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The background story could have been a tad bit more elaborate, the plot more original and the final outcome a little bit less predictable, but all in all one has to acknowledge the decent effort to make this movie convincing and suspenseful.
The problem with stuff like this is it makes no real effort to transport you to another time and place, because costume and set design alone doesn't work.
This was good effort for all involved.
I don't have a problem with the hackneyed premise--many good films have come from bog-standard scenarios before, but the characters are no more than clownish caricatures, the dialogue painfully unfunny, and the acting is hammy and highly overperfomed (perhaps in a vain effort to make the dialogue funnier.)
He doesn't make any real effort to learn Chinese and absorbs culture by hanging out in Karaoke bars and expensive restaurants.
The Dirty Heroes Completely the worst war movie I have ever seen !!!!! talk about stereotypical,the Germans are all terrible shots and seem to be eager cannon-fodder, as they make little or no effort to take cover, dying in a hail of rounds screaming comic book "aieeeeeeeeeeee's" and thats not to mention the "ve haf vays of meking you talk" SS officer...oh my god !!! Another scene that really must be seen to be believed has Captain O'Connor flying over German lines in a reconnaissance plane which,is suddenly and miraculously transformed into a heavy bomber dropping its payload from wide-open bomb bays and pulverising the Germans beneath, before once more instantaneously reverting to being a small reconnaissance plane again.
Could this possibly be a serious effort?
Whilst you can see the commercial logic in writing american characters into the lead roles, the unknown, ex-pat actors that Pratten cast, both deliver uncharismatic leaden performances and their characters are written in such a heavy handed, unsympathetic way that unfortunately this debut effort falls at the first hurdle.
I must say give the filmmakers and cast credit for making a sincere effort to bring a relevant social drama to the screen.
Just as there are films which would have seemed awful in a board room but turned out quite good, this one simply falls short but a worthy effort nonetheless.
Even Gary Busey, who usually gives a good effort, seemed to be sleepwalking through this one.
Instead, I see on the show when the idiot asks for more hot sauce in Mexico there was no please and no thank you, just an assumption and very little effort put in to speak the native language.
The initial premise of a Gothic cop and horror movie hybrid is a pretty good idea and certainly prompted me to hire out the film!!!! However the film is badly hampered by wooden acting, especially in the case of the Police Chief who reminded me of Kenric and Moss from a Black Adder the Third episode and seemed to be unable to grasp the difference between screen acting and stage acting, the main one being that you don't need to scream your lines at the camera!!!! Carly Turnbull's performance at Albany was very flat and while acceptable in places seemed like she spent the majority of the film reading her lines of an autocue!!!! Having said that the two main leads did put in a pretty good effort with Kevin Howarth, who I think is criminally underrated, proving his worth yet again as a villain by contributing a very convincing and creepy performance showing his characters descent from maverick cop to homicidal monster.
As an appreciator of many French films (and never put off by subtitles) I can honestly say that this Gallic effort is complete and utter bunkum.
Such a simple plot seen in countless TV dramas and mini-series, I think to myself why time and effort was wasted in making this.
"Snaker gonna make you pay!! Snaker gonna make EVERYBODY PAY!!!" With a little more effort, this film could have been in the category of the Italian post-apocalyptic knock offs like 2019 After The Fall Of New York, Bronx Warriors, etc.
A truly masterful effort by David lynch.
I'd give it 10 for effort and 7 for attainment.
Overall, a fine effort from all involved.
The animation is superb, and you can tell there was a huge amount of effort into making the scenery as great as the first one.
All the audience has to go on is the finished product, and to be blunt, most don't give a damn about how much work or money went into the effort.
The actor has put in much effort, demarcating each role with such finesse and understanding that it is a sheer delight watching him on screen.
Best actors don't try to be professional but they think that this is just prize for being best-known people in polish entertainment, so no need to put any effort if you paid part of cast already.
Voslo does what he can but with this material its a wasted effort.
Indeed, Adams garnered several Indie film awards for this effort.
I will concede that had more effort been given to fleshing out the story and had the producers picked a real editor and had a real score been made for the film rather than that awful 70s-like soundtrack used and had some more realistic special effects other than blue screens and the like been used - then, yes, this might have been somewhat decent.
I gave it a 4 for effort.
Minority Report obviously had a lot of effort put into it by both the filmmakers and its actors and the result is a brilliant thriller.
Anyway, it turns out this film is actually a badly acted, poorly produced and boring effort.
Well, it is always a bit difficult in Western countries to get to see Bollywood movies with English subtitles, and though I have made a bit of an effort to spot them in the last few years I wouldn't call myself a Bollywood expert - and of course I've grown up with Western rather than Indian aesthetic standards ingrained.
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