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Since it lacks contrived melodrama, I suppose it's vulnerable to the dreaded charge that "nothing much happens".
It has Grieg's soaring music, stunning cinematography, decent unpretentious acting, gorgeous locales and a certain epic "sweep" sadly lacking in today's soul-less blockbusters, which seem false and contrived in comparison.
Playing out like something contrived by a bunch of drunken college students, this flick invents wacky characters and then has them pop up as necessary to sustain it as it dogs its way through its meager plot.
It's got brain-dead characters uttering highly contrived and unlikely dialog and acting with the finesse of sock puppets.
The one word that I can best use to explain the movie: contrived!
Utterly contrived.
The story is terrible and the characters are weak, contrived, unimaginative, unoriginal, and uninspired.
The contrived Love story didn't work at all for me, it felt like they were again trying to take the story into more adult territory and in that lost the point of what makes the first one so good...
Just don't bother with the irrelevant, contrived, and unncessary third installment of the series.
Its not a documentary, but a contrived piece to make you believe it is.
Indeed, as the film meanders along for over two hours, it never really goes anywhere beyond the usual contrived plot complications about lovers breaking up and getting back together.
The plot is contrived, overused and generic.
Near the end, it looks like he's trying harder, but it just seemed so contrived.
The sub-plots don't feel contrived, all the actors and actresses nail their characters.
While "Hideki" is visually quite intriguing, the story is a contrived mess filled with unlikable characters, an inane plot and cheap gross out effects that are more laughable than terrifying.
However, even with those somewhat high marks added to it, "Mom At Sixteen" still fails in it's attempts at coming across as realistically as possible due greatly to the facts that the characters are not as well-written nor nearly as fully-developed as they should have been, and even the story itself takes too many twists right smack in the middle of it which ultimately causes the remainder of the film to fall apart towards the extremely unsatisfactory and sadly contrived ending.
Though the story can be a bit contrived, it is worth watching.
It's kind of fun also to see how the scenarists managed to leap from one implausible, contrived plot development to the next - but that's a secondary matter because most of these films were beyond belief.
I wrote an earlier review for "The Good Woman of Bangkok" and I found Bangkok Girl far less contrived and more up to date.
Much of the story seems to be too contrived, I mean how lonesome did those seafarers did get at sea that they behaved so erratically when they were ashore?
The plot was a bit contrived, with the identity of the evil cult leader becoming increasingly obvious at mid-film.
Often contrived, always boring, director Jennifer Fox should have spared us this painful cinematic experience by staying home and continuing therapy.
Silly one-liners, the acting and direction seems rushed and contrived.
Although it did have a rather contrived sub-plot which was even worse than the already almost non existent one.
The middle of the movie was a bit long, drawn out, too self glorifying for words, and excessively contrived.
The acting is poor and the scenes contrived.
With advice from a strip club owner(Tim Roth)and the eager assistance of(Lisa Kudrow)the state lotto number caller on TV, a plan is contrived to rig the winning numbers.
But, it fails to achieve that noble status through insipid dialogue and contrived plot.
After all, by today's standards it's a very dull and contrived movie--not nearly as interesting as Paramount's other comedians, WC Fields and The Marx Brothers.
All in all, a very contrived movie and not a whole lot different than most of West's other films.
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