Sentences with phrase «weak script»

I hated this movie, it was boring, with a very, very, very, very, very, very weak script.

The cast does what they can from the fairly weak script.

The fact that it stars Pacino — an actor who is almost always engaging no matter who he is playing — only goes to show how weak the script and overall scope of the film is.

Granted, the film's main plot already begs for belief to be suspended in and of itself, but once we are able to go along with it for entertainment's sake, Larry Cohen's (Cellular, Body Snatchers) rather weak script starts asking for more, until it becomes laughably dumb for the rest of the way.

I can see where you feel this film is like Malick's... cheap time plays, schizophrenia and spiritual mumbo jumbo used as gimmicks to hide a dramatically weak script.

The problem is the rest of it; the plodding story and the rest of its very weak script with cliched plot points and a rather unsatisfactory ending which unfortunately leaves you massively unfulfilled.

Harlin tries to cover his weak script by going balls to the wall with all kinds of style.

Funny and a good film to watch, Strangers With Candy, however presents a weak script, despire the great gags and the plot.

An overlong mess of narrative threads and a weak script which can not be saved by the quality of actors delivering it.

By following five Atlanta - based couples, the film wants fervently to incorporate all its character's diverse fluff into one sitting, but such hopes are subverted to an emptily - flat experiment that pairs audiences with familiar faces acting out a weak script, while the experimenters stand back and pray that the audience doesn't notice just in fact how hollow it all really is.

Mellisa George in her supporting role is rubbish, I expected more from her, but it's the weak script that doesn't give her much to do at all, she does what she can with the material she's given, but it never feels like she's really there.

A much more interesting story and lead character than usual for the series, but the weak script and aging combat system fail to make the most of it.

But a weak script, few winning and authentic moments, and an overall lack of courage to truly deal with its subject matter are all clear reasons why it won't be.

Daddy's Home 2 This sequel to the Will Ferrell / Mark Wahlberg comedy brings in Mel Gibson and John Lithgow as grandparents; inspired casting ruined by a weak script.

But Mara (127 Hours, The Martian), like her sister Rooney, is hit or miss — and she just can't carry this weak script on her narrow shoulders.

Maybe it was the weak script that gave the actors nothing to work with, or maybe the casting director was more worried with getting big names than collecting the right cast.

Overly long and dull, the third and final entry in the Maze Runner series, Maze Runner: Death Cure 4 (2017), comes to disc and is proof that even a huge Hollywood budget can't save a weak cast and weaker script.

«On Chesil Beach proves Saorise Ronan is able to hold the burden of even the weakest script on her shoulders.»

Sure, Nichols could simply say that the latter fact is an intended look at the way people really are when it comes to sex, but that is simply a poor facade to save a weak script.

This is a combination of a weak script that could have shorthanded the backstory and aimed, with David Mamet precision, for the action.

Let down by a weak script introducing scenes that seem to drag the narrative to an irritating level.

They both are clearly trying and easily carry the movie, despite the weak script.

James McAvoy is a scene - chewing delight, but the rest of M. Night Shyamalan's cast suffers from a weak script.

The only other review of this I have read right now is one from jjames36 and his main complaint for this film is a weak script.

The only thing taking me out of that was the weak script and character - development.

Strong performances can't outweigh the weak script by John Logan and Dante Harper.

Though it may have a lot to do with GETAWAY's weak script, there is no beauty in the same way something like BULLITT, THE FRENCH CONNECTION or even William Friedkin's other stunning chase from the much derided JADE is forever ingrained.

It's difficult to understand how such an accomplished cast gathered for such a weak script, but then Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, and Gary Oldman weren't the immediate household names they are today, while Hopkins had just earned that status the year before.

I don't see this film suffering from a simple case of a weak script.

Forest Whitaker is an Oscar winning actor and I wouldn't dare to say a bad word about him, but I'm sure even he knew walking in that this was a weak script and wouldn't amount to more than a two - hour snooze fest that only a rifftrax audio commentary would save.

Disappointing after the brilliant Casino Royale, with a weak script.

Engaging cinematography, subtle sound work, and a brilliant score blend together to create a successful technical achievement that ultimately captivates despite its weak script.

Pair that up with a rehashed premise and a weak script and you have a decent enough but very lackluster film.

Washington does well in his performance as Bobby but it feels like he phoned this one in, which I think says either a lot about the weak script or shows how good Denzel really is at acting.

Summary: The film is both transparent and impenetrable and none of the actors overcome the weak script.

True to this shabbiness, the film is both transparent and impenetrable and none of the actors overcome the weak script.

He lacks Hitchcock's deftness and light touch and even his energetic direction can't distract from the weak script or the implausible plotting that tosses the characters back and forth across the continent so rapidly the actors have little room to breath life into their roles.

But, even great actors can elevate a weak script only so far.

He had his moments but he was clearly trying to break through the weak script.

In many ways, the cast's flexibility and Jennifer Uphoff Gray's fine direction help elevate the weak script, although I wonder if it might have been a stronger choice if Walter Prime had seemed more human and less robotic.

Testimony has one great dramatic center, some bravura Steadycam sequences, effective newsreel - styled black and white cinematography, and a greater diversity of music to offset a weak script, clumsy montages, and surprisingly banal performances from supporting players (except Ronald Pickup, who also played Nietzsche in Wagner).

Though the cast makes an effort (especially Ansari and Peña), the weak script by Michael Diliberti makes no sense, the flat direction induces yawns and cringes in equal measure, and the increasingly desperate hodgepodge of gags in the hopes that something will stick is downright tedious.

But it cheaply plays on»80s nostalgia in lazy, obvious ways with a weak script.

I am going very easy on director Michel Gondry because it appears he did all he could visually, while making do with a weak script and a lame lead actor.

She's in every scene and carries the film through a weak script that often sells her character's intelligence far short.

If it sounds remarkably similar to «Training Day», it's because much of it is — only with a weaker script and no guesswork required on the part of the viewer.

Michael Caine is a bit of a one trick pony this time around, which is odd and to me that speaks a lot about the weak script.

«The Adventures of Tintin» was Spielberg back on form, for the most part, while Scorsese overcame a weak script to make «Hugo» something pretty magical, and the best argument for 3D to date.

The weak script mystifyingly was nominated for an Academy Award.