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While this movie won't go down in the annals of great cinema, it is a fun way to spend an hour and a half with the family.
First, the central father-son relationship makes it pretty clear that the film was intended as a prequel to his Wong Fei Hung film "Drunken Master" (ideas from this film recur in "Drunken Master II), and not "Young Master"; that Chan backed away from this plan and renamed the characters indicates that he himself was not convinced the material was coming together properly; and, indeed, the film conveys a sense of being incomplete; for instance, the romantic relationship around which half the plot turns is left utterly hanging at the end of the film.
The movie starts out a bit slow but the pace picks up frantically by the second half.
This one's a romp; many Trek fans don't rate this as high as the well-known all-time classic episodes because it lacks the deep meaning or undertone of those really great ones, but this one is so well executed for what it is, so successful as pure entertainment, it always makes my personal list of the top half dozen episodes, no matter what mood I'm in.
Which would have been great except that half the cast weren't around to do it (some for better reasons than others) and the whole thing has a rather shoddy quality to it.
It is not an easy film to watch - it is over three and a half hours long and it is composed entirely of conversations.
After being married for half a day and a night, Herman is send to the front again.
Following directly from where the story left off in part one, the second half which sets about telling the inevitable downfall and much more grim side of the man's legacy is exactly as such.
Instead, the movie dragged on for an hour and a half serving no other purpose other than that of a drive down memory lane for Beatles fans.
Half an hour after the movie, you won't rember who did it or care.
I could never watch more that half a show an be able to digest it.
At least the A team was meant to be unbelievable and half acted intentionally.
The film lasts about 85 minutes, and that's too long by half.
I always hated Chevalier's awful accent (half the time you're straining to try and make sense of what he's saying), but as a rule his lighthearted acting makes it bearable.
She's by far my favourite actress of the first half of the 20th century (Michelle Pfeiffer took her crown in the latter part).
I don't speak Norwegian..not a single word...but I didn't read half the subtitles of this movie, I was so engrossed in the visuals.
A lot of ticker tape shenanigans go on in the second half of the film, all of which are so exaggerated, I ended up thinking public anxiety about the market was also being channeled here quite volubly, along with fear of the disabled and wretched poor.
Kasdan's direction and writing is too clever by half, and his characters too one-note and wooden.
It didn't seem to understand where it was going and spun entirely out of control the last half of the film.
In two and a half hours Clint Eastwood paints a thought provoking piece on heroism and war-propaganda.
I don't know whether the standard of television is so abysmal now but I have seen half the episodes and apart from 2 (The Aerialist with Mike "Touch" Connors and Yvette Vickers and "The Ordeal on Locust Street" - just my own personal view) they are all winners.
The first half is OK, but chapters in Japan are purely awful.
The only thing I have a major problem with is the fact that the director tried to cram in too much of her life into the span of only 2 and a half hours.
When this happened what came in my mind was -- what about the first hour and a half?? Likeable stars, not very likeable movie(better luck next time??).
I was very fortunate last night, as I had a chance to see AINOA in a sneak preview almost half a year prior to its scheduled start over here in Austria.
At the half of the film I left it, which occurred only second time in my life.
Not that the second half is all bad, most of the action takes place during this time and the final fight is rather good too.
Just needs a bit more development during the second half and this film would have been super success.
And since this was released in the 1980s, our Italian friends threw in a little STAR WARS shtick in the second half for good measure.
I'm giving an extra half star for the effort and genuinely noble intentions of the filmmakers who did try to make it closer to the rpg and because I've seen worse.
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