Sentences with phrase «min run script»

Not exact matches

Syriana (15) Running time: 128 min *** Oil and America's thirst for it is the subject of Oscar - winning screenwriter Stephen Gaghan's directing debut.Following the success of his script for Traffic, he has obviously decided that choppy, heavily populated political drama is where his talents lie.But Syriana is so busy roaming the world, from the Persian Gulf to CIA -LSB-...]

Indeed, «The Big Gamble» (16 mins., 480i) makes no bones about the forces that brought the film to life: With Connery's presence as the driving force in the midst of a lawsuit from Cubby Broccoli, Kershner and producer Jack Schwartzman (here represented by his widow, Talia Shire) smashed four scripts together and ran everything past their lawyers to ensure the film never strayed from the parameters of Thunderball.

In places there are some exciting sequences, but overall its thinly - veiled, pro-American foreign policy script and bloated 154 mins running time are enough to sap the energy from any audience.