Sentences with phrase «middling effort»

There have been an astounding number of excellent additions to the sports sub-genre (Warrior, The Fighter, Million Dollar Baby, and just last year, Creed, to name but a few) and many more middling efforts to boot.

Racing and virtual reality is essentially a match made in heaven yet we PSVR users have seen only handful of releases in the genre and most of them are of middling efforts best left in the past.

While the series to date has attracted some attention with its splashy camera gimmick, the games themselves have been somewhat middling efforts, saddled with some lacklustre stealth mechanics, and perhaps by the fact that shooting Nazis is so last century.

The average rating in the «Customer Reviews» section is 3.5 stars out of 5, a score that would cast it as a middling effort in ordinary circumstances.

Summary: St Vincent is a middling effort in the feelgood genre of the embittered old man realising he still has positive things to contribute to those around him

Overall: entertaining more in its setup than resolution, St Vincent is a middling effort in the feelgood genre of the embittered old man realising he still has positive things to contribute to those around him.

It was a middling effort — not a bad premise, decent cast, pleasant enough to look at.

DIE ANOTHER DAY Nobody is likely to be bored by the latest James Bond installment, but that's about the best that can be said for this middling effort that, while intermittently captivating, has surprisingly witless dialogue and some action sequences that are silly without being charming.

Perhaps this might be, by far, the best episode of the series, if it were to be one, but taken as a science fiction film on its own terms, instead of a TV episode made for the big screen, it is mostly a middling effort.

I have to say I'm a little surprised by the overwhelmingly positive critical reaction to Marvel's upcoming Thor: The Dark World, which seems to me to be a middling effort in the canon.

I'm pleased to announce that Pixar are back in the game after the middling efforts that were Monsters University, Brave and Cars 2.

I'm sure the technological advances made during production will be worth it in the long run, but The Good Dinosaur is a middling effort from Pixar.

When a Planet of the Apes prequel / reboot was first mooted, who would have expected anything other than a middling effort?

The middle entry in the Dirty Harry series proves to be a middling effort.

All the lushness of Gauguin's grandest landscapes start to look rather safe against the harshness of the woodcuts and monotypes, and some of the late works can be positively embarrassing: compared to the sinister Oviri series, a painting of a bare - breasted girl with a fan from 1902 looks like the middling efforts of a Sunday dabbler.

The Gear Live is the best smartwatch I've ever used — but that's not a remarkable achievement considering all the crappy - to - middling efforts we've seen from Samsung, Sony and Qualcomm.