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A mediocre story is helped along by a grand and lyrical classical score by the late great Barry Gray, the John Williams of Britain.
As a fan of the old Doctor Who, and after the mediocre Fox movie, I was dubious of this new series of Doctor Who.
The movie itself is probably somewhat mediocre.
Most romantic comedies for me range from mediocre to horrible because they are not funny or romantic.
Understandable...but sometimes it's nice to see people who have sacrificed their whole lives to only get to a mediocre unhappy time in their lives - to finally find the true meaning of happiness and are able to live it out for the rest of their days.
But, the acting is mediocre, the direction is confusing, and the script is just odd.
If you're looking for an amazing film in the realm of great production value, good or even mediocre acting, and good special effects...this is NOT that movie.
I personally thought it was mediocre at best.
It's a great movie because it uses Science Fiction as a medium to tell an engaging, provoking story, rather then telling a mediocre story to use the flash of Science Fiction.
A young scientist is trying to carry on his dead father's work on limb regeneration.His overbearing mother has convinced him that he murdered his own father and is monitoring his progress for her own evil purposes.A young doctor uses reptilian DNA he extracts from a large creature and when his arm is conveniently ripped off a few minutes later,he injects himself with his formula and grows a new murderous arm...Admittedly the special effects in "Severed Ties" are pretty good and grotesque,but the rest of the film is awful.The severed arm is behaving like a snake and kills few people.Big deal.The acting is mediocre and the climax is silly.3
One forgives banal plots and stupid unrealistic dialog in opera, but why waste Hayak, Don Sutherland, a beautiful rendition of LA in the 30s, a deus ex machina earthquake that conveniently kills the other woman, and all that beauty on this mediocre turkey where there isn't even any beautiful singing?
Hard to believe, considering he got so upset about being stuck making so many mediocre movies.
Familiar TV face Richard Burgi is along for the ride as Appleby's mentor, but he can do nothing to elevate this dreck above the mediocre level.
It was recommended to me by a friend with mediocre taste in movies, and "MTV" was pasted on the front cover so I was not expecting much.
The last film was a mediocre effort.
Most of the acting is mediocre, but fairly typical for 1970s-style stuff replete with pregnant pauses.
While the acting is mediocre at best, the biggest problem is the script, which is poorly written, slow and plodding with no real direction.
The effects are mediocre as well and seem really dated.
But the animation... Well, it's not actually terrible, but it's definitely cheap and mediocre.
Couple this with mediocre directing, really strange scenes (such as the one where the kid reaches over the ravine and mysteriously falls in), and thoroughly abysmal dialog ("Look!" "Musta peed his pants!"), and you get one complete failure.
The talent available to the director- notably Stanley Tucci, Chris Walken, Hank Azaria and Alan Arkin (without even mentioning the four main leads)- have been completely wasted on an unfunny, mediocre story, whose conclusion one couldn't really care about once introduced to the dire, stereo-typed characters.
Just mediocre acting and poor attempts at shock art.
The plot was dull, the girls were sickening and the supposed Italian male lead had clearly never heard an Italian accent.Someone said the boys were cute in this film but it just seemed to be filled with mediocre people.
Micahel Vartan and Natasha Henstridge give really mediocre performances which just makes this movie all the more gut wrenching to watch.
The script is mediocre, the plot is predictable and the ending must be one of the worst east of Hollywood.
King of the Ants is his most uninspired and mediocre film to date.
Bruce Nolan is, let's be honest, a pretty mediocre journalist, with not exactly great stories (like a story of a giant cookie, what a faux pas, and the Niagara report is complete fiasco!), he's a man with a job he completely DESERVES (he's not a good journalist, he's a comedian), considering his potentials, with a nice home, sugar sweet girlfriend, and OH HORROR!!!! Dog who is not house trained!!! Yes, as soon as Bruce, at the beginning of the movie starts addressing GOd in a "God, why do you hate me!" manner, average viewer must think: "Why, what's wrong with your life, Bruce?". Bruce is not, and definitely NOT the man with real problems in life.
He has the ability to make mediocre comedies (ala Ace Ventura), and turn them into decent comedic outings.
So, I would say that the movie was mediocre overall, and considering all of the talent in the cast, I'd call this a disappointment.
a mediocre nihilist sadistic gorefest ... if you are the sort of person who likes that ... see a shrink.
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