Sentences with phrase «with decent actors»

With some decent actors and an admirable job by Barker (Shattered, A Good Woman) as director, it's basically Ted Griffin's (Ocean's 11, Matchstick Men) script that lets this one down.

It was an entertaining Horror movie with decent actors and CG.

Not exact matches

It's a good movie with a decent though predictable plot, a few veteran actors provide a little panache, a....

Since he won the Best Actor Oscar in the early 80s for Ghandi, he's been saddled with decent roles, but not defining.

The productions enjoyed decent budgets, good production values and four - week runs, and they were stuffed with fine actors.

It's also a treat to see an older generation of great African - American actors get a decent role on screen; Angela Bassett (pictured above with Letitia Wright) and Forest Whitaker acquit themselves well.

Decent actors fill the cast, though without very strong writing to work with.

Pete Hammond disagrees, saying, «With a decent campaign, Paul Giamatti can make a Best Actor play and Dustin Hoffman is possible in support.»

While it boasts some decent actors in Richard Armitage, Sarah Wayne Callies and Matt Walsh, the cast is saddled with a terrible script made even more insufferable by the ham - fisted attempts at staging the story as a quasi-found footage film.

The first half of the movie is not that great, filled with way too much bad acting, including that of the lead actors, but once things get going in the end of the second and into the third acts, the film turns into a pretty decent revenge flick.

EXTRAS: In addition to a pair of audio commentaries (one with director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett, and another with Wingard, Barrett and actors Sharni Vinson and Barbara Crampton), there's a fairly decent making - of featurette.

The Powers That Be, however, clever things that they are, have surrounded Lautner with a bunch of wonderful older and more experienced actors who do a pretty decent job of convincing us that the decidedly average script has something to offer.

Actor - turned - director Tony Goldwyn (A Walk on the Moon, The Last Kiss) does about as good as he can with the material, but whatever decent ideas it has seems spread too thin to cover a full - length feature.

There's a decent supporting cast, with Ben Whishaw as a Copenhagen bachelor attracted to Lili (for a long time it's not clear if he knows she's still a man underneath) while the Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts does his handsome best to bring to life a character who feels he's been invented especially for the film — the childhood friend who once found Einar so attractive he kissed him, but whose romantic attentions are now firmly fixed on Gerda.

Jenna Dewan is at best a decent actress with great potential, but it would be a hard sell for me to think of Channing Tatum as anything more than a pretty boy actor (hearing him «recite» Shakespeare in She's The Man was teeth - grinding).

With actors of this quality, it would seem easy to make a decent movie, but this is not just a decent movie, and it certainly isn't easy.

With Get Low opening today with decent enough reviews — we have to look at the Best Actor race, and whether a vet like Robert Duvall, who gives a well reviewed performance, caWith Get Low opening today with decent enough reviews — we have to look at the Best Actor race, and whether a vet like Robert Duvall, who gives a well reviewed performance, cawith decent enough reviews — we have to look at the Best Actor race, and whether a vet like Robert Duvall, who gives a well reviewed performance, can...

A greater actor might have been able to do more with the part, but it's a decent turn from Gere.

Blu - ray Highlight: There are audio commentaries for five of the ten episodes with executive producer Daniel Percival and actors Sullivan Stapleton, Philip Winchester, Amanda Mealing and Liam Cunningham, and although they offer some decent insight into making the show, it's something that will most likely only interest diehard fans.

The actors are sometimes fun to watch, especially when they stumble upon a halfway decent line (Isis on Carla's basic level of love for her son: «I can't keep up with all these parenting trends») or amusingly weird bits of physical comedy (stealing a Christmas tree from Lady Foot Locker).

Bonus: Disc One • Audio Commentary with Co-Directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller • Audio Commentary with Co-Director Robert Rodriguez, Guest Director Quentin Tarantino and Actor Bruce Willis • Austin Audience Version • «How It Went Down: Convincing Frank Miller to Make the Film» • «Special Guest Director: Quentin Tarantino» • «A Hard Top with a Decent Engine: The Cars of Sin City» • «Booze, Broads and Guns: The Props of Sin City» • «Making the Monsters: Special Effects Makeup» • «Trench Coats and Fishnets: The Costumes of Sin City» • «Sin - Chroni - City» • Trailers Disc Two • «Recut, Extended and Unrated» Version of Sin City • Robert Rodriguez Introduction • «15 Minute Flick School» • «All Green Version» • «The Long Take» • «Sin City: Live in Concert» • «10 Minute Cooking School»

Despite the presence of a decent cast - with real actors like John Lithgow and Michael Rooker on hand - every character seems bland and forgettable.

Although I think I possibly needed to suspend my disbelief a little too often, it was still a relatively enjoyable film, with a decent amount of grit, intrigue, and interest and generally believable work by all actors.

Unless you're just looking for that flick to get your date to hold you tighter and hide her face against you whenever it looks like something particularly nasty is about to jump out, The Quiet Ones is not much more than a dreadfully routine horror flick with credible actors and a decent sense of period to keep it from completely freefalling into the bad movie abyss during the unsatisfying and lackluster finale.

When you look at it as a whole you have a fairly decent screenplay with nice dialogue, great sets, a glossy, well - polished look; plenty of gifted actors (Chris Cooper and Elle Fanning, above, particular stand - outs) doing their thing making the most of the material, and enough going on to hold you attention throughout — but by the time you reach the end, one can't help but feel a little empty.

Though the movie features a few decent action sequences, they're overshadowed by a terrible script that plays fast and loose with the real - life events that supposedly inspired the story, as well as some amateurish performances including one of the worst child actors ever recorded.

Crowe certainly has a good eye for the kind of epic storytelling that he's trying to achieve with his first stint behind the camera, but despite some decent visuals and a solid performance from the actor himself, «The Water Diviner» is too easily distracted by its numerous subplots.

Michael Parks is a decent actor, but his character is so by - the - numbers (a doctor, with a missing daughter, who decides that the Parkers could be behind it), that his sub-plot never truly resonates.

Other decent bonuses on the DVD include a behind - the - scenes Still Gallery, Advertising Gallery, 4 postcard still / lobby card reproductions, and a short featurettes that briefly chronicles Tyrone Power's appearances in various swashbuckling actioners, with clips from a number of films extant on DVD, and a few likely on the horizon (like the CinemaScope epic King of the Kyber Rifles), plus comments from the son of director John Cromwell — actor James Cromwell (the benevolent father figure in Babe, and Jack Bauer's monster dad in Season 6 of Fox» TV series 24).

With «Taken,» released in January 2009, the right formula met the right actor, and ever since, it has been a delight watching Neeson play downtrodden, fundamentally decent men who realize themselves by becoming homicidal maniacs.

And without a decent story or script to work with, the actors perform as sloppy as the crime scenes.

The BBC brought it back 11 years ago after a long hiatus, and with a decent special effects budget and quality leading actors, it has been thriving ever since.

They even got some decent English voice actors this time around as well, with the likes of both Cam Clarke and Nolan North making appearances.