Sentences with phrase «sluggish pace of the film»

Senes, in his feature film directorial debut, has an understanding of how the story should play out, but the sluggish pace of the film causes this film to spiral out of control.

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Directorially, the film fails to immerse the viewer, the pace of the editing and motion of the camera sluggish and lacking momentum.

The pace is uneven, the energy sluggish (even the arrival of Malcolm McDowell in the third act doesn't pep things up) and the film feels overlong.

Owing more to sports drama pacing than you are anticipating (the film is co-produced by ESPN's film division), the film is so vibrantly alive as to never succumb to the sluggish pitfalls of overly familiar narrative structures.

Like most films from the Asian market, however, «New World» is about 20 minutes longer than it needs to be, and as a result of its sluggish pacing, what could have been a superb movie is merely a good one.

For such a short film (in terms of superhero cinema), nearly the entire film continues at a sluggish pace before diving head - first into a finale that is rushed, but even worse, unearned.

Consequently, the pacing of the film is sluggish.

The film's lighter tone becomes more somber as the strike progresses, slowing the narrative pace to a crawl and making the middle section of the story feel sluggish before developing events push things along to a dramatic finish.