Sentences with phrase «movie falls flat»

However, the movie itself falls flat.

It's not their fault that this movie falls flat more often than not.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work out - somewhere between the cheesy special effects and lame story the whole movie falls flat.

The cast is promising, but this remake of the popular Japanese movie falls flat, with more «sound design» than delicious music, more slick film editing than graceful ballroom gliding.

Sadly, where this movie falls flat is yet again with smart people making dreadful decisions, most of which are quite spoiler - filled, so we'll save you that.

I sometimes find it more problematic when a movie falls flat and feels boring.

The rain machine gets a workout, and Steinmann seems competent in milking his soggy surroundings, but there's little to no tension and the first 90 % of this movie falls flat.

The Atlanta filmed Passengers movie fell flat in the box office during the Christmas weekend.

The opening credit sequence was a great setup, being quite humorous and socially relevant, but beyond that, most of this movie fell flat.

Going into the Black Panther marketing collaboration was a bit of a risk, given the ever - present danger of a heavily hyped movie falling flat.

Not exact matches

Even Haley's stabs at arty interludes (crashing surfs, are - they - real - or - not excerpts from Lee's western movies) fall flat.

I guess it's up to me to explain how Alexander both succeeds and falls flat, creating a movie that is absolutely neither here nor there.

The movie consequently suffers from a lack of authenticity that is, to put it mildly, somewhat troublesome, with the pervasively smug atmosphere heightened by an emphasis on jokes and gags of an eye - rollingly desperate nature (eg an ongoing bit involving pro snowboarder Shaun White falls completely flat).

There's little doubt, as well, that the movie's many attempts at comedy fall hopelessly (and aggressively) flat, with Kubrick's decision to seemingly give Sellers free reign contributing heavily to Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb's atmosphere of almost aggressive triviality (ie the majority of this stuff is distressingly free of relevance or even laughs).

As the movie plods on, the jokes start to fall flat... Worst of all is a centerpiece scene, when Ben has to pretend to be a mafioso (but sounds more like a cross between Martin and Lewis), when Crystal is so unfunny that you almost feel sorry for him.

Some of the jokes fall flat, others are badly telegraphed and it weaves in and out of being a documentary and just a film to the point of distraction but it ' s hard for me to dislike the movie since I ' ve worked with people like this especially the director, Harry Penderecki... only not as likeable.

Sure, some beats, most beats, fall flat, but there's enough here to salvage the mess and hold it up as a worthwhile movie.

Each set - piece falls utterly flat, starting with the movie's opening scene in which the gang is chased around afield by a supposedly angry bull.

This is where the movie goes in a slightly different path from the usual throughline of these tech thrillers, but instead of rising above the grain it takes this opportunity to drastically fall flat on its face.

Brand himself does a great job tackling the material he's been given, but the smart, talky comedy he was probably hired for falls completely flat in a movie with no regard for pacing, and a narrative too soulless to inspire much laughter.

From daft gags like the dog poop walking itself to the toilets to seen - a-millions-times-before scenes like asking for a bigger penis the minute you realise you have powers, every attempt to save the movie with yet another joke falls flat.

Although this film is a stone - cold classic, it does contain many of the trappings of 30s - 40s era movies that haven't aged well, such as a corny original score and some broad jokes based on cliches that fall pretty flat.

There are flashes of wit — mostly tied to Greta Gerwig's airy turn as an amateur self - help guru — but running gags about suicide and anal sex fall painfully flat, and once the movie's minor charms are exhausted, it simply grinds.

While Jaden shone for me as the focus of this movie, Will fell flat in his fatherly role.

The writing is the biggest problem, mostly because it tries to inject some emotional melancholy into the proceedings when its not directly aping the first movie; since the show's wit is dulled and these actors are no Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone or Abigail Breslin, these scenes fall flat and are completely unearned.

From there, the movie spins into a clumsy series of gang mishaps and attempts at emotional moments that fall flat.

It was a genuinely funny movie, but the sequel has too many jokes that fall flat, lack cleverness, and heart.

I Feel Pretty movie review: «Thinks big but ultimately falls flat because it lacks the courage of its convictions»

When is a movie fall - down funny even when some scenes fall flat on their fat ones?

Hanks doesn't give my favorite Hanks performance ever, but without him at the helm of «A Hologram for the King» the movie would've completely fallen flat.

Priest is going to either redefine the comic book movie genre, and will take things in a brand new creative direction - or fall flat on its 3D face (this generation's Judge Dredd).

The ending fell flat but the rest of the movie was sharp, witty, endearing, and heartfelt with solid performances from the entire cast.

While the movie is incredibly shot, has an incredible soundtrack, and an inspirational message, I felt it fell flat and was too artistic for its own good and was flooded with a plethora of in your face product placement.

There is some attempt at humorous banter during the levels (provided by the voice talent from the movie), but most of it falls pretty flat.

The skiing is repetitive, the jokes fall flat, the partying is a distraction, and Hot Dog... The Movie is an annoying waste of time.

Back in December, Paramount Pictures sold off the international rights to its upcoming eco-horror thriller Annhiliation to Netflix amid concerns that a cerebral sci - fi movie wouldn't sell after witnessing Blade Runner 2049 fall flat at the box office.

There are so many other baseball movies that pull at the heartstrings and get the audience rooting for our characters that this one falls flat in comparison.

Desperately seeking a «pretty movie stars chase art treasures in world capitals» vibe, this goofy soufflé ultimately falls flat

But revisiting the film, I was irked less by any perceived preening desire to be «authentic» than I was absorbed by the power of its story — though the movie's one go - for - broke stab at regional poetry, a black - and - white squirrel - centric dream sequence scored to a chorus of chainsaws, still falls completely flat.

Could have been a great movie if he had given a good performance, but it just fell flat.

Additionally, the movie gives these characters these over-the-top, on - the - nose jokes that frequently fall flat.

Some of the gags stall — the scenes of the movie within the movie are so uncomfortably, purposely bad that the joke falls flat early on — but most of this is very funny stuff.

To be fair, movies like this are a difficult balancing act, and even more so with such a large cast of characters, but despite Levy's best efforts, «This Is Where I Leave You» falls disappointingly flat.

Mirror Mirror - The more comedic of the year's two big Snow White movies mostly falls flat.

The comedy falls flat, the action is unexciting, and what's worse, the romantic angle is hopeless given that the hero is dead and his wife is still alive; it's too heavy an idea for such a «light» movie.

Unfortunately, without some kind of pre-planned tone and winning sense of humor, a movie like Epic is bound to fall flat.

You will also find horrid books made into multi-million dollar movies while stand - out fresh voices in any publishing arena fall flat.

The plush toy seems like something you'd either love or hate; for me, as with the replica Multipass, it falls a bit flat because I haven't seen the movie it comes from.

The UMD movies kind of, well, fell flat on their shiny faces.

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