Sentences with phrase «than a competent director»

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Like Michael Crichton and Nicholas Meyer — and unlike fellow horror authors Stephen King (Maximum Overdrive), John Farris (Dear, Dead Delilah) and William Peter Blatty (The Ninth Configuration)-- Clive Barker's career move from novelist to director is distinguished not only by a more - than - competent technical job but by a carry - over of the distinctive voice of his prose work.

Never a particularly stylish or inventive director, Hudlin directs Marshall with smooth, competent, but ultimately anonymous efficiency, periodically dropping in clunky color desaturated, conflicting flashbacks better suited for second - or third - rate basic cable fare than a big - screen biopic of a Civil Rights pioneer.

Peter Berg's a competent director and I think this looks like more of a retarded good time than any of the Transformers movies.

A mix of Risky Business and Something Wild, The Girl Next Door tries valiantly to be something a little deeper than your typical sex comedy, and as competent as Luke Greenfield is as the director, he just didn't have the right screenplay to ever make his ambitions soar.

Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin weren't bad so much as they were just trapped in an awful script, working for a director than had never been anything but competent.

Actually, that form of movie needs a competent leader more than most other genres because of the variety of elements the director must corral.

The action sequences are competently mounted by director John Hillcoat, and one of them — a mid-point raid on an apartment complex — is even more than competent.