Sentences with phrase «too scattershot»

The narrative feels too scattershot to be successful, although slick editing gives the film some transcendent moments.

However, it lacks consistency and can seem too scattershot.»

This ambitious adaptation of the Edna Ferber novel is often touched by greatness, yet it's ultimately too scattershot to satisfactorily maintain its bloated 200 - minute running time.

Unfortunately, the guns seem ever present, as this mix of cute kids movie and very violent cop thriller doesn't quite mesh, making it too intense for most kids, while too scattershot in its approach for most adults.

Biting off more than it can chew, it all seems too scattershot, too meandering, too center-less.

Critics Consensus: While Lord of War is an intelligent examination of the gun trade, it is too scattershot in its plotting to connect.

Critic Consensus: While Lord of War is an intelligent examination of the gun trade, it is too scattershot in its plotting to connect.

might be too scattershot to appeal to a much wider audience, but it does cement Parquet Courts» position as one of US indie's more intriguing outliers.

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But critics say it also suggests a scattershot approach that tried to do too much and spread him thin.

In none of those areas does this film compare favorably to Pixar (and the scattershot storytelling in particular reveals the lack of laborious self - inspection), but that doesn't seem to be too pressing a concern to DreamWorks as they continue to churn out profitable and crowd - pleasing movies that are enjoyed the world over.

Critics Consensus: Masterminds» great cast and stranger - than - fiction true story are largely wasted on a scattershot comedy with a handful of funny moments and far too much wackiness.

Although this may contain the best performance of Hayek's career, and an act of violence in the third act will be deliciously appealing to the basest instincts of every angry liberal at this particular post-inauguration moment, it's still a flawed work, too broad and scattershot to skewer its deserving targets with the precision necessary for the task.

«The Campaign» is a Ferrell - Galifianakis comedy first and foremost, with its brand of broad, too - too crudeness passing for comedy these days, but it's still timely and scattershot - hilarious.

Critic Consensus: Masterminds» great cast and stranger - than - fiction true story are largely wasted on a scattershot comedy with a handful of funny moments and far too much wackiness.

British director Ben Wheatley is too smart to make nice little genre films — and his scattershot yet monotonous latest, Free Fire, is worse than that.

This was Padilha's big opportunity to compensate for the much - derided PG - 13 rating, but between the annoying shaky cam and his tendency to cut away from the action too early, many of the set pieces are scattershot at best.

I realize that asking for restraint in a movie like this is kind of clueless, too, but great gobs of this movie about the famously obtuse newscaster are scattershot and dim and obvious.

There's enough basic structure in place for The Slammin» Salmon to be amusing, but too large a portion of its jokes and banter feel like first - draft placeholder material, and its consistently scattershot staging and execution too often undercuts whatever comedic momentum it starts to accrue.

Monitor film critic Peter Rainer gave the movie a C, writing that «too much of a good thing isn't always a good thing... great gobs of this movie about the famously obtuse newscaster are scattershot and dim and obvious,» while the movie holds a score of 61 out of 100 on review aggregator website Metacritic.

It's a cheap looking and scattershot production made by relative newbies in the industry, and the amateurishness shows all too often.

Despite these expanding leadership opportunities, it is still far too common for teachers to be pigeonholed into traditional roles or provided with scattershot opportunities to exercise their leadership skills that fail to offer strategic approaches to personal career development.

Danielle Bays, community cats program manager for The HSUS, says that too many organizations adopt a scattershot approach to TNR: altering whichever cats volunteers are able to catch regardless of where they come from, or simply responding to calls for help without much attention to geographic area.

The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, has been roundly maligned since it opened last fall, and the sheer range of critical charges — from insufficient scholarly contextualization and scattershot exhibitions to annoying electronic touch displays and too many gift shops — testifies to the difficulty of addressing Native American history in the nation's capital.