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Saw this movie a couple of nights ago at the Sydney Film Festival and really wish I'd given it the biggest of misses!
Everything goes fine till he misses his flight and bumps onto Karen (Nastassja Kinski, with blonde hair this time!).
I like Jack Lemmon (see "The Apartment")but not in this movie.I also like Carol Burnett,but she misses the mark this time.The sex of the characters that Jack Lemmon and Susan Sarandon portray are flipped in this movie.I think the characters were funnier and ahead of their time in "His Girl Friday".
Rife with historical inaccuracies, and mired with a phony love subplot, this movie misses the mark on many levels.
It is boring, predictable and misses the mark on being entertaining.
Sadly this film misses the mark big time.
The story of Kevin Mitnik is a fascinating one but "Takedown" misses the mark by miles.
I liked Max Payne and Max Payne 2! But Max Payne:Hero misses the point!
Acclaimed director Nora Ephron misses a winner by a big margin.
Very disappointing foray into slasher movie territory which misses one central pre-requisite for the genre, towit, if you're going to abandon your plot and characters you have to have blood and ingenious visceral carnage by the bucket-load.
But I think that crowd is too small; look at your TV viewing demographic.... yes, this movie just misses being family fare.
It completely misses its mark and audience.
If people dislike it for its grossness I can certainly appreciate and concur with that reason but to find it more offensive than the "real" thing is ludicrous and misses the whole point of satire.
She even misses the import of her Swiss boyfriend deciding to work all day when she comes to visit him in Switzerland.
Bruce Wayne (Batman's real name) meanwhile is having flashback's of a previous love, Andrea 'Andi' (Dana Delany) that he misses.
The ending is telegraphed far in advance when the little boy shoots the assassin but just barely misses, the gun-hating mom picks up the gun and shoots him but just wounds him and then the macho sheriff takes it and does what only a man can do - justifiably kill a bad man with one shot.
When something like this happens, the spouse and children have to adjust to a new life, and it isn't easy, and there's always a part of you that misses the kind of life you had envisioned.
In Manhattan, Detective Frank Keller (Al Pacino) is an efficient and veteran cop with twenty years on the force, who is lonely and misses his ex-wife Denise.
This movie misses the mark terribly.
Jamie misses her mother, who committed suicide when she was a child, and her father blames himself for the death of his wife.
It pretends to be some kind of blend of Conan Doyle's "Lost World" and "King Kong" but misses by parsecs on both counts.
After making an astounding breakthrough into the horror genre with the splatter classic RE-ANIMATOR, Stuart Gordon's career has consisted of a wild string of hits & misses.
Unlike other horror movies with a high boob and body count, the writer of this movie (Lance W. Dreesen) never misses an opportunity to completely degrade and dehumanize the female characters.
Ironically, director Apted misses few opportunities to denude his leading lady, but when the story conspires a reason for the strapping Neeson to shed his clothes, tellingly Apted suddenly becomes coy with showing nudity.
It was rather funny, as to be expected the jokes were hit and miss with there being more hits than misses for me.
There aren't many misses when it comes to the jokes(not as much as I can say for Van Wilder, American Pie 2 or Scary Movie 2).
I don't understand all the high ratings for this film, it misses the mark so often and lacks any true depth of feeling in it's characters.
Am I the only one who misses the rest of the gang?
Anyone who misses it will be missing one of life's genuine miracles.
Except for the brilliant plot twist this movie misses the mark completely!
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