Sentences with phrase «lack of momentum ensures»

It's worth noting, too, that Cronenberg's decision to shoe - horn in moments of body horror, presumably in homage to his much more talented father, fall entirely and almost comically flat, while the pervasive lack of momentum ensures that Antiviral fizzles out to an astonishing degree long before it reaches its half - baked climax.

The lack of momentum ensures that the movie runs out of steam long before it reaches its inevitable conclusion, and it's finally obvious that The Marrying Man could've seriously benefited from a more judicious editing style.

The film's pervasively underwhelming atmosphere is perpetuated by the inclusion of several eye - rollingly misguided sequences (eg Santa and a few elves are trapped inside a child's bedroom), with the resulting lack of momentum ensuring that the episodic midsection, which revolves primarily around Arthur's ongoing efforts at finding said little girl's house, fares especially poorly and is, for the most part, nothing short of interminable.

The movie's all - too - deliberate pace holds the viewer at arms length for much of its overlong running time, however, as Foley's rough - cut sensibilities result in a surfeit of palpably padded - out and entirely needless sequences - with the ensuing lack of momentum ensuring that certain moments aren't able to pack the visceral punch that Foley has intended.

It's clear, to an increasingly problematic extent, that Wadlow simply doesn't have enough material to sustain a full - length feature, with the lack of momentum ensuring that the film's midsection generally progresses at a crawl.

Not exact matches

There's consequently a lack of momentum here that grows more and more pronounced as time slowly progresses, while the movie's anti-climactic final stretch ensures that Snowden ends on as underwhelming and forgettable a note as one could envision - which ultimately confirms the movie's place as a tremendously disappointing missed opportunity and yet another subpar effort from a once - vital filmmaker.