Sentences with phrase «of dulls the film»

Alvin and the Chipmunks are actually overshadowed for a while by the new chipettes, which kind of dulls the film at points, but when they are on screen it's still a cute kids film.

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But I love how diverse and varietal films can be and how they can shed new light on old ideas or open new vistas of possibilities in the dull and boring routine I often find myself in.

Yet although Gordon - Levitt presence helps to keep us invested in the story, you'll be left wondering how this dull, overlong film might have turned out in the hands of a less bombastic filmmaker.

Once the fear has passed, just in time for nap, visual and musical style are sometimes played in an immersive fashion by highlights in a directorial performance by Nicolas Winding Refn that bring some life to the film, though not as much as John Turturro's inspired lead performance, which does about as much as anything in bring the final product to the brink of decency, which is ultimately defied by the serious underdevelopment, overambition, monotonously unfocused dragging and near - punishingly dull atmospheric dryness that back a questionable drawn non-plot concept, and drive «Fear X» into mediocrity, in spite of highlights than can't quite obscure the many shortcomings.

And, as a non-reader of the J.K. Rowling books (I'm saving them to read with my daughter when she's old enough) and a non-aficionado of the fantasy genre, I find at least some stretch of every Harry Potter film arcane and a bit dull (usually the parts involving magician - vs.

But not even the joy of seeing Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston playing the evil Vilos Cohaagen was enough to prevent critics from labeling the film as dull.

I actually enjoy these sorts of films, as the writing is generally of high caliber, and the exotic locales and vibrant scenery make for an enjoyable cinematic experience, even if the main story is a bit dull.

Got ta be honest, most of this film is kinda dull now, not in a bad way but more of a very dated and unfunny way.

It's only as the film inevitably segues into its mystery - oriented midsection that it slowly - but - surely becomes a seriously dull piece of work, as there's simply nothing interesting or intriguing about the gang's ongoing investigation into what happened - with the tediousness of this stretch exacerbated by the unpleasant and downright seedy nature of the movie's locale.

In addition to this, it is easily one of the most excruciatingly dull films I have seen all year.

Hanks» solid yet stiff performance is, in the end, emblematic of everything that's wrong with Inferno, as the film's overly serious feel is completely at odds with the fun, fast - paced tone of Brown's page - turner - with, especially, the dull third act ensuring that the movie ends on as anti-climactic a note as one could envision.

The film veers from being peppy to long dull spots, which show up Ms. Lloyd's lack of filmmaking experience.

And while this adaptation - written by Akiva Goldsman - contains many of the same beats and plot twists as Brown's book, the film never quite becomes anything more than a sporadically engaging but mostly dull murder mystery.

The best performances lie with the supporting players (aside from Umbers, who's so dull that you'd think he was one of the many statues you see throughout the film), and the finest one comes from Tom Wilkinson, playing a twice - divorced man who sets his sights on Stella, knowing full well she'd be in it just for the money.

All in all, the film is plenty conventional, even in a portrayal of Ancient Rome that is about as thin as a lot of the characterization, and as contrived as the melodramatics which slow down the impact of momentum almost as much as dull and draggy spells, thus making for a script whose shortcomings are challenged well enough by a powerful score, immersively beautiful visual style, solid direction, and strong lead acting for Henry Koster's «The Robe» to stand as an adequately rewarding and very intriguing study on the impact Christ had even on those who brought about his demise.

The film's apparent comic relief is Ruth's equally lonely and wacky neighbor, Tony (Elijah Wood), whose displays of self - taught martial artistry are meant to be funny but come off as a lazy attempt to add personality to an otherwise dull and one - dimensional character.

Rampage is one of the biggest, loudest, explodiest, most violent, and cartoonishly gory films of the last decade, and it's never dull for a second.

Dull and pointless, Johnny Depp plays a far to run of the mill boring character for his acting style and the sub-par scares won't raise anything apart from your anguish at how much longer of the film is left.

The look of the film is unique which is quite amazing since it is set in such a dull and uninteresting environment.

Predominantly silent, this animated film has moments of charm, but mostly its slow pace and lack of substance makes for a dull time.

It started about halfway through the film, the story dulled and I found myself not really interested in the characters as much as I was in the beginning of the film.

Bland everything is bland, dull everything is dull, horrendous everything is horrendous, Atrocious everything is atrocious, crap everything is crap.this film is just a waste of time and money.

I'm no expert on this genre, in fact I've only just strarted watching Vampire films in the last couple of months, however I feel this is one of the dullest I've seen so far.

Special kudos must be given to film editor Michael Kahn, whose facility with these completely unhinged battle sequences should shame anybody who's ever worked on a Michael Bay movie; to cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, who has given these scenes a dull grey cast evocative of nightmares torn from America's sleeping subconscious brain; and to sound designer Gary Rydstrom, who has crafted a World War II soundscape that rattles and unnerves you even when your eyes are closed.

It's never dull to watch pros like Pacino, Bening, Plummer, Garner and Cannavale interact - this is dream casting - and the film makes the most of that, along with a pleasingly comprehensive Lennon soundtrack.

Brian De Palma demonstrates the drawbacks of a film - school education by overexploiting every cornball trick of style in the book: slow motion, split screen long takes, and soft focus abound, all to no real point... He's an overachiever — which might not make for good movies, but at least he's seldom dull.

Sadly, despite Katsuo Nakamura's more organic characterization of Lord Steam (Patrick Stewart's voice just sounds weird coming out of a bare - chested, crazy - prospector type), the film is that much duller in its original language.

The next time someone tells you documentaries are dull, there's another title you can add to the long, long list of films that will prove them wrong.

It's by far the dullest and least inspired of the three films, and despite a robust Dan Stevens performance as the comically heroic Sir Lancelot, the juice has definitely run out of the batteries that is keeping this series alive.

The presentation is dull, the plot is plodding, and the characters are sketches of people we've seen in better films.

Parts of F6 are fun, but a convoluted plot, with terrible, frenetically chopped up action set pieces, and an overextended run time, make this film cumbersome and dull by the end.

It's a talk piece, but never dull, and if there is any downside to the film, it's the somewhat unnatural feel of many of the conversations, a rather contrived approach to plotting that is perhaps unavoidable when constructing interlocking storylines with a common theme.

As we watch the patrons and staff become more manic, the tone of the film shifts from mild but ineffective all the way to intolerably unfunny and unfathomably dull.

The Ring Two is a deadly dull, frequently hilarious attempt to cash in on the success of the first film that doesn't have the first ghost of an idea of what it was about The Ring that tapped into the despair of the technological wasteland in a millennial United States.

And with the credits timed at over 10 minutes because of two Easter Eggs (both of which are kind of dull), «Thor: The Dark World» is a relatively short film.

Of course it's probably a little unfair to the film to do it this way, the stage show is of course a super shiny sparkly musical and the film isn't, so it kind of makes the film seem rather dull in comparisoOf course it's probably a little unfair to the film to do it this way, the stage show is of course a super shiny sparkly musical and the film isn't, so it kind of makes the film seem rather dull in comparisoof course a super shiny sparkly musical and the film isn't, so it kind of makes the film seem rather dull in comparisoof makes the film seem rather dull in comparison.

It was hard to avoid seeing chunks of this film, and being reminded of just how dreadful it really waA lazy, dull comedy about two best friends (Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman) trading bodies, The Change - Up goes for the dumb joke over the interesting choice every time.

He's long been one of my favorite actors for his ability to take what could have been a dull part in a dull film and making it fly.

The film is never boring, or dull and theres always something going on to keep the pace of the film going.

By offering the first act of the concluding tale as a stand - alone film, Lionsgate and company have made us wait a year for a plodding, dull, and thinly plotted movie that does little to move things forward.

The film is pretty well crafted and the pacing of the story is well thought out meaning the film is never too dull or boring, it's always exciting and thrilling.

While there are moments that do evoke some good - natured hilarity, the plot is too much of a contrivance, a bland and derivative device that might be important to push a story along, but becomes too dull to care about whenever the film has to deal with.

Moreso, it offers a refreshing reprieve from the dull commonality of the rest of the film.

Both films are thankfully not concerned with dull plotting about why such an event has taken place, but instead focus on the resulting drama, provide gags and explore ethical questions about what would happen if one person completely held the fate of another in their hands.

This slender, ethereal, ultra-low-budget French film, getting a limited theatrical release before it goes to Mubi, starts off sort of dull and becomes increasingly entrancing.

The combination of an overblown narrative and an overwrought style, and neither structure aspect's being as realized as they should be, render the film, well, sort of monotonous, at least when pacing is further stiffened by a chilled directorial atmosphere which dull things down, occasionally as tedious.

Berkshire County is a dull and poorly crafted film that begins with something it doesn't need, ends with something that doesn't belong, and struggles to make a go of it in between.

Assuming you've carved out 85 minutes of your life for this film, which isn't much in the average existence, but is far more than this dull, stupid movie deserves.

The pacing of the film is very deliberate, yet I didn't find it to be dull or meaningless.

In addition, the jokes that land at the feet of poor Amanda Seyfried while chucklesome just feel like easy pickings, as does one of the film's big cameos and a surprisingly dull Saturday Night Live sequence, arguably the film's low points.