Sentences with phrase «uninteresting films»

Newcomer Stacy Martin delivers a fearless and assured debut as the young Joe, but she's one of the few highlights in an otherwise ugly and uninteresting film.

McQueen has yet to make an uninteresting film.

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The film is boring, uninteresting fails to grab your attention.

In those moments she's very believable, but uninteresting in the rest of the film.

The cast here are uninteresting, and though the film starts off with some potential, Accepted ultimately fails to deliver anything worth mentioning.

If this time period doesn't entice you, or you find it hard to relate to other cultures, you'll find the film thoroughly uninteresting.

Of Game Night's deficiencies, the most glaring is its failure to multitask: The film exhausts itself — and the viewer — with a busy, uninteresting caper storyline, while neglecting to nurture the humor, or the characters, beyond the most basic level.

The look of the film is unique which is quite amazing since it is set in such a dull and uninteresting environment.

I didn't particularly mind it myself; it's about as melodramatic, formulaic, and uninteresting as most films of its kind that I've seen, but at the same time, not as bad as, say, half of the lot.

While the stories the film tells are lively and never uninteresting, they fail to ignite an emotional explosion.

As a horror film, it's bumblingly terrible, uninteresting, horribly shot, shodily edited and contains story & dialogue that are just egregious on all possible levels.

The one - liners tossed out during the heat of battle are mild enough to keep the film in PG territory, which means they're so neutered as to be uninteresting.

Some set pieces are a waste of time in drawing the audience in, including the most uninteresting and unnecessary bicycle race ever committed to film.

However, as solid as it is in most areas, I can only give the film a modest recommendation because, as a whole, it is curiously uninteresting, and what should have built up to edge - of - your - seat suspense, lays dormant for the duration.

While those bits aren't uninteresting, they don't always directly pertain to the Meru climb at hand, and also come at the expense of the film's ending, which feels a bit short on payoff, and almost nonexistent in terms of wrapping things up afterward in the kind of profound or meaningful way befitting such a significant build - up.

The lead actor is great in his role, but at times the film tends to falter and become a tad uninteresting.

The film starts off decent by staying simple in its story, but quickly degenerates into a very uninteresting diagnosis on concussions and the dangers of the sport, as if we needed assurance that driving into a wall or other driver at 200 mph is a life - threatening thing.

Buoyed by a terrific supporting cast, the film is rarely uninteresting and is even less predictable.

It's only been four years since 2009's X-men Origins: Wolverine, and it's hard to see how this film does anything to correct that film's messy plot, harsh editing and uninteresting action.

Who else could've made an interesting film about an uninteresting man if not Leigh, the expert of finding gloriousness in moments of ordinary being?

At the end of the day gambling all comes down to luck, and trying to tell a story that represents it as more than such results in an uninteresting and misguided film.

It is the definition of a film on rails, never deviating from its well - worn path regardless of how uninteresting it always is.

The presence of Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey, both usually so over-the-top, should at least guarantee some laughs, but the film manages to even make these idiosyncratic actors uncharacteristically flat and uninteresting.

Sadly, the combination of stale direction, pacing problems and uninteresting characters result in a lackluster film.

At its core, the film is a study of Franco playing a shade of Franco — again — and some kind of uninteresting lesson on the human condition that the audience is supposed to be impressed with, but will ultimately find just boring.

On Finley's page these women are largely uninteresting, but Cooke and Taylor - Joy lend the film a spontaneity and unpredictability all their own.

With an uninteresting premise, spotty acting, and an uneven tone, there's an overwhelming sense of inertia to the film that never really allows it to approach the level of substance that Binder clearly feels is in there.

A frenzy of constant (and uninteresting) commotion, Rollerball proves that Hollywood can not even make good remakes of mediocre films.

I caught the movie at Sundance earlier this year (click here for my review), and while Butterfield's character is wholly uninteresting, the film's saving grace is Ethan Hawke.

The film's spontaneous is very reserved, uninteresting (for the most part) ways.

How else do you explain the fact that a film as average, uninteresting and unoriginal as «Vanity Fair» managed to attract such a star - studded line - up?

The film feels as awkward as its uninteresting characters, an unenthusiastic mess that's charm - free and devoid of any laughs.

Though it's a lesser film than those better known ones they previously made — it nevertheless follows the same trajectory and offers a few good stirring moments before it stumbles into an uninteresting cautious morality tale.

Even sequences of flight are lackluster in comparison to films like How to Train Your Dragon; it's ironic that a film so uniquely weird can also be so uninteresting.

The aliens are uninteresting, the whole film feels as though too many stories trying to squeeze into a tiny spotlight and the filmmakers behind this have blown the film's potential way out of proportion making it something that it can not be.

Clunky though not uninteresting in its assembly, and admirably direct in its anger and passion, the film features interviews with migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Guinea and elsewhere, as well as direct - to - camera narration from Redgrave, who speaks of everything from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to her own refugee status as a child forced to flee London during World War II.

No true crime film is complete without at least a two dimensional examination of the killer, and aside from the side - glance smirks and a confession at the end (which was already too little too late), Longo mostly remained an uninteresting mystery to us.

While thematically I felt Cast Away to be uninteresting, I still feel compelled to recommend the film for Tom Hanks» incredible performance.

In fact, throughout the drama we barely learn anything about the family and ultimately besides a few mediocre performances they come across as boringly generic and uninteresting which is unfortunately the films downfall.

The scenarios befalling both Les and Natalie seem a little too passé for a LaBute film and seem to fall a little too close to Fifty Shades of Grey - land in some respects and just as uninteresting.

Cheesy music, unappealing characters, a threadbare and uninteresting plot, and some poor directing cripple any chance this film has to even be tolerable.

However the «a person has visions from someone dead and must find out what happened to make them stop» has been done so many times that most viewers will know where things are headed long before they get there, and the film becomes uninteresting very early on.

Boring, uninteresting, and painfully slow, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 takes nearly everything that made the previous films so entertaining, and throws it all out the window.

R.I.P.D is a lazy, uninteresting, and downright soulless marketing tool, designed to sucker in those of us unfortunate enough to be interested in its film counterpart.

It's woefully drawn out and uninteresting and it feels like the developers were trying to fit more of the film's set - pieces into the game instead of focusing on interesting gameplay features that would have kept the player engaged.

But as evidenced by the film's lukewarm reception, Smithee's secrets are far too uninteresting to become the stuff of drama or intrigue, his character far too unassuming to make a compelling protagonist.