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There is a nice melodramatic conclusion to the story that lifts it up for the masses to enjoy, but overall this is a wonderful independent film about a relationship between un-worldly misfits that keeps you interested until the end.
And that's the one thing that lifts this above a rating of 1/10: the(albeit unintentionally so) comic relief of the many clichés and stereotypes.
The ending lifts it a bit and saves the movie from a total flop.
The final sequence is almost unbearably poignant: when Clark Gable looks down with such joy and surprise at his son, lifts him up and proudly says, "My kid!",
Highly inspiring movie, which lifts up your spirit sky high.
This movie is much closer to real life than 95% of what Hollywood can produce, and that is what lifts it above the average action movie.
Director Samuel Fuller concocts a brilliant visual set-up: cocky pickpocket unwittingly lifts some microfilm from a woman's purse; it turns out she's a courier for the Communists, and now she and the grifter are being watched by the police.
It is full of nuances and a perception of life as being quite ordinary and often fearful but what lifts this movie to a height rarely realized is its focus on the little incidences in our lives to which we normally only offer the briefest of attention spans.
When the actual plot lifts off, 20 years later, they're facing their ultimate quest as the mythical and incredibly valuable White Fire diamond is coincidentally found in a mine.
Rupert Friend gives a performance, as Prince Albert, that lifts "The Young Victoria" to unexpected levels.
My favorite scene is when Slim the walking stick (David Hyde Pierce) lifts up Hemlich trying to distract the Bird and Hemlich's like You hoo Mr. Early Bird.
But what really lifts this to another level is Oliver Reed's performance as Bill Sykes.
I've always enjoyed Kenneth Branagh's versions of the Shakespeare classics, as he always does a very good job, but in this movie, the one who lifts the whole movie, is none other than "the-always-great-actor" Laurence Fishburne.
I've just watched it again on TV and it still lifts my mood as much as it did the first time I saw it many many years ago.
But with the appearance of Jacqui Kim's character the film comes alive and gently lifts off, becoming steadily more engrossing straight through to the end.
INTERESTING shots, especially in scenes of dialogue, something that lifts it a little, and most importantly of all, get a screenplay that says something new about the human condition.
he lifts the film at one point.
The acting was very bad, and when the ape lifts the cop car, that was just too ridiculous, it looked so fake, I think this film would have been better if a different approach to the ape was used, and they limited the blood and gore, the movie had potential and that's why I give it a three.
He is a troubled man to be sure, but his character lifts all of us up with each step of the way in the movie.
This version lifts the dialog, in many cases, word- for-word from the book, and avoids changing the storyline "for dramatic impact."
The story lifts off from where it's predecessor left - Munez gets into Real Madrid.
The lead character Kat, begins to have flashes of an unclear past that seems to come to the foreground as her fog lifts.
There are also obvious lifts from other films.
What lifts Cop beyond the range of a normal action film is James Woods's multi-layered performance in the lead.
It's loose-limbed and goofy and it lifts you up.
Nevertheless, the plentiful action sequences are well done, and it's this that lifts the whole thing into the 'so bad, it's good' bracket.
What lifts it out of the B-movie pit is the imaginative way the seedy world of trashy novels from the 50s is recreated on screen; the smartly executed shifts between fantasy and reality, past and present; Jenny Wright's appealing and intelligent heroine; and finally, the director's genuine feeling for the atmosphere of time and place.
To emphasize that point, the very next scene has a veiled, what-looks-like, sexy woman with a great body passing by, the guys whistle....until she lifts the veil and we see a toothless old hag!
Using her amazing strength, Supergirl frees herself from the demon and using her super-speed, Supergirl circles Selena and the wind she creates lifts Selena before the demon; Supergirl summons her inner strength to turn the tables and make the demon eat witch.
It is the performances however that lifts this movie above the average, Morgan Freeman as the older world wise detective, Pitt almost manic as his young enthusiastic sidekick, Poltrow plays the wife with a fine degree of sensitivity, and Spacey does his usual brilliant psycho routine.
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