Sentences with phrase «scattershot script»

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

Not exact matches

Screenwriters Jay Longino («Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation») and BenDavid Grabinski («Cost of Living») concoct a terminally scattershot and contrived script that lazily plays into the regurgitation of Chan's signature Asian crime - buster while remarkably making Knoxville even more grating (if that is possible) as the endangered rogue on the run from the baddies that want him eradicated.

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.

There are several areas where Humans Must Answer deviates from the expected horizontal shmup script, but they feel scattershot in nature - exploratory doodles waiting to be refined into something more deep and detailed.