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It features all of the usual Columbo ingredients; The way Lt. Columbo approaches and bonds to his suspect, the way the mystery unravels for him, Columbo's dog, the cat and mouse play, which is great in this one and luckily as well some good relieving humor, mostly involving the Columbo character.
Caliban's evil hardly approaches that of Monsters of the Id.
A murdered illegal immigrant, fished out of the bay, is found to be infected with pneumonic plague, a deadly air-borne mutation of bubonic plague, which is transmitted from human-to-human and, untreated, has a mortality rate that approaches 100%.
Desperately Mr. Matuschek approaches this boy and asks him how he would love to spend the evening with him, he will treat him to all the wonderful Christmas food that this errand boy has probably never seen!The chap is overwhelmed, he too is obviously as lonely as Mr. Matuschek and together they can have a wonderful Christmas meal.
There are moments when people are confronted by visions/images of ghosts that move and terrorize just like real dreams - slow movements, awkward movements as the ghost approaches you.
None of this would matter if the conflicts or characters were involving--but the action is very formulaic and the acting poor.It certainly is difficult to come up with new approaches to disaster-type scenarios on limited budgets, but "China Syndrome" and countless earthquake films have already been done.
As it approaches the end, the movie gains rhythm; the final, in every sense, encounter with the big wave is rendered greatly, surfing action is truly gripping, we perceive the strong emotion when facing and struggling against this force of nature, and we also get more intimate with the characters's inner emotional world, probably because the confrontation between man and nature, with the undeniable sense of human finiteness as compared to the greatness of nature, always reveals the real quality of human life.
A touching subplot involves the relationship between Amanda and Buttermaker which turns from distant to warm as the final game approaches.
This film approaches the sublime.
But one scene where he is in his bad guy garage, and Randy Quaid approaches him, he slips into some kind of New York/New Jersey accent.
Michael Dudikoff who would become a B.movie level star after American Ninja, really grates the nerves as his over the top shrieking never approaches the funny but always is annoying.
It only approaches the true gravity needed to convey the nature of these crimes a couple of times in the film.
A Cuban intelligence expert working for one of the drug lords approaches National Security Adviser Cutter (the president's right-hand man) for a truce, and a deal-in exchange for his cutting drug exports to the US in half, he wants the inserted military team cut off and abandoned, so he can kill them.
Rich playboy, Olivier, approaches him.
A crazy monk approaches Moll's wife, played by Faith Clift (who could not act if her life depended on it).
Also a static room populated with strange characters usually indicates the very depths of the subconscious and typically as a character approaches this room this indicates a complete detachment from reality and decent in to psychosis.
Oxygen starts one sunny afternoon in New York City as Frances Hannon (Laila Robins) is walking her pet dog around the block, a man (Adrien Brody) approaches her a begins to chat to her, at first he seems a pleasant & charming young man but he soon changes as he becomes aggressive, he threatens her & makes her get into a nearby car.
It is a film that I found both refreshing and pleasantly surprising in the way in which it approaches and represents a physical gay relationship.
The movie consists of two different parts - two different approaches to the storytelling.
Usually the only thing that approaches a dearth in fatality like that is dermatology.
Evil things are happening under the water as the 40th anniversary of the dam's construction approaches.
I admire Night of the Living Dead for its innovative approaches, but I have always found the zombies to be very boring because in moral and intellectual terms they are complete ciphers.
But, what none of the visitors plan on is encountering a dangerous, psychopathic cannibal(George Eastman, in hideous make-up, with unhinged eyes..his build works to enhance how scary he looks as he approaches victims)without an ounce of humanity.
He belongs in that group because of the way he approaches his work, not because of the number of screams his films generate, or the clarity and logic of his scripts.
Most men would never come close to treating their wife in that manner, yet he might just inordinately get his head bit off if he even approaches what might look like the impending doom of emerging expected bad behavior, as was truly seen by the husband in the movie.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button so uniquely approaches its subject of life and death that one can't help but ponder its themes of love, existence, and mortality.
I remember one scene when somebody shoots a machine-gun at Norris for two minutes and not a single bullet approaches him !
He is probably best known as the archaeologist who screams so memorably well in THE MUMMY when the monster approaches him in a tomb.
The cinematographic approaches (such as hi-speed, slow-motion and hand-held) were similar to Wong Kar-Wai's works.
Definition of a donkey punch: a blow administered to the back of a female's neck while their sexual partner, positioned behind them, approaches climax.
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