Sentences with phrase «movie goes through the motions»

The second half however comes as a brusque letdown as the movie goes through the motions.

As the movie goes through the motions, you will find yourself liking it more than the usual effort simply for the small flashes of genius.

Not exact matches

He crafted a superhero story that goes through the standard motions of an origin story while also managing to be a fun heist movie with great performances by Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas.

No one's bothered to figure what this movie has to offer beyond terrifically tactile stone figures going through the motions of what might be called Generic Animated Action Rescue Plot...

The movie just sort of sits there, going through the motions, reveling in cliché, building to a strangely inert climax that is forgone as it is underwhelming.

The movie is going through the motions, slowly.

While the onscreen story goes through the motions, the movie itself actually does nothing more than urge customers to watch the movie, and to buy the movie, and to buy all the products.

The movie's goal is to be a distraction from life but not to engross, to escape other thoughts and feelings but not to introduce any new ones, something to kill time with as you watch the plastic characters go through the motions of the soulless soap opera like plot.

The movie's goal is to be a distraction from life but not to engross, to escape other thoughts and feelings but not to introduce any new ones, something to kill time with as you watch the plastic characters go through the motions of

To me, it seemed as though everyone was just going through the motions and the charm of the first movie was sadly missing.

Though the story behind McDonald's is fascinating on its own, the movie is an aggressively mediocre biopic that feels like it's just going through the motions.

It's solidly decent, which for a video game movie qualifies as a miracle, but it gets off to such a solid start that it's a little disappointing when it starts going through the motions.

Like Robert Downey Jr. in «Iron Man» or Ryan Reynolds in «Deadpool,» Gadot is so right for the role as the eternal Amazon warrior that all the movie really needs to do is go through the motions and it could be watchable.

As he goes through the motions of success, he constantly finds himself dissatisfied with his life of cavorting with the rich and famous, living in a swanky modern apartment, receiving an envelope filled with cash to write the screenplay for a movie star, and having flings with a series of beautiful women.

There's nothing wrong with a little suspicious check on the downside of technology every now and again, but the way the movie dismisses its central technological conceit wholesale means that we're essentially watching characters go through the motions until events lead to a point where there's no room for any idea aside from the destruction of what mankind has wrought upon itself.

This is the closest the movie gets to finding something deeper than simply going through the motions of the story, although the relationship that develops between Bob (and Kathy) and Roberto (and his wife) isn't convincing enough of a conflict for it to really hit home (More intriguing is a moment of solidarity between Bob and Kathy after a close call — an embrace that goes on for a beat too long).

A feel - good movie in a positive way, The World's Fastest Indian might go through predictable motions in telling this true story, but it does manage to keep the interest going at full speed.

Sadly, after that brief Bacchanalian frenzy, Wishmaster 3 settles down to a stultifying series of unimaginative shots of Prof. Barash stalking around alternated with Diana and her Djinn - fodder pals going through the supernatural horror movie motions of researching the occult at the library and exchanging worried glances.

But at one point we have to demand something more of our romantic comedies than these pre-destined, overtly diagrammed movies with charming actors who are simply going through the motions and delivering one - liners that Saturday Night Live would have thrown away.

«The Fundamentals of Caring» goes through the typical motions of being a road trip movie where the characters bond.

The movie plays with, leans into, and bends the laws of physics in such a distinct way that if you were to strip away the characters» costumes and just have stunt doubles in potato sacks go through the motions of each fight scene, you'd still be able to tell the scenes belonged to Captain America: Civil War.

Once the gears of Potter's melodramatic plot start into motion, though, it becomes little more than an over-the-top soap opera, in which current affairs and past sexual trysts are revealed, relationships falls apart, a terminal diagnosis comes to light, and the gun goes through a series of motions to wind up in the hands that held it at the movie's start.

«Doesn't reinvent the genre, but it's a fine example of what's possible within that when the people making the movie aren't just going through the motions» — Norm Wilner, NOW Magazine

The problem with «X-Men: Apocalypse» isn't its familiarity — that's to be expected with most superhero movies these days — but rather that it simply goes through the motions.

We can understand why Kill the Messenger simply goes through the motions of this story when it's about the bigger picture, but when the movie's focus narrows to one man's personal experience, it's frustrating that the movie continues on that path.

Director Peter Segal (My Fellow Americans) is merely going through the motions, letting the entire movie coast on Murphy.

The female - stalker movie starring Rosario Dawson and Katherine Heigl is just going through the motions.

In an interview with Comic Book Resources, J. Michael Straczynski said, «The story that I've always wanted to see visualized, and that I think other fans of the movies have eagerly anticipated, is the battle that set all of the movies into motion: the assault on Skynet, the Terminators going through and what happens afterward on both sides of the timeline.

I frequently feel like I'm stuck in the movie Groundhog Day as well just going through the motions each day trying to get to the weekends.