Sentences with phrase «cliche story»

Summary: A below - average Japanese hack»n slash with repetitive combat and an over-reliance on fan - service and titillation to carry players through its cliche story and several cringe - worthy character interactions.

Just as I started to get into the game there would be something to pull me back out again, The great arcade racing is let down by the cliche story and abysmal upgrade system.

Aside from its cliche story beats, its biggest downer comes from the uncharismatic and miscast Cumberbatch.

We're used to the cliche story of an artist who comes from nowhere and makes it big, then abuses substances and dies young.

Terribly stale acting, archaic dialogue, ridiculously cliche story line, sub par combat and immature CGI.

However, the action doesn't make up for the terrible cliche story of the «one guy that is immune to the virus and needs to get across the country so he can save the human race».

Season 5 kinda regressed into the cliche story of the vampire struggle, there were plenty of jokes but again, stupid subplots were involved to ruin the experience.

Hopelessly cliche story but Stanwyck rises above it with her great talent and intensity.

Want to hear a cliche story about how a guy loses weight?

In a cliche story about «young love,» Skittles takes on Super Bowl 51.

Not exact matches

Now let me walk you through a broader story because avoidance of the word in and of itself will seem cliche.

It may be a cliche, but a picture really can tell a story that much more effectively.

Mr. Flanders adds a nice twist by suggesting that I'm an ill - informed hayseed who relies on twenty - year - old stories and recites tired old clichs about «political correctness.»

I could sit here and write a story about how I had a lovely day, but that would be so cliche... No, instead I'll tell you what REALLY happened!

It misses out on the main story and cliches the slackness of undarkening material.

now this cast and story, its a total cliche and flooded with nonsense creativity.

The story itself uses the parody of horror cliches to its advantage to create a plot that is classic suspense / thriller inspired alongside comedic elements that don't interrupt the plot but rather compliment it.

Like the 2015 original, this comedy plays merrily with cliches to tell a silly story that's funny but never particularly clever.

I don't think they could fit any more cliches or predictable story lines than they did in Dexter's final season.

Far Cry 3 is an excellent game, marred mainly by some irritating design elements and an inconsistent story that often defaults to generic «tribal» cliches to make an impact.

She's been better elsewhere and the story is one big cliche after another.

Instead, we get a very fine performance in a film which avoids some (but not all) of the cliche - ridden pitfalls of the rags - to - riches story.

Devil's Knot tells a compelling story, but the movie is bogged down by storyline cliches, poor pacing, and being overlong.

Yes is very different to the 87 version and yes its cliche but its watchable and as the season goes on the story lines are not bad.

Overall it's a good series but they tried to tell far too much of a story in this season and ended up using a lot of cliches.

The graphics are nice and so are the characters, but the story is in the lackluster department, everything about its story is cliche and tried.

The story is a cliche.

Though exceptionally long, Chamber of Secrets boasts improved special effects and a thrilling story - line, and uses strong performances to mask the cliches and somewhat convoluted plot.

It's not easy to go 12 rounds against a cliche - ridden story like Price of Glory and remain standing.

Although the film carefully dodges some YA bildungsroman cliches and is bolstered by such compelling performances from its leads, I couldn't help but feel that the story that's left is somewhat underwhelming.

Although (or should is be «Since») the movie had * several * cliches thrown in, and a love story added to heighten the dramatic effect, it still failed to rise above the average fare.

Depressing, cliche, and quite unwatchable at times, Dear John really doesn't have an interesting story to tell, and despite it being in the romantic genre, the film makes the viewer feel nothing more than annoyance.

At first glance, this is a fantastic (albeit somewhat cliche) setup for a good revenge story, but as you progress through the game, it never really becomes said story.

The story is slightly interesting, but it's also sort of uninspired and cliche.

Inspiring without sinking into sentimentality or cliche, Hearts of Atlantis is intelligent, heartfelt and genuine, a rare story of childhood for adults.

It never resorts to cliches, it never takes the easy way out, and it has a momentum that keeps pushing the story forward at a smooth rate, never too fast or too slow.

Since it's based on a true story, he avoids the usual cliches and formulas, which makes it an unusually thoughtful film.

With a story that links together every cliche from the weepy chick - flick library, this movie uses its doomed romance premise to reduce every woman in the audience into floods of tears.

Like its predecessor, the scene is already causing waves due to its unflinching detail and morally - questionable motivations, but at the same time does serve some thematic and story purpose, and further can also be read as a sly subversion of Bond cliches.

Parker writes, directs and stars in a film that initially seems mired in the familiar cliches of the Deep South, but gains real power as its violent, unpalatable story builds to its Braveheart - style climax.

Though peppered with platitudes, cliches, and of course The Guy Who's Always Wrong, it has its heart and mind in the right place, focusing exclusively on the sacrifice and heroism aspects of the story.

Being misjudged seems to be the theme of Shaun's (Gabrielle Union) life — at least, that's what she tells people throughout James McTeigue's uneven «Breaking In» — and while the sentiment seems cliche, it's hard to argue with it once she harbors the full range of her abilities in service to a story best described as some sort of reverse «Panic Room.»

the kinect controls were horrible and story fell of just cliches for me.

A lot of moviegoers still believe that low quality CGI toon projects should get a pass because they're just «kid movies» but films like Wreck - It - Ralph remind us that superior animated pictures are more than just cheep gags and one - note cliches — considering the film puts a new spin on tried - and - true stories about friendship and heroism.

Although this film falls into the ever - bulging genre of inspirational stories of courage and hope against all odds, director David Gordon Green has given Bauman's story a grittier, less predictable edge with Gyllenhaal never going for cheap sentiment or movie cliches.

What's surprising is that this cliche - filled narrative takes a turn at a certain point and begins to barrel towards much more exciting and immediately engaging events — but like what feels like everything in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 it takes a while to get to that point even if you ignore side quests and attack the main story specifically.

With such motives perhaps some of the stereotypes and cliches can be forgiven, and the focus placed instead on the story's intent to reveal the out - of - this - world rewards of parenthood.

Packed with cliches, there's nothing remotely original about this East London crime thriller, which seems to be based on other similar movies rather than an original story or characters.

There's about twenty minutes of real story to the piece, and even then it's loaded with painful cliches.

While using every horror movie cliche in the book, this film cleverly tells a bracingly original story that will have genre fans squirming in their seats.