Sentences with phrase «truly sympathetic character»

The latter is especially impressive, as he uses his bulky fitness to create a truly sympathetic character, brimming with insecurity yet physically intimidating with every swing and stretch.

The narrative, then, becomes «even bad cops can be good if you dig deep enough,» and the movie bends toward this narrative from the moment when Willoughby — perhaps the movie's only truly sympathetic character — enters the room and forgives Dixon's racism after the «nigger torturing» gag.

Not exact matches

The same year, he endeared himself as a markedly more sympathetic character in Truly, Madly, Deeply.

The blackly comic vibe is both a boon and a bust, as it allows for a good deal of disbelief suspension when the storyline takes a turn to become a «rogue agent» thriller, but it also does severely undercut some of the emotional impact that could have been had when deaths begin to occur and we realize that none of these characters truly mean anything to us, despite the sympathetic build - up of many of them.

While such personalities could easily be off - putting, the two actresses make their characters truly sympathetic the way the rest of the cast does.

The film runs at a very Bollywood - lean 104 minutes, and while this is in many ways a good thing, the film could have used more screen time to properly cap off that concern, which as it stands is more or less tied up by a less than satisfying voiceover, which prevents Sameer from ever truly redeeming himself as any sort of sympathetic character.

Elise's father was portrayed as a very sympathetic character, and yet he was in full support of his country and truly against allied troops.