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The premise is simple enough: In a bureaucratic underworld, a group of supernatural detectives called Shinigami make certain the dead get where they are supposed to go.
Enzo G. Castellari's INGLORIOUS BASTARDS is a phenomenal war film, with superbly orchestrated action scenes and a really unique premise.
This is a decent mix of religious horror, cop drama and straight-up slasher 80's films with an original premise and some believable acting from unfamiliar faces, namely Emma Sutton in the lead role.
You can't just change the premise from the first film of what the immortals are, then bring back one that was dead.
It's premise sounded cute and I like to take chances on independent films.
Even the premise of the film was confusing.
ok, let's start with the premise.
LA MOUSTACHE is a very well acted and conceived Belgian film that starts with a terrific premise that could be the opening for either a comedy or a drama and ends up wondering which path to take.
Understanding the premise helps a lot, because this is a great movie and excellent concept.
The premise seems dated and it is not nearly as clever as the filmmakers believe it is.
Nothing in it made any sense , even by horror movie standards.The premise wasn't too bad but it just fell to pieces after the first 5 minutes its an Australian movie and the male actors have Australian accents but the women have these terrible fake American accents and one of the womens accent is so appalling i have no idea what country she is supposed to be from . the ending made even less , i presume it was to set it up for a sequel but there is no way this dog of a film would get the funding for a sequel .
The premise is hard to believe already.
What seems like a weak premise for a thriller at the start actually ends up providing a great central situation for this movie which drives it forward much better than, say, Donzoko.
It had a great premise, where an alien visitor decides that man is a virus to the planet Earth and sets about destroying him, money for some neat special effects and name stars to attract attention.
With such a wonderful premise I just can't explain what happened?! Well I can try.
Even for a kids' movie, the premise to ED is incredibly lame.
The premise of the movie is simple, and like many things simple, it derives from a brilliant observation: friends will be disloyal to one another if they sense the rewards of disloyalty are great enough.
The premise is ingenious: a man injected into the body of another man.
Unfortunately all of this goes sour when the premise kicks in and we witness Stockwell and Dudikoff adjust to the overblown horizons.
(See City Limits, which is even worse than this) Also there is no action which is the only way one can handle such a movie premise, after all it's about two sleuths who save the world, give us some action!
Charles M. Schulz's typically warm and witty script milks the nifty premise for several very strong and sidesplitting belly laughs: Among the hilarious comic highlights are Linus fainting when Snoopy cuts up his beloved blanket, Snoopy smearing mud on Charlie Brown, Snoopy putting a white sheet, a belt, and shoes on Charlie Brown which makes him look like a ghost, Charlie Brown finally getting to kick the football while invisible, and Snoopy levitating the ever-snarky Lucy and leaving her up in the air.
It had a really promising beginning, an interesting premise, and some fairly intelligent dialog in the pre-launch portion of the movie.
Anyway, the basic premise of this movie is fairly simply: an American space rocket crash-lands somewhere in the middle of the African jungle and causes a plain ordinary wasp to mutate into a gigantic buzzing monster.
So the premise is that you play as a character that goes around and attempts to defeat these sixteen colossi in order to save a girl.
While the entire movie was o.k. the major premise of the need to use bomber whose family have no interests in the bombing or terrorist act is an overkill.
This movie absolutely deserves a 4. The premise is great any anti American activity results in death.
It's on this simple premise so many movies come out each year with titles that you expect to know what you're getting.
The premise, while fantastic, could have been much better executed.
A good premise ruined by a simplistic, soap-opera script, weak supporting performances (though Angelina Jolie is, as has been noted, quite good), and low production values, this story of the lives of women helping to settle the West never quite gels.
Michael Davis' third straight film with the same basic premise, is the worst of the three.
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