Sentences with phrase «than this mediocre film»

The truth is that Jersey Girl is a slightly better than mediocre film.

Not exact matches

Coneheads is a disappointing, mediocre film that could have been far better than this.

Strand released a few more mediocre films in 2015 than it did in the year before, but impressed critics with Céline Sciamma's coming - of - age drama Girlhood.

has a title that reeks of mediocre gimmickry, and indeed this film is more than a little silly.

Mediocre action film, Sanctum is a film that had potential of being a great film; unfortunately it falls flat, and relies more on clichés than anything.

mediocre film that is more bleak and depressing than it is entertaining.

Also, one thing that can make a mediocre film great is an evil villain and Pearce as the antagonist is more annoying than evil.

Luckily, fantasy films are red hot, and it's better than other wildly popular, but inherently mediocre efforts like Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, and all of their brethren.

The premise is interesting enough to bring me into this film, but somehow the director gets bogged down with the problem of inserting too much ridiculous blood and gore into every scene that it becomes less than a mediocre movie.

Richard Linklater's marvellous Boyhood has six nominations, but that is fewer than the decent but middling film The Imitation Game, about wartime codebreaker Alan Turing — and only as many as Clint Eastwood's fantastically dull and mediocre American Sniper, which has been hugely overrated.

Recommendation: This is a frustratingly mediocre product that begins with promise and steadily declines over the course of less than 90 minutes — and to reiterate, the film feels more like a two - hour affair than something that registers just shy of a standard full - length feature.

Ultimately, the film can be deemed mediocre from a critical standpoint, but The Pacifier seems more interested in meriting laughs and applause from moviegoers than earning high marks from reviewers.

If you guessed that the Rush Hour series is popular primarily because of the irreverent repartee among the two film's stars more so than the plot itself, you'll understand why Rush Hour 3 is the lesser of an already mediocre series of action - comedies.

Bertrand Bonello has made what I'd be more comfortable calling a far masterpiece rather than a near masterpiece, a film that comes to life in sublime flashes while being surrounded by more plodding and mediocre parts.

However, the ones that are here are woefully uninspired; the usually awesome composing team of Shankar - Ehsaan - Loy, who have reliably turned in some superlative work in even the most mediocre of films, seem to have given Carroll leftovers from their scrap bin for him to mangle in his ho - hum picturizations, robotically performed by Larter and Khan, who has never been anything better than an adequate dancer on his best days, making his casting as some brilliant choreographer even more head - scratching (where is Hrithik Roshan where you need him?).

A sub-par or a mediocre Scorsese film is still better than a lot of other films out there.

Viewed as a horror film, Funny Games is little better than mediocre.

When the film adaptation of The Hunger Games was released in 2012, it had the weight of a legion of Suzanne Collins fans and pop culture zeitgeist behind it, but managed to be little more than a vaguely interesting (if derivative) story told in a mediocre fashion by director Gary Ross.

I am shocked that the film maintains a respectable 7.3 user rating on IMDb (higher than the likes of Amistad and War of the Worlds) and even a fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes (albeit by the skin of its teeth with a middling 61 % all - critics approval and a very mediocre average rating of 6.2 / 10).

If some really funny comedies were in your resume, wouldn't you rather go out on top rather than tarnishing your reputation with a bunch of mediocre and underwhelming films?

I can pay # 30 for something like Borderlands and keep myself amused for 60 hours +, or I can pay # 13 to go and see a mediocre film at a London cinema for an hour and a half, having my chair kicked by some little *** who more than likely has a knife so I can't even tell him to **** off.