Sentences with phrase «weakest film in»

Insidious: The Last Key is the weakest film in the series, but Lin Shaye is always captivating and the jump scares may be worth the price of a matinee ticket.

Lacking the authenticity of the first film and missing the quick humor of the second film, Pitch Perfect 3, directed by Trish Sie, struggles to find its narrative footing and falls flat comedically, ending as by far the weakest film in the trilogy.

Episode VI: Return of the Jedi: The weakest film in the original trilogy, Return of the Jedi concluded the story of Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker (who had been aware of a particularly troubling thing about his parentage).

It's Soderbergh's weakest film in years and one his least characteristic.

There were effective ideas here, but they never really take off, and the film's potential is squandered on a poorly written script, and the end result is one of the weakest films in the franchise.

In terms of entertainment value, it is one of DreamWorks» weakest films in a while.

The widespread assessment also appears to be that it's been a better than average movie year thus far, despite the assumption that most studios tend to release their weaker films in the first half of the year.

Not exact matches

«As we have been saying for some time, we feel the recent box office has been typical in nature and the result of weaker film product,» said Jacob.

In this sense, the film suffers from the inverse problem of most Marvel films — its first act is a bit weak, but the back half sings.

Depending on the films and sets of messages included in the analysis, the correlation might look stronger or weaker.

They also have night vision mode with a green film optics glass that allows you to see things clearly in weak or low - level light.

The ability to accurately measure tiny displacements of microscopic bodies has applications in sensing trace amounts of hazardous biological or chemical agents, perfecting the movement of miniature robots, accurately deploying airbags and detecting extremely weak sound waves traveling through thin films.

NOTHING to do with a Hollywood film - making process, technicolour takes us back to the beginning of the universe, when two of the fundamental forces of nature, electromagnetism and the weak force (which governs particle decay within the atomic nucleus), were united in a single force — the electroweak force.

Portrayals of smoking in kid - oriented movies tend to be less than realistic and are probably a weaker influence on tween and teen behavior than smoking in films geared toward older audiences, Sargent says.

You Were Meant for Me is a 1948 musical film, released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Dan Dailey and Jeanne Crain as a bandleader Dotard definition, a person, especially an old person, exhibiting a decline in mental faculties; a weak - minded or foolish old person.

Whilst not the worst film tie - in, Fantastic 4 still feels heavily watered down and certainly comes across as a weaker version of «X-Men Legends.»

In the gay - geezers scenes, Hammer wears terrible old - age makeup, and the entire film is bathed in sepia tones as weak as its convictionIn the gay - geezers scenes, Hammer wears terrible old - age makeup, and the entire film is bathed in sepia tones as weak as its convictionin sepia tones as weak as its convictions.

The Iranian characters form the film's weakest link, in my view, as they do in the novel.

I don't exactly mean it as an insult to compare America Wedding to Return of the Jedi because, like its Star Wars counterpart, this film is weak on its own but works in context.

In the end the third film is a weak attempt to recapture the heart and comedy of the first two films.

The directing is also weak, and has trouble keeping a consistent tone, yet Melissa Etheridge provides a strong theme song («In Roxy's Eyes») that captures the spirit of film.

The film also minimizes the utter endgame uselessness of the Hallows, which seemed such a weak and frustrating plot device in the book.

This film suffers from a weak plot and from a missed opportunity in knowing who its villain should have been.

Cutting Class like a few horror films of the 80's relies heavily on an overused idea, and by the films release in 1989, The slasher flicks were getting weaker.

The film's intent was presumably satirical in the vein of «Catch - 22» or «M * A * S * H,» but the satire is so weak, the action so devoid of comic perspective, that we are left with a naked gaggle of ugly episodes.

In films, however, the shifty - eyed, weak - chinned Rice was forever typecast as malingerers, wastrels, back - stabbers, and modern - day Uriah Heeps.

(GREAT VILLIAN, Mr.Hoffman) It has the intelligence of the first (the second best film after Fargo in 1996), and the action is almost as good as ghost protocol, the 2nd mission impossible is the weakest, (it is enjoyable

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.

(GREAT VILLIAN, Mr.Hoffman) It has the intelligence of the first (the second best film after Fargo in 1996), and the action is almost as good as ghost protocol, the 2nd mission impossible is the weakest, (it is enjoyable even with all the flaws tho).

Decent film that definitely could have been reworked a bit before getting the green light, Insurrection is one of the weaker entries in the Star Trek franchise

The film seems stuck in a back and forth between melodrama and weak - willed irreverence, trying desperately to contrive the natural disorientation of Marji's childhood.

Yes: «Of all the studios tracked in this report, Walt Disney Studios has the weakest historical record when it comes to LGBT - inclusive films.

The cast was good, I found Idris Elba to be somewhat weak in the film... hopefully this will not happen in his next films, Jason Patric was awesome as Max, and Saldana, Morgan, Evans, Short, and Jaenada were all great.

In another weak year for candidates that fit this column, I've decided to go with a film that ultimately misses a mark, but is never less than interesting along the way.

It's not his fault, though, as this film would have been weak regardless of the star, with a predictable storyline and events that will have you recalling bits and pieces of plenty of other comedies of humiliation featuring a meek man finding the cojones to finally take on the bully in his life, only to make an utter ass of himself.

Former photographer Floria Sigismondi makes both her writing and directing debut with The Runaways and is unfortunately the weakest link in the film.

An equivalent result for the UK would be in the # 1.25 m ballpark, but the film began with a weak # 291,000.

The action — filmed in the Western style that favours quick cuts and too - close camerawork over the clarity of an Eastern approach — is perhaps the film's weakest element, but then it's just the bridge to the movie's greater concerns, anyway.

Because in Wan, the film boasts a director who can juggle the storytelling threads within an action film — the weakest aspect, by contrast, of Zack Snyder's skill set.

And those two phenomena have not always been in sync: Farrell has been poor in some good films, and strong in some weak ones — in short, he has been erratic, and where his highs, until recently anyway, were fairly high, his lows were true stinkers.

However, if her film had come a year earlier, she wouldn't have been in my Top 7... Claire Danes, Gwyneth Paltrow and Radha Mitchell also deserved nominations in this painfully weak year.

Granted, anything with Ashton Kutcher is doomed to miserable failure, but in a film where you have proven comedic actors... who is the weak link?

The standard wisdom about Orson Welles's 1946 thriller The Stranger — broadly, that it's Welles's weakest film, the runt in his otherwise superlative litter — needs challenging, even if Welles himself seemed mostly disinclined to do so.

Perhaps the weakest part of this otherwise powerhouse film is the choice by Tarantino to cast himself in a prominent role.

His latest feature, «Django Unchained,» marks a few firsts for the director — including the first film not produced by Lawrence Bender (if you don't count «Grindhouse») and the first film not edited by longtime collaborator Sally Menke (who unfortunately passed away in 2010)-- and though it's hard to say how much of an effect that had on the finished product, it's easily one of his weaker movies.

It's not much of an achievement that co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo (held over from Captain America the Winter Soldier) make a better film than Zack Snyder... but it's worth noting that Marvel (corporation as auteur) have nurtured their characters (even in weaker films like Iron Man 2) to the point when they carry more screen weight than lasting icons Batman and Superman.

The very future of cinema sometimes seemed to hang in the balance, as Netflix was banned from bringing one of its streaming titles to competition and responded by pulling all its films, worsening an already weak year for English - language cinema on the Croisette.

6:15 am — IFC — The Curse of the Golden Flower One of the weaker entries in Zhang Yimou's series of historical martial - arts - on - wires films, but it still has its moments — and the production design, as usual, is flawlessly beautiful.

To be fair, however, between Robbie, Leto, Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang, Will Smith as Deadshot, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flagg and Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, there doesn't seem to be a weak link in the film's cast.

The only real weak link in the film, if you can get past the overly formulaic story, is Roselyn Sanchez as Peyton's ballet teacher and Joe's love interest.