Sentences with phrase «mostly odd film»

How I Live Now is a jumble of interesting elements that don't come together, resulting in a sporadically interesting, but mostly odd film.

Not exact matches

For «Mission: Impossible,» director Brian De Palma (an odd choice, considering all the gory films in his mostly R - rated filmography, most famously «The Untouchables») also has three elaborate action set - pieces — a suspenseful caper set at a posh party, an intense break - in at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., and a ridiculous but nonetheless thrilling chase on top of a bullet train that is speeding from London to Paris.

From the trailers, I was expecting the movie to be a dramatic action / adventure flick, but I found the movie to be filled with odd moments of comedy, mostly at the hands of Samuel L. Jackson as the film's main source of comic relief.

Unfortunately this means that there's only fifteen minutes or so at the end to deal with the forty - odd year career in film, which means that masterpieces like «Shock Corridor» and «The Naked Kiss» are mostly passed over, with only his opus «The Big Red One» getting a fair shake.