Four films are opening wide on the traditionally slow Labour Day weekend in North America, adding to a pot already brimming with oversized budgets and A-list stars. Hamlet 2 was the biggest purchase at this year's Sundance, and opens wide after making few waves on limited release. Reviews were generally positive with The Wall Street Journal offering monumental praise by saying: "Not since Death of a Salesman has failure been quite so entertaining". Babylon AD has had a much publicised troubled production, while its director recently slaughtered the film to the press. Well, it seems the scribes agree with him in his assessment of his own work. The flick wasn't widely press-screened, so only the likes of Variety have seen it and called it: "a noisier, costlier version of Children of Men, yet lacking that film's social-political significance and jaw-dropping direction." Babylon AD, I believe you just got served. Don Cheadle is widely regarded as one of the top American thespians working in mainstream cinema today. His latest thriller Traitor has spilt the critics. The likes of Reelviews loved it however, branding it "smart, effective, and at times suspenseful". Other opening is the horrific Disaster Movie which hasn't been screening for critics. I've seen it and it's predictably f**king horrific, but will still probably make more than all of the other films combined.
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