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A very good offering from HBO. Traci Lords is becoming a much-better dramatic actress with each effort.
Also Richard seems to strangle the woman with little or no effort nor does the women seem to struggle.
When you go at an open air cinema under the Greek summer night you usually don't care what the movie is! Edison started really good with some good effort from the singers-who-want-to-be actors and a once again great Morgan Freeman but... (In a movie there is usually a good start to catch audience,done, a bit boring yet story filling middle of the movie that is more about characters and less about action ,done, and the third part is something really good so that you can remember the movie...) when you see 30 elite police officers (packed with weapons that can demolish a building) shoot at a guy behind a car, fail to hit him even once while he kills all (but 3) and then the guy takes out a flame thrower (to kill the rest 3) ,you realise that the Greek summer sky filled with stars is way too good to be distracted by a movie like this!
I made a special effort to see this movie and was totally disappointed with the outcome.
I sincerely consider this movie as another poor effort of Dominican Movie Industry.
But the nature and degree of this fallibility and tendency to tragedy can only possibly be determined by people who make a sincere and serious effort to make such relations work.
It is really a shame too because this is the only feature length movie the stooges did with Curly, and this one effort by them is painfully unfunny, when it could have had great potential.
I saw this recent Woody Allen film because I'm a fan of his work and I make it a point to try to see everything he does, though the reviews of this film led me to expect a disappointing effort.
It is choppy and badly done, in an apparent effort to make it seem edgy or funny.
There was no vision, no labor of love here, only a horrible effort gone wrong.
The last film was a mediocre effort.
When you see Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi as co-stars, you expect to find a well done horror movie, but this was actually quite different, representing as it did what I would describe as an early effort at science fiction.
All-star cast considered, this poor effort is not entirely the fault of the cast and crew: the novel was replete with the same short-comings.
It seems as though at times the story is actually mocking the more sincere effort put forth in "Manchurian Candidate."
If you're handed a copy give it back, the film isn't worth the effort to see it even if it is watchable.
Stephen Carpenter's writing/directing effort borrows freely from other, better films, such as Jacob's Ladder and Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes).
It's practically spitting on the effort real figure skaters put into their work.
This sorry effort just doesn't measure up at all.
What a waste of time, money and effort to all concerned including the audience.
Fot the most part, this movie feels like a "made-for-TV" effort.
This is just a joke of a movie,they lost me already at the opening scene (Spoilerwarning) dangerous creature kills other creature in his cage,this is watched by a scientist that works there on a monitor and guess what she does,well lets go in to the cage to check the stuff out,omg how dumb do those writers think human beings are come on thats the same like jumping in a fish tank with a great white shark because it ate your goldfish...Pretty useless and even more dumber.And i will not even talk about the cast because they aren't worth the effort.
There is nothing to go into deep discussion about what this story has to tell; all I can say is that it was a big waste of time and effort to put it on the big screen.
They must have put more effort into that than they did into actually making the film.
Anyway, "The First Power" (a.k.a "Pentagram") isn't a completely terrible effort, but the script overly reverts to clichés and lacks genuine thrills.
The actors put in a good effort, but for me I didn't really get what the movie was trying to be.
There is nothing about him or his performance to make it credible that his girlfriend and upper-class publisher/friend would spend so much time and emotional effort on him.
This movie didn't hold true to the Christian belief of love but i give it a C for its effort.
An obvious b-grade effort to cash in on the Hostel/Saw buzz, my expectations for this film were low (really low!) and yet it still managed to disappoint on every level.
It was poorly written, the casting director could only have put 1 or 2 minutes of effort into the characters and the director obviously didn't care.
Corman's worst effort, bar none.
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