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There are some genuinely good moments such as Angela's speech about demons, and the briefly-seen demon itself is
effective.
Some of the camera shots were quite effective, but a lot were rubbish eg.
(A similar conceit was used in an
effective
and appropriate narrative context in 'Only You', Norman Jewison's vastly superior ode to Italy and romance).
Directors of "The Messengers" Danny Pang and Oxide Pang are responsible for "The Eye" and its sequel and their premiere American picture plays like "The Grudge"-lite set in a farmhouse.A family of four move from Chicago to a run-down sunflower farm in rural North Dakota.Almost immediately their teenage daughter Jess starts seeing ghosts.Of course her parents and the police are skeptical.Admittedly the film is well-made and there are two or three
effective
scares,but relies too much on 'boo' effect.Still the plot is a carbon copy of many ghost stories and the ending is anti-climatic and stupefyingly awful.Scares are on the low side too with a tendency toward CGI.Overall,"The Messengers" is a pretty weak horror film that simply doesn't deliver.4
Skerritt's semi-comatose and droning style is fatally invalidated by this dim sound processing but Mason is very effective, as ever, and enjoys the best dialogue with Hughes impressive as the too early written-out investigator; Doleman wins acting laurels with his performance as the malevolent Julian Fane.
(A possible minor spoiler) The first "Jurassic Park" was an effective, but silly film that did it's job and was actually pretty good.
The point of that scene, I suppose, was to introduce some of the primary figures in the story and give a bit of their background - which is somewhat
effective
when comparing the idealism of the Harvard graduation ceremony to the realism of life in Johnson County, Wyoming, but it just keeps going and going, and that sets the stage for a film that features repeated stretches of mind-numbing nothingness, made even worse by the fact that I found a significant amount of the dialogue to be almost incoherent.
However, this movie has none of the humour or
effective
gory scenes of the "Piranha" (1978) original.
As for the rest of the cast, Paul Muller is somewhat
effective
as Dr. Charles Marshall, the baron's assistant and an admirer of the daughter for some time.
I think cheaters needs to be off the air and end the reality show once and for all i don't care what anyone says you can attack me or agree with me but its times like this that the show is just spewing out propaganda and the host of Cheaters Joey Greco is a little bastard who wants to think that showing people on camera is
effective
and unawares no it just will show disgusting he is also the wiretapping and following of people by "cheaters spy's" is illegal and a federal offense we are living in a police state like the Soviet union and Nazi Germany rolled into one i am happy that there is poor reviews on this trash this needs to end soon or we are going to lose our liberties as a nation no wonder our country is going to hell its because of this and other filth shows i liked the older shows better from the 1950s-1980s i hope you all agree with me on that thank you infowarrior
The music by Charles Bernstein is suitably creepy, but so over-used, it's ends up being intrusive rather than
effective.
The movie had an
effective
title sequence, but what followed was pretty lame (flat, bad lighting, acting, editing, direction...).
The rest of the gore was
effective
in a low budget kinda way, but too spaced apart throughout the movie.
Now this effect can be highly effective, but it isn't in this case.
James Caan is especially
effective
here and he seems to just inhabit this character.
This movie is
effective
in capturing a taste of the decadence that lives in the South; it does nothing to explain, enlighten or advance my understanding of a gay relationship, or the conflict the protagonist seems to be grappling with.
When you make a film with a killer-kids premise, there are two
effective
ways to approach it; you can either make it as realistic as possible, creating believable characters and situations, or you can make it as fun as possible by playing it for laughs (something which the makers of "Silent Night, Deadly Night" did, for example, on an equally controversial subject: a killer Santa).
Ryan Reynolds captured the essence of an actor on the edge wonderfully but as a gay TV writer and famous games creator / devoted family man he was definitely less
effective.
Some parts are very
effective
and the film does well to give some idea of the suffering of the people specially the children, but overall it looks less like a film and more like a documentary.
Texas chainsaw massacre came out a few year earlier and is a much more
effective
film, as far as horror goes.the
This movie is very similar with what he did with the 60's spoof entitled "Hairspray" but this one is not as
effective.
That said, the production value is definitely here, with great zombie effects and it's edited quite nicely, with very
effective
sound design.
Macy, Laura Dern and David Paymer just can't create an
effective
story with the material here.
Burns has a strange, stop-and-start rhythm to his dialogue which is neither realistic nor
effective
(just increasingly annoying, because nothing important ever seems to get said).
The attempts at horror aren't
effective
in the least.
Strange, often
effective
hippie zombie flick, starring the unforgettable husband/wife team of Alan and Anya Ornsby, this movie isn't as bad as most in its genre, but is still way high on the cheese-factor.
the suspense factor was
effective
and the acting, though kept simple, was also
effective
in portraying the characters.
The political drama is effective, if not especially new or inspired.
The cinematography is also crisp and smooth, the scenery and landscapes almost dazzling and there are also a number of very
effective
scenes.
There were great performances by all the leads, and the story, while not what I'd call chilling, was still
effective
and it kept me interested.
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