Sentences with phrase «excellent actors giving»

He is helped enormously by three excellent actors giving their all in the lead roles.

Not exact matches

The other characters are given very little in terms of depth, but the actors portraying them do an excellent job in endearing themselves to the viewer.

Everyone knows about different acting methods and a lot of people knew about what Carrey did on the set of Man on the Moon but obviously we never saw it, but that's what this documentary is and although it's not spectacular or anything, it gives another look at the work of the actor and it becomes an excellent companion to the film and especially serves as a testament of one of Jim Carrey's best acting jobs.

We are instead given a number of impressive, but token flashy performances by veteran actors in tough guy bit parts (Pete Postlethwaite and Chris Cooper as irredeemable lifelong criminals) and newcomers in «dramatic stretches» (The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner who is good (again) but not as great as the star - makers would have you believe, and most notably, Blake Lively, excellent as a drug - addled neighborhood floozy).

Not the fault of the actors but when you have the excellent Danny Huston (30 Days of Night) playing an evil German officer then there is the potential to create a proper villain, a mad genius with grand plans for world domination during a time of great sorrow for the rest of the world, and instead his General Ludendorff is resorted to cracking open gas tablets that give him Hulk - like strength for no real reason and never really pays off in any way; in one scene he locks a group of people in a room with a deadly nerve gas and then decides to snort on his magic capsule before cackling and running off - camera like Jack Nicholson's Joker.

The movie features that excellent Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, who gave a performance to treasure in Yoji Yamada's The Twilight Samurai (2002)-- but is wasted here in a minor, bad guy role.

It's not necessarily the actors, bother Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger give excellent performances, it's that there's just a real lack of chemistry between the two.

Both young actors give excellent performances, but earn plenty of assistance from the adult cast members (including Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Bruce Willis and Tilda Swinton).

With excellent technical specs and two of the finest actors in the business in the lead roles, American Gangster is not unlike Frank Lucas himself, a polished, professional effort that gives the people what they want when they want it, without diluting the product.

The actors in the movie are universally excellent — pleasantly surprising is Gary Oldman giving his best performance in years with Gordon's beefier role in this film — but the one that will be remembered is of course Heath Ledger's Joker.

Others in the cast, including such excellent actors as Christopher Walken and John Turturro, give surprisingly weak performances.

The topnotch cast, composed of a couple indie film stars and several excellent Native American actors (particularly Graham Greene and Gil Birmingham) give stellar performances.

Yeah, I think that's the going «grade» that many are giving this movie It was visually impressive and had some great actors in it (Cumberbatch and Swinton were excellent in it.

The screenplay is excellent, and I also think all the other supporting actors do wonders with what they're given, most of all Barbara Hershey.

Both Kheda Gazieva as Aminat, Ramasan's still beautiful but exhausted - looking mother and Aslan Elbiev as the ambivalent, mysterious Isa, who was wounded in the conflict (the actor really is missing some fingers which gives the character's dexterity as a handyman an added prurient fascination) are excellent, and the supporting cast of local neighbors, Austrian police officers, social workers and schoolchildren are perfectly cast too.

As a result, many of the excellent actors are not given the chance to show their talent (Whoopi Goldberg, Jared Leto, and Vanessa Redgrave are two examples).

The voice acting is nothing short of excellent, with each actor giving it their all.