These can be subtle, like a vague
shape in a few scenes that's easy to ignore if you aren't looking for it, or they can be right in your face.
Even though both are only supporting characters and
appear in a few scenes, neither one seems to connect to the material at all on any level.
The picture shows vital signs only
in a few scenes where Cedric takes on the additional role of his own lecherous uncle, but it's too little too late.
Elizabeth Olsen (a prediction — she's an Academy Award - winning star in the making)
shines in her few scenes as Ford's wife.
Davis is quite
powerful in those few scenes where Rose is allowed to break free from the character's wary vigilance — where she pours out her hurt — but the scenes often play out as arias in an opera that never quite rises to full cry.
Dominic West appears
in a few scenes in what amounts to a glorified cameo, as does mo - cap expert Terry Notary as the dinner party performance artist, Oleg.
Mickey Sumner — who only appears
in a few scenes at the beginning and end — makes the conflicted, angry Sophie into a vibrant character, a drop - dead bitchy wit who we, like Frances, wish we could spend more time with.
George Clooney may have to carry Quentin
Tarantino in a few scenes, but the fun of the movie is watching Clooney up against vampires.
Swoosie Kurtz also breezes
by in a few scenes as Kate's flaky mother Grace, who can't watch her three granddaughters because she's finally living her dream as a community theater actress.
The truth is — while Lawrence is
naked in a few scenes, not only is this misguided and often vile film NOT sexy, but it doesn't contain a single thrill.
SUBSTANCE USE - People drink alcohol in a bar and one man appears inebriated, a man drinks
alcohol in a few scenes, and a woman drinks a beer at a restaurant.
A man appears to be
hallucinating in a few scenes: he imagines his father's severed head being thrown at him, and he imagines his mother's head with snakes for hair reflected in a goblet of wine.
(Fey, who also co-starred in Levy's «Date Night,» gets to stretch beyond her formidable comedic talents and
cry in a few scenes, which makes you long to see her do so with stronger material.)
Rory Kinnear continues a streak of impressively understated blue collar men with his work as the aforementioned detective while Charles Dance is a dry - humored bit of
brilliance in his few scenes bouncing off Cumberbatch, but the real gem in the supporting roster is Keira Knightley, who adds another notch to an absolute banner year.
Instead, they
wrote in a few scenes that effectively wiped out the entire Star Trek universe that we had come to know, thereby truly rebooting from scratch.
He was small and not particularly powerful, but he was lithe and had a quick wit and compelling improvisational skills, and he ably parlayed his minority
status in a few scenes that aren't the slightest bit threatening.
With the possible exception of Murray, whose dialogue exchanges come off as a bit
flat in a few scenes, every actor seems to have wrapped their arms around their role in a jealous expression of loving affection for that part.
Newcomer Caren Pistorius also delights as a strong female
presence in the few scenes she shares, throwing the notion and preconceived stereotypes of a damsel in distress, to the wind.
Sometimes, as with Huma Qureshi and Manish Dayal, it seems like work as they go over the
top in a few scenes.
Cullen makes a strong
impression in his few scenes, carrying the air of a man who credibly respects one son's taciturn personality while encouraging a younger son who had to grow up both mother - and brother-less.
Sometimes movies of this type use this
technique in a few scenes or the photography is too shaky or the filmmakers try to scare you into thinking it is real and «untouched» footage.