Sentences with phrase «excessively deliberate pace»

And while Avrech's script often proves an eye - opening look at the seriously backwards Hasidic community, A Stranger Among Us suffers from an excessively deliberate pace that effective highlights the less - than - engrossing storyline - with Emily and Ariel's burgeoning romance striking all the wrong notes throughout (ie there's just no chemistry between these two disparate figures).

The movie's far - from - engrossing atmosphere is compounded by its excessively deliberate pace, with Shavelson's relaxed approach resulting in a number of overlong and flat - out needless interludes (eg Frank's wooing of Helen seems to go on forever).

Filmmaker Carl Tibbetts, working from a screenplay cowritten with Janice Hallett, has infused Retreat with an almost excessively deliberate pace that proves problematic right from the outset, with the movie's hands - off atmosphere exacerbated by Newton's cold, oddly unsympathetic performance (ie she seems to actively hate her own husband).

Alas, McCarthy drops the ball with a midsection devoted almost entirely to Annie's tedious efforts at solving the central mystery - with the familiarity of this portion of the proceedings compounded by an excessively deliberate pace and lack of actual scares.

There's little doubt that Real Steel's biggest problem is its excessively deliberate pace and unreasonably overlong running time, as filmmaker Shawn Levy, working from John Gatins» screenplay, has infused the movie with an incongruously epic sensibility that all - too - often threatens to negate its positive attributes - with the fairly pointless (and surprisingly unpleasant) robot - vs - bull brawl that opens the picture effectively setting a tone of regrettable sloppiness (ie Charlie goes through two robots before settling on his final fighter).