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In the first half of the film, most lines were spoken in flat monotone--the absence of inflection made the plot harder to follow.
I saw this movie at the theatre and everyone (about 25 people) walked out within the first half hour.
There's no intrigue and the acting is very lame so the first half is very tough to sit through.
The first two people to fall under the spell of the Devil Messiah are the blind girl who has just been hanging around for no apparent reason and wheelchair bound superhacker who wrote the basic code for the evil program (and who by an amazing co incidence happens to be the half brother of the leader of the underground.
Star and a half Maltin review is a bit discouraging for watching THE SPLIT.
Not to talk about the camera work (probably a first time operator, at least I hope so), although the "day for night" they invented for this movie is shockingly interesting (I understood this only after the first half of the movie and when I mentioned it to the others watching the movie I could see that no one had understood the purpose of this strange color effects before).
Half the plan works & Robin is whisked away but Peter manages to escape, he vows to find Childress & his son.
But, after the initial half hour, things get a bit bogged down, especially since most of the remainder is a dialogue between Rose and Felix and in a hotel room.
Some great one-liners from Chevy Chase - he seems to be answering his own question half the time, and the jokes are for the benefit of the audience and Chevy himself.
The first time you watch Little Britain, you will be laughing so hard and will keep on laughing for the next half hour.
Characters just keep meeting in the half ruins of Mexico City.
A total waste of an hour and a half, not to mention the 3 bucks renting it.
This movie would probably only be half an hour long if they'd have just cut out all the dead space.
I only watched the first half hour before giving up.
This movie is all wrapped up in about the first hour and half.
Many great films have a half a dozen (or more) copy-cats.
It was confusing to see Kirsten on the DVD and put in the movie and not see her for half an hour.
Take for example the films most memorable moment - the break in to the CIA building to steal half of the 'NOC' list.
Something to watch with half an eye while going through the paperwork.
Kessler (special make-up effects man Randall William Cook) leaves the building as the front desk clerk (Raf Nazario as Rafael Nazario) receives a phone call from the room next to Dr. Kessler's complaining about animal noises, the manager (Bob Frank) goes to investigate & is attacked by a monstrous half man, half jackal creature which Dr. Kessler had created.
The story revolves around one day on Long Island in the lives of a half dozen or so people, connected by various relationships (family, school, work).
Three and a half stars may seem like a high rating for a film that on the surface is all gloss and pop music.
'Standing Still' begins so slowly it took us nearly half an hour to decide that the movie was possibly intended as a comedy rather than a very long cigarette ad.
Then it showed a man who had eaten about half his ice cream cone and the announcer changed his tone and said, "It will take you over, eat you and kill you." and the camera zooms up on the guys mouth, and you can see the creamy white "Stuff" eating away the inside of his mouth.
Even though the direction is uneven (but gets better in the last half) it carries a powerful message which still has meaning 3 decades later.
What can i say, i love the Twilight Zone style shorts (and i'd say this was akin to that sort of sci-fi /horror) but this has got to be one of the most affecting short films that i've ever seen without it having to lower itself to the reliance of gore and visual explicitness.Simply a gruelling and incredibly paranoid half hour.
And, the second half improves over the first.
Cage is definitely giving his wound tight hero routine that he's worked so hard to develop over the last half dozen films.
With that large Aussie sidekick who accompanied Dundee in the second half of the film (the name escapes me)playing off both Hogan and Rodriguez, you'd have a great combination!
If you haven't seen the first one, by all means watch this but given half a chance watch the first one first, give this film a miss.
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