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Kudos to other actors/actresses who seemed to get into their roles despite the weak direction; Corrupt's side kick and the other restaurant worker.
I watched this movie to see the direction one of the most promising young talents in movies was going.
OK, the acting was tolerable, and with better direction could have been far better, but it didn't so it suffers.
Far Cry is a clichéd mess full of bad acting, poor direction, and an uninspired story with a shoddy script.
As usual, the "zombies" are given no direction so speak of, and provided very little makeup or costuming.
The direction is very good and the effects aren't bad for a $500 budget.
Plot, storyline, acting, effects, direction - I could go on.
You will notice that this film has won a couple of awards so far, one for direction and an audience award.
I'm not going to pick apart Esteban's direction, it wasn't bad or good enough for me to be all that passionate about writing anything.
The cinematography is below the quality and innovation of that exhibited by the worst made-for-TV movies, the acting is awful (although I get the feeling that the fault for that lies squarely in the lap of the director), and speaking of which, did I mention the direction is so haphazard and inscrutable that it defies the definition of the word?
The direction, plot and its execution are all very mundane; and I will say that unless you're a big Troma fan or someone that wants to track down every slasher ever made; don't bother with this film.
Boring, rank nefarious plot, some of the worst direction I've ever come across, inane acting and horribly clichéd.
There's no acting, no screenplay, no direction, no thrills and not even blood.
Any fan of Russian cinema will have great difficulty in believing the sub-par performances phoned-in by Mashkov and Bodrov Jr., and will perhaps be utterly perplexed by Bodrov Sr.'s hackneyed and confusing script, which is coupled with uncharacteristically weak direction.
There is nothing redeeming about this trash, from the characterization to the direction to the plot.
Finally there is the pacing of Eastwood's direction.
This feels like a first year direction and writing job, and probably is.
As time passes from watching the film, its themes and intentions become clearer, but during my initial viewing, I was really confounded, and I find that this is the major fault of the film...its lack of direction.
It meanders all over the place in search of direction and has some utterly embarrassing performances that might be better suited to bad sitcom.
Let's take Milligan's direction for starters.
The second was a bit trying in plot, but I did enjoy the direction and cinematography at times.
Despite a few lapses into mawkishness, "Shower" ranks high on my list of all-time favorite movies for its penetrating insight into family relationships and its generally superb acting and direction.
You could tell the actors were trying their best, but unfortunately, poor direction sabotaged all the actors' work.
The story was pretty stupid and Hopper's direction seemed like he had never directed before.
The direction is also appalling and any action scene is laughable and unconvincing.
There just didn't seem to be any direction.
The direction (by Archie Mayo, though Michael Curtiz was said to have helped) is straightforward without being particularly gripping, although the narrative slips in the second-half, grinding the film down to a messy conclusion (with even Cagney's Patsy getting lost in the shuffle).
The direction and writing are both sloppy: for example, the camera-work during the fight between Cintia Lodetti and Ajita Wilson is so bad that you can barely make out what's happening; also, if the alcoholic-but-kind-hearted doctor hadn't killed the warden, the guards would never have followed him and the girls after their escape - the "fake plague" plan had worked fine until then but he just had to ruin it.
Perhaps it is the cut and paste direction by Mick Jackson that misses the pacing and character delineation.
This is not to say that improved aesthetics alone would have salvaged this film, but some meager effort in this direction may have made it tolerable as visual fodder for the accompanying music.
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