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You feel a bit of a void after it is over - my wife thought it was depressing at first - but once you discuss the characters' motivations and the ending, it all seems justified.
Everybody seems to have motivations, but they don't say anything about them.
The screenplay, the acting, the character motivations -- God.
I have numerous complaints about this film but most importantly I did not like the characters and did not understand their feelings, motivations or actions.
Suffice it to say this movie starts out excrutiatingly slow, but about halfway through character's motivations begin to reveal themselves, and things start to happen.
While Chris' response to mom's illicit romance is not surprising, her true underlying motivations seem a little murky.
Cheap painted scenery, the same waves in all the sea scenes (notice the painted ships don't move), moronic character motivations, and I could go on.
The unsatisfying part is that while we see many details of these two men's lives, we are given little insight into their motivations.
Madness and curiosity are obvious motivations, but not really enough.
The character and his motivations were too undeveloped to understand his convictions and his actions, and I feel that it is irresponsible to release such a superficial overview to the West.
Rules of Engagement fits comfortably into that genre of military film in which the motivations inherant in the human character are subverted for the motivates of the The United States Marines.
Never have soldiers with worse aim been seen, and Lois & the Professor's motivations are entirely unknowable.
It was more intelligent, and delved a bit into motivations, beliefs, etc. of terrorists.
The script is torpidly tepid and convolutely penned with a weak bunch of characterisations and muddled motivations.
Perhaps the better explanation is that this is a straight out horror movie where intentions and motivations hardly enter in---and that Helene, far from being a true masochist, is no more than a character following her role.
How wrong I was... terrible actors who seemed to not have read the most basic of scripts which gave no background to the motivations of the killer but made it obvious that one of the main characters was the killer's brother!!! Wow, really original!!! Just on the whole a terrible, terrible, film which claimed it was trying to be a film like the old 80s slashers but the only thing similar was the minuscule budget.
No one dimensional characters here...all of them struggle with good and bad inside themselves and the motivations are clear.
He did a great job with this character's motivations and was still quite handsome.
If Hawke was trying to channel Linkletter's Before Sunrise/Sunset, he should have also created characters whose motivations and reactions are at least somewhat plausible, even if they happen to be 20 year olds.
We have our own thoughts to question The Tall Man's motivations for allowing Reggie to survive.
The script never once reveals any clues regarding his/her identity, let alone hint at his/her motivations for prowling around town with a machete.
Quite possibly this is partly due to the fact that many of the character's motivations either remain obscure or are difficult to believe.
There are creepy children, bumps in the night, and an old woman with shady motivations.
The opening scene really is done so poorly that you really aren't sure of many of the character motivations.
I remember, at the time i was watching it, i felt there were such major problems with the motivations within the story that completely undid its narrative structure.
Regardless of Putin’s initial motivations, he is now operating in an environment in which he is quite certain of the parameters of play.
“In this way,” they conclude, “money enhanced individualism but diminished communal motivations, an effect that is still apparent in people’s responses today.”
The economic motivations are mostly defensive.
One of the main motivations behind the 2013 military coup was to counter potential violence and terrorism.
During his primary and general election campaigns, Trump lied incessantly about himself, his businesses, his opponents, other countries’ behavior and motivations, America’s electoral system, the size of trade deficits, the actions of the Federal Reserve, and data on everything from labor to crime (to name a few examples).
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