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An attempt to show their muscle goes awry and Sheba's father is gunned down in cold blood.
A priest, played by Vincent Gallo, goes to the city to find a friend who has gone missing in the tunnels under the city in an attempt to find the gateway.
Now my complaints, complete with SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS Why bother even making a movie "based" on a classic story if you're not even going to attempt to stay true to the sense, feel, tone, or theme of the original?
And "Zipperface" indeed looks as if a bunch of amateurs got together for an attempt at a "real" serial-killer thriller.
It is a good first film attempt and the director (who also stars in and wrote the feature) shows a lot of promise.
Any attempt at true tension and suspense, and as a result chills, are thrown out the window in this low budget bust.
Leatherheads is an apt title, however a leather strap would be more useful to self-flagellate oneself after purchasing a ticket to watch this noxious attempt at entertainment.
Clooney's attempt at self deprecating humor comes across with a quiet thud as his demeanor implies that he is anything but.
The connection between his life and Clarissa's is not very well done either but I suspect the attempt is to show the sacrifice soldiers made to enable people like Clarissa to continue their vapid lives.
But the idea behind it is sound: an attempt to open America's eyes to the cozy relationship between the government, and the journalists that are supposed to be keeping an eye out against it.
CyberTracker is set in Los Angeles sometime in the near future where bodyguard Eric Phillips (co-producer Don 'The Dragon' Wilson) saves senator Robert Dilly (John Aprea) from an assassination attempt by a group known as the UHR, the Union of Human Rights, who are angry at Dilly for spearheading the Computerised Judicial System in which robots called CyberTrackers are sent out to determine & dispense justice on the guilty.
It was a real amateur attempt.
It was just another Hollywood attempt to convince us that that kind of life is normal and OK.
Final Draft - A screenwriter (James Van Der Beek) locks himself into his apartment and succumbs to psychosis in an attempt to write a horror script.
I was really expecting a Bonnie And Clyde movie and I got Dick Clark playing a shy nerdy guy while Robert Walker and Diane Varsi played an poor attempt of reinacting Bonnie and Clyde.
I blame Larry Bishop, for his horrible plot and dialogue, not to mention his failed attempt at the leading role.
His new Russian superior is Ivan played to the obscene hilt by Nick Nicholson who might I add not only doesn't attempt once to speak with a Russian accent but resembles more a gas station attendant in Kentucky with his stained teeth.
The almost pornographic style of the film seems to be a failed attempt to recover from a lack of cohesive or effective story.
"Tart" is a pathetic attempt at film making which wanders around and among a bunch of Manhattan teens exploring all the usual teen preppie stuff...sex, drugs, and classical music almost completely without story, focus, or purpose.
Basically, a couple of scientists working out of a bio-dome communicate with highly intelligent ants (the most intelligent actors in this film) in an attempt to try to thwart their plans of conquest and extermination.
"Soul Plane" is a horrible attempt at comedy that only should appeal people with thick skulls, bloodshot eyes and furry pawns.
Now there are some moments in the film where that there is a chance that Snyder is saving this film from falling into a hole but let's be frank, this movie didn't fall into a hole, it was already in a hole and Synder makes no attempt whatsoever to bring itself out of it.
This attempt fell in "the hole".
The host would drop interesting-sounding words such as "sparticles" and "super-symmetry" without any attempt at explaining what it was.
weak attempt at storytelling and narrating -- dialogue is dull and wasn't able to convey what i sometimes think simplicity is beauty.
To the film's credit, it does actually attempt something bordering on a plot; but to take said credit away from the film - the plot is rubbish.
None of the three sequels did justice to the highly entertaining original, but this particular film is nothing more than a shameless attempt to exploit the name of the "Magnificent Seven" and Bernstein's rousing music theme.
Everyone is clearly doing their best to be true to an intriguing premise, but it's too deep a vision, too involved attempt at disentangling mental delusion to survive a transition to the screen.
It is an attempt to capture the dimensionality of gossamer patterns on celluloid -- the result is muddled and slow.
Why did they change the cute, Rugrats television show we all know and love into a lame attempt to target teens?
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