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Like so many media experiments, this amateurish effort contains seeds of a very interesting social commentary.
Nick Millard aka Nick Phillips should have left well-enough alone when he made "Criminally Insane" 10 years before the release of this god-awful waste of time and effort.
I did get to like the character of Kate by the end of the film as she seemed to soften and become a little more realistic by the end, the character played by Jeremy Sheffield was not actually needed for this film and I think the director/writer got carried away with the myriad of characters used for no purpose, if he had left it at the basic characters making it more of a solo effort on Kate's part, it may have worked - Jeremy's acting was wooden to say the least and I felt uncomfortable watching the bad on screen chemistry - or lack of it.
I had never heard of Larry Fessenden before but judging by this effort into writing and directing, he should keep his day job as a journeyman actor.
I quickly became bored within 10 minutes, then suffered through the remainder of the first 40 minutes--hoping for the best--before hitting the chapter stops to (mercifully) get to the end... even that wasn't worth the extra effort.
The subject notwithstanding, this is an amateur, exhibitionist movie--or an effort at one--which is about as interesting and daring as a moody high school student's composition book full of death "poetry".
My comments on this movie have been deleted twice, which i find pretty offending, since i am making an effort to judge this movie for other people.
Before the movie is over, we are treated to yetis ripping hearts out, yetis waddling in an effort to run before jumping 50 meters, yetis ripping a man's legs off and beating him with them, a woman killing a rabbit at 30 meters with a javelin, a yeti surviving several bullets and being set on fire with no apparent harm, a yeti dangling off a cliff by holding to a man's shoe, yet then jumps off, and a whole collection of further, bizarre occurrences.
Even when Dwayne and his sons storm the clinic, guns blazing, it is a stunning non-event; later, when a doctor is tortured with a 'male abortion,' the scene comes off as gratuitous and unnecessary--an effort to pad out the underwritten film.
It's all as mannered as Welle's godawful Irish brogue; which takes a lot of effort, but adds absolutely zero to the film.
Effort aside (This isn't a review about good intentions, its about the final product), this film is poorly written, overacted, and poorly directed.
But the filmmakers made an effort to show it beating the odds and eventually passing all the obstacles.
"The Broken" is a truly atmospheric and stylish effort, but only after just half an hour of film, you come to the painful conclusion it shall just remain a beautiful but empty package.
Kamal Hasan has made a lot of effort in getting the period look right, pity he did not spend more time on the plot.
boasts a few semi big names,but they put no effort into their characters.but,you
Furthermore I was amazed by the fact that they didn't put the slightest effort in making the production look real.
I don't understand why someone would want to waste celluloid, time, effort, money, and audience brain cells to make such drivel.
I have no idea how it won any awards, and although I'm sure a great deal of effort went into making it it was all fruitless as the final outcome is one which screams of early 90's foreign soap operas.
Rather than have Snafu take some inadvisable actions leading to disaster, 'The Home Front' instead focuses on his loved ones back home and how much they have to offer to the war effort too.
In an effort to save him, Stanwyck gets unlucky, yet again, and comes across an escaped convict.
Indeed the under-explored title phenomenon is quite intriguing and, for at least the opening half, this Tobe Hooper effort promises to entertain in a way only cheesy '90s horror can.
Everything (and I mean _everything_) in between is basically the director's desperate effort to fill in the minutes.
So make up costs are cut down because there is no effort to hide the hands instead only a long shouldered Kurta covers up for the cut fingers.
As it turns out, the first film from the new impresario Eli Roth, it's just a so-so effort with the IQ points dropping as the film progresses.
A reasonable effort is summary for this film.
Will Pascoe fails utterly in this effort, cobbling together uninspired snippets of Chomsky's wisdom from a visit to McMaster University in Hamilton.
It looks like they spent more time, effort, and money making the DVD cover than they did on the actual movie.
I might not have been the biggest Blair Witch fan but nonetheless appreciated that effort, so I was looking forward to Altered, especially after reading the superlatives thrown around in various IMDb comments.
A low budget effort from Texas that's at least filmed well, but that is little consolation.
Guy Ritchie's noble effort is beat up, knocked down, raped, kicked around, shot, stabbed, spit upon, punched, sodomized, and abused and left for dead by Madonna's dreadful performance.
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