Sentences with phrase «truly engaging film»

Not exact matches

While it possesses all the hallmarks that made Shelton's debut film, Humpday, so entertaining (an interesting, imaginative plot, a stellar cast, hints of poignant drama), Touchy Feely never quite makes the plight of its characters truly engaging.

I found it a truly engaging experience; both funny, touching and ultimately a sincere film about mental illness and the perception of genius and madness being two sides of the same coin.

If you've skipped one of the earlier films things will make sense, but you'll not have the investment in what's playing out to truly engage.

Even so, and despite Black's bland presence, the third Fast and the Furious film offers the first glimpse of something truly engaging with this material, allowing Lin's friend and collaborator Sung Kang to walk away with the film without much effort and hammering home the franchise's broader themes of noble outlaw codes by transplanting them to an entirely separate group of people from the previous casts.

Steinmann seems to think that the mystery he's weaving is truly engaging, but it's really just a sorry excuse for once again dragging out the specter of Jason Voorhees, whose gory antics are so restrained by the insistence of the MPAA rating system that the film feels like it was edited with one of Jason's bloody - rusty weapons.

Where so many Marvel introductions to date have concerned themselves with dishing out every familiar and / or accessible character traits to satisfy fans and engage the uninitiated, Black Panther is one of the only such films to truly distinguish itself as its own unique entity.

Given the delightful charm of actors Laurent and Bartha, it seems remarkable that neither of their characters is especially engaging, and yet this is the main flaw in a film that truly needs the audience to be won over by its leads.

It's worth seeing the film to watch Chan deliver a powerful and unique performance, truly doing an excellent job channeling that darkness he has so often eschewed in other movies, but «The Foreigner» never realizes that this role is its greatest strength and emotional core, and in doing so, ends up becoming a muddled affair that isn't as engaging as it should be.