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Paul Newman goes through the motions and Jennifer Jason Leigh does a Katharine Hepburn imitation that made me weep with longing for the real thing.
The jokes were forced out for the most part, and the actors looked like they were going through the motions.
Character actors Frank Craven and J. Edward Bromberg make a nice vampire-hunting duo, and their scenes together suggest a real alliance and not merely two actors going through the motions.
One got the feeling throughout there was nothing here but people going through the motions to collect a paycheck.
All the while there is helpful large lettering on the control centre monitors, telling you which missile-launching satellite is slowly going through its motions.
The leads, Stephen Baldwin and Kristy Swanson are just going through the motions, though they do hold the film together, and Swanson looks very healthy.
It is trying so hard to be quirkily absurd that it does itself injury, and the collection of silly characters are mostly just going through the motions.
His film is full of clichés : abusive slow motions (on the crucial moments, of course) stupid special effect when we see the ball coming right to us, horrible heavy orchestral muzak (on the crucial moments, of course).
He can be a very high caliber, talented actor but he basically just went through the motions on this one.
It appears to be a film where the cast & crew walked through the motions of production and collected a hefty paycheck at the end.
It's just a mess, going through the noir motions, and a uniform texture of tedium.
She was monotone and basically just going through the motions.
The motions are exacting to the tiniest intricacies.
Thats why EVERYTHING in this movie is depicted in atrocious repetitions or slow motions of random acts... the totally unerotic sex scenes with mechanistic thrusting and overacted orgasms that border between joy and pain?
Gene Hackman seems to be the only one not going through the motions and actually giving us a decent performance.
It was as though the veterans of the series were just going through the motions because they had resigned themselves (with great resentment) to being typecast and performed mechanically out of some sort of obligation (or necessity?).
Eddie Murphy is AMAZING as always, and is just plain hilarious,however both of them seemed to be going through the motions at times, still they gave it there all, and they were both great, plus Eddie gets to show off his comedic talent more!
It's disheartening to see such a sparkling cast put through the motions of a tiresome mainstream trifle like this 2007 adaptation of the lightweight bestseller of the same name by one-time nannies Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.
It was really quite unpleasant to watch them going through the motions, and not caring about them at all.
What was Robert Duvall thinking when he agreed just to go through the motions for this dud?
Dolph Lundgren does what he can with the very crappy material he is given here, however his chemistry with Meilani Paul is way off, and while he was likable, he just seemed to be going through the motions, however i still Love Lundgren , and he deserves better movies then this lousy crap!(Lundgren Rules!).
Lousy sets, paper thin acting, it seems like everyone from the director to the actors were just going through the motions.
Bleak, emotionally dead people (seriously some of the lamest, unsympathetic characters I have ever seen) commit suicide because the boring, repetitive motions of their daily lives that the director chooses to show us are boring and repetitive.
Otherwise, our governments will just continue to go through the motions, until they forget how.
An elé belé is a player who thinks he is participating but, in truth, is merely going through the motions.
Indeed, organizations that are officially committed to involving all nations in their decision making are often controlled by small groups of powerful nations, while others merely go through the motions of participation.
Parliament retains the right to interrogate cabinet members, including the Prime Minister, on financial and administrative questions and has frequently passed motions of no confidence in government.
Both have had to expend a great deal of political capital, confronting domestic nationalist forces and facing down no-confidence motions spearheaded by opposition parties.
He reports that, in the United Kingdom, there are ongoing efforts to contest local councils’ right to introduce “gestural” BDS motions aimed at banning procurement from Israeli businesses.
The true problem for France is the huge chunk of state-owned companies that go through the motions without being particularly successful in the market.
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