Sentences with phrase «aimless story»

Kickin» It Old Skool squanders its promising premise on lowbrow humor, an aimless story, and an utterly flat final act.

The Last of Robin Hood, which focuses on the twilight of Errol Flynn's life and career, is an uneven mix of brilliant performances and an inert, aimless story.

Not exact matches

Needless to say, screenwriters R. C. Sherriff's, Claudine West's and Eric Maschwitz's interpretation of Hilton's story gets to be questionable, structuring plotting in an aimless fashion that dilutes kick that was never to be too rich, but all but compensating for its shortcomings with a sharp wit that adds to charm and a fair degree of entertainment value.

That lack of story, or one that ultimately feels aimless, is the reason why Antibirth never quite comes together.

But after drifting along with the aimless young characters for a while, the story takes a dramatic turn and major incidents begin to pile up: deaths, near - deaths, and disappearances.

It's a familiar type of story, and it is deliberately aimless for long spells, which may frustrate viewers into not sticking with it.

Director Shawn Christensen uses three different timelines to tell the story — Sidney as high school student, Sidney as young married man and successful author whose world begins to disintegrate around him, and Sidney as aimless drifter.

Although Burton did give his audience some grief by thinning his second act into a somewhat aimless walkabout (Mr. Melin had plenty to say about this in his review), the overall result was fairly true to Lewis Carroll's story.

Madame Courage (Algeria) AND Things of the Aimless Wanderer (Rwanda) TIE Whether featuring long shots and minimal dialogue (Wanderer) or a story that feels woefully incomplete (Courage), both films stood out as examples of how bad film execution.

The Square could easily feel like a piece of performance art itself, particularly because its story is so aimless, bouncing in different directions in pursuit of the themes that most intrigue Östlund.

The simple thrust of the story gets muddled by aimless meetings with the deceased's acquaintances.

The stakes are unclear, the story is aimless, the performances are half - hearted, and those thirsting for another shining showcase of Hoffman's gift will be sorely disappointed.

It's ironic that a story about the value of discipline and restraint would feel like it needs more time in the editing room, but that's the new God of War — promising but aimless.

In its inimitable style, the New York Times yesterday featured a page one ed story celebrating an aimless new district policy and the superintendent responsible.

And chances are, that quest marker is just going to send you on an aimless trip all over the surface fetching items for short stories packing as much meaning as a weekly drunk text from my dad.

The story was ten kinds of aimless.