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It's pretty much an insult to the audience's ability to figure things out.
Her acting range really hasn't extended past her ability to play a naive "w"itch.
Stewart Moss stars as a scientist who is on a working trip with his wife, and one gets the feeling that he was picked for this role for his ability to roll his eyes back in his head...imagine the auditions for this.."can you...no, that's not quite it, thank you, next!".
He sees the gorgeous Spanish cashier Scarlet (Paz Vega) and he becomes attracted with her ability.
The producer pretty much ended his career by pushing his girlfriend, Cybil Shepard, into several movies that were way above her acting ability.
Apparently Hollywood is just handing out money to anyone with a camera and the ability to speak.
The only saving grace to the entire film is Anna Paquin, the depth of her ability as a fine actress shines in places, conveying a subtle yet very blunt (I apologize for the dichotomy but it is accurate) portrayal of an emerging teen.
The only thing that makes this movie exist is Nicolas Cage usual great humor, and his ability to be funny in the weirdest situations.
his speaking ability?
One of the things that need to be present in a movie in order to I consider it a good one is the ability of immerse the viewer in the movie reality and time.
The rest of the cast are so lacking in any kind of acting or comedic ability I'm amazed it lasted past the first episode - correction, past the auditions.
Liev Schreiber, Diane Lane, Tovah Feldshuh, and Viggo Mortensen all score high on the relative to Anna Paquin acting ability chart.
It's about a man (Brad Dourif) who has the ability to make things (and people) catch fire...or something like that.
It takes some time to really get into his "mojo", but once you see the clear message and the ability to tell the story that is close to his heart, Lee is a genius.
Carradine manages to restore his faithful dog to life after it's dead, and the mutt gains an unusual ability to walk through walls in a ghostlike fashion (wooooooooohhhh).
He has the ability to make mediocre comedies (ala Ace Ventura), and turn them into decent comedic outings.
Cinema seems to be gradually losing its ability to shock, so perhaps 'Maladolescenza' should be admired for retaining that power thirty years after its release.
The love story that fuels the plot is uninteresting, the two ladies are the only ones with any acting ability, there's another group of musical stooges that are unfunny, unless you consider their attempts at being funny to be sadly buffoonish.
My personal vision of hell is being locked in a room without the ability to close my eyes or block my ears and have this movie play for eternity on every available surface in that room.
The plot makes very little sense, but from what I gathered it's supposed to be about this scientist who develops the ability to turn people's personal items into tiny steel balls that then fly into their mouths and turn them into zombies (or blow their heads up, whichever).
There is a key aspect of film that Jobson seems to have forgotten - it has the ability to tell a story by showing it to you.
The kids in Paperhouse have managed to capture the worst of both worlds, as they're both very annoying and they don't have an ounce of acting ability between them.
Maybe there was too much going on and a lack of ability to reign it all in.
Instead of focusing on John Lennon's musical brilliance, and his wonderful ability to bare himself for others to learn something about their own life, it showed Lennon's legacy to be that of a confused, drug addicted soul, who should looked upon as a God instead a man.
The first 30 minutes were enough to make me interested, but the lack of acting ability in Jamie Foxx and the slow plot movement made me want to get up and find food during the movie.
Here we are shown evil art critics who revel in their ability to break artists; this is side by side with the film's male "hero" who is an "artist" who paints...get this...pin up girls.
We are expected to accept these misfits are at the core basic honest people who have the ability to love while they hustle their bodies on the street.
Annoying is the fact that she has the ability to do exactly the right thing to place herself in dangerous circumstance after dangerous circumstance.
A sappy speech makes everything better and even has the ability to make the most bratty child have a sudden realization of goodness GASP too bad this couldn't be possible in real life.
Sometimes directors are so anxious to have their films done (and writers think they have the ability to direct their own works)that they settle for less.
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