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That's another disappointment: the movie is set in Detroit and filmed in Toronto but there was minimal effort to actually make the city FEEL like Detroit.
There you go: a poor to mediocre effort on all levels.
It sets such a truthful tone that it feels like most of the effort of this "documentary" is to nullify all credibility to true documentaries on Bushes real agenda for the world.
This film was directed by Eric DelaBarre and for his first effort its adequately made.
GREAT first effort film.
Chaplin's idea of finding work is to usurp the effort of a fellow reporter who snaps pictures of the aftermath of an auto accident.
Pretty lame effort.
If you said four, based on the fact that that is how they are packaged on DVD into a two-disc four-film box-set, then you would be mistaken - there were in fact FIVE films to this series, this last one coming fourteen years after the last effort, "The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery".
I'm glad this was free to download or made about as cheap as a film from a major filmmaker (and say what you will, like him or hate him, it's your right either way, he is a major filmmaker now in America), because it is a lessor effort.
This picture takes place during WW II and the Glencairn has hidden on board lots of ammunition to support the war effort in England and could be destroyed by German planes or submarines.
You would expect a little more effort from Fred Williamson, but this one just ain't happening.
This low-budget effort is less a horror flick than a psychological thriller, sort of HIGH TENSION without the barbed-wire baseball bat, although it has its share of grue and contains a couple of highly squeamish moments, the worst involving a pre-PIRATES Keira Knightley.
The best acting in this probably comes from Gruner which is saying something, Madson and Ironside are wasted but are merely coasting through happy to pick up there cheques for minimal effort.
In an effort to make up for a poor story and poor acting, the producers and directors give us a full serving of hot young bodies to stare at so that (they must hope) completely miss the fact that the movie is horrible.
Sadly, neither Seltzer or Pullman seemed to have exerted any special effort on this throw-away.
this is a horrible, horrible effort.
The first effort for this director is a waste of everyone's time.
Many people are simply not concerned with social equality if it is going to take any sort of effort on their part.
This effort from Johnny To and his Milky Way cronies is unfortunately a huge step back for the company.
Lau takes his role a little too seriously and his temper tantrums threaten to turn this seemingly lightweight effort into something far more serious.
This is generally an unwatchable effort, which is hopefully only a temporary detour for Milky Way.
in Australia most Woody Allen films of the 70s and 80s were quite popular (until the terrible SHADOWS AND FOG and the stupid MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY and don't get me started on the mind numbing drivel of his latest London effort with Scarlet Johanssen: SCOOP............) and in the 80s at Orion Pictures he seemed to strike a new high in critical and popular successes.
This was the Fleisher Bros. one real effort to compete with Disney on Disney's own turf - "revising" a classic story for American tastes - and this in itself led to the film being dismissed by many critics as "imitative" of the Disney technique.
One of these is a state-supported alcoholic who receives no ascertainable spiritual or social benefit from the effort.
The fact that love one of his lesser effort as a childhood favorite, makes me want to watch all the rest of his films, such as Encounters and the Color Purple.
If you put a video camera in the hands of someone with little experience who has no idea what to photograph and why, you might come up with an effort similar to "Twentynine Palms."
The shocking conclusion has obviously been tacked on just as the gratuitous sex scenes were, to make something from nothing with minimal effort.
Dolph's first directing effort, The Defender, was a nice little action piece.
This disaster flick gets an A for effort; but falls real short in the entertainment category.
A good effort from Republic,with exciting effects including a horse to train transfer by Yakima Canutt, concerns Noah Berry's efforts to take over a railroad and John Carrols[as Zorro] heroic efforts to stop him.
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