Sentences with phrase «lack of chemistry between»

I'm not sure if it's the CGI or make - up effects, script or simple lack of chemistry between the actors, but those scenes are so bad, people seemed to laugh at them in the theater.

«Dead Man Down» wants to be a single - minded crime drama about vengeance, but it gets bogged down with a lack of chemistry between the leads, says Kit Bowen.

Unfortunately, they don't mask the lack of chemistry between the leads.

Penn's cold detachment is as much to blame as the lack of chemistry between Nicholson and the director's spouse.

Bad dialogue abounds on all fronts, as does a lack of chemistry between Kar and Jade.

The movie attempts to provide a variation on the «buddy movie» arrangement with the two characters never fully warming to one another, but there's such a complete lack of chemistry between Kang and Stallone that we don't believe in even a little grudging respect.

But what was perhaps most disappointing was the lack of chemistry between Cusack and Alice Eve, who plays Poe's love interest, Emily Hamilton.

The sophisticated production values fail however, to conceal the lack of chemistry between the lead characters and Dornan's struggle to connect with an egregious script overwhelms any attempts by the film's design to compensate for its nonsensical plot.

The lack of any chemistry between Keira Knightley and Aaron Taylor - Johnston robbed it blind for me.

Part of the problem is a lack of chemistry between stars...

Can Jason's attraction to cute coed Shadia overcome the complete lack of chemistry between Efron and co-star Zoey Deutch?

It's not necessarily the actors, bother Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger give excellent performances, it's that there's just a real lack of chemistry between the two.

Perhaps the biggest problem stems from the lack of chemistry between Parker Posey and Paul Rudd, both thespians who normally deliver handsomely in romantic comedies, but never seem to find the right footing to suggest there ever was any strong bond between them at any point, even before their problems with sexual closure.

But it's also at odds with his desire to reunite with Qi» ra (which I never quite believed, thanks to a lack of chemistry between the leads).

The lack of chemistry between Madden and Hall drains the film of energy and their unrequited longing is often unintentionally amusing.

The lack of chemistry between Donat and Carroll's respective characters only compounds the hands - off feel...

Despite the vast beauty of location settings in Morocco and Spain, the vast lack of chemistry between the two stars is appalling.

But the biggest problem with The Rundown is the lack of chemistry between The Rock and Scott.

Not exact matches

Men dominate S&E professorships, regardless of field and race.10 Among the top 50 universities in chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, and engineering, at least 69 % (most times this number is much higher) of the professors are men, according to a report recently released by University of Oklahoma chemistry professor Dr. Donna Nelson.9 The lack of female professors was far greater among minority women.9 Although the number of master's degrees and doctorates increased for every racial and gender category, except for white males, 1 white — and, to a lesser extent, Asian — men constituted the clear majority of S&E graduate and faculty positions between 1990 and 1999.9

It is a pity that the psychological complexity of the previous film gives place to a bloated and not so engaging cat - and - mouse game that lacks the chemistry between the two characters and has a rather frustrating ending, being only worth it because of Lecter.

There's a certain amiability to «Overboard» that it's difficult to scrounge up any vehement hatred for it, but the laughs are wanting and the woeful lack of chemistry — comedic and romantic — between Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez does not help what is allegedly a romantic comedy.

Yet another bad Ferrell film with its roots in television, Nora Ephron's reimagining of the»60s sitcom was hampered by an unnecessarily convoluted premise and a lack of on - screen chemistry between the comedian and his miscast co-star, Nicole Kidman.

The fact that the movie gets our adrenaline pumping so fast due to the aerial and combat footage helps make up for the lack of physical chemistry between the two leads.

Lucky you: Sadly, for all of its promise, Lucky You goes bust after the first half an hour, undone by pedestrian pacing, occasionally risible dialogue and a lack of screen chemistry between its stars — Eric Bana and Drew Barrymore.

On the very same day that I was writing about their wonderful chemistry, other critics were writing about how chemistry was lacking between the two of them.

With no chemistry between its characters and a conspicuous lack of spark and impetus as well, Ice Age feels dreadfully inanimate for an animated entertainment.

While there are a few moments of hope and possibility, they are soon squandered and crushed by sluggish pacing, a rushed climax, comical dialogue, a lack of constistant tone, and uneven chemistry between it's cast.

Jamie Dornan / Dakota Johnson in «Fifty Shades of Grey» It's unlikely either actor was the first choice for fans of E.L. James» S&M novels, many pointing out the lack of sparks between the two where there were supposed to be kilowatts of sexual chemistry.

Part of the film is the love story between Hall and him, yet the chemistry between them was lacking.

At the top of that list is the complete lack of romantic chemistry between Colin Firth and Emma Stone, which proves to be detrimental, since so much of the film depends on their playful interactions.

The pleasant but uninteresting Claire gets a lot of screen time as the straight person to Michelle, which only emphasizes the lack of comic chemistry between Bell and McCarthy, except for an amusing bra - fitting scene.

As Leonard Maltin has pointed out, the two stars lack any sort of romantic chemistry, but that's partly because Hurt has blunted the very aspect of Rochester's personality that so attracts Jane: the visible friction between the kind man he'd like to be and the irritable dick he actually is.

There are quite a few scenes involving a studio - invented romance between dopey cowboy star Hobie (Alden Ehrenreich) and perky Carmen Miranda look - alike Carlotta (Veronica Osorio) that are utterly mystifying in their total lack of chemistry or drollery or subtext.

Joel Edgerton's CIA officer does not leave much of an impression and the relationship between the two characters (which is the pivot of the plot) lacks depth, emotion and chemistry.

New Paper: Experiment Reveals No Detectable «Greenhouse» Difference Between CO2 And Air Below is a very abridged quoted summary of a new scientific paper published by Dr. Thomas Allmendinger, a physicist (chemistry, quantum mechanics) who uses a real - world experiment to document a glaring lack of empirical support for the position that CO2 is a dominant agent -LSB-...]