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A half dozen were internationally acclaimed, like this one, at important world film festivals.
Standouts are Audrey Hepburn (she doesn't have a line in the first half of the film).
It might be low budget but it beats the hell out of half the major pictures I've seen lately.
While the first half is just a retrospective of Michael's career (from the Jackson 5 up to "Bad"), it was still entertaining to watch.
I've watched it a couple of times on DVD and already i see the film as an old mate that will stay forever as part of my collection (how can i like this film and the Dambusters - doesn't seem right somehow) I certainly edge towards the second half of this film and i think the social interacting scenes with the locals are brilliantly done.
I'd say about half of the episodes were rather amusing and downright funny, while the other three didn't really get me into them at all.
Manr regard Peckinpah's RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY as one of the first and best later western, which had a realistic look at life in the old west, but the hardly known LAST HUNT is definitely the better movie and was even half a dozen years earlier.
At a little over two and a half hours, it is a very long film too.
It is true, that the first half is stronger than the second in terms of emotional impact.
I ended up sitting through about the first half hour, entranced by how wonderfully assured the direction, writing, and performances are.
At least for a half hour a week.
So I flipped on the digital subscriber channels one night a couple of years ago and thought I'd pass a half hour watching "Girlfight" while waiting for "Hart's War" to start.
Panic is a sneaky little gem of a film - you think you have it figured out by the first half hour only to realize, with great pleasure, that Henry Bromell is a much better writer/director than that.
A perfect example was the John Garfield film Air Force--in which a B-17 nearly single-handedly takes out half the Japanese air force!
Oscar-nominated Denzel Washington is good in only his fourth film as Biko, but something is wrong in a film that tries to depict the struggles of Apartheid by focusing more on the trials of a white family for more than half the film.
The CBC, which presents most of films untouched, took half the guts out of WHALE MUSIC.
I have to admit that for the first half hour or so of this movie I was basically lost.
Or so you think, for the first half of the movie.
While others have lamented at how bad it is, it wasn't so awful, and is even a little exotic, with the fake Central America locale setting for the first half of the film.
If you have any kind of heart and compassion for people, this is a tough movie to watch, at least in the second half of it.
I didn't think they would be able to take a half hour (20 min!) cartoon and make it a movie.
The last half hour of the movie is devoted to Bernson's character losing it completely and the spotlight falls on a young actress called Virginya Keehne.
Yes, Kitamura rehashes a few shots in the fight scenes that come in the film's second half, but that's about where the similarities end.
Another problem is that there seem to be just too many only half explained twists and coincidences.
This is an underrated adaption of the classic novels as it only covers the first half of the story.
This one had me weeping for about half an hour straight.
Well that was my initial reaction when the credits started but just over an hour and a half later I was in a state of shock .
Seven Pounds might have took some time to gain it's actual momentum, but just after half an hour of the movie, the movie is all set to rule your heart.
Fifty-percent of the time the movies I find in the bin are pure crap (I mean horrible beyond belief) but half the time they turn out to be surprisingly good.
The first time i saw it i got half of it but i watched and i knew later on it was about a salem witch trials.
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