Spy Kids 3: Game Over (2003)

[Movie 194 / Day 209]


The third and, mercifully, final installment of the Spy Kids trilogy is less a film, more an excuse to cram as many dodgy CGI 3D shots as possible into 90 minutes. The effects are bad, the plot is worse.

My rating: 3.0 / 10
IMDB rating: 4.1 / 10
Running time: 84 mins
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Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002)

[Movie 186 / Day 205]


More of the same in this crappy sequel. The Spy Kids are now an official offshoot of the secret government spy operation the grown ups work for. Of course they are.

Even in this smouldering pile of poo, Steve Buscemi is good.

My rating: 4.8 / 10
IMDB rating: 5.4 / 10
Running time: 100 mins
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Spy Kids (2001)

[Movie 183 / Day 202]


Carmen and Juni are two ordinary kids living ordinary lives. Until they discover that their parents are ex-super spies who have just been captured on one last mission! Quick as a flash, they're off the rescue, as spy kids! What japes.

A bit rubbish.

My rating: 5.1 / 10
IMDB rating: 5.7 / 10
Running time: 88 mins
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Thick as Thieves (2008)

[Movie 59 / Day 36]


Morgan Freeman is an old thief who enlists the help of Antonio Banderas for one last heist to pay off the Russian Mafia. Lots of planning later, a few double-crosses and twists, everybody's happy.

It's formulaic, not particularly well written, loads of stupid plot holes (why would a safe that's supposed to be the last word in security allow them to just keep trying passcodes one after the other? Even the ATM won't let you do that), Banderas is starting to look old and has a ridiculously thick accent and a penchant for whispering and Freeman is looking even older and several times looked as though he'd realised the movie was going to be rubbish and just wanted it to be over.

It's just not particularly good, at all.

My rating: 4.6 / 10
IMDB rating: 6.8 / 10
Running time: 104 mins
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