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Movie Reviews of Uncovered
Movie Review: A good chess mystery
Summary: 3 Stars
The movie isn't bad, but it's lacking something. It is quite an old film (1992) but it looks older, it has an 80s feel to it, the colors aren't sharp, as many European films were until recently. The copy is not the best either and the DVD comes with no extra features. The story is good and Kate Beckinsale offers a good early performance. I cannot help but compare it to the cinematic adaptation of another Perez-Reverte novel, The Ninth Gate, and there is where this one falls short. Still it's entertaining and surprising as a good mystery should be, and if you are a Kate Beckinsale fan, you will be glad that she is in almost every scene.Movie Review: Decent movie
Summary: 3 Stars
Just watched this movie on DVD. The main attraction of this movie is obviously the beautiful Kate Beckinsale. If you don't like Kate Beckinsale (hard to imagine) then this movie will be a drag. Otherwise, this movie is a decent enough movie with a plot and cast that will keep you interested. I am giving it three stars since I like both Kate Beckinsale and Art Malik.Movie Review: Not memorable.
Summary: 3 Stars
This story is slow and uninspiring. Fans and collectors would probably be interested, but the casual movie goer would be disappointed.Movie Review: Kate Beckinsale
Summary: 3 Stars
The movie was dry. To see Kate Beckinsale topless, you'll need to be the judge.Movie Review: Who killed the knight?
Summary: 2 Stars
Slight, insubstantial bit of fluff about a young art restorer (Kate Beckinsale), a begrimed Flemish painting she's commissioned to clean up, and an ancient murder mystery chronicled in the painting and... happening again!!!
You see, the painting depicts a doge playing a game of chess with a knight while the doge's wife sits at a window and looks on. They're all casting meaningfully sidelong glances at each other. Beneath the painting is a text, in Latin, asking `who killed the knight?' As soon as Kate starts scraping off the old lacquer and paint that cover the inscription, folks around her start falling like ten pins. And, to ratchet up the mystery some, chess pieces are left at her doorstep after every murder.
Naturally, the police are ruling all the murders death by natural causes, Kate enlists a Spanish gypsy chess genius, beds are hopped with impunity, while I'm wondering why the heck I rented this one in the first place. I'd never heard of Kate Beckinsale, and this one didn't convert me. I don't think it had anything to do with her. She has a certain gamin charm, and the couple of in-the-buff scenes convinced me her charms didn't stop with her smile. The story is so lumbering and hokey, though, a bad soap opera unnaturally conjoined to a bad mystery, that I found it hard to rouse interest between the au natural bits. Didn't help much that I figured it out before the first chess piece fell, either.
Recommended only for Beckinsale fans, or at least those who - unlike me - know who she is and are interested in seeing her in an early movie.