Sentences with phrase «quite lives up to its potential»

The Farrelly brothers» schizophrenic new comedy doesn't quite live up to its potential, but along the way it pushes the envelope of anally - obssesed humor, even by their standards.

A would - be thriller that never quite lives up to its potential, due to numerous lapses into labored storytelling.

Despite making the most sense out of all Warriors crossovers so far, Fire Emblem Warriors hasn't quite lived up to its potential after the content - heavy Hyrule Warriors.

«Starred Up» This tiny, fierce little British prison - set gem was overlooked by most at Telluride and TIFF this year, and it's easy to understand why: a cast of mostly unknowns, a director (David Mackenzie, of «Young Adam» and «Hallam Foe «-RRB- who'd never quite lived up to his potential, and a genre, the prison flick, that's inspired almost as many terrible Britflicks as «Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels.»

Melinda and Melinda is one of those films that never quite lives up to the potential of its premise.

One wonders if Padilha was fought by the studio to dumb down or rush the ending, as the last act of the film doesn't quite live up to the potential set up in the rest of the film.

«Smokin» Aces» didn't quite live up to its potential, but «The A-Team» was a lot more fun than it deserved to be, and «The Grey» looks like it could be yet another surprise hit for star Liam Neeson along the lines of «Taken.»

The result is a movie that never quite lives up to its potential, nor does it take advantage of its cast.

Cale is the type of guy who possesses raw talent but can not quite live up to his potential and who has a problem with authority.

And even if it doesn't quite live up to its potential, Quadrilateral Cowboy made me feel like a hacker for a while.

Vesta has a lot of good ideas, but unfortunately it never quite lives up to that potential.

Epic front man and Gears Of War creator Cliff Bleszinski has admitted in a recent interview with games ™, to discuss the upcoming Gears Of War: Judgment, that Kinect hasn't quite lived up to its potential so far.

The premise behind the Sonos One makes sense, but unfortunately in practice, the device doesn't quite live up to its potential.

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Victims often have great difficulty in living up to their potential, which may be quite high.

All I can say quite frankly is good luck to Wellington Silva for the rest of his career and that its a shame that he never really lived up to his potential.

Malen will certainly be one to look out for in the coming seasons, and will hopefully live up to the potential he quite clearly possesses in the near future.

Whilst Bristol is certainly a fairly good place to find contacts for adult dating, it does not quite manage to live up to the potential suggested by its huge population.

The writers strike is most likely the reason this season didn't quite live up to it's potential.

It doesn't quite live up to the full next - gen potential, but it is still a very fun game, where you can put lots of hours trying and failing.

I quite like the setup for this, the way Farmiga talks to him and tells him what to do very nonchalantly, I just hope it lives up to the full potential.

If this doc doesn't make that list, it will probably recede from most radars and not quite live up to its strong word of mouth and potential (although $ 700,000 at the box office is nothing to scoff at) which would be tragic in my mind, because it is one of the best documentaries of the year and if it gets on the shortlist, it has a good chance of getting nominated (but not to win, as I'll explain in a bit.)

Unfortunately, The Drop can't quite live up to its lofty potential.

While there are several aspects of Cadenza that don't quite live up to the luxury moniker, the new offering shows potential to do two important things.

It's one thing bringing your imaginative world to life within the pages of your novel, or applying your knowledge and expertise to a non-fiction book; but it's quite another thing to change gears completely, and come up with the necessary blurb to sell your book to potential readers.

Prototype was a game with potential that never quite managed to live up to it's premise, but Prototype 2 could change that.

While there's quite a few people happy to see the game being expanded upon and perhaps finally live up to its own huge potential, there's also a lot of very angry gamers who feel that Planetary Annihilation has been a mess from the very start, with many bugs and problems still present in the core game.

Blood & Truth is shaping up quite excellently, building on the foundations of the short but sweet The London Heist and really living up to the potential that it showed.

The first Watch Dogs was a game that had a lot of potential, but never quite lived up to expectations, which was not helped by a fairly unlikeable lead, and a drab take on Chicago.

(I think Charles Eisenstein's write - up on that issue was spot on, and it also shows the potential to de-commodify life again, change the system...], we still don't support the local initiatives that create real better ways of living and making a living quite enough.

Third, the potential rewards were «in the $ 5 million to $ 10 million» range, which would quite literally set Kurt up for life.