Sentences with phrase «how dull the characters»

He does an excellent job with the visuals and the camera work, but I just can't emphasize enough just how dull the characters were.

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Too muted and pensive to work as a thriller, too withdrawn to be a character study, and too cold to evoke any sympathy, the film is instead a dull and alienating exercise in how to take a strong actor and interesting premise and mostly waste them.

Sadly I think I've gotten to the point where my curiosity about the dome no longer outweighs how badly I feel about the boring story, the dull characters, the poor acting, and the unimaginative writing.

Dull and pointless, Johnny Depp plays a far to run of the mill boring character for his acting style and the sub-par scares won't raise anything apart from your anguish at how much longer of the film is left.

Now before I get asked, no the acting isn't terrible, but it's not amazing either sometimes even ruining the immersion even further with unbelievably dull reactions and lackluster expression, how am I supposed to be scared or laugh when your characters aren't even petrified.

It's a shame the story and the human characters are rather dull and boring compared to how pretty the movie looked.

With the exception of an intriguing scene in which an eager crowd places bets on a dogfight between a pit bull and a smaller MTR, the humans seldom interact directly with these enormous E.T.s. Just imagine how dull «Jurassic Park» would be if the dinosaurs were seen exclusively in the far distance, as the paleontological safari intended, rather than endangering the characters in close proximity.

Due to some false truths in the biographical details and a simplistic political outlook, it's difficult to read how The Butler stands on this term and how it views its passive and sometimes dull central character.

If the first film showed us the kind of fun that could be had with this character by removing everything about him that could make him unique among his superhero peers, Thor: The Dark World shows how dull the adventures of the guardian of the nine realms of the universe can be when played with sincerity.

You see a page count like that and think of how it must be a dull paperweight; the magic in Martin's writing is that each of the characters are compelling in their own way, and each chapter ends on a suspenseful note.

How I could ever have thought that his haunting, lonely landscapes — usually uninhabited or with just one character — were remotely dull is completely beyond me.