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The actors give credible performances all around.The visuals are haunting,beautiful and sometimes hauntingly beautiful shots of the Japanese country and city landscapes.The sounds,courtesy of Japanese band 'Dig', are never overly edgy as one would expect from band-made soundtracks.
The only criticism I have to offer is a slight weakness of the ending scenes, which were overly drawn out, repetitive and a bit too focused on the wrong character.
Usually, Alan Alda plays characters that are too "soft" and overly verbal -- it's probably how he really lives.
This isn't overly violent or graphic but has a distinct creepiness that you don't find in many modern horror flicks, and it's well worth seeing.
Visually, it's not without its flaws - the interiors are often too overly lit and colourful to blend seamlessly with the exteriors.
Clearly, he was mimicking the overly florid style of the now-forgotten Victorian Romances that were easily outselling his immortal "Moby Dick."
The acting is good, not overly dramatic like many other ww2 films that have been made.
Warning: Herzog is a filmaker, and as such tends to be a bit overly dramatic.
The plot is overly familiar, the dialog stilted, and some of the acting isn't too good.
Overly romantic?
It felt like a very gripping, intelligent stage play (but without the overly theatrical feeling one actually gets from watching people on a stage) which plays on everyone's terror of a white lie escalating to monstrous consequences.
The other two boys: an overly pouty child prodigy and your stereotypical I'm-a-babe-but-I'm-really-sensitive-inside blonde dreamboat; 2) the film as a whole is depressing and disappointing; 3) Robbie's dreams and episodes are disturbing (acted by Tom Hanks); 4) the inclusion of the beginning love ballads is an odd choice ("we are all special friends"); 5) the weird lines and side plots are not made any better by the terrible acting; and 5) this is a really bad movie.
Two: Horrible, overly sentimental script that could have been used in a Harold Lloyd movie its so cliched.
Anyway, "The First Power" (a.k.a "Pentagram") isn't a completely terrible effort, but the script overly reverts to clichés and lacks genuine thrills.
I have to say I was really looking forward on watching this film and finding some new life in it that would separate it from most dull and overly crafted mexican films.
It's sort of hard for me to say it, because I so greatly enjoyed both "Targets" and "Paper Moon", but I thought "The Last Picture show" was a somewhat fascinating but overly self-indulgent film.
So a white guy from an overly stereotyped Italian family in Rhode Island brings his African American girlfriend home (Insert GASP here) to his grand father's funeral.
Once in the mountains they seek shelter again and are invited in by a kindly old lady who seems overly hospitable to strangers (Hansel and Gretel, anyone?)
Everything is overly meant to be funny in this movie, and thats what brings it down.
I only wanted to be entertained for a few hours and eat overly buttered popcorn.
So, maybe it's me but I thought this was a dreadfully boring and overly confusing movie.
First and most distracting was the way much of it was shot; that is, a lot of slow motion and overly arty close-ups that seemed to have no point--story wise or aesthetically--other than to show the skills of the cinematographer (who I believe was also the director).
I found it overly sentimental and the acting was below par.
I rented this film to see what might be a bloody, non stop action movie and got this overly sentimental and super cheap low budget action-drama that makes Kickboxer look like Die Hard.
The acting is horrid and the music is some overly sentimental Frank Stallone sounding song that would make you sick.
Nothing overly wrong with this film, very little action for an action film.
Some of the intertitles are overly explanatory (e.g., "why, you're not a child anymore!"--cut back to picture for a long, slow beat--"you're a woman!" yes, we got it the first time) but there are a few talking sequences that beg for explanations that never appear.
In the title role, the talented Cicely Tyson gives an overly uptight performance, and at times lines are difficult to understand.
this may seem like an overly critical rant but i genuinely cannot find a redeeming feature of this film except for perhaps if you take it as pure comedy.
At the center of the misery are the characters that are overly simplyfied and exaggerated - they have no nuances in their performances.
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