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This movie, like so many scifi's today, is overly focused on special effects with the plot and dialog treated as an afterthought.
When we started to watch it, I thought that it was interesting, but after awhile, I really became focused into it, and so when it was over, I really was thrilled with it!
While it was filmed in Poland during the Soviet-dominated era, the film focused on a fictional character's rise and fall in local government.
In a time when the world is so focused on the conflict unfolding in Iraq, the thing that is most clear to me after watching this movie is the old saying that after thousands of years of wars fought in the name of religion, we are not a second closer to peace than we ever were.
Her low budget works for her in keeping things tight and paranoid, it never feels cheap, only focused.
The film begins with the camera focused on the sea and the waves, and the music with the piano playing to good effect, then an increasingly enlarging zooming shot of a porthole.
Second half focused on Aamir's terrorist character, and how he re-kindles his love with Kajol ... again a total drag.
The script is focused and the direction masterful.
The movie has very touching themes and is focused on relationships between people.
hard to stay focused because it is not interesting at all.
If "Primeval" simply had focused on the bloody crocodile-hunting mission, everything would have been a-okay and it definitely would have ranked on the list of above average monster films.
Almost all the parental characters in this movie are focused on raising their offspring in such a manner that the kids will undoubtedly spend years in intensive therapy.
Director Jim Tushinski obviously saw a chance to put the urban gay-lib era of the seventies under a microscope by focusing on one man's story instead of a general documentary--and the man he focused on just happens to be "the" icon of gay sexual life at a certain crossroads.
Whether the last third of the film explains his reasons for being there or not, the film should've focused much more on what she needs, what she is experiencing and should've explained a lot more of her backstory of who she is as an Aussie geologist, rather than let them both be strangely stranded "tourists" who are seeking for some sort of direction from the plot!!!
Born in 1939 to media mogul Richard Berlin and his socialite wife Honey, Brigid seemed to be on the fast track to a world of wealth and social registers--but she had a weight problem, and when mother Honey focused upon this Brigid rebelled.
It seems like the movie is focused just as much on action and plot as it is humor (which I didn't really expect since the trailer portrayed it as mostly comedy).
This is a small gem, apparently totally forgotten and ignored by the multitudes of clueless movie fans and critics, who are very much focused on showering praise only on crap that they dig out from the past.
In fact, this whole movie was just an overwrought rehash of "Belly", without the more focused screenplay and better cinematic qualities of the F. Gary Gray film.
My one and only reservation about "White Rabbit" is that having an episode so focused on Jack when he was already given plenty of screen time in the previous episodes and especially in the Pilot was perhaps a bit unfair to many other characters.
With focused narration and voice-tapes from others in Judy's life, director Susan Lacy is able to put into perspective the ill-fated early marriages, the on-set troubles, and the succession of comebacks.
I saw a film called "The Ice Harvest" that made me realize I wanted something a bit more inspiring, more wholesome, more spiritually focused in film.
What helps though is the casting, as Kirk Douglas in hero mode works best through this very narrowly focused man on a mission; John Cassavetes in one of his very best acting roles as the cold- though devil-friendly- antagonist as he kidnaps his 'gifted' son.
Some reviewers have focused on the boys or the father or the mother.
I may have heard of the two star rappers focused in this film, but I can't be sure.
PJ wasn't so focused on hustling and an obvious fantasy plot line.
Levinson/Link production won raves upon its first network showing, and indeed it is smart, focused, and without stereotypes.
When in the midst of a case, he was excited and engaged and focused -- none of which Everett showed in his performance.
The director seems focused on every type of taboo that could never make it into a studio superhero movie, such as having the hero tortured, sexually assaulted and then pointlessly killed with a heroin overdose.
Sure, it's not a cinematic breakthrough, but it is very sharp, smart and focused.
The film contains practically no suspense whatsoever and while some of the exchanges between the lead characters are fairly interesting and there's a few red herrings thrown in; it really is very difficult to keep focused on The Sunday Woman.
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