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Some folkie friends recommended this, but as a film it's really lacking in originality.
The story line is lacking in both content, suspense and subtitles, as what would appear to be story line is in Russian.
And, just as with "Planet...", its lead actor is woefully miscast and leaden; Guy Pearce, a terrific actor of great range, is all wrong for this role, giving a one-note performance that elicits zero sympathy; he's so dour and serious, and lacking in awe of the (supposedly) amazing things he sees that you don't believe for a moment that he's experiencing them.
However, it is utterly lacking in the essential elements of a worthwhile story.
The story follows a familiar pattern of fighting off various enemies for pieces of the jewel, and is thus quite predictable, lacking in complexity, and easy to lose interest in.
This movie is lacking from the talent of creativity.
Sadly this person is completely lacking a sense of humour and I was forced to endure two hours of the worst film making I have ever seen.
Reminiscent of Casablanca in some ways, it's completely lacking any larger theme than the wanted man seducing a good woman.
It's merely functional, flat, and lacking in depth.
It has a real poor script, uninteresting dialog and characters and it's lacking in basically everything else as well.
Having grown up in the seventies, this film is seriously lacking in detail, atmosphere and authenticity.
A few laughs, but hipper-than-thou, and sorely lacking in vision and basic filmmaking talent.
First there was Tsui Hark's Zu Warriors (2001), which is visually ground-breaking, but much lacking in the acting and writing departments, now this movie, which is visually almost as good as Zu (though no longer ground-breaking), but is even worse in the acting and writing departments.
I don't know if this exceptionally dull movie was intended as an unofficial sequel to 'The French Connection", but it does have many of the same drawbacks: the script is so confusing that the viewer remains uninvolved and feels left out of the picture, and the direction is so cold, so lacking in energy, that even the great chase sequence can't liven things up.
The fact that main character is in a wheelchair is something that lacking in television, especially for kids shows.
And compared to many of today's more modern films, it's lacking on many parts.
But try not to compare it to BOD or you'll find it lacking.
David Niven in fourth billing has some funny 'business' as does Franklin Pangborn and if Gary Cooper is not up to his role lacking as he does the verbal dexterity and sophisticated persona that Wilder scripts called for at this stage of his career well, you can't have everything and what you DO have is darned near perfect.
Coming from Oz I probably shouldn't say it but I find a lot of the local movies lacking that cohesive flow with a weak storyline.
This moves along at a fairly good clip and doesn't let you lose interest like a lot of films do, and the oddball story is compelling enough to keep you interested too, and there's some suspense which is lacking in a lot of films these days.
With the release of the HK special Edition, they've even cleaned the picture (first release was grainy) and the subtitles, even if the quality of the translation is still lacking (nothing new there).
lacking mas violence and blood, but this one well.
It has everything what there was lacking ATOR 1. Be charmed with to my me!! 4/5
I feel that these two actress' talented performances picked up where the story was lacking and almost too familiar (full of cliche's) and really saved the suffering plot.
this movie had me stuck in this endless loop of thinking about it for days afterward...granted i am not the movie snob that some folks around here appear to be, but i thought this was amazingly well-acted, and a powerful creation, if lacking a little subtlety in exectution.
One commentator got it right, that sex, a jaded, common feature among foreign films, is surprisingly lacking in "distant" and in a good way.
This movie is so compelling it drags you in and it involves your every emotion you go thru a emotional roller-coaster ride and when it's over you don't want to do it again so soon because it has that kind of emotional punch that other movies are lacking.
Falk and Culp were marvellous, but as culp was not Falks nemesis this time, chemistry was lacking.
Story-wise, I found this film somewhat lacking.
That kind of stark honesty is something greatly lacking today.
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