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Heather Graham couldn't play a convincing lesbian if her life depended on it.
Glover's blackmailer plays the scene with convincing intelligence, but Scheider portrays the victim here as a cocky "good guy," in charge of the situation as if he were more a Rambo with an M-16 than the everyman barely staying afloat as his world crumbles around him.
Jennifer Jason Leigh and Mare Winningham are a good match portraying vastly different siblings, but only Winningham is able to bring something convincing or substantial to her role.
Debra Winger was more convincing as Wonder Girl than she is as a Texan.
Poor acting, no script, no plot, no convincing killer, no suspense, no original setups, it uses the same closet/under the bed/person-behind-you-in-the-mirror tactics over and over again making it repetitive and boring, and NOT in a foreshadowing way either, and the fact that NOBODY ever "really" gets killed (at least not on screen) , which in turn zaps any suspense it may invoke right out of it and makes everyone feel eve MORE cheated for spending money on their admission ticket....its a horror film w/o any horror LMAO.
The problem is they have never had the money to succeed in making convincing special effects.
The "alligator" is not at all convincing, and many of the sub-plots go nowhere.
A group of kids are abducted in an alley by musclehead mutants (in a scene featuring cinema's least convincing head crushing sound effect) and taken to a fancy house in the suburbs.
The person that stood out the most to me in this movie was Rosanna Arquette in her convincing role as the loving and concerned wife.
The role of Nicholas Cage wasn't very convincing.
The never stopping flow of hints and combinations wasn't very convincing either.
first off, they didn;t trick me, and second of all, nat and alex probably either drugged them or payed them loads of money in order to say that and sound convincing, because i don't see how anyone could find this show/movie entertaining.
Horror fans (I'm speaking to the over 12's, although if you're under 12 I apologise for what you might deem an insult): In short, if you appreciate having your imagination disturbed by well written, original storytelling, punctuated by unpredictable well planted scares, and delivered via convincing performances, then I can heartily recommend - AVOIDING THESE STEAMERS - made by directors who have apparently long since past their sell by date.
And there is never one scene that is convincing in any way.
It really was a pain to sit through this flick, as there's no plot, no good acting and even the special effects aren't convincing, especially the so-called zombies, wearing nothing more than white make-up and their old clothes, so their good set wouldn't be ruined by ketchup and marmalade stains.
Keira Knightly was not convincing as a tough chick at all,and I cannot believe Lucy Liu and Mickey Rourke signed on for this criminal waste of celluloid.
Their skin peels off throughout the film, we also see severed legs, heads etc that are about as convincing as a Halloween Fuzzy Felt set.
The murders are not convincing either, and truth be told the whole film looks like someone through it together on their friend's farm with the people and things on hand there.
He imbues his dialog with an odd sense of realism, making the sculptor Marcel a convincing individual.
Duncan Renaldo is fairly convincing as an Arab sheik--despite his Spanish accent--and veteran bad guy George J. Lewis as Renaldo's Arab rival does his usual fine job of villainy, even if he goes a bit over the top sometimes.
While the premise (change in colour/gender/whatever) is bad enough (and has been done, better, many times before)the actual transformation of two black guys into two white girls is one of the least convincing transformations ever put on screen.
I have seen drag queens without makeup make more convincing women than these two do with the best special effects and make-up people that Hollywood can provide.
No questions being asked, no comments being made on power abuse or police terror, when James Stewart, solid and convincing as always, solves all the stories from Dillinger to 5th Column more or less singlehandedly.
But as I was carrying this DVD case to pay for it, I convinced myself, that the less authentic something is the more it tries to be convincing.
To the film's credit though, Aya Sugimoto was fairly convincing as the tortured lead.
Set in ancient Asia, both actors were not Asian, but were very convincing in their roles.
I sat through it because I'm interested in rock'n'roll and the dynamics of bands, but if I were to evaluate it purely on the basis of its merit as a movie, I would have to give it the thumbs down, with a few caveats: Jason Behr is good in the part of John Livien, and quite convincing as a rock singer; the narrative regarding his childhood trauma is unclear, although we are given hints in Livien's well-acted relationship to his parents, but his behaviour is ultimately bizarre to the viewer (which it shouldn't be).
His performance was not convincing.
But in this film, his acting wasn't convincing enough, it was quite bad and there wasn't any chemistry between the rest of the crew either.
Farrah Fawcett plays a dumb blonde; she certainly seemed convincing in this role.
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