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This belated attempt at a Western adventure is a curious anomaly: the script is, on the one hand, terribly old-fashioned and cliché-ridden and yet equally replete with such 'modern' elements as four-letter words and bouts of violence.
In the movie's defense, it does attempt to show a D/s relationship as a loving one with mutual consent & benefit (besides the monetary).
I would tell you the ending but technically that would be a spoiler - though nothing could really spoil this cookie cutter predictable attempt.
I'm a great fan of Cube as a hip-hop artist; he should stick to that and not attempt to make movies.
Appears to be an attempt to satirize all past movies about Pearl Harbor.
While they did some things right (they did manage to make Matt Salinger look scrawny before the experiment), overall it was another attempt to take a character with a long history in the comics and put the filmmakers' own spin on it to poor effect.
Yes........Remembering when there was a time that television at least was making an attempt at being adventurous and exciting.
Maybe no screenplay could have adequately conveyed the character's motivations and the plot only makes sense in book form, but this screenwriter's attempt is truly terrible.
A very bad attempt to pull off a David Lynch/Cohen Brothers/Tarantino.
The mockumentary "Farce of the Penguins" is obviously an attempt to cash in on the success of "March of the Penguins" while at the same time making fun of it.
It was generally scorned upon the initial release, so Cassavetes decided to re-edit the film drastically and attempt to give it another go two years later.
Nothing here but a boring and desperate attempt to convince us that everything is fine in America, while trying to make Moore an America hater and a liar, in a country that is full up to the neck, with lies.
Everything abut it is bad, from the pathetic acting tot he horrid directing, tot eh VHS quality of the film itself to the nonsensical attempt at a plot.
The changes to this issue will have to come from Mexico's government in a serious attempt to reform the country.
Starting with the premise that a woman's wedding is "The Biggest Day Of Her Life" (how depressing!), it goes from bad to much worse as director (?) Winick rapes every cliché in the book in his attempt to milk laughs from the retarded script.
In "Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself," a young man - who basically lives from one unsuccessful suicide attempt to another - is looked after and cared for by his brother who is suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer.
This is not my attempt to completely bash the film , I will also add that there were some good musical parts and dance sequences but still the movie couldn't keep me or others watching the movie glued to the screen or even interested.
This film has got to be some attempt to get Mario Lopez back on the celebrity map.
To refer to this "Devil's Child" as being just mediocre would be a huge understatement, as this is a totally unoriginal and amateurish attempt to tell a religious horror story in the tradition of "Rosemary's Baby" or "The Omen".
Based on what I've seen Banderas attempt to do in this film, it seems that the book must have been a challenging adaptation.
All of the Besser remaking Curly or Shemp shorts miss the mark, but this attempt is extremely putrid.
What's even funnier is that it may have been a serious attempt at making a decent movie.
I understand the fanciful attempt of the scenes involving the Mary Poppinesque umbrella - but there's not enough magic in the scenes between Scarlett and 'Grover' for us to care about Scarlett's potential outside the 'X's' home.
She did a good job with a horrible role/script in this, hopefully last, attempt at movies by the so-called "bishop" Is this enough lines?
This movie is a burlesque attempt to ridicule the slasher movies.
In fairness to the feature, the American producers do attempt to give their version of PENNIES a new spin.
Whenever there's an attempt to copy, it fails.
His attempt at an Irish accent is quite simply a joke - pathetic and totally unrealistic.
Sutherland is not - his attempt at an Irish accent is both puerile and embarrassing.
There must be hundreds of as yet unknown Irish actors who could have played the part convincingly but we have to put up with an American "star" who insults our intelligence with his pathetic attempt at an Irish accent.
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