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Code 46 lacked thought and structure and the storyline didn't flow well.
The movie does attempt to portray some feeling that the previous one lacked but it is done in a lackluster way that makes for a flat boring movie.
It has everything this film lacked, humor, sadness and reality.
It lacked a real story line and the acting was not exactly the best.
The character developments also lacked in depth.
I speak badly of G.I.J.:T.M. mostly because I think it lacked something that G.I. Joe had.
Yes It had something that G.I. Joe didn't have like celebrity cameos by Don Johnson, and Burgess Meredith but I think G.I. Joe: The Movie lacked the passion for the characters that the G.I. Joe TV series had.
The acting was flat and the story lacked depth.
Nothing moved the story forward, it lacked substance, and the scares that made Halloween and H20 so good.
The characters were weak and often stereotyped and the story lacked substance.
The fly-over of the island and dinosaurs below lacked any impact at all and almost looked like a cartoon.
It's very convoluted, as if it had a lot of ideas but lacked the ability to bring them all into one coherent story.
The film was too long and the script lacked energy and excitement.
Director Curt Siodmak was an eminent scriptwriter during the 1930's and 1940's and delivered stories for some true genre classics ("I walked with a Zombie", "The Wolf Man") but, as a director, he obviously lacked the required competences.
The only one who got by with it was probably Sergio Leone, but even his movies lacked that something indefinably innate to our American psyche and panache.
To sum things up best, the movie had no cohesion, it grossly lacked the substance to delve into the historical environment it covered, and upon ending, left you feeling like what you'd just seen was a series of aborted attempts to engage the viewer by switching from one thing to the next without adequately engaging the viewer in any of them.
It practically screams "low-budget" yet oddly I still found myself liking the film because although it lacked quality it abounded with energy.
The actors gave good performances, (all except the "Assassin Droid" whose performance was nothing outside of comical) but the movie really lacked depth and purpose; simply not enough to fill up 1hour and a half of standard movie time, so we're stuck with the main characters aimlessly wondering around from place to place for an hour or so, until the ball gets rolling.
This movie lacked credibility for two reasons.
The script was hard to follow, the story was non-sensical, and scenes were random and lacked direction.
He lacked a number of things.
half way through the film though i was kind of disappointed, it did remind me of the fifth element but i too feel it just lacked the extra bit of depth and left me with the empty feeling.
That was kind of a Turkish X-Files, they had very nice stories but lacked on visual effects.
I noticed that many of Cagney's films done with Warner Brothers in the 1930s lacked realism and his acting style was far from subtle.
His last 2 specials (Life is Worth Losing especially and Complaints and Grievances) have lacked a certain spirit and content.
Yeah, he might have lacked the same kind of slapstick that Curly had, but in his own way he was hilarious.
I did feel that it was the weakest of the three DOA films, and although the ending was still outrageous, it lacked the shock value of the previous two.
While many other films of the decade in general lacked substance, this film is pure substance.
As much as I like Lionel Jeffries and his films, his direction just lacked the wonder and the magic it usually does.
I feel the strange need to defend this show, because it is severely underrated--while "Friends" was sometimes amusing, and "Raymond" has some great episodes and characters, they both lacked the creative touch that "King of Queens" has.
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