Sentences with phrase «scattershot film»

Not exact matches

In none of those areas does this film compare favorably to Pixar (and the scattershot storytelling in particular reveals the lack of laborious self - inspection), but that doesn't seem to be too pressing a concern to DreamWorks as they continue to churn out profitable and crowd - pleasing movies that are enjoyed the world over.

Joe Carnahan's («The Grey») scattershot script does the film no particular favors to help along this heavy - handed, staid story.

Just like most films based on improvisational performances, the laughs are scattershot, with some bits working better than the others.

From both the tone and content of the movie itself, we'd guess this could be his swan song: This is a film that gathers all the great — and some of the not - so - great — things about the three previous Craig - as - Bond chapters into one rousing, spectacular, scattershot and somewhat overextended victory lap.

, this film relies on ensemble acting, visual gags, bedpan jokes and pratfalls to achieve its scattershot effect.

It's a gloriously written film, with jokes that are crafted rather than excavated from reams of on - set improvisation1; the success of the punchlines is scattershot and up for debate (connoisseurs of the Borscht belt should find much to admire, but a rehash of Lloyd's lovesick daydream flatlines, due in no small part to an overestimation of the comic chops and kitsch appeal of Honey Boo - Boo's mom), yet there is something bracing about its structural classicism after the last few years of watching the Church of Apatow whack off.

British director Ben Wheatley is too smart to make nice little genre films — and his scattershot yet monotonous latest, Free Fire, is worse than that.

It's a mix of loving homage to rhythm and blues, scattershot comedy, on - the - spot musical, and the most outrageous car chase film ever put to celluloid.

But while the Miike review that doesn't contain the word «gonzo» is a rarity, he is no scattershot shock auteur, rather his films, unpredictable as they may be, are always guided by a clever intelligence.

An avowed Dodger's fan wearing a Brian Urlacher jersey, Tom's confused West Coast / Midwest sports allegiances are only the first of the film's scattershot staccato continuity errors — sharing time with the sort of broad slapstick pratfalls (foot and nose violence, mainly, though Kutcher does score with a fine impression of Chris Farley) that define the kind of film that lists «Kid in the Bathroom» in its cast credits.

In The Future, writer / director / star Miranda July indulges in the same wayward malaise of her previous film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, but, somewhat ironically, the focus on the uncertainty of «what comes next» makes this one seem a lot less scattershot.

by Walter Chaw The sort of movie where Klansman dressed in the Teletubby rainbow are brutally beaten in a Southern Methodist church when they submit themselves to the mercy of the Lord, Red Grant's Family Reunion: The Movie is a scattershot Def Comedy Jam routine filmed with a noxious, hostile artlessness made all the more impotent by its desire to be whimsical.

Her immense talent in these films makes it all the more puzzling that the three films she's co-written and produced, including the new comedy Life of the Party, are so scattershot.

While those new additions come in the form of talented veteran stars like Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines, Susan Sarandon, and Peter Gallagher, the film's decision to shift the focus away from the relationship of its original three women to their tattered bonds with their even worse mothers results in a disappointingly uneven and scattershot comedy.

The plot by the writer (who also wrote the similarly scattershot The Judge) makes no sense, particularly in its final third, where it drops not one, not two, but three insanely illogical twists — one of which had the audience I saw the film with guffawing at the outrageousness of it all.

by Walter Chaw Apparently named after a dinosaur rock band for no other reason than that it is a logy, prehistoric stillbirth imbued with the corpulent stench of excess (and probably a scattershot popularity attributable to a feeble - minded few), Bad Company would be the worst film I have seen this year had I not attended Cameron Diaz's The Sweetest Thing.

The thing about this new take, however, is that, structurally and tonally, the film is a scattershot affair that never quite knows what it is doing.

From the somewhat scattershot narrative — evoking at times a Nicolas Roeg film and Richard Lester's Petulia — we gradually piece together that Alec has twice left Marjorie for Katherine (Deborah Kara Unger), an American coworker, but has recently become obsessed with rejoining his former wife.

Monster presents something of a (poetically) flaccid, scattershot exclamation point for the calendar year 2003 that saw its best and worst films stricken by ennui, personal confusion, and a collective bedrock hopelessly in flux.

Die - hard «Cloverfield» conspiracy theorists can distract themselves by figuring out this story's relationship with the other two films, even if the connections feel vague and scattershot at best.

It's a scattershot approach, and this also extends to the film's casting policy, which seems to involve filling the thing with enough cameos to paper over the gaps in the script.

The women themselves provide good interviews, even if the structure of the documentary itself is slightly scattershot: one second they're speaking about an aspect of the business, and the next the film becomes specifically biographical about one of the key women — but the biography sections are never adjacent, and so we get them all throughout the film.

ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction — This low - budget horror film takes a scattershot approach to social commentary that tends toward the funny and entertaining, if not particularly mind - blowing side.

Monitor film critic Peter Rainer gave the movie a C, writing that «too much of a good thing isn't always a good thing... great gobs of this movie about the famously obtuse newscaster are scattershot and dim and obvious,» while the movie holds a score of 61 out of 100 on review aggregator website Metacritic.

It's not that things have come easily to the famously prolific and scattershot actor, director, author, student, teacher, Oscar co-host, and now four - time Saturday Night Live host — it wouldn't be the worst thing if more famous actors put their talents into film adaptations of their favorite books.

The narrative feels too scattershot to be successful, although slick editing gives the film some transcendent moments.

Despite the moments of fun the film has, it's still pretty damn scattershot.

Along with the scattershot nature of the film, one has to wonder exactly who this film was aimed at.

Moreover, the problem of the film's tone is compounded by the scattershot characterisation where few of the humans or dogs complete a meaningful character arc.