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ORIGINAL: elab49
If you think it's more of the same from Empire how have you managed to miss this being brought up and debunked in virtually every 'big' or fanboy movie review thread in the past 5 or more years? 
A review is an individual opinion, not a committee 'consensus'. And if the committee 'consensus' didn't agree with what you expect, then you'd still just query that anyway.
The only issue here is the review doesn't meet your expectations of what you think it should be. That isn't the reviews fault, and the reviewer doesn't have to agree with you because we're talking about opinions here. And I emphasise the 'think' because, of course, you're choosing to criticise the review without actually having seen the film.
That's fairly common round here too 
I can give a few reasons for Empire's 3* review.
3. It was a political decision, specifically referring to the criticism Empire has had on these boards and elsewhere about giving good reviews to their "mates" (ie; Vaughn, Goldman, Pegg, Wright etc). Thus they gave it an average mark to silence that criticism.
Except point 3 is also poppycock. Empire have repeatedly stated the review is the reviewer's opinion. Stating otherwise is a possibility is little different to calling them liars and the rubbish about giving good reviews to their 'mates' and undeserved scores to promote their mates' films is libel. See your av.
DVD reviews often (in fact generally if Neth's extensive research to debunk another posters idiot nonsense about this) are done by different people, hence different scores. Or are even done by the same person who's seen more in a film on a rewatch - and we have all dont that. And what they did with another random film - where they foolishly found someone who gave it more than it deserved on DVD - has nothing to do with this other completely nothing to do with that one film.
I didn't say Empire had been giving good reviews to their mates, I merely acknowledged that it has been said on these threads from time to time. And I pointed out that the most likely reason for the 3 * was the reviewers opinion, my post was to try and curb the conspiracies posted above.
And I'm more than aware that dvd reviews are done by different people and therefore different opinion. Although it should be pointed out that the 3* Batman Begins review is nowhere to be found on the website. In fact it has inexplicably shot up to 5* now! Going from 3 to 5* is quite a jump in such a short time considering the dvd review gave it 4* if my memory serves me.
Strange.
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