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TIllman Jr.'s drama about the first African American Navy Master Diver (Gooding Jr.), who defies all odds and achieves his goals despite a strict embittered trainer.
The screenplay is not bad, a bit extreme at times, but the direction and acting is first-rate, and this film is inspiring and achieves what its supposed to do.
That element never achieves the ominous feeling of metaphor or analogy that it attempts to, which results in the play being too gaudy and losing its trademark sense of a thousand mysteries looming.
"Cut" is a full-tilt spoof of the slasher genre and in the main it achieves what it sets out to do.
If the mechanics of movie making are what make a picture great, then yes, ROAD TO PERDITION is a distant cousin to THE GODFATHER in terms of what it achieves in cinematography, editing, music scoring and sound.
Every subtlety and twist and trick been used, and used again, and overused, so the only possible result for a movie of this theme, if it IS released, is to be boring, predictable, and mundane, which "Firewall" achieves in spades.
An animated film that deals with adult themes and achieves it with excellence.
It achieves very much suspense from the beginning till the end.
By down-playing the emotions of the actors, Haggis achieves something far more powerful than if he had gone the easy melodramatic route most films centering around our current conflict in Iraq do.
Although it contains extremely graphic depictions of violence and is not suitable for everyone, the candid nature of the film achieves its goal of jarring its viewers both physically and emotionally.
Excalibur achieves this in spades.
Shot on an obviously low budget with minimal casting and mininimal locations (i.e. one room) it achieves maximum tension and maximum freakishness without actually being overtly freaky.
Unfortunately, the film achieves neither objective.
Could it be a little bit of jealousy because it is a foreign film from a country with no tradition in this genre but that nonetheless achieves what most American romantic comedies don't?
In the movie the character did not change as much as she sought to be free from being boxed in--in the film she was always the person she is as she narrates her story, just without the final independence and freedom she achieves.
This film achieves all these factors and more.
The result is that Chaney's character achieves full pathos, despite not being a particularly subtle performance.
It doesn't possess the usual cleverness or snappy dialogues and comedic moments of most Woody Allen films, but it achieves some emotional elements which are not present in many of the 80s and 90s Woody Allen flicks.
Throughout the film, he collects cards, goes to school and achieves three graduation diplomas for his great skills (another thing that made him different), volunteers to help people in a camp, where he meets his true love Diana Adams (Laura Dern), and much more.
Some films are deliberately downbeat and depressing; this film achieves that by default.
Far from trying to be smarter than it is, this beautiful little film actually achieves to be more honest and lyrical than most of the films on the market.
I would no go as far as that, but Star in the Dust is a B western with higher ambitions that partially achieves them.
The cast achieves the cohesiveness of a fine Broadway production.
World civilisation is here made stupendously dull presented by someone who achieves the difficult feat of being extremely superficial and tediously rambling at the same time while being apparently unable to get off-screen long enough for viewers actually to see or appreciate the "treasures" he is so earnestly and witlessly wheezing about.
However, this movie is just ridiculous and in it's attempt to reach for stupid humor, it achieves half of that goal.
And yet it achieves greatness in a way only the most bereft of talent can, a deliriously incompetent mishmash of bungling Kung-Fu action, tomato-ketchup horror and side-splitting soft porn.
Unfortunately this film achieves the almost impossible in capturing absolutely nothing of the original.
It attemps to be funny but very rarely achieves it's aim.
Not only that, but the film is fair to Communist Poland- we see Agnieska's home and realise that it is because of the opportunities given by communism that she can leave the boundaries imposed on her railway-worker father, just as Birkut only achieves fame as a worker in a supposedly workers' state.
It's rare for a film to combine these elements properly, and many have failed at it, but through it's efficient pace and competent piecing together, Mississippi Burning achieves it's aim admirably.
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