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Bale. Early in the Vietnam War, U.S.
fighter pilot Dieter Dengler (Bale) is
shot down over Laos and imprisoned.
What follows is the daring jungle
escape executed by Dieter and his band
of bound brothers. With Steve Zahn.
Ends Thursday (Cin6)
RESURRECTING THE CHAMP
(PG-13) Resurrecting the Champ is a
small, quiet, not flashy, not great, but
good film from director Rod Lurie (The
Contender) that is almost strident in its
old-fashioned approach to cinematic
storytelling. A young sports reporter,
Eric Kernan (Josh Hartnett) stumbles
on the biggest story of his career, a
homeless man everyone calls Champ
(Samuel L. Jackson) who just might be
a long-thought-dead boxing legend.
I was fascinated with Champ, whose
return to the spotlight in the films first
two acts KO'ed the Eric-centric third
act. (Carmike)
RUSH HOUR 3 (PG-13) Rush Hour
3 is a pleasant enough diversion that
never achieves the giddy fun of the
first two installments. RH3displaces
Chris Tucker's Detective James Carter
and Jackie Chan's Chief Inspector Lee
in the City of Lights, where they must
bring the Chinese Triad to its knees
Tired and repetitive, it's still an enter
taining hour and a half. (Beechwood,
Carmike)
SEPTEMBER DAWN (R) A not entire
ly convincing period Western about the
1857 Mountain Meadows massacre of
roughly 140 settlers by fundamentalist
Mormons, September Dawn obscures
its central subject with a played-out
star-crossed lovers routine With its
simplistic but not irresponsible portrait
of religious zealotry, September Dawn
paints Mormonism with a negative
stroke broader than "Big Love." Then
again director-cowriter Christopher
Cain's (Young GunS) film should not
have to whitewash this horrific episode
in the—let's call it colorful—history of
Smith’S sect. Carmike)
SHOOT‘EM UP (R) From the
writer-director Michael Davis, comes
a strange little action film with a par
ticularly shiny cast. A mysterious loner
who goes by the innocuous moniker
Mr. Smith (Clive Owen) must help a
prostitute, DQ (Monica Bellucci), pro
tect a newborn from determined hitman
Mr. Hertz (Paul Giamatti). Opens Friday
(Call Theaters)
THE SHORT FILMS OF ROGER
BEEBE (NR) The experimental films—
varying in medium, tone and form—of
Roger Beebe, a professor of Film and
Media Studies at the University of
Florida, comes to Athens as part of the
Southern Circuit—Tour of Independent
Filmmakers, a sextet of independent
films to be shown at the Georgia
Museum of Art in 2007 and 2008.
Shows Wednesday. 9/12 (GMOA)
THE SIMPSONS MOVIE (PG-13) I
can’t help but greet the feature version
of this cultural institution with a single,
“D’oh!" As “South Paik" presciently de
clared, “Simpsons did it." They've done
it so much that most every surreal plot
turn and nonsensical gag are recycled
(Carmike)
STARDUST (PG-13) Director Matthew
Vaughn and co-writer Jane Goldman
ably streamline Tristan's (Charlie Cox)
quest for fallen star Yvame (Claire
Danes), while expanding his crusade
to save his true love from the evil witch
(Michelle Pfeiffer). Too bad fhe film
lacks the star power or the cohesive
marketing campaign to connect with its
audience. (Carmike)
SUPERBAD (R) The super-raunchy
all-night adventures of best buds and
lovable losers Seth (Michael Cera) and
Evan (Jonah Hill) as they seek beer
and sex was waiting for the ribald,
heartfelt guidance of producer Judd
Apatow, the writer-director of The 40-
Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Uf Less
cartoonish, more real, and megatons
more nastily funny than American Pie,
Superbadcaptures in almost documen
tary fashion the life and travails of the
geeky—read normal—high-school
male. (Beechwood, Carmike)
SUPERVAN (PG) 1977. A boy and his
van... our hero Clint Morgan takes his
tricked out ride (“Vandora") to the big
"Freakout" custom van festival, evading
the van’s manufacturer, a cookie-cutter
corporate villain who wants to use
Vandora's sweet laser for evil. Think
Convoy meets Short Circuit. Audience
participation required. Shows Tuesday,
9/11 (Flicker)
UNDERDOG (PG) Underdog attempts
to make the concept of the silly ‘60s
cartoon so acceptably realistic and
scientifically believable that it becomes
boring and trite. This will only please
the wee ones. (Beechwood)
WAR (R) FBI agent Jack Crawford
(Jason Statham) has been tracking a
hitman, known only as Rogue (Jet Li),
for three years. Now, in the midst of
an all-out war between the Japanese
Yakuza and the Chinese Triads,
Crawford draws a bead on the elusive
Rogue. War has little to offer, especially
to its core constituency of action junk
ies. (Beechwood, Carmike)
WATER (PG-13) 2005. Against the
backdrop of the Indian struggle for
independence from Britain, the third
film in Deepa Mehta's element trilogy
(she discovered Fire and Earth first)
tackles the social restrictions that soci
ety places upon its widows. Nominated
for the 2007 Academy Award for Best
Foreign Language Film. Shows Friday,
9/7—Sunday. 9/9 (Cine)
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