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Too much time and effort was spent in the movie on Dahmer's homosexual tendencies and his alcohol consumption.
A worthless bit of tripe and first effort for mediocre director Seidelman, the film is fraught with bad acting, bad sound, bad camera work, and poor quality in all aspects of the film.
This may seem a small flaw but it points to the seeming lack of effort in paying attention to details.
OK I saw this movie to get a benchmark for bad but with this movie it's Unisol's best movie now plot Luc Devereux is now a technical expert who is working with the government with his partner Maggie, who's been through countless hours of training and combat with him, to refine and perfect the UniSol program in an effort to make a new, stronger breed of soldier that is more sophisticated, intelligent, and agile.
It's an absurd effort with philosophically ridiculous dialog (a man wanders into his flooded apartment and offers the stunning revelation that "tears can be dried with a tissue, but water takes time to mop up").
The ending was merely one more despicable effort to emasculate men and empower women at their expense.
Indeed the only big effort the film makes to show Effie's mothering is to tell us about it and then include a scene where she barks at her daughter in the unemployment office, insists that the girl has "no father" and then refuse to look for gainful employment to support them since singing is all she knows.
It's not that the characters aren't likable to SOME degree, or that you can't identify with them or their humanness at all...it's just that this could have been so much better with just a little more effort.
The only redeeming factor was the setting and atmosphere, avoid this one, too much hype surrounds it, not worth the effort of finding it, this refers to the welcome to the grind house edition.
Certainly a lesser effort for Showtime---no limits?
I'll bet the repeat viewings of this effort will be nonexistent.
i would like to comment the series as a great effort.
I would have to say it was worth the effort.
A few of the reviews that I have read on this forum have been written by people who, apparently, think that the film was an effort at serious drama.
A comedy that worked surprisingly well was the little British effort "The Divorce Of Lady X (1938)" .
A secretary believes her boss is wrongly accused of murder, and courageously takes on many dangerous characters in an effort to establish the truth.
Tenant" is a neglected gem.It may be difficult to track down,but it is more than worth the effort.
No great effort has been made to turn it into a comprehensive whole.
This is one of the best effort you will see in any Film.
The film does have some connection to blockbusters; for a start it's an early directorial effort for Renny Harlin; the capable director behind a number of action films including Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger and Deep Blue Sea; and secondly we have an early role for Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen.
In a slightly twisted story, the woman begins sleeping with the handy man in an effort to revive herself.
Without any doubts, "October Sky" is his best effort & obviously his best film.
Excellent Warner Bros effort starring Errol Flynn in one of his best screen performances.
Valliant effort to use a mining catastrophe as a vehicle to pronounce this director's distaste for war.
I look forward to his next effort.
A very thought provoking and well done film; make every effort to see it.
In his first directorial effort, first of many I hope, Denzel Washington confirms once again, that he has a truly beautiful mind and soul.
On the one hand, you have to give the Armstrong credit both for making the effort to capitalize on this idea and for using such a strong adult cast to put some name power behind it.
In an attempt to cash in on the success of Universal's horror films Majestic Pictures hired several popular actors from the current genre and put them in this effort that (realistically speaking) is nowhere near as good.
This one makes it worth the effort.
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