MOVIE REVIEWS - 1998

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1998 movie highlights

1998 continued the push into mega-budget, "Event" movies...

ARMAGEDDOM, GODZILLA, LETHAL WEAPON 4 and LOST IN SPACE are all middle-of-the-road movies that were packed with acting talent, big visual effects and overblown marketing budgets. Once the creits rolled, it was hard to remember what any of them were about other than a blur of action.

Fortunately, there were a number of more intimate films that cut-through with audiences.

While a studio film, THE TRUMAN SHOW was very much focussed on performance, most notably from a considerably more restrained Jim Carrey with great support from Ed Harris.

PI was Darren Aronovsky's first film and its subjent matter saw it gain credibility as one of the more intellectual films to ocme along in a while.

The best genre film of the year arrived very early in the Alex Proyas Science Fiction Mystery DARK CITY.

DARK CITY plays like a futursitic Noir film. It has great performances from a cast that inludes Rufus Sewell, Keifer Sutherland, William Hurt, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O,Brien and Colin Friels.

Largely filmed in and around Sydney, co-written & directed by an Australia, DARK CITY surely ranks as Australia's greatest ever Science Fiction film...

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1998 movie highlights

deep rising

​horror
RELEASED: 30/01/98
(Usa)
TIME:  106 MINS
RATED: ma 15+

dark city
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science fiction
RELEASED: 27/02/98
(USA)
TIME: 100 MINS
​RATED: ma 15+

lost in space

science fiction
RELEASED: 3/04/98
(usa)
TIME: 130 MINS
​RATED: m

godzilla
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​science fiction
released: 20/05/98
(usa)
TIME: 139 MINS
RATED: m

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the
truman show

fantasy
RELEASED: 5/06/98
(Usa)
TIME:  103 MINS
RATED: pg

the x files:
fight the future

science fiction
RELEASED: 19/06/98
(USA)
TIME: 121 MINS
​RATED: m

armageddon

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science fiction
RELEASED: 1/07/98
(usa)
TIME: 151 MINS
​RATED: m

pi

​
​science fiction
released: 10/07/98
(usa)
TIME: 84 MINS
RATED: ma 15+

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lethl weapon 4
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​
action
RELEASED: 10/07/98
(Usa)
TIME:  127 MINS
RATED: ma 15+

disturbing behaviour
​
science fiction
RELEASED: 24/07/98
(USA)
TIME: 84 MINS
​RATED: ma 15+

halloween: h20
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​
horror
RELEASED: 5/08/98
(usa)
TIME: 86 MINS
​RATED: ma 15+

snake eyes

​
​action thriller
released: 7/08/98
(usa)
TIME: 98 MINS
RATED: ma 15+

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run lola run
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action
RELEASED: 20/08/98
(Usa)
TIME:  80 MINS
RATED: 15+

blade


action horror
RELEASED: 21/08/98
(USA)
TIME: 120 MINS
​RATED: ma 15+

phantasm IV:
oblivion
​
horror
RELEASED: 13/10/98
(usa)
TIME: 90 MINS
​RATED: ma 15+

soldier

​
​science fiction
released: 23/10/98
(usa)
TIME: 99 MINS
RATED: ma 15+

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vampires
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horror
RELEASED: 30/10/98
(Usa)
TIME:  108 MINS
RATED: ma 15+

enemy of the state


action thriller
RELEASED: 20/11/98
(USA)
TIME: 132 MINS
​RATED: ma 15+

star trek:
insurrection

science fiction
RELEASED: 11/12/98
(usa)
TIME: 103 MINS
​RATED: pg

the faculty

​
​science fiction
released: 25/12/98
(usa)
TIME: 104 MINS
RATED: ma 15+

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