'Angelo There's occasionally a sitcom snappiness to the dialogue, but the new film achieves an offhanded, slice-of-life quality that's expressly cinematic.
Posted Jun 24, 2002  Edit critic review
Rollerball (2002) Mike D'Angelo McTiernan's loud, dull remake of the 1975 James Caan vehicle appears to have been trimmed to the bone since last summer's disastrous test screenings.
Posted Jun 22, 2002  Edit critic review
Skin of Man, Heart of Beast (1999) Mike D'Angelo Beautifully directed and convincingly acted.
Posted Jun 20, 2002  Edit critic review
63/100
Sunshine State (2002) Mike D'Angelo Always intelligent and occasionally quite moving, it's undoubtedly the most exciting motion picture ever made about property values.
Posted Jun 20, 2002  Edit critic review
65/100
Minority Report (2002) Mike D'Angelo So consistently gripping that it might be easy to overlook the ways in which it skims over the enormous ethical and philosophical issues raised by its premise.
Posted Jun 20, 2002  Edit critic review
A-
Audition (1999) Mike D'Angelo Formally dazzling and viscerally galvanizing, equipped with a razor-sharp wit (among various other razor-sharp items)
Posted Jun 20, 2002  Edit critic review
Jurassic Park III (2001) Mike D'Angelo Needless to say, the novelty of seeing computer-generated dinosaurs walk among us has largely worn off by now.
Posted Jun 13, 2002  Edit critic review
Monsoon Wedding (2001) Mike D'Angelo A little too ponderous to work as shallow entertainment, not remotely incisive enough to qualify as drama, Monsoon Wedding serves mostly to whet one's appetite for the Bollywood films.
Posted Jun 13, 2002  Edit critic review
Hannibal (2001) Mike D'Angelo An emotional and thematic void.
Posted Jun 13, 2002  Edit critic review
Amores perros (2000) Mike D'Angelo While the film's bark (style) may be more impressive than its bite (content), sometimes a really loud bark will suffice.
Posted Jun 13, 2002  Edit critic review
Ginger Snaps (2000) Mike D'Angelo By conveying its heady ideas with wit, tension and a modicum of gore, it does its genre proud.
Posted Jun 13, 2002  Edit critic review
8/100
Dragonfly (2002) Mike D'Angelo I'm alone and distraught.
Posted Jun 13, 2002  Edit critic review
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001) Mike D'Angelo It's the most nimble epic you're likely to see.
Posted Jun 13, 2002  Edit critic review
B+
Same Old Song (1997) Mike D'Angelo The movie is highly entertaining even if you've never heard a note of the music before.
Posted Oct 30, 2001  Edit critic review
A-
Nowhere to Hide (1999) Mike D'Angelo This is easily the most visually astonishing film since Fallen Angels.
Posted Feb 21, 2001  Edit critic review
Donnie Brasco (1997) Mike D'Angelo A Good Movie that could have been a Very Good Movie.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
B+
Funny Games (1997) Mike D'Angelo I respect Funny Games, and think it a valuable and important work of art, but I wouldn't sit through the thing again for a sum with fewer than three figures.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
2/4
Emma (1996) Mike D'Angelo This is a textbook example of how not to adapt an Austen novel for the screen
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
The Last Days of Disco (1998) Mike D'Angelo It's the juxtaposition of uptight neurotics with an atmosphere of get-down decadence that makes Disco so much fun to watch.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
C
Waking the Dead (2000) Mike D'Angelo Yadda-blah.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Jerry Maguire (1996) Mike D'Angelo A slightly flawed gem.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
C
He Got Game (1998) Mike D'Angelo Whenever Lee turns to the strained, maudlin relationship between father and son, however, it's involuntary-head-nodding time.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Mars Attacks! (1996) Mike D'Angelo I can only report that I've now seen the film twice, and that I laughed my fool head off both times from beginning to end.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
Chasing Amy (1997) Mike D'Angelo One of the most impressive aspects of Chasing Amy is that its alleged hero is often wildly unsympathetic, and intentionally so.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
B+
Autumn Tale (1998) Mike D'Angelo Beautifully acted, carefully composed (because his movies are so talky and his camera so unemphatic, Rohmer's visual sense is highly underrated), extremely perceptive, and just generally a low-key delight.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
C+
Twilight (1998) Mike D'Angelo Some damn fine acting In service of a subpar Movie of the week.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
Amistad (1997) Mike D'Angelo Amistad is neither as good as it ought to have been nor as wretched as its detractors claim: it's a fine, skillful drama that suffers primarily from Spielberg's chronic insecurity about whether or not we're being moved by the story he's telling.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
The Gingerbread Man (1998) Mike D'Angelo If Altman opts to tackle Tom Clancy or Elmore Leonard next, rather than attempt another potential masterpiece/disaster, I'll only be mildly disappointed.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
B
Saving Private Ryan (1998) Mike D'Angelo Genius, genius, crap, crap...
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
C+
The Sixth Sense (1999) Mike D'Angelo It's clever but unsatisfying.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
C+
Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) Mike D'Angelo Korine isn't very skilled at coaxing memorable improvised dialogue from his cast (the film threatens to grind to a halt whenever Herzog starts talking), but his gift for depicting private, solitary moments is considerable.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
B
American Beauty (1999) Mike D'Angelo Mendes has unquestionably got an eye.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
C
Love & Basketball (2000) Mike D'Angelo [An] eminently predictable, indifferently shot after-school special.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Kundun (1997) Mike D'Angelo The first and final half-hours of Kundun are so exquisite, so magical, so obviously perfect, that I can almost forgive the long, long, long, long, exceedingly lengthy hour or so in-between during which nothing, but nothing, is happening.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
A-
Gladiator (2000) Mike D'Angelo Simply the most satisfying and invigorating big-budget summer event movie in years.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
D
Bless the Child (2000) Mike D'Angelo Any minute now, I expect the National Association for the Permanent Advancement of Lucifer's Minions (NAPALM) to protest its release, on the grounds that it portrays Satan-worshippers as complete idiots.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
C
American Psycho (2000) Mike D'Angelo Ultimately it all feels as hollow as its subject's ostentatiously avaricious lifestyle.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
Eve's Bayou (1997) Mike D'Angelo Eve's Bayou is an insanely ambitious debut, a period piece that dares to tackle such heady subjects as teenage sexual jealousy and filial rage... and what's most surprising about it is that it's largely successful.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
B-
Shakespeare in Love (1998) Mike D'Angelo My take: thoroughly competent; mildly pleasant; utterly forgettable.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
2/4
Kansas City (1996) Mike D'Angelo {Kansas City] is unique among Altman's recent films: neither superb nor mesmerizingly awful, it is simply boring.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
3/4
Courage Under Fire (1996) Mike D'Angelo A mighty good mystery melodrama in a military milieu.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
B
Hamlet (2000) Mike D'Angelo Exceptionally witty.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
B-
An Ideal Husband (1999) Mike D'Angelo [L]ike Parker's 1995 movie of Othello, this is a thoroughly pedestrian adaptation, visually undistinguished and often dramatically inert, enjoyable only because of the excellence of its source.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
3/4
Nelly & Monsieur Arnold (1996) Mike D'Angelo Like its hapless characters, it's really a bit too restrained for its own good, but the performances alone make it well worth seeing, and Sautet's elegant, understated direction is a low-key treat.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
B-
My Best Fiend (1999) Mike D'Angelo The most compelling footage is lifted from Les Blank's Burden of Dreams. I spent most of the movie wishing I were watching that instead.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
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