Sentences with phrase «movie devolves»

As you'd expect and like many of its kind, the movie devolves into a question of who's going to die, with when and how being of interest.

As slow and uncomfortable as anything I've seen on the big screen, the movie devolves from stylish satire into off - the - wall endurance challenge.

A power outage makes everything look cool and neon, like a Michael Mann film; once the killing begins, the movie devolves into a cavalcade of gruesome squibs, exit wounds, and creative kills amid the cries and pleas for mercy.

Annihilation This attempt at a thinking person's action movie devolves into a motiveless slog, in which a group of women soldiers go on a suicide mission, for little or no reason, and end up seeing some very gory, disgusting things.

Once the basic premise is introduced, the movie devolves into a series of one pointless scene after another where Calvin attempts to get the diamond and his cover is nearly blown.

All this is bad enough, but once we reach the ark - ships in the Himalayas, the movie devolves into an annoying rehash of «The Poseidon Adventure».

Even if the movie devolves into a formulaic, race - against - the - clock flick in the last 30 minutes, its myriad gifts outweigh its problems.

At its end, though, the movie devolves into mindless action, the kind which explains why the longest and most passionate threads on its IMDb message board concern the weaponry used.

Without much material or throughline, the movie devolves into a succession of scenes in which the scream queen Vivian runs from one imperilment to the next; the proceedings culminate in abandoned mine tunnel that serves primarily as a means for obscuring the action.

Not exact matches

Unlike some of his other violent but intelligent sci - fi efforts though, this one starts off strong then devolves into a typical slasher movie.

The real Tommy Wiseau is so eccentric and off - kilt, he's like a movie character come to life, so the risk with something like The Disaster Artist is that Tommy's portrayal devolves into caricature.

After an intriguing prologue that sets up the real reason for the space race — something crashed on the dark side of the moon [but they couldn't use that as a title because of the Pink Floyd album]-- Transformers: Dark of the Moon quickly devolves into an action movie with giant robots, explosions, gunfire, and some rude language from Sam Witwicky's [Shia LaBeouf] parents [played by the ever delightful Julie White and Kevin Dunn].

Whenever a fresh or familiar face pops into view — like Christian's sweet, vivacious sister, Mia (pop singer Rita Ora), or their wise, imperious mother (Marcia Gay Harden)-- you long for the movie to follow that person somewhere, to grant us a change of scenery that doesn't involve Christian and Anastasia's stunning new dream house, or a conversation that doesn't devolve into deathly dull innuendo.

Someone should probably be concerned that Powder writer - director Victor Salva, convicted in 1988 on five counts of child molestation, keeps making movies about lonesome misfits who appear to be devolving.

If the movie has a high point, it's surely the family dinner sequence that devolves into total chaos.

Honestly, we'd kind of love to see an entire movie with Clarke playing Chewbacca, if only to see if her painful impression progressively improves, or just continues to devolve into awfulness.

White's movie is a heartfelt, genuine portrait of midlife frustrations that constantly threatens to devolve into a pithy cringe - comedy but never loses touch with its mature tone.

But while the movie starts off that way, it eventually devolves into a metaphysical mess that's equal parts «Tree of Life,» «Limitless» and «Transcendence,» with a not - so - subtle nod to «2001: A Space Odyssey.»

When I first heard that the film was co-written and directed by Adam McKay — who gave us Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, The Other Guys and Anchorman 2, all films marked by outrageous comedy, subtlety be damned — I feared the movie would make a mockery of its theme and devolve into caricature and pastiche.

As the movie unfolds from here, this seems altogether appropriate, for the picture is called Jackie, and it is a snapshot of a life that appears majestic and gorgeous at first, only to devolve into a tragic opera of confusion, trauma, and pain.

The idea to transport the titular creatures to New York City definitely had potential, but the movie quickly devolves into a hodgepodge of random ideas that feels more like than an excuse to dress up a bunch of Gremlins in different costumes than anything else.

After a while it devolved into clever action and a weak anti-politic statement movie that sprawled from city like environments to a medieval castle to a very long, intense and very confusing car chase.

The MST3K approach has always bugged me on some level — a movie like The Brain That Wouldn't Die deserves a fair shake before the viewing party devolves into hysterical laughter — but I can't deny that this is a pants - wettingly funny piece of work.

But it is a movie about the negotiations we enter into whenever we embark upon a relationship of any sort with another human being, and how easy it is for those negotiations to devolve and lead into darker and darker territory.

The football game between the guards and the inmates has some exciting moments, but it devolves into standard sports movie fare.

Even with all the cinematic accoutrements — the music, the comedy, Wright's penchant for attention - grabbing camerawork — there's a purity to Baby Driver's vehicular mayhem that's extremely refreshing in a summer movie season where even the best blockbuster action movies tend to devolve into a cacophony of pixels by the big final battle.

If you don't have a taste for the absurdity of the story and style, the movie doesn't have much to offer and devolves into a bloody bore.

It would be hard to make a worse movie than «American Assassin» without things devolving into outright parody.

What does it say that most movies about making contact with an alien species inevitably devolve into a bloodbath?

It's a messy casserole of Avengers promotion and crossover frippery, shoehorning in unnecessary supporting characters and dual archvillains, devolving its hero to the shallow dickweed he was at the start of the first movie just to generate some character conflict, throwing in a little slapstick martial arts so its director can have an onscreen star moment alongside a sexy A-lister...

He's the only thing that keeps the movie afloat, because although the first half builds some nice tension as David infiltrates the Peterson's family dynamic, all of that hard work is wasted in the final act when it devolves into a silly B - movie that favors violence over subtlety, falling victim to the typical slasher film conventions with some incredibly strange and odd - placed moments of humor.

The idea of conning people with a fake college is intriguing, but by the end, the movie has devolved into an Animal House clone, right down to the us vs. them court room scene.

Mayfield Place doesn't have to devolve into insanity by the end of the movie; it's already reached it.

Though the first hour or so is actually quite good, once it devolves into a full - fledged soap opera, the movie becomes almost unbearable to watch.