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With the very so often motive of revenge used.
Each person comes under suspicion as each seems to have had some sort of motive for the killings.
The scorned Jackie pursues the couple wherever they go, and when she follows them onto a Nile cruise, it seems that Jackie is not the only one who has a motive for murder.
From the way Columbo first zeros in on suspect(without spoiling it - it revolves around the way the body fell and therefore how the murderer entered the room) to his piecing together means, opportunity and motive I found this one extremely intriguing and engrossing.
Was their a sinister motive like CIA disinformation or just an attempt to slay the audience with peals of laughter?
The spanish title for this movie was "sin motivo aparante" which means with no aparent motive.
The most remarkable aspect is the surprisingly strong and unconcealed sexual motive for the killings.
Though a blatantly sexual motive isn't mentioned, it's hard to interpret his words any other way, except as a twisted, rape sort of feeling.
I guess I'm a tad on the puzzled side WHY, because SHE'S the one that seems to have all the money, the big house, etc., so I'm not sure what the motive is.
I'm even less sure what the motive was for making this movie, really.
The plot is rather mixed up, everybody had a motive, but the change is so fast that it makes no sense, and at the end the secret guy comes up to take the prize.
Murders, a set of suspects, all of them with a motive for the killing and then the unmasking of the killer or killers.
This film is in many ways reminiscent of "The English Patient" and even "Casablanca" (the love-triangle in times of WWII, the beautiful cinematography and the use of a melancholy song as a central motive).
It turned out to be a pretty shaky motive for hiding the identity of the killer.
I have no idea how a movie such as this could receive ratings of 1. Which account for 10% of the total votes, obviously these people did not actually see the movie, and must have a hidden motive behind such a rating.
It sounds far-fetched and isn't exactly the most credible motive for murder, but I've seen worse.
An unlikely subject or motive for murder in my opinion.
The motive or build up of the family could create great story tension.
However, his homosexuality seems to be his main motive for directing these days, and young buff guys in their boxer briefs seem to be his major visual reference.
In 1849, in the Archipelago of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, the drunken Ariel Neel Auguste (Emir Kusturica) and his partner Louis Ollivier (Reynald Bouchard) kill for a futile motive (to see if he is fat or just big) the fishing boat captain Coupard (Michel Daigle).
Halle Berry is one of 3 young ladies that hook up with the Senator and follow him around, and she herself may have another motive for doing so.
I had heard good reviews before finally seeing this movie and am already a fan of the horror genre.For a gay slasher film it was done tastefully.I like a movie like this that is more realistic instead of being b-rated and campy.I am glad the gay characters were more normal instead of showing all the negative stereotypes that a lot of TV shows and movies show.It's refreshing to see a regular gay movie about ordinary(but pretty)people in realistic circumstances.In some ways it's just eye candy since every character was cute and sexy,but no different then a lot of other movies.This movie has a good story,good actors,and nice effects with the right amount of suspense,gore and humor.It is very well directed,produced as well as acted.I hope a sequel is made to understand the motive to the killings and to see who is behind that demonic mask.
Jeeva's target is Shiva, and his motive vengeance for the wrong done to his mother decades back.
there is no motive for the awakening of these "zombies", there is no plot to speak of, it is tacky and crude but, shamefully hilarious.
I just watched Se7en, which stars Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt and Kevin Spacey and I was gob smacked at how well crafted the storyline and ending are. Somerset (Freeman) and Mills (Pitt) are searching for a man only known as 'John Doe,' he is killing and preaching at the same time by killing people based on the Seven Deadly sins, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Greed, Lust, Wrath and Pride as his motive.
It draws part of its inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds"(1963)- though in Hitchcock's film the motive and reason for the bird attacks is not clearly defined, whereas in FROGS the viewer comes to understand why the local wildlife has it in for people.
I even love the cliché vengeance motive.
To question its integrity is to question the integrity of Groberg himself, the people he interacted with in Tonga and the motive of the film-makers who tried to translate his memoirs to film.
Other reviewers seem to miss a motive for the atrocities, a reason for the escalation, apart from Ruths obvious derangement and general frustration with life, and ask why the others (especially since they're still kids) join in so easily.
Now, combine this with barely suppressed unfocused anger and you have your motive.
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