Sentences with phrase «film falls flat»

Yet as a tool for display, the physical world of the film falls flat.

It's just too bad everything else about this film falls flat.

Burton scores points for his wicked visual style, but the film falls flat because after all the madness, it's nearly impossible to care about any of it.

It's when the characters open their mouths that the film falls flat.

Their failure to develop any believable chemistry means the «romance» component of the film falls flat.

The «Atlanta» star turns in a terrific performance as a man wrongfully imprisoned for over 20 years, but the film itself falls flat.

The film falls flat, not because Adams and Waltz's performances themselves are subpar, but because their performances pull in opposite directions.

The special effects are nifty enough (demons hanging from the ceiling, fingers being chopped off) and you can tell the directors are well - steeped in the subterranean worlds of The Exorcist and Blue Velvet but even as an act of homage, the film falls flat.

The Bad: Once the story is set up, and the premise is through with it's introduction, the film falls flat from lack of what to do next.

This film falls flat because they engage in sex during the picture's opening sequence.

The actual story itself is where the film falls flat.

The power and impact of the film fall flat, as though there's a force field between the screen and the theater seats that stops any emotion dead in its tracks before it can reach the crowd.

Most the other Actors / Actresses in the film fall flat and

Most the other Actors / Actresses in the film fall flat and just don't ever feel like key characters.

Emotional moments in the film fall flat due to lack of on - screen chemistry and a score that disrespects the audience.

For this film to work it really needed to spend time on building and establishing the relationship between Robbie and Cecilia, once it failed to do that it made the rest of the film fall flat and feel hollow.

If the film fell flat, he'd be far from the first scribe to unsuccessfully attempt directing.

Not exact matches

As much as I hate to say it, given the ambitious intentions and great heart on display, the film as a whole falls flat.

However, Winchester falls flat as a boring horror film that lacks in just about every facet of filmmaking.

The characterization is so shoddy, but the portrayals do bring some humanity that all but carries this film, which ultimately falls flat, but does indeed have some admirable qualities, no matter how spare.

Mediocre action film, Sanctum is a film that had potential of being a great film; unfortunately it falls flat, and relies more on clichés than anything.

And while its comedy may often fall flat, the film at least doesn't resort to speeding up the footage or the sound, or other cheap stunts like that.

I'm a football fan, and the film fell absolutely flat for me.

It was a tiresome film, with no redeeming qualities and it just fell flat.

This film if it would have been rewritten might have been good fun, but the end result just suffers from a poor plot that ends up falling flat.

They're marketed that way, the film's pretend to mirror that basis, and they fall flat on their face everytime.

With all of my complaints about how this film all too often discards promising plot areas to spark a sense of unevenness, hurrying, outside of that area of storytelling, is hardly a big deal, so what this series really has to worry about is, of course, bloating, because all of this unevenness, as well as repetition, could have perhaps been avoided if this saga wasn't just so blasted overblown, not necessarily to the point of falling flat as too sprawling to stick with, but decidedly to the point of feeling rather overambitious.

Some of the jokes fall flat, others are badly telegraphed and it weaves in and out of being a documentary and just a film to the point of distraction but it ' s hard for me to dislike the movie since I ' ve worked with people like this especially the director, Harry Penderecki... only not as likeable.

This is indeed a savable film, but alas, a saving grace does not come, and no matter how much this film charms with its ambition, if not some genuine strengths, it ultimately falls flat, which isn't to say that it was ever to go that far.

Some parts are funny, but most of the time, the gags falls flat, and halfway through the film, everything just falls apart.

With so many balls up in the air it's unsurprising that the film ultimately falls rather flat.

My point is a sequel should never feel like a «greatest hits» of the film before, and boy is Kingsman: The Golden Circle filled with callbacks that fall flat on their face.

Almost all jokes fell flat — there was complete silence in the screening room for nearly the entire film.

Scenes often go on too long, the film's tone varies wildly and most of the humor falls flat.

Despite some brief erotic scenes, the romance, therefore, falls flat, as the film is essentially a one - man show for Garrel.

He tries to keep the film engaging with his running commentary tied to the dog's actions, but most of the time his improv falls flat.

Jack's killer - disease revelation admittedly does inject the proceedings with some much - needed energy, although even this aspect of the film ultimately falls flat due to Bell's overtly sinister turn (ie one's efforts at buying into the character's claims are consistently thwarted by his exceedingly evil demeanor).

That the heavily - hyped project (a reunion between Verhoeven and his Basic Instinct writer Joe Eszterhas) fell flat on its busted back, much like Gina Gershon's Cristal does in the film, just made its myth all the more potent.

The film is very schmaltzy, sappy, and emotionally manipulative, and some of it does work, but a lot of it fell flat for me.

«Without this body of actors, every film and television show would fall flat,» said producer Jim Katz, in a statement.

As far as the style and sense of humor goes, it does still feel unique among the rest of the pack of franchises out here, even if it can't achieve the level of success in either of those departments that the first film did, particularly in the case of the comedy as a lot of the jokes in this one fall very flat.

Some portions of the film definitely fell a little flat, especially the villain, and it sort of went into a messy spiral towards the end.

The film offers decent terror, but ultimately falls flat when it can not sustain its blatant message of exposing hypocrisy through racial and social disparity.

Thankfully, terrific performances from the lead (most of the supporting roles) saved the film from falling completely flat.

But it was not just the German crime (or thriller) and action genre films that fell flat at this year's Berlinale.

The film's biggest problem, however, is the messy and overly complex narrative, which tries spinning several different subplots into an intricately woven crime thriller but falls flat on its face in the process.

In comparison, the performances of their adult counterparts, though passable, fall somewhat flat and clunky dialogue is sprinkled throughout the film, though not enough to be distracting.

If you look at a lot of «original» horror films these days most of them fall flat and leave something to be desired.

Burton's most tastefully designed film in years ultimately falls flat because Adams and Waltz can't get on the same page.

Although this film is a stone - cold classic, it does contain many of the trappings of 30s - 40s era movies that haven't aged well, such as a corny original score and some broad jokes based on cliches that fall pretty flat.