Sentences with phrase «bland ciphers»

All the same it's hard not to wish the film didn't feel compelled to turn its characters of colour into bland ciphers.

While Charlie Hunnam's lead character was a bland cipher, there were several colorful personalities like Elba's courageous leader, Rinko Kikuchi's tortured Mako, Charlie Day and Burn Gorman's comic relief and Ron Perlman's outlandish, black - market kingpin surrounding him.

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Finally, ScreenDaily's Tim Grierson was much less positive, claiming that it feels like «a soulless, mechanical exercise in pure kinetic showmanship» and that Berg «too easily undercuts the human element of his story,» preferring to render most of the characters in the film «ciphers representing bland notions of good or evil.»