Sentences with phrase «by dull characters»

It's just another shooter with a mediocre plot that's driven by dull characters... but that's not to say it's a bad game.

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Waititi creates a panoramic 720 - degree camera turn across a large collection of characters outdoors to advance the story by weeks without dull old - school exposition.

To dull the pain of their rudderless existence, he and his friends drive around, smoke pot, burn down abandoned buildings, and generally behave like multicultural, Midwestern versions of the kids from Saturday Night Fever, another bleak working - class character study driven by a mesmerizing central star turn.

While younger audience might go a bit dull - eyed at a few of the slower moments, I stayed involved in the characters» banter, made all the more appealing by witty comic relief and crisp dialogue and delivery.

Dull pacing, poor effects, weak characters and the rather creepy and definitely un-sexy fan dance by the aged Uhura was also a bit ewww.

More than he's been allowed to do in either Collet - Serra vehicle before this one, Neeson gets to portray a real character here, a man who may have once had a particular set of skills but has seen then dulled by age, regret and whiskey.

Most of the first hour of «Mascots» is simply these «interviews» — and, sadly, most of it is not very funny, as these dysfunctional characters, played by the likes of Parker Posey, Tom Bennett, Chris O'Dowd, Zach Woods and Sarah Baker, are annoying, dull or both.

Franco played the lead, and as we all know by now, churned the stomachs of everybody in the audience with the film's visceral final scene, in which his character snaps his arm and severs it from the rest of his body with a dull knife to break free.

The sense of wonder is long gone, replaced by a generic monster movie populated with dull, idiotic characters.

The real estate urbanity is ripe for ridicule, and it's a shame that more wasn't made of this as The Architect instead treads a predictable path with a textbook love triangle, a requisite quirky charlatan, and other stale placeholder characters (such as Colin's dull and doting parents played by John Aylward and Pamela Reed, so perfunctory they don't even have names), none of which are very likeable.

Final Verdict: A few bright notes are weighed down by a painfully slow pace and dull re-imaginings of the characters.

It's weighed down by dull scenes of exposition and repetitive battles where the main character is never in any danger.

His statements are not dulled by any overbearing cruelty to the characters, but instead the minor atrocities put upon them help to give weight to their problems, not make them seem like cartoons of a sadistic artist.

And while the love / hate relationship between Midler and Alvarado's respective characters feels authentic, Stella is, in the end, foiled by a host of negative attributes that conspire to cement the movie's place as a seriously dull little drama.

Instead, it fulfills the promise of its title by offering up a boring, lifeless story, fills it with dull, unsympathetic characters, and then keeps the thrills to an absolute...

Instead, it fulfills the promise of its title by offering up a boring, lifeless story, fills it with dull, unsympathetic characters, and then keeps the thrills to an absolute minimum.

The directing by Jean - Pierre Jeunet (Amelie, Delicatessen) is stylish but rather dull, with almost every shot symmetrical, and with characters constantly looking directly at the camera.

If the first film showed us the kind of fun that could be had with this character by removing everything about him that could make him unique among his superhero peers, Thor: The Dark World shows how dull the adventures of the guardian of the nine realms of the universe can be when played with sincerity.

Costume Design by Suzy Benzinger is lacking and the lead characters are outfitted in dull, colorless, and shapeless cloths.

This time Jose Ferrer (who won an Oscar for the role) plays the title character, a poet marred by the extreme size of his nose, whose love for Roxanne is such that he helps handsome but dull Christian woo her since he thinks she'll never notice him.

Mann once again plays with conventions by making the Ryan character the far more attractive character: he's funny, and charismatic, Stewart is dull, mean and not all that bright.

Instead, the film is inhabited by lifeless characters and mostly dull environments, both lacking the detail that the medium is capable of.

This could have been potentially another High School of the Dead with a strong cast of character and well structured story, but it ends up being a mission based game where the focus is more on doing the same repetitive tasks again and again backed by a dull combat.

On the flipside the author of the Games TM review found Arno to be a dull lead character and through that was bothered more by the narratives pacing issues.

The plot centres around Vahlen building a super weapon somewhere in Africa and is mostly advanced through dull cutscenes between missions that are narrated by Karl Fairburne, the lead character and titular elite sniper / lone wolf.

That's not to say that these beautifully drawn characters (dull as ditchwater Jacob and moany Miranda aside) are lonely sailors adrift in a sea of mediocrity; this second outing for Shepard and co is a lesson in deft and elegant story - telling and a highly effective third person shooter, complemented by streamlined RPG elements.

Ignoring the Kickstarter debacle, the game is a mediocre platformer, its problems exacerbated by bad voice acting and dull characters.

When exploring, dungeons encounters will be triggered by contacting enemies, and though each character has an ability (e.g. a dash, group heal, etc.) that can be used from that screen, for the most part you'll just walk around, loot barrels and chests, and take part in a dull fishing mini game.

The superb single player absolutely trounces the complete lack of anything put forward by MK64, but it's let down by poor character balancing and a dull multiplayer.

The few well - presented scenes there are get drowned out by the dull outposts and consistently weak character interactions.

Some of the sensation is dulled by Lost Dimension's decision to have a character's Fate Materia equipped by remaining members.