Sentences with phrase «with predictable plot»

It struggles to keep our attention, with predictable plot lines and a villain who's perhaps the worst since CHiPs.

A somewhat by - the - numbers rom - com with predictable plot points and character arcs, No Reservations nevertheless kept its focus on an upscale New York City restaurant, its kitchen, and a battle of pride therein.

With a predictable plot on a well - worn theme, and with little dialogue of note,

With a predictable plot on a well - worn theme, and with little dialogue of note, it's very hard for Villeneuve to sustain any dramatic tension.

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

Continue to read your child books with predictable texts and familiar words, but also include those with a richer vocabulary and more complicated plots.

One's interest does, as a result, begin to wane considerably as the film plods into its increasingly predictable midsection, with the inclusion of hackneyed plot twists - eg Nick and Billy must whip their ragtag group members into shape, Billy is forced to contend with an obnoxious rival (Max Minghella's Graham), etc - ensuring that the movie only grows more and more interminable in the buildup to its expectedly uplifting finale.

The plot is pretty predictable and fails to surprise with the plot «twists» through out.

The script is particularly weak, being more concerned with moving from one joke to the next via predictable plot points than it is about developing the characters and moving our fantasy world on a little bit.

A disastrous film that wants to be more complex than it should be, coming up with more and more unnecessary details at the expense of simple concision, and so the obvious, predictable narrative gets lost amid contrivances, implausible scenes and plot holes the size of Africa.

Alas the plot is a tad stale and predictable with its soppy notions sure but it is a kids film essentially, got ta remember that.

The Good Dinosaur is predictable and has a simple plot, but executes it with rich attention to detail, beautiful animation and a lot of emotion.

Midnight Sun is otherwise a bland mix of familiar types (the doofus Dad, the quirky best friend who wears woolly hats indoors, etc.) who trundle along the rails of a predictable plot, one that relies on Katie preposterously keeping her illness a secret from Charlie until it inevitably catches up with her in a Cinderella - ish manner.

If the past two years were a TV show, people would call it too predictable and lazily written with plot twists no one would believe.

Coming in at just 80 minutes runtime, the predictable plot with good quality 3D effects is short enough to hold the attention of most young viewers.

Without spoiling an already predictable plot, it's safe to say Gelb follows the prescribed genre plan in the final act: Characters fall like dominos with increasingly grisly thumps.

Naked is a very inconsistent film with dumb plot points and an incredibly predictable conclusion, which sort of takes away from the comedy that does work, but I'm not going to be too picky about a film like this.

While the movie relies on somewhat archetypal characters and a predictable plot, its core message about overcoming fear and loneliness by seeing the humanity in one another will resonate with anyone who's ever felt unheard.

With a straightforward story and predictable plot points The Magnificent Seven has every reason to fail.

Also, as a comedy, the script just doesn't deliver on many laughs, and with a plot this predictable, a few hilarious moments are crucial.

Within the confines of the plot, Memento is, at its core, a standard thriller, with plot manipulations that are predictable within the usual parameters of the genre.

With a straightforward story and predictable plot points The Magnificent Seven has every reason...

With a plot like this, the movie can't help but be a predictable mess.

It's about as close to an actual plot as «Bad Moms» gets, and while the outcome is exceedingly predictable, damn if Kunis, Applegate, Bell and Hahn have a great time getting there, unleashing their comedic chops in increasingly nutso ways (that mom party with the cheap wine?

Filled with rollicking songs by Tim McGraw, Bonnie Raitt and k.d. lang, Home on the Range doesn't stray far from the predictable plot we've come to expect in the musical Western.

In the other, well, you'll be recoiling at the predictable plot points riddled with convenience and the multitude of cheesy lines (which Neeson looks like he almost can't bring himself to utter).

The plot is appropriately predictable, and riddled with cliches, but is also one of the most enjoyable video game adaptations to come out of the gates in a very long time.

The meta - level layering and critical dialogue about horror movies in this sequence (characters with little to no development, predictable scare setups, and shocking turns that don't make much sense) are calls for variation that Kevin Williamson's script leave largely unanswered once the plot proper kicks into gear.

One of the many Family Guy core cast members on show, Kunis (Friends With Benefits) once again shows how game for a laugh she is, but is sadly left on the sidelines a little, buried in amongst the sexist japes and a somewhat predictable plot.

With all the usual elements of an under - age slasher flick, The Uninvited, rolls out a seemingly predictable plot.

The plot here is entirely predictable but as with Ozu's family dramas the real meat is in the film's visual aesthetic and cultural context, at once captured most intensely during a scene where Teresa witnesses a financial crisis - related suicide with all the suddenness of an Alfonso Cuaron action sequence and Chen captures her jaded shock by shooting her from low angles through light - heavy filters.

Added to this, Bring It On may be cute, but as a comedy it's far from funny, and to watch gag after gag fizzle for 90 minutes can be tedious with a plot this predictable.

Dan Fogelman's script hits all the predictable plot points en route to Danny's Waterloo with his own ego and uncertainties, but there's also an honesty about how the hero deals with his son, his daughter - in - law (Jennifer Garner) and their daughter, who needs the kind of special help only Danny can afford.

The plot here is pretty much the basic Hulk comics plot: Banner doesn't want to become the Hulk but people won't leave him — with predictable and dire results.

As mentioned, there are some self - indulgent moments and the progression is probably going to be pretty predictable for anyone who has ever seen an estranged father / son relationship in a film before, but Real Steel deserves a lot of credit for not gumming up the plot with too much melodrama.

Full of all those iconic sounds, and a predictable plodding plot to go along with them, this movie gets less scary and more tedious as the minutes tick by.

With a predictable script, shallow plotting, and characters that are pale imitations of ones you've seen in much funnier films, there just isn't anything here to recommend.

The film is a lengthy two hours, and the plot does take a few too many swerves, with each more predictable than the last.

Aimed at the teenaged crowd, this spy flick follows a predictable plot line that includes fistfights, big explosions and in this case, a man who disintegrates from the inside out, along with some mild language and sensuality.

The biggest problem with the story is how trite and generic it all plays out, with all of the expected story beats and Sci - Fi tropes present and accounted for; the game thinks it's being clever at times but, in all honesty, it's so predictable that it essentially became background noise for me after an hour or two as I feigned surprise at all the tired plot revelations.

The vast majority of movies feature pretty predictable plots, so I think it's much more important to see what the director does with the material; I worry less about the originality of the story itself.

With all of the imagination and willingness to move beyond the established conventions of Survival Horror, why did the creators choose to go with the most basic, tired, and predictable plot possiWith all of the imagination and willingness to move beyond the established conventions of Survival Horror, why did the creators choose to go with the most basic, tired, and predictable plot possiwith the most basic, tired, and predictable plot possible?

The only other issue is that the plot, while crowd - pleasing, is fairly predictable and conventional, filled with a number of callbacks and references to the first movie.

Borrowing heavily from The Muppets (or even High School Musical), the overall plot — put on a show, save the home from closure — is predictable, but the performers are clearly having a good time; Michael Gambon is deliciously cruel as the show's controlling musical director, while unlike Marigold Hotel, Maggie gets more to do than simply look at people with a withering expression.

It's not going to win any oscars but it really is great escapism, predictable plot with fabulous scenery and some laugh - out loud moments.

Make no mistake; Safe House is indeed an action effort, with the feature resplendent with the quick - cut, chaotic carnage expected of the genre, as well as the predictable dramatic plotting and scant trace of character development.

Zathura dispenses with cackling villains and predictable plots in exchange for a series of inventive, suspenseful episodes.

The present - day subplot adds little but sentiment to a film shot through with cliché characters, a predictable plot, and undisguised reverence.

Working with director Joe Johnston (Hidalgo, Jurassic Park III), a former Lucasfilm visual effects specialist, The Wolfman puts most of its eggs in the special effects and bloody gore basket, while the old - fashioned storyline goes through its predictable paces and its characters exist merely to serve the basic plot at hand.

If you were to remove personal affection for the superstar, you would realize that, if you had never heard of Arnold Schwarzenegger and were viewing this as a standalone film, this is one hell of an unfunny movie, with a tasteless premise, predictable turns of events, and wholly contrived plotting meant strictly to show a large, muscular man doing very un-macho things, like crying, dressing up like a woman, and driving himself more by emotion than logic.