Sentences with phrase «film delivers on»

Although the film delivers on the adrenaline rush of action and suspense, it is less successful narratively.

With great jokes and an amazing musical number, the film delivers on all cylinders.

Perry's film delivers on cinematography, production design, costumes and directing -LRB-!!).

What the film delivers on stunning visuals, it lacks on story and character development.

With a mostly appealing cast — especially Logan Marshall - Green (Prometheus) in the lead — the film delivers on dread, yet drags out the proceedings in a way that makes its 90 - minute length feel less than brisk.

Though the film delivers on the promise of oddities in Disneyworld, the film doesn't live up to the hype surrounding the indie film shot secretly in the theme park.

Luckily, Lowell Dean's new film delivers on the madness its title suggests.

The film delivers on scares, gore and some interesting action sequences.

This Disney animated film delivers on both, bringing together all sorts of video game characters that we know and love, as well as just being a great film with superb voice work, an interesting story, great characters, gorgeous animation, clever humor, and a great big heart.

Despite some intermittent pacing issues and some horrendous sound quality problems during the first 30 minutes, the film delivers on all other fronts, with superb performances from its excellent ensemble cast (especially protagonist Cliff Curtis) and a nuanced script that tackles its complex story line on multiple levels.

Overall the film delivered on what I envisioned but I thought it would feel cheaper.

The film delivered on all of those elements, but failed to surpass expectation.

Does super large superhero team - up film deliver on its inherit hype promise or does it flounder and ultimately crumble underneath the incredible high expectations from fans everywhere?

Not exact matches

The technology is a departure for X, which has generally focused on ideas like burrito - delivering drones that seem like they were torn from the pages of sci - fi film scripts.

This film just didn't quite deliver on that.

Filmed last year on location in Eastern Europe, the show is purportedly «a gritty, sexy, communist buddy cop show» popular in Romania in the 1980s — a conceit the producers maintain by dubbing English dialogue over lines delivered by Romanian actors.

(Side note: the arm that you see ladling soup into a container is mine, lol — I happened to have been volunteering on the day of filming, packing up freshly brewed soup to deliver to a local school.)

On Rixa's blog Stand and Deliver she lists 61 film clips she compiled for a conference presentation about depictions of childbirth in cinema.

Read books about delivering drug - free and watch films featuring no - med births, like The Business of Being Born, recently released on DVD.

To coincide with debate on the waiver, Laurie David and Stephanie Soechtig, co-producers of the new documentary film «Fed Up,» delivered red and blue M&M's to the 29 House members who voted in favor of the waiver in committee last week.

Nominated for awards at both the Pan African Film Festival, Bronzelens Film Festivals, and others, it's no wonder TV One, the network dedicated to delivering real life and entertainment programming from the African American point of view, has decided to acquire and air this historical film on Saturday, January 9, 2016.

There is, of course, Edward James Olmos's Oscar - nominated portrayal of the heroic Jaime Escalante in the stirring film Stand and Deliver (probably the only hit movie ever to hinge on AP scores), and also the ever - resourceful Professor on Gilligan's Island.

With a diverse array of clients ranging from award - winning film and television producers to young families to single professionals, she collaborates with each individual on their unique residential and commercial needs to always create a feng shui consultation that delivers.

For me, a good thriller film has got to be effortless in delivering a top - notch story that keeps you on the edge of your seat.

The other 99 minutes consist of multiple angles on Michael Madsen's face — which no film calls for — as he's «emoting» and long moments of David Carradine trying to remember his lines, and then trying to deliver them.

I've never actually seen «Lady Windermere's Fan» performed, on stage or on film, but I'll guess that, given its numerous adaptations over the years, that it is generally delivered in a much funnier and respectable fashion than it is in A Good Woman.

Doesn't win points for originality, but the film keeps to a steady rhythm of entertainment, delivering a few laughs and tears along the way on DVD before it settles into its rightful home on basic cable.

And yet the film generally remains quite watchable (and occasionally engrossing), with Teller and Hill delivering absolutely captivating performances that elevate the proceedings on an impressively regular basis.

Based on the popular video game, The Angry Birds Movie is a quirky kid's film that's mildly entertaining and delivers some fun laughs.

Don't get me wrong, I love gratuitous sex on many levels but this film just didn't deliver any real plot to me.

What makes this film fascinating is the conflict between the two characters, which is centered mostly on a great dialogue that explores the motivations and creative process of a genius, with Charlton Heston delivering his typical overacting and Rex Harrison as magnetic as always.

Warner's Blu - ray version delivers Heat with a new HD transfer supervised by Mann himself, and the film thankfully looks better than I've ever seen it on disc before.

Unlike films like Johnny English which fail to deliver memorable laughs and a good story, OSS 117 relies on a good script peppered with smart gags that are definitely not stupid, like so many other spy spoofs.

When I said that the film hits particularly bland spells, I really did mean it, though I'd be lying if I said that the film ever slips into downright dullness, thanks to an adequate degree of colorful wit within Sherriff's, West's and Maschwitz's screenplay, which, at the very least, delivers on engaging characterization that is made all the more engaging by the portrayals of the characters.

Barthes wanted to trace and assemble the inner life of love; Denis's film turns those inward revelations outward, and lets them loose on the world in the form of a hungering, spontaneous, clear - eyed but anxious Juliette Binoche — who delivers the sort of soul - baring performance we've come to expect, but with a humor and candor rare for even her.

The excitement that followed Zack Snyder's announcement at Comic Con 2013 was extraordinary, and so the pressure was on to deliver the comic - book film of their dreams.

The film never fully commits to either, shifting in tone from scene to scene and ultimately delivering on neither count.

The film's final act is both its best and worst, anchored by the long - gestating blow - up between the young newlyweds — naturally, it's set on the eponymous Chesil Beach — that sees both Howle and Ronan delivering show - stopping performances and Sean Bobbitt's lush cinematography combining beauty and function in with total precision.

Despite some cumbersome moments, the film delivers a to - the - point message about how the sins of the parents can be visited on the children.

To get a really good and entertaining film, you need: 1) characters you care about 2) a plot that is more than twenty words when boiled down 3) stunning action (on which Transformers delivers 4) believability and credibility And all Transformers has is eye candy.

Starring Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, Farhadi's latest pivots on a disappearance (in this case a kidnapping) much like his 2009 film About Elly, but CineVue's Joe Walsh believes it «lacks the subtlety of his early work, yet he still shows he has the ability to deliver devastating blows that leave you stunned.»

This film is desperately deep in its trite fluff, but with its hint of indie flavor, it does try a bit, at least in the technical department, with Alexander Gruszynski delivering on a few pretty points in cinematography, while Michael Penn hits some charmingly perky licks in his score.

Based on Paul Schrader's script, Scorsese delivers a powerful film that really pulls the viewer into the film.

The performances further distinguish this the portrayals of notable figures in this film, which delivers on plenty of neat cameos and supporting performances by recognizable talents who nail the recognizable figures, while leading man Alan Rickman more - or-less carries things with his trademark dry, soft - spoken charisma, which captures the mysterious madness and cleverness of Hilly Krystal.

From the blackness of space to incredible views of the Earth's surface, and the claustrophobic space capsule interiors, Gravity delivers one of the most impressive visual and dramatic stories put on film.

TURAN: Good versus evil films often rise or fall on the strength of the evil doer, and in the Oscar - winning Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mission Impossible 3 has a spectacular actor who delivers some deeply unnerving speeches.

Though Nicholson and company are stellar, the dreary film makes promises it doesn't deliver on, pulling the rug out from under us without really letting us step on it in the first place.

Luckily Bruce Willis was interesting in his role, unfortunately the script just didn't deliver on its ideas, and it ended up being a forgettable film not worth your time.

Terrible plot, lackluster effects, a trainwreck sense of direction, and an absolute lack of an epic scope that the first two delivered on so well makes Superman IV: The Quest for Peace not only the worst Superman film, but one of the worst comic book movies in general

The film is evocative, intelligent, poignant, and delivers a good deal of clarity both in the development of «On the Origins of Species» and on the complexities of Charles Darwin the man, who shook the world with scientific theory, yet appeared more comforted by his faith in familOn the Origins of Species» and on the complexities of Charles Darwin the man, who shook the world with scientific theory, yet appeared more comforted by his faith in familon the complexities of Charles Darwin the man, who shook the world with scientific theory, yet appeared more comforted by his faith in family.