Sentences with phrase «unsympathetic characters»

In common with a lot of Ferrara's films, The Funeral is a very bleak affair, full of unsympathetic characters which makes it a little hard going to watch.

In films from at least 1922, McClary had often played rather unsympathetic characters, i.e., a nasty rustler terrorizing the local settlers in The Lone Rider (1922) and one of the smugglers in Twin Triggers (1926).

The whole film is wobbly enough that many of scenes could be moved or cut altogether with no effect, with one obvious example being a stop - over in a village, where Snatched makes some half - assed attempts to paint Emily's largely unsympathetic character in a better light and tries (and fails) to mount a gross - out slapstick bit with a cheap - looking CGI tapeworm.

It sounds like it'll be one of his more unsympathetic characters, of a slave owner who brutalizes Ejiofor's character, a free man kidnapped and forced into the titular dozen years of enslavement, before a Canadian lawyer (Fassbender) helps him gain his freedom.

Chuck Lorre has a gift for making even the most unsympathetic characters seem relatable, whether it»...

A wholly unsympathetic character during his trial, Silver got nailed for 12 years for being too lawyerly by half.

He's a complex, initially unsympathetic character.

While Paul Bettany deals well with Darwin's loss of faith, Jennifer Connelly has an impossible task as his extremely chilly and devout wife Emma, a poorly written and entirely unsympathetic character.

Intense, compelling, emotionally complex, with great work by Duris, the male lead, who brings subtlety and urgency to what could have been a terminally unsympathetic character.

Instead Dark Blue is built on lazy contrivances, sometimes grindingly slow and populated by almost uniformly unsympathetic characters.

A snapshot character study of an enigmatic, terrifying but also not always unsympathetic character.

This superhero tale suffers from a flat screenplay and unsympathetic characters except for the poor tormented Thing (Chiklis).

Both films manage to keep villainous, unsympathetic characters front and center as the guides for the audience, a feat Tragedy Girls (mostly) pulls off by keeping the murders silly and slapstick.

Though he comes across as a mild sociopath at times (like in one scene where he matter - of - factly tells Phil that he wants to rip open his antique grandfather clock to see how it works), Gyllenhaal imbues Davis with enough charisma that he turns an otherwise unsympathetic character into someone whose erratic behavior is understandable, if not completely relatable.

I found Christine to be a pretty unsympathetic character as well.

Jut - jawed and cobalt - stared, Cooper never gets to grips with the inner weakness of his deeply unsympathetic character, and the narrative's late attempt to give Pemberton the dimensions of a tragic hero — complete with a little half - baked animal symbolism — falls entirely flat.

I found her to be one of the most unsympathetic characters ever commited to film.

His two roles this year showed both depth and range, giving basically unsympathetic characters with anti-hero tendencies a heart and soul.

I agree with ElizabethM that the only truly unsympathetic character was Stanton.

I have to expand my list of unsympathetic characters past Stanton because I agree with terrio that Mrs. Henley was not sympathetic at all.

With Kidman now appearing everywhere once again, here she is playing a rather unsympathetic character and bravo to her.

The middle two DLCs are just slogs about the uninteresting adventures of unsympathetic characters.

But other sections drag, and the flick is hindered by a mediocre script and unsympathetic characters.

Watching Monster - in - Law, I admire the gutsiness of Jane Fonda playing an unsympathetic character who's her own age and looks it (three stars)-- a hysterical, self - centered former TV celebrity who's horrified that her son's marrying a temp and tries to make the woman so miserable she'll flee before the wedding.

On its own, Lee's film has a decent edge brought down by bad pacing and unsympathetic characters.

Robbie also accomplishes something truly impressive by portraying a heretofore - unsympathetic character; and making many in the audience have a degree of empathy for Harding while not whitewashing her more unsympathetic character traits.

The film Entourage has little value for those who don't already hold an affinity for the TV series on which it's based and the unsympathetic characters that form it.

Mr. Lewis gamely plays an unsympathetic character, and does capture the cantankerous nature that we've all witnessed in some elderly folks.

In his career, he covered all of the territory that Hill can but flail around blindly in, from the aforementioned crack - up of a deranged mind in Taxi Driver to the unsympathetic characters who take things beyond the norm in the much underappreciated dark comedy gem, The King of Comedy.

The dark film was not received well by the public, probably because Flynn plays such an unsympathetic character who never gets the comeuppance he deserves.

The episodic result has style and attitude to spare, a Tarantino throwback vibe, and a quirky sense of humor, even if the lack of moral complexity in the unsympathetic characters make emotional investment difficult.

The first is Hawke, who finds a way to make an unsympathetic character sympathetic.

Instead, it fulfills the promise of its title by offering up a boring, lifeless story, fills it with dull, unsympathetic characters, and then keeps the thrills to an absolute...

Instead, it fulfills the promise of its title by offering up a boring, lifeless story, fills it with dull, unsympathetic characters, and then keeps the thrills to an absolute minimum.

Only Gayle Forman could take what might otherwise be an unsympathetic character and have me cheering for her!»