Sentences with phrase «much weaker film»

Thanks for the thoughtful review, though you somewhat understate the phenomenal performance by Cate Blanchett; it would be a much weaker film without her fearless, raw portrayal of an unraveling mind.

Not exact matches

The north - east regional development agency, One North East, and its film and digital technology arm, Northern and Film Media, has now been abolished and replaced by much weaker and unfunded local enterprise partnerships.

The sweetness of the first stories seems now entirely gone, with this one adopting a much more serious tone, and Yates manages to condense the longest (and weakest) book into a decent film even if it feels more like a transition chapter between the fourth and sixth chapters.

Dorff is stellar and the film builds some tension but a bit too much required suspension of disbelief, some plot holes, weak dialogue, and two increasingly silly twist endings ultimately sink the piece.

The idea is stale, but I had so much fun with the first one that I had to give a little credit to this very weak, but fun film.

While there are various weak points to the film, but there is not much point to mentioning them.

His latest feature, «Django Unchained,» marks a few firsts for the director — including the first film not produced by Lawrence Bender (if you don't count «Grindhouse») and the first film not edited by longtime collaborator Sally Menke (who unfortunately passed away in 2010)-- and though it's hard to say how much of an effect that had on the finished product, it's easily one of his weaker movies.

I would rate it as one of Mann's weaker films, but, even as possibly Mann's worst film (for being similar to his others) its still much better than most of the crap pumped out by Hollywood today.

It's not much of an achievement that co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo (held over from Captain America the Winter Soldier) make a better film than Zack Snyder... but it's worth noting that Marvel (corporation as auteur) have nurtured their characters (even in weaker films like Iron Man 2) to the point when they carry more screen weight than lasting icons Batman and Superman.

These are the things that should have easily been figured out at the script stage before the film was handed over to a weaker director like Chadwick, who basically conveys the story as given to him and doesn't offer much more than that.

In fact, although Sudeikis is technically the film's lead, he's actually the weakest link of the bunch, relying too much on his one - note wisecracking to realize that he's being outshined by the rest of his «family.»

The story is weak and there is way too much talking for an «action» film.

Well I think we're all pretty much expecting Cars 2 to be one of Pixar's weakest films to date, and the marketing sure isn't doing much to change our minds.

Amid much badly accented dialogue that does nothing to clear up the plot's convolutions, Kinnaman proves the film's weakest link, chewing scenery so voraciously as the tale's nominal villain that he ultimately undermines any faint semblance of seriousness.

Nero's a bit of a yelling villain and Bana can only do so much to make him interesting and that's the film's one weak point.

Luckily Brando and Harris — the film's weakest characters — are supported by a fine cast of British actors, and the decision to film their scenes on an fully functional reconstruction of the Bounty pays off much in the way directors Peter Weir and Fraser Hestion were able to extract rich atmosphere through the use of real ships in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) and Treasure Island [M](1988), respectively.

Technically and dramatically much weaker than most slick science - fiction films, Soylent Green is still more realistic on one terrifying point: the ecology will deteriorate, through misuse and overuse of plant and animal life as well as overpopulation, much sooner than human technology and architecture will advance to accommodate it and create the oppressive - but - neat world of domes, interplanetary travel and multi-leveled cities that characterize most movies of the s.f. genre.

Shoddy writing takes much of the «fun» out of this mystery, leaving you with a weak hybrid of more coherent and compelling films.

This likely is not due to low budget as much as it has to do with the poor first half the film and weak storyline.

The film was much smarter than it needed to be, and the climactic encounter with living foodstuff was perhaps the weakest element.

The film's message may have been diluted by a weak resolution that dissolved into nostalgic sentimentality and undermined much of what came before, but the imagery still resonates.

But she does come close, because a film this hackneyed could only be driven through charm alone, and even if the overall film falls short, it's so good - natured and fun in spots that you almost are willing to forgive just how weak much of it really is.

Presumably included for the entire family is a sing - along feature that presents three of the film's seven musical numbers karaoke style, but given how weak the song score is, I can't imagine anyone getting much use out of this feature.

Thor and Loki are voiced by the films actors lending some much - needed quality, but otherwise hammer blows sound weak and the music is just generic.