Sentences with phrase «incoherent mess of a film»

by Walter Chaw Shaping up as a spoof but neither smart enough to earn that label nor exciting enough to sustain interest otherwise, Tom Dey's slick Showtime is an incoherent mess of a film that relies on explosions and volume to distract from its tin ear and flat pacing.

It's part of DePalma's «style» to ripoff shots and scenes from other scenes and insert them willy - nilly into his own films, and the OOTP guys go into detail on how this radical decontextualization creates an incoherent mess of a film that can't possibly contain any actual meaning, at best, and at worst perverts the original meanings to DePalma's vaguely fascist (or misogynistic, if you like) purposes, as in the famous appropriation of the tumbling baby cart sequence in The Untouchables.

Not exact matches

Usually, that results in an incoherent mess, but they've instead crafted an ultra-violent thrill - ride of a film.

Take the opening - night film, Chicago 10, an intriguing - sounding animation - plus - archive - footage treatment of the trial of Abbie Hoffman et al. for instigating the mayhem surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention: a completely incoherent mess.

In other words, it's just oodles of words seemingly thrown together into an incoherent mess of a «review»... and while I'll be giving this film a chance by choosing to view it, I won't, however, be coming here to read film reviews from now on.