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not only was the name a complete misnomer--since the film has next to nothing to do with piranhas--but the acting is as hollow and stale as the attempt to actually make some kind of plot.
In an obvious attempt to eke every penny out a meagre budget, the play has been nominally updated to the 1990's, but in conjunction with the original script the effect is more of a badly script 1970s TV drama.
I understand that this was Llyod Kaufman's attempt to save a movie that was the pits.
Again I think this was Llyods attempt of saving a crappy movie and trying not to lose 1000s of dollars.
this film is an undisguised attempt to appeal to a younger demographic of fourteen to 24 yr olds', and an insult to all of them.
It was more like a weak attempt at one.
Totems, minions of the Egyptian God Sutek want the secret of animation life back and the puppets (when they surface) act with a previously unseen cleverness to attempt to destroy the ugly and very computer game looking Totems.
The "Alice in Wonderland"-like story is meandering and uninteresting, and there was probably no actress in the world who could have turned this into a good movie, though Kathy Ireland makes an appealing (annoying voice and all) attempt.
Mena Suvari was hardly in the film, presumably just there to make people think it was a serious attempt at producing a film.
Pretentious, disjointed, a mish-mash of every possible contemporary film stereotype, a naive and transparent attempt at coming across as kooky and daring, with the most irritating characters I have ever set eyes upon, especially the leads, Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich and Mel Gibson, none of whom I dislike normally.
At times I wasn't sure if the movie was trying to make another attempt at comedy or was it just another attempt at horror that failed again.
Even his attempt to tell the police failed, which just added to the annoyance value.
A minute or more devoted to an attempt to light a pipe full of hash/opium.
I'm a huge fan of zombie movies and this is just a pathetic attempt at one.
Dark ninety percent of time, and just an awful attempt at a low budget flick, which can be good if done right.
The director uses goofy imagery (offered up in the form of daydream sequences) in an apparent attempt to break up the glacial pacing, but instead, it clashes with the authentic look and feel of the movie.
I give Roeg some credit for trying to attempt the impossible by making the book into a movie, but this may not have been the job for him.
Another lame attempt to make a movie "gritty" and "thought provoking"- whatever the hell that means.
This movie has no heart and no soul; it's an attempt to whomp up a cult film out of the leavings of other, better, directors, principally David Lynch and Tim Burton.
This has below average acting, laughable dialogue, split screens that are difficult to watch, and many goofs in it's attempt to be a period film and autobiographical.
There is an attempt or two at stylization in this, and they are reasonable.
Odds and ends are thrown into the script in an attempt to provide it with convincing background but would appear to have been jotted down in a list on a cocktail napkin.
So to place a tag in a movie poster like "The Latin Godfather", is not just ignorant, of course if we are trying to related this movie to the original Godfather, but a desperate and uncreative attempt to get some credit by copying the title of a movie classic.
Basically, "Rest Stop" is simply a miserable attempt to cash in on the success of such films like "Wolf Creek" and "Hostel", but you're better off watching the originals.
The sea side looks cold and there is little attempt to create any illusions here.
Despite the transparent attempt to gain points with a dedication to the Coast Guard, this one should have washed out the very first day.
Even the participants in this obnoxiously obstreperous film can't conceal their laughter at the stupidity of their attempt to show one of the few great times in world history where people take a stand and work to make a better world.
At least Ed Wood's misguided attempt at making a quality science fiction film had the dubious "star" power of Bela Lugusi, Vampira, Tor Johnson, Criswell and Lyle Talbot.
This was an attempt toward a romantic comedy, and one which did not work.
The attic looked as if the items had been thrown in for the scene with no attempt to create the look of a real attic that has been filling with junk over the years.
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