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The monster is barely used, large portions of this film are made up of footage of boats and helicopters.
The characters are universally bland, the locations are criminally under-utilized, there's no attempt to create tension or suspense, the physical effects are either laughably bad or shamelessly stolen from other movies, and the ubiquitous tribal rape scenes are barely worthy of a PG-13.
It's a leaden load of old cobblers that has far too much self-justifying, 'explanatory' religious waffle but barely any decent dialogue and certainly a total absence of anything even approaching magic or charm.
You can't relate with them, hell you barely can understand them.
After barely making it through a jungle full of bloodthirsty cannibals, they finally locate Diana, who's under the control of Jim Jones-type cult leader Jonas Melvyn (Ivan Rassimov).
These guys are trying to create something that would be good if the writing wasn't so disgusting which is leaving the shows only lifeline to be two attractive teachers that that are barely keeping it alive.
I could barely sit through it without wanting to kill myself.
In addition to being haunted by the case, Tibbs is conflicted about his home life, but the issues of race and Tibbs' barely concealed sense of social outrage are absent here.
Speaking of the story,...there is one, kinda,...but its barely visible for all the "look at me" shots and cameos.
It was barely worth the trouble of watching through to the end.
These two angles could have worked together had they been balanced accordingly, but with a romantic plot running around in circles and taking up almost twice as much time as necessary at the expense of an oil plot that's barely been established to begin with, both sides suffer.
Mainly, due the the ridiculous, ham-fisted use of what can barely be called symbolism by the director.
I happened to be watching A/E recently and witnessed an ad for this garbage and I could barely contain my surprise.
Moreover, it's supposed to tell a descent into hell but this descent is softened and barely sketched out.
In JUANA LA LOCA, he relies on a gifted actress as well , newcomer Pilar Lopez de Ayala, but this is barely the sole positive element in an otherwise terrible mess of a movie.
Ice-T has barely anything to do and also looks bored, and he didn't convince me one bit.
I barely made through it, because to be honest the beginning was pretty good and very well paced, but then it got too dark and not into the movie I saw from the trailer.
I agree with an earlier poster that it makes no sense for the story to be unfolding through the eyes of an African American family and yet their own ancestor, Sally Hemmings, has barely a role to play in the proceedings.
Those masters of hyperbole, the movie-tag-line-writers, at it again; the sequel to 2003's Bruce Almighty, raises barely a chuckle.
This sort of thing barely constitutes a 3-minute sub-sub-plot in your average zombie film.
The direction and writing are both sloppy: for example, the camera-work during the fight between Cintia Lodetti and Ajita Wilson is so bad that you can barely make out what's happening; also, if the alcoholic-but-kind-hearted doctor hadn't killed the warden, the guards would never have followed him and the girls after their escape - the "fake plague" plan had worked fine until then but he just had to ruin it.
Incredibly bad acted, dumb to tears dialogues, all-too-expected plot, a lot of goofs and inconsistencies (for instance, a pretty young girl gets hits in the head by a morning star and not only she survives, but barely with a scratch !)... To make it short because it does not worth more, even the fans of the genre can avoid it.
The plot is barely an excuse for a movie : guy likes girl, house sits fathers home to get to know girl, destroys house, gets girl.
And, to top this off, the film is stuffed to the brim with amateurish actors who can barely speak any English.
The story is so thin it is just barely there... no wait, scratch that.
The assaulting rap music often drowns out the dialogue, and the film feels longer than it is, even though it runs barely over an hour!
However, Ade Edmonson & Rik Mayall have managed to create a film that raises barely a titter.
Joel and the bots barely salvage this turkey.
The Comebacks barely qualifies as a parody.
Heck, it barely qualifies as a movie.
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