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At first, Darby (not very plucky, and not very smart) attempts to escape this drooling brood, but they're onto her.
She is the victim of numerous assassination attempts, all directed by the President's Chief of Staff, who wants the First Lady dead.
The film attempts to tell the story of a dark future, one in which Hawk (a Mad Max type of character) heads off to rescue a damsel in distress.
The film attempts to shatter the romantic chivalry image of the heroic medieval knight, by showing a rather dreary image of the period, defined by psychological dysfunction, and violence.
The movie attempts to branch off in many directions but never follows through on any.
The humour for children is pathetic, and the attempts to appeal to adults just add a tacky smuttishness to the whole miserable package.
Lucille Ball's "singing" is downright painful and the attempts to make her appear more youthful through the use of soft focus had me reaching for my reading glasses.
There was a few pathetic attempts to give the characters some depth, but it didn't really work into the rest of the plot.
Dilly attempts to initiate Phillips into his private circle but the SS agent goes on the run after witnessing Dilly murder a UHR agent in cold blood.
A man named Mussaui attempts to learn how to fly a plane.
And you can see that director Scott attempts to mimic Paul Greengrass with a bright grainy photography that's followed by an awfully dizzying and irritating hand-held direction that, throughout the entire film, attempts to take off from Greengrass's gung-ho guerrilla film-making techniques.
During the 1990's, several attempts have been made to revive old Matsumoto's series.
The attempts to show the trauma inflicted on him by his mother are just weak exercises in recycled style.
In all, it took me three attempts to get through this movie.
There are only two attempts to discus the environmental effects of the Nile Perch fish.
Jim Carrey is a capable actor, but his attempts to inject light humor into a serious role is just out of place.
All the attempts at suspense were cheap, and there were so many tired gimmicks and plot holes I ended up laughing and making fun of it the whole way through.
For a documentary that attempts to be a visual feast, a hypnotic, surreal excursion in uncharted landscapes, it lacks the visual orchestration and conviction of a disciplined author.
The guy provided a brief bit of eye candy until his bizarre attempts at murder.
It also threw in a terrible naked shot of a dumb blond, and a breast shot of a stupid Asian girl, and both attempts were just scary, since these girls are ugly.
In what attempts to be a positive story, Dolph Lundgren leads a group of mercenaries to take over a tropical island that looks a lot like paradise so that the men who hired his team can mine it for...bird droppings.
Celebrity singers have always had a tough time breaking into the movies (the cinema is littered with failed attempts), and one can go on and on speculating why John Mellencamp never made it big as an actor.
This movie is actually so poor in its desperate attempts at being "feel good" and casual it really made me embarrassed watching it.
The plot doesn't work at all, as the film attempts to blend murders and a supernatural theme through a telephone and it all feels very forced and silly.
A antique shop-owner in NYC, played by Joanne Whalley(Valerie Alston)gets put on a US District Court jury, on a trial of a known Mafioso Armand Asante(Rusty Pirone), and most of this very slow-paced film revolves around attempts of Pirone attempting to get Whalley to acquit him of murder, by threatening to kill her son, and herself.
The invention gags by Carrot Top are some of the most awful attempts to be funny in recorded history.
Based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, the film focused on wise guy Chili Palmer (Travolta) and his attempts to break into the movie business.
Lost is the exciting and unpredictable storyline, and instead, in its place, is bland predictability with the obvious attempts at audience manipulation by a superficial pretentious production and distribution team.
Attempts to move it out of the house - which is jarringly unrecognisable, a bad job all round there - with a picnic, fantasy sequences, rugby and a boxing match in the local gym simply don't work.
THE GRUDGE 2 attempts all of these techniques, but ultimately fails, only showing us the same old stuff we saw in the first movie, as well as a messy storyline constantly switching from Tokyo to California.
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