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This film, despite obvious attempts by the director to create a piece of art, comes off as an incredibly one-sided, contrived sob-story in its portrayal of illegal immigration between Mexico and the US.
The mysticism and coincidence of multiple people dealing with secret issues in the same location remains one of the most compelling and intriguing film techniques out there (see Todd Solondz's Happiness and P.T. Anderson's Magnolia), and it was certainly more compelling than most of what was being produced by Hollywood at the time (in spite of the fact that this WAS a great time for film, most pictures relied on very conventional and often contrived styles to achieve their popularity).
The plot is contrived...in fact there barely even is a plot.
The contrived situations, the change in mood, the ridiculous outcome . . .
Every aspect of it was god-awful... the writing was painfully dull, the acting was nonexistent, and the plot was so thin and contrived it was hard to believe it wasn't an hour-long inside joke that I was regretfully unaware of.
"...it is unfunny and is mostly concerned with heavily contrived slapstick.
Everything about this movie (the music, the script, the photography, the editing) serves the purpose of making sure I share Spielberg's viewpoint about the movie's rather contrived situation.
Most of the time the film seems to be trying too hard to put that mystery and suspense that it feels contrived.
I suppose the filmmakers believed that a series of contrived "dangerous situations" would be enough to establish an attraction between the protagonists (and I use this term loosely).
Flavor of Love is a cynical, contrived and utterly useless show.
The action was obviously contrived from the numerous Gun-Fu, John Woo style movies and the director doesn't even add his own touch to it which leaves the action scenes bland.
Though slightly contrived, we begin to accept to the message of the film.
People may argue that's its contrived, ridiculous, and all that garbage, but this film isn't to be taken seriously.
The plot is ridiculous and contrived, the script is painfully predictable, the characters are two-dimensional cardboard cut-outs, and the film's pay-off is painfully obvious from the beginning.
It seems really contrived, particularly because several of the characters were absolute caricatures.
The narrative convention of the reporter and protagonist is also absurdly contrived.
One thing that really struck me is that the script was totally unpredictable without seeming contrived.
This film is so confused, contrived, messy and improbable, that there is no evidence of anyone's having thought their way through the contradictions that riddle any time-travel plot.
Aside from the amateurish monster make-up and contrived storyline, this film adheres to, in principle, a sub genre of psychological film criticism: fairy tale theory.
LLHP does a much better job in developing its characters than WILBY did and the mysticism in question is based on ancient Chinese culture and therefore, somehow seems less contrived and more elegant than the inexplicable technology-based type from FEAR.
Already 'A Stranger Among Us' seems trite and contrived.
It was a contrived re-mixing of Gorillas in the Mist, The Shawshank Redemption and Dead Poets Society.
The plot is witless and contrived, the songs are boring and the acting is wooden.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work on any level - the plot is unbelieveable and contrived, and the characters a little annoying.
An aircraft carrier, (in an unconvincingly contrived way), goes back in time to the day just before the Pearl Harbour attack and does.... Er very little really?
Technically, it is well made, but the plot seems contrived and the tension wears out as you see the two sides continuously escalating for no real reason - predictably, the protagonist discovers the simple truth and is repeatedly frustrated in his attempts to communicate it.
Every character completely contrived and unrealized.
Awful writing, awful directing, tedious and contrived plot, and poor acting efforts from an A-list cast.
The "oh-now-I'm really-beginning -to-appreciate-the-beauty-of-the Hacedic-culture scenes" are forced and contrived, especially the big family meal.
I couldn't believe Nicole Kidman would appear in something so contrived, so I reconsidered the role of the coincidences.
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