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Above all Shaad Ali in his first directorial effort has surpassed many veterans.
I could go on, but it's not worth the effort to write about.
That's the reassuring part: he confided that this was a first effort which started as essentially an "acting experiment" and only later took the form of a feature film.
The only reason this pseudo-scientific effort has nothing but positive reviews and almost 7 points (so far...) is that no one seems to bother to (re)view this low-brow attempt at Science Fiction.
Overall great effort from an all rounder producer/actor/writer.
I'm not sure if she was just putting in too much effort trying not to look and sound like Phoebe or if Phoebe is simply the only character she can play.
The Sci-Fi Channel's latest effort, SHAPE SHIFTER, is a rehash of JEEPERS CREEPERS, with a flesh-eating, morphing demon invading a jail and knocking off the inmates one by one.
I used to remember when b-grade movies used to have at least some redeeming quality about them, be it the effort that some actors went through to do what they must to make a buck, or even something about the story that had a certain charm.
I was born in 1958, so I never saw Your Show of Shows, and needless to say, I never knew there was a famous or infamous incident involving one of my boyhood idols, a very drunk Errol Flynn.Dennis Palumbo, in what is ( sadly) apparently his only effort as a script writer, has taken this incident and woven a very human and very funny film from it.
Nevertheless, I would still say that Jodha Akbar is a great effort and a well made film!
Not exactly interesting, so it really takes an effort to sit through this.
The talent gathered for the effort are amazing, taking average material and making it interesting.
And in his earlier effort, "Anger Managemenet", he plays the most annoying man ever to be put on screen (including that utterly stupid Gilligan) but, this time (thankfully!) to a brain-bustingly hilarious effect.
All in all a very good effort which deserves at the very least to be seen and I urge you to seek it out.
Growing old, as they say, is not for sissies and this film shows how much effort goes into just keeping a simple romantic relationship aflame after a certain age.
The trailer certainly doesn't allow a prospective viewer any more information than its premise: a man shaves off his moustache in an effort to change his image.
This for me has got to me Mel Gibson's finest directorial effort to date.
While this movie has all the depth of a Keystone Kops movie, the effort at storytelling and real movie making is clearly there.
And while the acting is okay, some scenes - such as the kissing-in-the-swimming-pool bit - look as cheesy as if they were lifted straight from "The L Word" or a soft-core lesbian sex flick; how director Katherine Brooks managed to hire people like Elizabeth Shue, Will Patton and the ever-magnificent Frances Conroy for her latest effort ("Waking Madison") is beyond me.
George Murphy barely makes an effort as Michael Denis, an Irish reporter (with an American accent) mixed up in a murder investigation, and most of the rest of the cast deliver their lines in equally unconvincing fashion.
We "rented" this as one of our monthly "freebies" from Blockbuster and it wasn't even worth the effort to get it.
I think this film gets a wee bit overrated on these pages, for though it is a well made, enjoyable effort and better put together than many slashers, especially the late period ones, it is hardly some great underrated gem.
That doesn't mean it automatically gets an 'A', on effort alone.
The Eye 2 wasn't THAT bad but unfortunately Shu Qi's horrible acting had ruined the otherwise good effort.
All Stooge elements come together to form a cohesive whole in this early Shemp effort.
"The Fast and the Furious" boasts more star power than you might expect from an early Roger Corman effort, however.
No effort is made to hide the impossible jumps in the plot, the disturbingly poor special effects, the incredibly cheesy delivery of lines, or the smashingly choppy scene cuts.
He is a 2-bit actor, therefore, he was just right for this 2-bit effort.
And they had released such gems as Yogi bear, Top Cat, Magilla Gorilla and this effort, Quick Draw Mcgraw.
All the choices in the movies are well done, the casting is very good, with a good mix of races and male and female heroes, and the total effect is a good cinematic adventure, better than a more publicized effort like the infamous Earthsea.
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