Sentences with phrase «film devolves»

After a somewhat subversive start, the film devolves into predictable patterns and sketchy stereotypes.

For a film that clocks in over two hours in length, there's very little substantive content to justify the duration, and just at the point when satiety is reached, the film devolves into an unattractive side jaunt where Xavier has a yen to get laid, heedless of personal consequences.

About halfway through, the film devolves into an unseemly psychodrama in the mansion's basement, where the father of the bride (Bruce Davison) threatens to sexually humiliate and kill the two brothers.

This film devolves into single - minded scare tactics and reduces its actors to mannequins or torture toys.

From that point on, the film devolves into the cozily predictable world of TV legal dramas, abandoning the moral uncertainty of its opening scenes for the benefit of a villain so comically over-the-top in his evil, he might as well be theatrically twirling a mustache and tying a damsel in distress to train tracks.

But while Caine puts in a strong performance, Louis Allred says the film devolves into a violent killing spree without any balance.

What starts out as a relatively unobjectionable film devolves into utter insanity.

While the «Dheepan» win surprised many here in Cannes — the film devolves into revenge killings capped by a happy ending — clearly Audiard's brand of straightforward, well - tooled craftsmanship appealed to the Coens and their fellow jurors.

After establishing a first half with intelligence and a smartly subdued Noomi Rapace, the film devolves into a series of shadowy men double - crossing each other and the threat of a large - scale terrorist attack with a head villain who barely registers as anything but sullen.

The film devolves into the cozily predictable world of TV legal dramas, abandoning the moral uncertainty of its opening scenes...

Once the film devolves into a drag - down fight for custody with Julia's mother, only Gusman's nuance saves us from a script that seems geared more toward screeching overacting.

The second half of the film devolves into something that resembles tedious, melodramatic daytime TV.

Coming off a decade where the American genre film devolved into lowest - common - denominator investments and blockbusters ballooned skyward on the backs of sequels and franchises, Refn's modest exercise in crime pastiche and car - chase nostalgia parlayed both the exhaustion of Hollywood's narrative resources and — perhaps more importantly — the gathering mainstream curiosity in independent music's preoccupation with the sound and feel of the 1980s (the film's soundtrack has become one of the most popular word - of - mouth successes of the decade).

Not exact matches

The Shrek film series is one that has devolved with time.

The film is very smart, most of all because it resists the urge to devolve into a sentimental redemption narrative.

If you were going down the list of things needed for a comedy to take flight you'd find them all here; the three main players pass the ball, the chemistry works, and the film never devolves into that most debilitating trope of the romantic comedy - a serious third act.

But the film also has too many memorable vignettes to count: Haven Hamilton's prickly recording session, where he mercilessly browbeats a hippie pianist; Barbara Jean's squirmily uncomfortable, rambling psychological meltdown while performing live for an impatient, unforgiving audience; Sueleen's conflicted ambitions when her «big break» devolves into a cheap striptease act; gentle Mr. Green's quiet suffering at the hands of his flakey niece; John Triplette's negotiations with various talent, buttering each of them up with compliments while at the same time insulting the musical form (and its admirers) in which they practice.

The film gets off to a good start, especially with Michael Caine around to class things up as Diesel's friend / handler, but it eventually devolves into a CGI - driven bore that lacks a compelling villain.

Batman Begins and Trank's Fantastic Four both take beloved entities that had devolved into silly, broad comic - book nonsense and tried to remake them as serious films.

The film eventually devolves into a series of life - and - death struggles where the casualties, rather than coming across as random and unpredictable, play out as if they had been negotiated with the cast's publicists in order of name recognition.

Nothing in Footloose comes close, in this respect, to the best moments of Brewer's previous, vibrant if uneven films Hustle & Flow and Black Snake Moan, but this heartfelt retread of a notably thin popcorn property does come alive during an illicit dance - off at a drive - in or when a line dance devolves into sweaty gyrations — basically, when the teenagers are fulfilling the grown - ups» worst fears.

The antiseptic environment and the depersonalized names — people reduced to a string of numbers — recall the similarly grim outlook of Star Wars mastermind George Lucas» first film, THX 1138, in which human beings have devolved into sterile, efficient drones devoid of emotion.

The film didn't do much on release, and it's not hard to see why — starting out as a sweet quirky comedy and devolving into something with a much sourer heart and quite the pessimistic streak (at least as far as humans are concerned) it's a film that is difficult to categorize, and therefore sell, without disappointing the audiences who show up expecting something a bit more straightforward.

Aside from a THX Optimizer test, the first disc features a commentary track from director Bigelow that begins promisingly enough with a tidbit about the six - month growing process of a stunt mosquito to insure its lack of contaminants but quickly devolves into long silences, plot regurgitation, and a mock - philosophical musing on the film.

The film offers an opaque précis of the Americans» childhood friendship in Sacramento (you might hope Saoirse Ronan or Greta Gerwig will show up) before devolving into crayon sketches of their young adult lives and disintegrating into a travelogue of their reunion trip a decade later through Western Europe.

When I first heard that the film was co-written and directed by Adam McKay — who gave us Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, The Other Guys and Anchorman 2, all films marked by outrageous comedy, subtlety be damned — I feared the movie would make a mockery of its theme and devolve into caricature and pastiche.

What was once about filmmaking quickly turned into about what should win best picture, and then devolved into film critics offering their own pet theories about history and trashing the legacy of Abraham Lincoln.

With an uncompromising but well - informed sense of rising urgency, «Lo and Behold» «devolves into an outright horror film about civilization, and what we're allowing it to become.»

Many years ago now, the writer Larry Gross predicted that the term «indie» would devolve from the designation of an actual economic position within the film industry to pure marketing speak.

However, in a film about a teen with Down syndrome who has suffered a tragedy and is searching for something that doesn't exist, the circumstances rapidly devolve from quirky to creepy to preposterous.

This one devolves into a horror climax as surely as any other film on this list.

This team builds things just to blow them up, and by the film's climax — which juggles several high - peril situations aboard two criss - crossing locomotives, including the sight of Reid riding his «spirit horse,» Silver, atop a train — what began as an elegantly epic, potentially realistic retelling of the Lone Ranger legend has devolved into Wile E. Coyote - style cartoon shenanigans.

After that brashly meta opener, you might expect a smartly constructed Tarantino - style black comedy of retribution, but the film fails to deliver on that promise, devolving instead into a dispiriting tonal mishmash of mean - spirited revenge fantasy, girl - power romantic fantasy, and comedy so broad it tips into caricature.

But the film will probably devolve into million - cuts - a-minute standard Hollywood action editing.

All film festival trips devolve into parodies of film festivals well before the final gala event (a fact that Cannes has perfected into an art form), but rarely this fast.

Boyle's latest film, 28 Days Later, follows a similar pattern, getting off to a terrifying start before devolving into gory bloodshed and ham - fisted allegory.

But quieter examples function equally well, such as the moment when the film threatens to bubble and melt against the bulb just as the character onscreen is devolving into sloppy, gooey zombiedom.

Ostensibly, the film starts with Zed's quest for meaning, but this is only dealt with in spots, and soon the production devolves into a childishly presented fight to stay alive.

Neither actress ever devolves into stereotypical histrionics or hamminess and both come across as full - fledged human beings; it's tremendously easy to forget that they're acting as the film often appear almost like a documentary.

The film is glossy and occasionally — especially in the still wrenching climax — devolves into camp, but at its core, Bug is still shocking, upsetting, on - the - fringe filmmaking.

Just when the film threatens to devolve into a variation on Shall We Dance, it takes a sharp political turn once Sleiman is arrested and placed in a detention center for illegal immigrants.

It's interesting to note how sterile lighting and muted colors are used when the film showcases the surgeon beginnings of Strange's life, since that look quickly devolves into a golden hue once the film's mysticism is introduced.

This thematic territory of cultural mistrust via miscommunication should be a generous playground for a humane writer's writer like Sayles, but his usual anthropological ear and eye for class tension and social custom have mystifyingly deserted him here — halfway through the film, my note - taking devolved into simple transcription of the multiple howlers in the dialogue.

Yet the film doesn't devolve into torture porn or become a gorefest for the sake of the shock value.

Taunting our very explicitly American tendency to let everything we touch devolve into sentimentality, the film proves that when we obsess over remembering ourselves at our best, we might as well be celebrating us at our worst.

The original franchise is remembered for devolving into cheesy sci - fi, even if that final image in the first film from 1968 of the Statue of Liberty will keep blowing the minds of stoned undergrads till the end of time.

An absurd horror comedy, the film offers no dialog at all, just grunts, as humans — devolved into ape mentality — go about their poop - throwing, territory marking, television smashing daily existence.

A power outage makes everything look cool and neon, like a Michael Mann film; once the killing begins, the movie devolves into a cavalcade of gruesome squibs, exit wounds, and creative kills amid the cries and pleas for mercy.

Unfortunately, the intrigue to the film ends there, as it quickly devolves into gross people doing gross things to other gross people.

Having now seen it, I can certainly tell you that the first half of the film appears to be practical (though I'm sure it's not) whilst the climax very quickly devolves into a chaotic CGI clusterf * ck.