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Paper thin characters and very contrived plots.
The opening scenes of the baggage inspectors being so thorough was a bit contrived (apparently they were doing a better job back then than they do now).
Episodic and without much real plot - the only real forward motion in the film is to be found in the ending, which feels a little contrived, and is my only real gripe with this film.
When it comes time to pull together the plot elements, writer/director Simpson makes a long stretch and comes up with something outrageous and a bit too easy, and some of the concluding twists feel somewhat contrived, but by this time, it really doesn't matter.
Everything, and I mean everything about "Criminal" is totally contrived.
There were three things I liked about this movie: Francis McDormand, Natasha McElhonne, and the music (which even at times was in the contrived hipster-vein).
She's a primary school play version of a reporter while somehow Mick Dundee seems to have suddenly become a complete simpleton with no memory of all the things he encountered in the first two films in the hope that the audience will find his newfound ignorance funny rather than simply bewildering - it's not even as if his character took a whack to the head in a contrived plot point, it's just plain lazy writing.
Because the plausibility of the whole movie is in question, it throws into question that the movie is somewhat contrived.
The most manipulated, contrived show you're ever likely to see.
The flat acting (and bad stripping), the inane and contrived plotline (avenging angels anyone?), the amateurish directing (including the clumsy use of slow motion during the clumsy and fatal let's-all-fall-into-the-pool scene--which was hilarious, though I do believe it was meant to be heart-wrenching or somesuch), and just the utter ridiculousness of the thing.
No unbelievably contrived dances or costumes.
Some of the animal scenes are okay, but most appear too contrived.
As the narrative becomes even more tangled, yet never contrived, we are drawn to the true heart of the film-Lone Scherfig's deft and loving examination of the characters' interactions.
Aside from that, there are really only a few small complaints to make; the action ending seems a little contrived.
Long's trickery of her friend near the end, although cleverly "acted", was lame and contrived.
I'm willing to forgive the fact that Billy Crystal declared this movie better than the first one and overlook the very contrived inclusion of former cattle drive participants as well as an evil twin.
The characters seem contrived, the story is rushed, and it becomes increasingly hard to sit through it as time passes.
That part of the story is heavily contrived, but it works very well regardless because after all it is a 1930s movie.
Presenting his characters honestly yet sympathetically, he makes the somewhat contrived situation seem believable and worth caring about.Wonderful movie with super hit songs.
The story was contrived and uninteresting.
Combine that with horrendous acting from the two children and a totally absurd, contrived ending, and you have a movie that would be better off going straight to video.
She, like Lewis' character, is a real being trapped in a world of contrived illusion.
Shallow, transparent, contrived, and just plain stupid.
I saw this at the San Francisco independent film festival, and it was totally contrived and boring.
And the sub-plots were contrived.
I thoroughly enjoyed this French farce that was boldly colorful, imaginatively creative, and passionately contrived.
The denouement is contrived, but effective and has been ripped by other films.
In "A Mighty Wind", the schtick was an integral part of the picture, here, it's silly, contrived and totally without any underlying humor or meaning.
although i appreciated a lot about it including great performances by silverstone (ah, those brits ...) and charlotte brittain (who as linda has the most hilarious and poignant mini-soliloquy from the point of view of a "fat girl" i have ever heard) and most of its realism including a great ending, i thought there were several elements which were rather contrived, including a "coming out to the entire school" scene which veered dangerously towards cheesiness.
It may be a great novel - I haven't read it - but the film is contrived - why bother at all with the time travel nonsense when you want to make a four hankie woman's weepie?! Sorry, but Eric Bana does not cut the mustard as a romantic lead, but he does his naked David Banner bit; the supporting cast apparently are important, but are barely used; issues of loss, responsibility for that loss, responsibility for other's feelings are grazed over.
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