Sentences with phrase «brutal mess of a film»

Wildly off - kilter close - ups sandwich gorgeous vistas to create a dreamlike frame for the utterly brutal mess of a film unfolding.

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The Glass Castle offers up a movie clan to beat in terms of complete dysfunction, though the brutal and heart - wrenching film is in its own way just as much of a mess.

A mess of a film this one.Plot lines confused and blurred.It seems to have been made up as they filmed.All the American cliques are there.Ugly brutal men in a one horse town, yet the place is full of emotionally wounded gorgeous women.The men are macho and the women inconsequential.The acting is rather uneven, veering from impressive, going down to Benny Hill.This is Cages best role thus far, but his normal low standards means his acting is still below par.The plots descends into a quagmire of nuttiness and by the end is daft romantic nonsense.A tighter script was needed, the director needed to be replaced to stop the film's plot wandering off in all directions and finally someone with greater gravitas was needed to take on Nicholas Cage's part...