Sentences with phrase «ultimately dulls the film»

The inclusion of several superfluous sequences - anything involving Sophia Loren's entirely needless character, for example - ultimately dulls the film's impact, though there's no denying the effectiveness of the action - packed finale.

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Once the fear has passed, just in time for nap, visual and musical style are sometimes played in an immersive fashion by highlights in a directorial performance by Nicolas Winding Refn that bring some life to the film, though not as much as John Turturro's inspired lead performance, which does about as much as anything in bring the final product to the brink of decency, which is ultimately defied by the serious underdevelopment, overambition, monotonously unfocused dragging and near - punishingly dull atmospheric dryness that back a questionable drawn non-plot concept, and drive «Fear X» into mediocrity, in spite of highlights than can't quite obscure the many shortcomings.

I didn't mind the violence, but it's the absurd stillness of the film that I thought was rather dull, pointless, indulgent and with all those pregnant pauses where nothing really happened, ultimately it was just extremely boring... I saw this one yesterday and hated it as I had not hated a film in a long time.

It's a fascinating story about a woman caught in her society's harshly restrictive rules about women, and the script by Emma Thompson captures some strong observations, interaction and personal feelings, but the film is so dark and repressed that it ultimately feels a bit dull.