Sentences with phrase «dull movie about»

Portman and Scarlett Johansson do their best to bring life to the sometimes - dull movie about sisters vying for the king's affections, an adaption of the novel by Philippa Gregory.

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It's only as the film inevitably segues into its mystery - oriented midsection that it slowly - but - surely becomes a seriously dull piece of work, as there's simply nothing interesting or intriguing about the gang's ongoing investigation into what happened - with the tediousness of this stretch exacerbated by the unpleasant and downright seedy nature of the movie's locale.

The lovers are dull, and whatever the movie wants to say about the culture and society of the time is crammed into a few scenes of the king's court acting foppish and the women of the court revealing how their experiences don't matter to the men.

While the movie is about a fairly important event in modern medicine — the discovery and recognition of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) as a very real problem within the sport of football — it's told in such a dull, straightforward manner that its message doesn't resonate.

Although «Safe» looks eerily similar to just about every film to come out of the Jason Statham Factory of Ass - Kicking since the original «Transporter,» at least his movies are rarely dull, and that has a lot to do with Statham's seemingly endless supply of charisma.

Miller was attempting to make a neo-noir style movie with Gabriel Macht as the titular Spirit who narrates to himself about his love for the city and his need to protect, which gave us plenty of «Sin City» like imaginary.Its visuals notwithstanding, «The Spirit» was bogged down with a dull lead, some misjudged attempts at comedy and an uncontrolled Samuel L. Jackson being allowed to ham it up with no boundaries.

The movie poster for Snow White and the Huntsman says «from the producer of Alice in Wonderland,» which is really all you need to know about this dull and completely unnecessary remake.

These are dull, one - dimensional participants about whom one finds it awfully tough to care, no matter how hard the movie tries to prod us with shameless stabs at emotion.

Since its story was already related during a dull dumping of back story in the 2014 movie, Ouija: Origin of Evil may be relatively pointless, but co - writer / director Mike Flanagan's creepily effective film has at least one thing going for it in that regard: The first movie was so repetitive and forgettable that it's unlikely anyone really cares about or even remembers the story as it was told in the original.

To paraphrase Roger Ebert, what the movie is about is honorable, but how it is about it is ultimately fairly hollow and pretty dull.

Is this movie a fun and heartfelt movie about rekindling the passionate flames of a dull marriage or is this flick just a 94 minute raunchy iPad commercial?

However, when Battleship is taken out of the confines of movie - based games and judged according to the wider game market, it's a dull, bland FPS that is so completely generic that I actually forgot about it while I was watching the credits roll.