Sometimes one element spoils an otherwise fine film

By Ron Cerabona
Updated May 16 2020 - 1:45pm, first published 12:00am
Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves), left, and Dracula (Gary Oldman) Bram Stoker's Dracula. Picture: Columbia Pictures.
Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves), left, and Dracula (Gary Oldman) Bram Stoker's Dracula. Picture: Columbia Pictures.

Sometimes it's a bad performance. Sometimes it's a scene or an ending that seems completely out of place. These are just some of the elements that can reduce a potentially great movie to merely a good one, or an OK movie into a bad one. We're talking the "Greedo shoots first" nonsense George Lucas inflicted on Star Wars: A New Hope. Or the staging of the big reveal in the original Planet of the Apes.

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