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  • Starring: Annasophia Robb, Carla Gugino, Dwayne Johnson
  • Summary: For years, stories have circulated about a secret place in the middle of the Nevada desert, known for unexplained phenomena and strange sightings. It is called Witch Mountain, and when a Las Vegas cab driver finds two teens with supernatural powers in his cab, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of an adventure he can't explain. When they discover that the only chance to save the world lies in unraveling the secrets of Witch Mountain, the race begins. (Disney) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 28
  2. Negative: 3 out of 28
  1. It's entertaining with a crafty mixture of action, humor and drama.
  2. While "Escape" was superior in story, "Race" does commit to an impressive scope. What it is, really, is a big-studio popcorn flick that just happens to be made for tweens.
  3. 38
    This is not a movie. It's a coming attraction for a theme park.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 15
  2. Negative: 1 out of 15
  1. RonaldM
    9
    Liked it very much. Dwayne Johnson did fairly well in this one. Was liked by entire family.
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  2. HyperS
    5
    Relentless, excessive, noisy. 10% normal dialogue, 80% action sequences, and 10% action dialogue. Yes, the director forcefully tries to make even dialogue scenes an action sequence (most notably all military personnel scenes). I.e. Fast paced rock music in the background, unnecessary over-the-top spastic dialogue, cliche acting and intentions, and the convenience of "God Technology" where two people can know anything and everything in under 10 seconds (director's notion of story-telling). The two kids and Dwayne Johnson played their roles fine along with other (non-military) supporting cast. Despite the heavy emphasis on action (which I thought was a little annoying) there was still enough here to warrant at least a 5. Expand
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  3. ChadS.
    3
    Two stormtroopers get into a cab; two grown men all decked out for a space expo. Apart from setting off my internal Triumph the Comic Insult Dog alarm, this throwaway visual is loaded in semiotic connotations. A certain breed of moviegoer will recognize the historicism inherent in the allocation of the costumed men and cabbie. Armed with prop guns, the underlying subtext of the scene can be construed as "Star Wars" coming to snuff out "Taxi Driver". In other words, this unremarkable scene is enhanced by a filmic metaphor that explicates on how special-effects driven films consigned the sort of personal filmmaking practiced by directors of Martin Scorsese's ilk to a post-Skywalker grave. When Travis Bickle was tormented with insomnia, he put himself on the night shift; whereas Jack Bruno(Dwayne Johnson), while working the heavy bag("Rocky" thrown into sharp relief from the Scorsese classic), declares that he can't sleep, agrees to the long fare(albeit the next day) proposed by two juvenille humanoids as a means of burning off restless energy. A joyless affair such as "Race to Witch Mountain" is just one more progeny from the teat of a certain shark, that heralded the birth of the summer blockbuster, in which an emphasis on spectacle leaves storytelling and character development in the dust. For starters, at some point, shouldn't the taxi driver tell the kids that its "just Jack"(not the too formal Jack Bruno), like the Sean Hayes character on "Will and Grace". "Race to Witch Mountain" spends nary a moment on developing a bond between Jack and the "kids"(following "Starman" as an example, the human should humanize the alien) that would justify the "E.T."-like tears during their overblown parting. To its credit, however, the film has a self-awareness of its own disposability, a la "Mystery Men", when Janeane Garafolo said, "I would like to dedicate my victory to support...those who seek out independent films," has a mainstream film gazed at its own navel and critiqued itself. After Sara(AnnaSophia Robb) tells Jack that humans have the potential to levitate small objects, too; she says, "You humans haven't learned to use your brains to full capacity." True to its word, a film such as "Race to Witch Mountain" won't teach humans to use their brains to full capacity, and maybe Sara's observation was a subversive act of honest authorial commentary. Expand
    • 0 of 1 users said yes

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