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I kept waiting for this bad movie to move beyond its stock characters and hackneyed plot, but it never made it.
Cartoonish pastiche on that theme, while being hackneyed and unfair, could have been achieved with little effort, but wasn't.
makes a pretty good villain and also has a very cool fighting style.but the problem with this movie,besides the hackneyed plot,is it is mostly just a bunch of endless foot chase scenes.in
Hackneyed phrases akin to "I'll have your badge for this!" and "Dammit, Cusak!" are sprinkled liberally throughout the script.
Basically the storyline is as hackneyed as could be: wealthy exec (Daniel Auteuil) gets caught in the company of a supermodel (Alice Taglioni) who is not his wife (Kristin Scott Thomas).
The script is hackneyed and unfunny.
The dialogue is hackneyed, the supporting characters are clichéd... Paul Bettany is slumming it here with a stock bad guy role.
I am in amazement that Mr. Malkovich agreed to play the role he did- his lines were stilted and somewhat hackneyed.
Try a hackneyed plot, pedestrian direction with self-important pretentious, a grandiose score, and pointless dialogue.
Add in the innumerable feature films that feature "terrible twosomes" and we're talking 4.5 million times that this hackneyed approach has been used.
Even George Romero, an otherwise mostly original filmmaker, used the doppelganger (in his version of THE DARK HALF, Stephen King's hackneyed retelling of The Evil (br)Other story).
Michael Patrick Carter is able to assert his character's emotional condition, his expectations and dreams, which puts this movie above the average family story, despite the hackneyed elements it may have.
Man, does this extremely cheap and crummy clunker strike out something rotten in every conceivable department: Sisworo Guatama Putra's flat, fumbling (mis)direction, the poky pace, Imam Tantowi's by-the-numbers hackneyed and predictable cookie cutter script, the slipshod editing, the bland acting, Lee Fioole's sub-par cinematography, the dreadful dubbing, precious little nudity, several poorly staged action scenes (in one especially unimpressive scene a native feebly wrestles with a python), the mild gore, Gatot Sudarto's mostly insipid, only sporadically lively score, a pitifully dumb and nonexplicit attempted rape that's followed by an equally lousy off-screen castration, and the colorless, unappealing main characters (Rita in particular is insufferably whiny) all leave a great deal to be desired.
It appeared that the guy who was writing it was trying to write an "Airplane" style film but tried too hard and with hackneyed lines.
Somewhere between a fat joke and a TiVo plug, there's an uninteresting and hackneyed plot about a desperate loser who has to do something big to win something back, imagine Happy Gilmore but with humor replaced with break dancing.
There is no reason to struggle with justifications, nor to reach for words to describe such an amateurish, hackneyed, stilted, banal ... well, there I go.
If this is some hackneyed tribute to H. P. Lovecraft, it falls short.
It could well have failed as it is a hackneyed subject but the director managed to give it a fresh, humanitarian perspective.
The story has not been changed, but discarded, and a hackneyed Swords & Sorcery 'epic' put in its stead.
A very fine cast (the always-excellent Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine in her debut, Mildred Natwick, Jerry Mathers as MacLaine's son) can't do much with this hackneyed script, and surprisingly neither can Hitchcock.
How disappointed I was to find myself waiting for the end of this tedious, hackneyed serial-killer plot.
The "I did not create this, it was created for me" idea is tired and hackneyed.
Curtiz can't do much with this hackneyed scenario, and he's certainly not helped by the unsurprising script, though there is one strong sequence at a piano recital.
Hackneyed dialogue, every cop show cliche you can think of, car chases that defy physics, a boom mike in the apartment, ill-timed "humorous" scenes, and a predictable ending.
I give it a 'D' for Dialogue, which is hackneyed and atrocious, and there isn't a grade low enough for the script.
I expected this movie to be kind of hackneyed to begin with, but the overall package of "Down to You" was beyond my worst expectations.
That being so, it's a mystery to me that they nevertheless carry on in the same hackneyed and repetitious manner.
The lead is handsome and appealing but the story is somewhat hackneyed.
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.)
Astonishingly horrid, hackneyed drivel.
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