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Like it's predecessor mentioned above, this movie has lots of plot twists and turns that seem improbable, but all lead to the cathartic self discovery.
Aside from some holes in the story and intermittent improbable dialog/events, this is an effective thriller worthy of your time to watch.
The story is well-known, some abandoned orphan has to be brought to his parents by an improbable trio (mamooth - sabertooth tiger and a lazy animal)...
The great thing is, this entire movie looks improbable despite its 'road movie' roots.
My only reservations are that the plot has a few improbable moments and that some of the stronger Manchester accents are difficult at times.
While parts of it are improbable (like when a pre-teen runs for a public office) and tend to prevent the story from being taken seriously, there is a healthy dose of normalcy (whatever that is) to keep things balanced and in perspective.
When I first saw this film, I thought it was NOT a true story as it seemed way too improbable to be true.
It loses out one vote for including the highly improbable far fetched theory being bought by the US Govt.
Chris Carter finally discovered that and gave us Improbable before the end of the series.
Mainly, this is just an improbable, formula Western tale of revenge.
The plot is decent (for the time) and improbable yet not impossible.
From the moment Liotta is mainstreamed, the film simply falls apart and becomes just another muddleheaded and improbable B-level thriller.
And she gets into such torrid, bizarre, and ghastly gargantuan fixes - all seem too improbable.
Television director Terry Hughes tried his hand at features with this improbable and uneven modern updating of "Marty", with magical overtones and quirky eccentricities--not the least of which is a miscast Demi Moore as a psychic sprite with absurd golden locks.
In an era in which everyone seems to want either tense thrillers, puerile comedies or awesome special effects (the only one here, as has been pointed out, is a cheaply put together tornado), both movies offer little more than a thoroughly improbable plot and a focus on character development.
This film is so confused, contrived, messy and improbable, that there is no evidence of anyone's having thought their way through the contradictions that riddle any time-travel plot.
The improbable omnipresent, all-knowing terrorist leader eventually becomes tedious.
It may seem improbable, but Knowing actually adds something fresh and inspiring to the disaster genre.
It was hilarious how the other kids in the writing class reacted to Vi's story, like it was improbable, racist and offensive.
the only possible reason for watching this tripe is to see Mr Moore playing the completely improbable lead character.
Veteran filmmaker Norman Jewison (whose last successful film was probably 1987's "Moonstruck", his Italian-American valentine to improbable romance) has a proved track record for allowing actors to inhabit characters realistically in difficult situations.
Of these, the finest was, beyond a doubt, Melvin and Howard.Based on a twentieth century addition to American folklore( the improbable saga of Howard Hughes and Melvin Dummar), Jonathan Demmes' film tells the story of a chronically unsuccessful Everyman, Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have unknowingly picked up Howard Hughes one night in the Nevada desert, and who also claimed to have been written into Hughes' will.
The plot line is improbable (no one could be as dumb as the protagonist seems) and jerky/rambling (no vignette really develops before we're on to another misadventure by our hero).
The treatment of the youngsters is improbable given the time period the film takes place in, and the film has a trite ending that ignores the realities of the situation the boy is in.
The story itself is highly melodramatic and improbable but nevertheless extremely entertaining and to paraphrase Bette Davis in the near contemporary classic "All About Eve", certainly a movie to strap in tight for, a bumpy ride is had by all.
The attempts at humour are forced, painfully at times, the supporting cast also exaggerate their playing, none more so than the choice hunk of ham that is Zero Mostel as the movie moves episodically and elephantinely to its even more improbable ending (a safe-deposit bank employee gets hypnotised by the floor-selection buttons in a lift...!).
This has to be the worst idea ever, a story being told with a bad beat that seems so improbable, unbelievable and pointless that it makes no cents after chapter 3. It also sets a stereotype that everyone who cheats on their husband or wife their husband or wife is cheating on them.
The cinema MUST surely have taught us all enough about the lives and work of conmen by now for us to find it ludicrously improbable that either of the two main characters would be willing to expose thousands of dollars of money already "in hand" in order to secure the alleged "sure thing" of a deal that is to net them many thousands more (after all, it is the endemic idiocy of such greed and of the general greed-driven tendency to forget the "bird in the bush" principle that is the very basis of a conman's livelihood).
He is the true hero of the movie, as improbable as that may seem at first.
Zombie, tied, raped, fast forward, every character behaves precisely in the most improbable way.
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