Sentences with phrase «wooden performances»

The only thing is, is that it just ends up being a dull affair, one that boasts wooden performances, bland dialogue, and poorly executed action scenes.

Also, Ed Speleers as our hero Eragon gets my vote as most wooden performance in a fantasy / sci - fi flick since... well... Hayden Christensen as Young Darth Vader in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.

While a lot of people dislike the two male leads, Crowe for his often juvenile behaviour and Affleck for a series of wooden performances in sub-standard film, here the pair are exemplary, and coupled with his directorial debut last with Gone Baby Gone, announces a triumphant return to form for Affleck.

«Short Circuit «is an obvious «WarGames «ripoff in which a robot steals every scene from wooden performances by the always - too - eager - to - p lease Steve Guttenberg and the usually likable Ally Sheedy.

Despite a truly wooden performance by Gina Carano as police officer Kris Bajos, the bus - based sequences manage reasonable excitement and fun.

Giving Hayden Christensen a run for the most wooden performance of the year, Tatum also decides that, despite the fact that his character is from Texas, and that all of the other actors have adopted Southern accents, he's just not going to bother.

Add this to the piss - poor wooden performance of Malin Akerman in Watchmen, and I'm slightly concerned it will repeat with Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman.

Hopefully some other doors will open with salaries attached thereto... if not, I plan to go back to building custom wooden performance boats for sale to interested folks who like the nostalgia aspect of these boats.

The acting was okay for the most part (Marsden and Perabo were pretty good but Glenn and Thornton gave two of the most wooden performances I've seen recently), the attacks by the bear were not that well made but it could've been worse but, ultimately, the movie is entertaining and in the end

Much of the problem lies in Dillon's pale, wooden performance in the lead role: The part seems to call for effortless, bohemian, slightly sleazy charm, but Dillon plays the character as a clueless, charisma - free jock.

An odd, wooden performance by Kim Basinger in what came off as a tacked - on - at - the - last - minute part of the plot just added to the confused vibe.

The acting was okay for the most part (Marsden and Perabo were pretty good but Glenn and Thornton gave two of the most wooden performances I've seen recently), the attacks by the bear were not that well made but it could've been worse but, ultimately, the movie is entertaining and in the end you really care for the 3 main characters (Perabo, Marsden, Jane).

Its hallmarks are wooden performance, bad dialogue, perplexingly random characters and plot points that go nowhere, and protracted, awkward sex, among other flaws.

In fact, many of the scenes are a bit awkward due to this, and it takes some getting used to ignoring the wooden performances to follow the richly layered story.

Nothing gels, nothing makes sense — notice that I am not even attempting a plot summary — and the wooden performances from all involved leave one profoundly unmoved when lives are threatened.

The characters are solid, the acting is a huge step up from the wooden performances that exemplified the prequels, and the setting looks like it should.

Despite another wooden performance, she does manage to generate an aura of mystery as she slinks in and out of the shadows, her allegiance to any one group perpetually impossible to verify.

Told mostly in flashback, Frailty suffers from travel - worn clichés, like the kind of rain - streaked confession framing story that never really works, wooden performances by professional wooden actors Matthew McConaughey, Paxton, and Powers Boothe, and a climactic revelation that ultimately leaves too little to the imagination.

That doesn't excuse the stiffness of the venture, with its oddly - paced script, wooden performances or indifferent direction from Enter the Dragon - helmer Robert Clouse, all of which are tedious no matter the level of irony behind them.

It brought new meaning to the term «wooden performance»; its stars were literally puppets, a rather bland and interchangeable marionette family of clean living Hardy Boys, or in this case the Tracy boys.

Indeed, Eastwood showed more personality in his Dirty Harry movies than Smith does in his wooden performance here.

While I agree that Bale gave a wooden performance, I think Joel Edgerton was great, he elevated the scenes he was in.