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The talentless cast are costumed in cheap, J.C. Penney "Goin' to Church" clothes, and there isn't the slightest attempt at period hairstyles or make-up.
A desperate attempt to make a "film-noir" sci-fi thriller, but the movie falls short.
It seems to be an attempt to show something different, to reveal some realism as a cure to sweetness; yet, it does not occur to add a lot but rather deprives the whole story of much.
Good attempt at tackling the unconventional topic of May-December romances.
I had to double check the date the film was made as their attempts at gimmicky filming of the more gruesome scenes was something I'd expect from a high school student's first attempt at making a film 'indy' like.
On the contrary, I found it to be a desperate attempt by amateurs to one-up "Guinea Pig" and its bloody ilk.
A scene were an old school friend 'tells it like it is' made me laugh only because it was a pathetic attempt to reveal the subtext of an already concluded plot.
It's not a bad attempt at a horror movie that's fun to watch because it's lame, or not well acted, or has bad special effects or anything else like that.
They don't even make an attempt to be scary until the last 20 minutes are so.
This is such a pathetic attempt at a psychological thriller that it gives the entire genre a bad name.
Nice attempt to bring Shakespearian language alive in a post-apocalyptic setting, but the final result is dreadful.
Latest attempt to revive the series actually based on a pretty good idea but without the required gore fx/violence for this type of thriller - and thus... BORING!! Good special fx, sets, costumes, etc. but the film comes of just plain silly and a near-waste of time... hopefully the next installment will correct this problem.
It is not that I object to literary license, (if that is what it should be called) especially when there is no overt attempt to say "based on a true story."
"A research scientist is experimenting with human DNA in an attempt to create the perfect human being.
Overall, this movie is a very poor interpretation of the book, and fails at the attempt to be an action movie / thriller.
Despite the potentially fascinating premise, Series 7 is weak attempt at attacking reality television.
Several reviewers have attacked the acting in the film, but I think the real problem is this lame attempt to make the film into a farce.
Paul Telfer makes a good attempt to play this hero.
A pretty transparent attempt to wring cash out of the thriving British club scene, Sorted is a film that shows promise in certain departments, but does very little else.
The movie itself is a dirt cheap, gratingly awful attempt at a horror western, and manages neither, never mind a successful merging of the two genres.
Everything they attempt ends badly, it's all too hopeless for me.
Kevin Spacey's accent was tolerable except that sometimes he forgot to use it and I would rather NOT have had to listen to Linda Fiorentino's pale attempt.
Only it smacked of "Saving Private Ryan" to me...or at least an attempt at it.
Here another clumsy attempt sputters confuses and alienates would be viewers with admirable effectiveness while successfully antagonizing those of us who have actually read the story.
A thinly veiled attempt to push Hulkamania to the film going non-wrestling fan.
Instead I got a fairly lifeless action film with a poorly constructed attempt at depth by taking on message that robots can feel too.
Vampire Assassins, in itself is one big plot hole with an attempt to mock itself.
But the way it is portrayed makes it difficult for one to figure out if that was an attempt at crude humor or really a tragedy to reflect on the extent of negligence?
Most probably self funded this is clearly an attempt to redress important issues but ultimately undermines its point of existence in that the question needs to be begged, who would ever put money into distributing this and secondly if a market audience doesn't exist to watch, buy or rent this film, why would anyone bother in the first place?
All of this with no real thread to suggest an attempt at a spoof by genre, period or any common vein is plain annoying.
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