Sentences with phrase «surprisingly well acted»

Intense at times and surprisingly well acted — most of the cast were non-actors aside from, of course, handsome French movie star Personnaez.

Though competently made and surprisingly well acted, Love to Kill ultimately comes off as a tedious, almost egregiously familiar direct - to - video thriller that generally feels like the cinematic equivalent of background music (ie it's watchable yet rarely engaging).

All in all, well crafted, surprisingly well acted, and at times breath - taking Irish landscapes helped by only a little CGI.

Nasty thoughts about Mr. Bond aside, this is definitely a movie for the younger set, with some surprisingly good acting.

Not exact matches

This game contained, in brute list form: a remarkable opening goal from David Beckham (that has been almost completely forgotten by history, which says a lot about what was to follow); a spawny equaliser; Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira; a (correctly) disallowed Nicolas Anelka goal that was (wonderfully) celebrated for fully a minute and a half; Jaap Stam and Tony Adams; a (deserved) red card that involved the referee actively pursuing Keane, the better to take (onanistic) pleasure in the act of dismissal; extra-time; Arsenal pressure; a (hopelessly abject) foul from Phil Neville to concede a penalty; a surprisingly tepid missed penalty from Dennis Bergkamp; Peter Schmeichel saving; Peter Schmeichel barking; an unusually sleepy pass from Vieira; and then, that run, that finish, that goal, that winner, that completely stupid slalom through a stupified defence.

Ramsay is surprisingly awful at acting angry, but at least the director had the good sense to use a well - timed bleep instead of whatever it was that Febreze did.

Surprisingly, the second round of gene therapy further strengthened the brain's response to the initially treated eye, as well as the newly treated one, perhaps «because the two eyes act in concert, and some aspects of vision rely on binocularity,» she says.

Surprisingly, some archaeologists are concerned as well: Robert Kelly, former president of the Society for American Archaeology, fears the decision could disrupt the process of consultation and cooperation that the 1990 act has established.

The acting is also surprisingly really good, and there's some good lines, too.

Filmmaker Will Gluck delivers a predictably frenetic, frantic opening that doesn't exactly bode well for what's to follow, and yet there's little doubt that Peter Rabbit quickly segues into a surprisingly watchable first act bursting with appealing elements - including a handful of laugh - out - loud bits of silliness and a tremendously likeable turn from Gleeson.

The movie is surprisingly light on action, but the 3rd act works surprisingly well.

A twist in the third act adds a meta and surprisingly emotional spin to everything we've already seen; in a film industry littered with projects explicitly capitalizing on moviegoer's nostalgia, The Lego Movie gets there with efficiency and a relentless, consistently endearing good humor.

Still, with the amount of acting talent on display here, Diego Maradonna surprisingly included, as well as the beautiful photography of the Alps, this is well worth your time.

But it's also charming, well - acted (with the occasional exception of poor Cameron Diaz, trapped in the difficult role of Miss Hannigan) and, most surprisingly, quite funny.

The game features full voice acting, which is surprisingly VERY well done, and the story transitions through comic - book style cutscenes.

The opening scene is so well acted, the tone surprisingly light and its sense of humor both consistent and intentional, I thought it could work.

Yes, she might be an angelic — and surprisingly well - acted — pre-teen, but unless treated every day, Katey's tantrums will have your face off.

Not surprisingly, Haneke's Amour, a French / German / Austrian coproduction, made a clear sweep of the major awards; for best film, director, and acting awards for the two leads Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva.

Final Verdict: Stallone's best work, the true underdog story, surprisingly more focused on character and acting, rather than a glamorous build - up to the main boxing event.

Voice acting is largely pretty good, and the amount of NPC variations are surprisingly diverse.

Hidden Figures may have gotten surprisingly little love in the acting categories despite a Best Picture nomination for this year's Academy Awards, but the Screen Actors Guild awards felt a bit differently.

On the face of it the 2011 remake of FRIGHT NIGHT seemed cliched and necessary, and yet it was surprisingly well received by critics for great acting, story and characters.

Lucas Till and Jane Levy acted well in this film making for a surprisingly cute duo and Creech the monster is one of the most adorable characters I've seen in a while.

Mudbound is beautifully shot, well - acted, and surprisingly sweeping for a movie with a relatively small budget of $ 10 million; if it's guilty of anything, it's perhaps trying to do too much at once, which is understandable given its novelistic scope.

Ozark did surprisingly well in the acting races with Jason Bateman earning Golden Globe and SAG nominations as well as Laura Linney receiving a SAG nomination.

Great weapon sounds and surprisingly good voice acting.

Sound: 8 Great weapon sounds and surprisingly good voice acting.

The final thing that I'll touch upon was the surprisingly good voice acting of Captain Titus and his two companions.

The table is also a visual feast with bright colors and plenty of animations during the game to keep you distracted, along with some surprisingly good voice acting and music to help complete the package.

Hell, I'd even go as far as to say that Future Soldier might be up there with the Battlefield series for its quality of audio, and to top it off there's even a couple of great moments from the soundtrack as well as surprisingly good voice acting, even if the dialog is pretty useless.

Still, the music is actually surprisingly good, with a rousing score being accompanied by some pretty good sound effects and voice acting.

There are bad controls, bad graphics, bad voice acting, bad level design, bad camera angles... but good extras, surprisingly.

The sound effects are great and the voice acting is surprisingly good, but where it shines is the utterly entrancing musical score that goes from relaxing melodies to soaring drama.

The acting is hokey and hilarious, the softcore erotica soundtrack is cheesily endearing, there's a ton of replayability and the tongue - in - cheek, fourth - wall shattering grand finale — complete with a surprisingly well - done «twist» ending — is actually quite engrossing and nerve - racking.

It's harder for fully voiced, realistically rendered characters to be quite as endearing to players as the pliable party members of old, but all four of Final Fantasy 15's main party members are both likeable and familiar, bolstered by surprisingly well - scripted dialogue and voice acting that make light of their fantastical surroundings in a deliciously self - referential way that feels fresh for an FF title.

Some surprisingly good voice acting and well - drawn scenes made the game feel like a more personal adventure.

The game is surprisingly well polished with cutesy but fitting graphics, interesting tile art, pleasant and upbeat music (although not well varied and quite repetitive), and voice acting that gives you an uplifting «good job» or «brilliant» when high - tiered tiles are combined.

The music is also done well, featuring a quality soundtrack and (surprisingly) relatively good voice acting.

Voice acting is surprisingly good, and while a bit over the top, fits the universe quite well.

With ambitious and spectacular acts, as well as simple gestures, Pivi playfully appropriates cultural symbols, resulting in unexpected visuals that also appear surprisingly familiar.

After the surprisingly gross images that came out in 2008 showing how much debris is floating around our planet, the problem of our orbits acting as a giant dump has become a well - known issue.

Within the Policy Brief, Lehr writes that the ten years following the establishment of the EPA in 1971 he «helped write a significant number of legislative bills that were to make up a true safety net for our environment,» including, «Water Pollution Control Act (later renamed the Clean Water Act), Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (which, surprisingly, covered deep mines as well), Clean Air Act, Federal Insecticide, Rodenticide, and Fungicide Act, and Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (which we now know as Superfund).»

Emotions can make the buyer act surprisingly and sometimes it's better to wait and respect his dream period.»

Surprisingly, the court held that the purchasers were entitled to reject the status certificate because they acted honestly in good faith and reasonably.