Sentences with phrase «in muddled character»

Dexter's fourth season tries too hard for the story's sake, resulting in muddled character development and a number of irritating appearances by the titular character's father.

Not exact matches

Blind Dating also manages to be an incredibly muddled 95 minutes in which emotions are replaced by aggressive music cues to force the viewer to care for characters that are paper thin at best.

Unfortunately, this low - budget production comes up short in many places: limited performances, barely developed characters, a muddled script.

There are so many ideas rattling around in Backstabbing for Beginners that are never resolved, and so many duplicitous characters that are never satisfactorily explained, that the end result is a muddle of confusion and violence that could end the future of tourism in Baghdad forever.

Yet it also harks back to his earlier films Kicking and Screaming and Mr. Jealousy in the muddled confusion of its leading characters, while simultaneously displaying a similar generosity of spirit as found in Baumbach's collaborations with Wes Anderson on The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Fantastic Mr. Fox.

The result is a bloated film that seems incapable of deciding exactly what it's supposed to be (the continuing story line about the fate of Peter's parents and the involvement of Norman Osborne is continued on top of all of this, but also muddled), besides marking time for the next film and the introduction of the character's anti-Avengers, the Sinister Six (who are teased endlessly in the second half).

Not containing the wit to be smart, thrilling sci - fi nor the chutzpah to embrace a fun, B - movie shlock vibe, it unfortunately feels like an uninspired TV pilot that any other network would've permanently locked in a vault... At first, it has the feeling of being dropped into a season finale with characters we should know more about, then after the bland exposition, muddled motivations, and nonsensical developments, one realizes they'd never want to watch what came before anyways.

But, as with many Tim Burton features, the visuals are the best part in what turns out to be a muddled storyline that tosses madcap characters in front of the screen with little rooting interest in them or their plights.

-- but after delivering a movie whose logic was so muddled and whose imagination was so hamstrung by tepid characters and nonsensical plotting, that final scene could feel like a real slap in the face.

Peter Pan (53) certainly has its faults: underdeveloped characters, a thin story, and muddled themes that stray from those established in J. M. Barrie's original tales.

In action scenes, Ayer is exceedingly generous, allowing each character a turn in the limelight, but the film is constantly muddling its own sense of purpose, making plot decisions that feel improvisatory by its enIn action scenes, Ayer is exceedingly generous, allowing each character a turn in the limelight, but the film is constantly muddling its own sense of purpose, making plot decisions that feel improvisatory by its enin the limelight, but the film is constantly muddling its own sense of purpose, making plot decisions that feel improvisatory by its end.

It clearly lays out how the characters of the «lovers» are linked throughout the story to make it clear what is happening for any children who have, understandably, become a bit muddled in Shakespeare's comedy.