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Cameron, who has set up shop deep in the swamp lands of what I'm presuming is the Louisiana bayou, is plotting revenge against four of his former peers who both humiliated him and forced him to resign from his previous job.
Performances like this should be noted and used against actors who wish to work again.
It was nice seeing her play against type, but not in something this bad.
Costner's is raging against the dying of the light, but why?
This is a very slow film, not that I have anything against slow films, as long as they are heading somewhere.
It is a movie which sheds the light on the begging of the Palestinian struggle against the Israeli occupation of Palestine but it does not show the real feelings of the people back then and how they were tricked into believing that they could return to their home soon , it does not mention the massacres committed by the Jews like Der Yassine and how they tortured and killed and destroyed the family of any Palestinian freedom fighter it lacks the credibility about the real Palestinian struggle and about anything Palestinian , however it has something about the suffering of Palestinian citizens ending up as refugees in the nearby Arab countries , the movie focuses on the story of the man in coma he is now in the present time and through his story we see the film .
This film is a very bad example of uninspired storytelling, which tries to hide behind an "artfilm" facade, trying to shock the audience with unmotivated violence (against women) to cover up for it's lack of psychological depth of the characters & internal conflicts.
Cheaply-made, poorly acted, and unimaginatively directed, Flight to Mars still is entertaining despite what its has going against it.
She's running against a candidate who has plenty of money.
If you were to rank it against every movie ever made, it would be right between "Problem Child" and "Biodome".
overnight was a contrived effort of self indulgent retribution on a man who was going up against the forces of Hollywood to retain story integrity.
still would not take any action against anyone involved in this film.
First of all, i have nothing against Christianity.
These unlikely allies enter a global race against the clock to stop the mysterious mercenary before he can complete his assignment.
Nicholas Hammond is as endearing as ever, struggling valiantly against the drab production and lame performances of the rest of the cast.
I have nothing at all against Paul Schrader.
the story is not worth mention, a gay goalkeeper forms a gay soccer team to play against his old straight team who - on discovering his sexual orientation - gave him a hard time.
Silly and stupid can sometimes be funny, but here, silly and stupid are used as a torture device against the viewer.
The filmmaker is trying to relay to the viewer the hardships of African life, in particular the country of Mali, due to the unethical practices of the IMF, G8, and World Bank, by using the setting of a mock trial against the aforementioned.
CYF plays a triad boss who wants to settle down to a life of peace and plenty but Alex Man, a total psycho who has a big grudge against CYF, won't let him.
But even i felt as though the writers of this movie were trying to turn us all against God and the Jews.When Moses picked up that rock and threw the first stone at the woman to kill her for committing adultery.
Forced against her will, with no memory of inflicting such harm, Sherri's host body murders selected victims.
However this one reaches a new low, as it follows the adventures of Johnny Sokko(?), a young boy who controls a Giant Robot, and his fight against the evil Gargoyle Gang, who seem to have an endless supply of horrid giant monsters at their disposal.
And if by any chance you can land a plane full of zombies against a mountain and survive (happens all the time), after watching dozens of people being killed, just walk away from the plane, watching the sunrise and making jokes about dating the flight attendant.
I remember playing chess against computers back in the 80s and it wasn't too difficult to win.
Today, I simply don't play against computers anymore because they're just too good.
It tries to be a movie showing kids fighting against the system, but it doesn't even present a positive solution.
We are supposed to believe that when automatic weapons are used against our gang, the other gangs want to be all into it.
After that wore off though, I found my hands inexplicably turning against me, grabbing at anything in range and stabbing about my head and neck.
Watkins is pure tourist as he assembles this our gang tragedy with cliché freaks, hippies and black revolutionaries pitted against trigger happy cops and military and a kangaroo court tribunal made up of disapproving calcified adults making poor fashion statements.
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