Sentences with phrase «save anyone in a film»

Pity, then, that empathy won't save anyone in a film this pitiless.

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Turtorro can not save this film, but so help him, he tries, and he goes further than anyone or anything in bringing life to this bore, which still has enough other strengths at its back to be brought to the border of true decency.

Walter Brennan shines as his friend, a crazy homeless guy and the sanest man in the film, James Gleason is perfect as the common sense common man, and Barbara Stanwyck lights the proceedings as the too smart regular gal, unaware that she needs saving as much as anyone.

Gavin O'Connor came on board in the eleventh hour and brought his workmanlike grit and professionalism to help save this film from falling off the rails, putting together a perfectly acceptable picture that won't be a blemish on anyone's record, but won't stand out either.

Having abandoned hope to save anyone, he gave up on life, sipping regularly from his hip flask and walking throughout much of the film in an alcoholic haze.

It also highlights the effort that Linklater has made in support of Independent filmmaking and how he was influential in helping create the Austin Film Society whereby old film prints could be saved and showed, as well as raising money from filmmakers to help make more films.Overall, it does little but scratch the surface and a bit more in - depth analysis to his films would have been welcome but to paraphrase Billy Bob Thornton on the outtakes at the end; «Rick Linklater doesn't need anyone to make a documentary about him.

Not that anyone would want a dialogue - heavy Bond film, but in this case, given the potential of an emotionally - charged climax that sees Bond trying to save a woman's life that he has great feelings for, the cold and calculating set - up just wasn't there to have a powerhouse payoff.

It's easy to forget that Julianne Moore, Scoot McNairy, Michelle Dockery, Nate Parker, Corey Stoll and Lupita Nyong» o are all in the film as well, but when you've got Neeson doing things like bribing unruly passengers with free international flights to save the day, there's just no way anyone else can come close to stealing the spotlight.