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The characters all fall flat -- there are minutes upon minutes before any humor is attempted, and when it is, it always falls flat.
Laura Lee and her daughter, Kelly (Lauren Birkell), go on a summer vacation to get to know each other again, after Kelly's attempted suicide.
But this must be because she cannot cope with her daughter's attempted suicide!
despite having attempted to rape his sister, breaking the Italian kids leg and calling his mother a whore!
The only other time the Bond franchise attempted a complete departure from the established Bond formula the result was the complete flop of License To Kill, which led to a change of direction and the fantastic Goldeneye.
I can hand on heart honestly say that I didn't laugh once during the entire film, not because I found it in bad taste but because the attempted jokes were just not funny.
The sole directorial effort from Robert Riskin (the talented screenwriter behind many of Frank Carpa's best films), WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE is one of many films that attempted to re-create the success of 1934's surprise hit ONE NIGHT OF LOVE.
With this film, it attempted to steer from the stereotypical way of thinking and not focusing so much on the trials and hardship of lesbian romance within a Brit/Asian family, because by so doing, it will not be different or stand out for better or worse from other scenes.
The 1988 sequel to one of the most successful movies of all time finds Eddie Murphy reprising his role as Detroit police detective Axel Foley, and once again playing a fish out of water as he tries to solve a series of heists in Beverly Hills that may be connected to the attempted murder of his friend, a Beverly Hills police captain (Ronny Cox).
An attempted Chinese-Canandian production that doesn't really know what it wants to accomplish.
What is even more puzzling is the attempted rape scene near the end of the film.
There are also a number of very odd situations created that are plain annoying, and as with so many recent movies the attempted 'twist' is just pants.
Two attempted remakes and dozens of rip offs have failed to diminish the hilarious complications and romantic musings of this often-imitated, never duplicated screwball farce.
This is not, as you know, the first time the Chronicles have been attempted.
when a return is attempted they are pushed even further beyond into what can only be described as another place or time beyond what we know as space.
The attempted initiation of the young boy, the acute acne humiliations and the necrophilia are all hard to take but the film is dressed well enough and a smile lingers despite it all.
obvious they had zero budget,so they shouldn't have attempted this type of movie.i'll
For this film, Crichton has took ideas from the worlds of plastic surgery and advertising, and attempted to blend them into a horror/thriller.
The title says it all, this time he's in the army...though much of the time, the attempted gags don't often have that much to do with the army.
Jennifer Rubin is not nearly good-looking enough (at any of the ages attempted in this film) for this role, not to mention that I confess that I spoke too soon in my comments on the remake of Not of This Earth regarding ridiculously skinny actresses.
I daresay if a new, lighthearted detective show attempted to portray a character with, say, no legs, the subject would be taken a bit more seriously.
Judy doesn't sing at all (unless you count the few lines of "Happy Birthday to You"); Mickey finds the school of hard knocks so trying it was painful to watch his plight, which included an attempted seduction of him by an older woman (Patricia Dane) and the death of a friend.
They even attempted to throw in a fight scene at the end, but it was total failure.
If it took itself at all seriously, or had decided to play it "camp," or simply attempted to provide decent thrills and chills, we might forgive it its nastiness and vomit-inducing swill.
Thirdly, I was impressed by the fact that I don't believe a film of this type has ever been created or attempted.
This classic all-black adaptation of Marc Connelly's play attempted to break some ground for the role of blacks in film, but it comes through today in a mixed mode.
Ving Rhames plays The Animal (James) a gangster who kills just for fun and ends up in prison for armed robbery and attempted murder.
Man, does this extremely cheap and crummy clunker strike out something rotten in every conceivable department: Sisworo Guatama Putra's flat, fumbling (mis)direction, the poky pace, Imam Tantowi's by-the-numbers hackneyed and predictable cookie cutter script, the slipshod editing, the bland acting, Lee Fioole's sub-par cinematography, the dreadful dubbing, precious little nudity, several poorly staged action scenes (in one especially unimpressive scene a native feebly wrestles with a python), the mild gore, Gatot Sudarto's mostly insipid, only sporadically lively score, a pitifully dumb and nonexplicit attempted rape that's followed by an equally lousy off-screen castration, and the colorless, unappealing main characters (Rita in particular is insufferably whiny) all leave a great deal to be desired.
As for Dushku, well, this is probably the finest performance she's ever attempted.
In the case of "So Close", an evil Conglomerate had attempted to steal a super Global Positioning System(GPS)called World Panorama, which was developed by the father of two sisters.
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