Sentences with phrase «leaden ending»
So often modern cinema spares us any sense of despair with a heavy sugar - leaden ending to satisfy our fairytale cravings.
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The film takes a talented cast and fun premise and ends up a leaden, misshapen whiff.
An inkling of originality sparked this story on the supposition that the Black Plague may have had origins from other, darker planes, but it's just a means to an end for the leaden delivery built on top.
That's certainly the Superman / Clark Kent of Man Of Steel and it's also the Superman of Batman Vs. Superman: Dawn Of Justice, whose awful, leaden subtitle I only now realized is an allusion to the movie being a proper follow - up to Man Of Steel, a reboot for Batman in the DCU following the end of the Christopher Nolan trilogy and a movie that sets up a Justice League team - up movie due out later this year, also from director Zack Snyder and screenwriter Chris Terrio.
As for the Bond - homaging, a ski - resort interlude tugs its forelock towards the great 007 snow - scenes of yore, but ends with a runaway cablecar sequence that's straight from the Die Another Day school of leaden, low - stakes CGI.
Wonderstruck seems lost by comparison, spending much of its time laboriously explaining a story that ends up feeling leaden.