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The end of the film is weak considering everything this builds up to.
Slick production holds interest, even though the plot keeps covering the same ground, and never builds any emotional momentum.
There are a few good jokes, mostly involving Granny's glasses, but they are outweighed by gags you can see coming a mile off (the seasickness routine) and it all builds to another of those endings where someone else other than Tweety says "I tawt I taw a putty tat", a joke that worked well once but has diminishing returns.
The first half plods along, the second half builds up a head of steam but I still felt it was a little underwhelming and unexciting.
As is, there are few surprises and a feeling of half-hearted filming by numbers as it builds up a head of intertia as it ambles disinterestedly towards a less than grand will-this-do?
Wood uses raw slabs of innocuous, incidental stock footage, and then builds a "story" around them - and what a story!! Wood himself stars as Glen, a regular Joe who just happens to enjoy lounging around in his fiancee's lingerie and sweaters.
Wave after wave of directionless nausea - this film wants and at first promises to be quirky and original but is in fact obvious, solipsistic and mired in cliché-driven dialogue which builds to a crecendo of awfulness and cheese by the end.
Noah builds an ark as instructed by God to house he, his family, and two of every creature while he floods the rest of the planet.
It builds towards the end but the lead actor's own redemption is too little too late and should have been revealed earlier in the film.
Too many cheap BOO! moments but the tension builds, the bad guys are creepy and everything seems to be setting itself up nicely.
What builds in the first half as a great horror concept shifts away from horror and towards the absurd.
The movie is a slow moving plot in the beginning that builds up throughout the two plus hours.
He also heavily plays with the racial element and the sexual ambiguity he builds all the time.
Slow at times because it builds this 'what's gonna happen' tension.
The horror of "A Tale Of Two Sisters" lies not with sudden shocks or large helpings of CGI guts and gore; it is a psychological horror movie which piques the viewer's curiosity from the start and builds a suspenseful aura of mystery and questions throughout.
However, FAME builds its characters up beautifully and then leaves us with so many questions when its over.
While the film is a wonderful blend of black comedy (e.g., using a stethoscope to listen to neighbor's conversation), the film builds on what Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati had introduced to cinema earlier--stoic faces that leads to comedy quite in contrast to the equally intelligent world of Robin Williams or the heartwarming Danny Kaye.
And builds an amazing atmosphere ... Florinda Balkan is perfect as our heroine ...
This builds up to a rather shocking ending, which to me was totally unexpected and ends on just the right note, or wrong note, depending on your point of view.
"In the Line of Fire" is one of the best thrillers I have seen, it builds and builds to a great climax.
Suspense builds from the very first scene when the jewel thief becomes a national problem and there are cleverly concealed clues in the film so that you can guess who is the jewel thief.
Eisenstein builds upon each scene of the movie leading to the the sailor's revolt and the massacre at the town.
This film was superb, the opening was very cleverly done, the story held together well, in a nutshell two fish'n chip shop owners who normally enemies are forced to form an alliance of sorts to engage in a David and Goliath struggle against a fast food chain which builds a restaurant on their street.
At first I didn't like Lelia, but as the film progressed you see more and more she's one of those actors who gets better as the tension and drama builds - not necessarily the best with small talk.
In order to get this information posted I will continue to state that this is a well made film with a true and fascinating story about a mysterious carpenter who builds a very unusual staircase in a church.
The anti-hero, The Man builds a contraption to escape a band of marauders, out of the wastland of what was once a civilization, to the ruins of the city to scavenge for his survival.
This movie has good pacing and builds up to the climax steadily.
Bullitt has a beginning that builds builds builds.
The kids are already in bed, the wind builds and is joined by down-pouring rain.
The term "star-vehicle" has traditionally been used to refer to a movie that builds itself around one star.
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