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I tried really hard to like this film, I promise.
This leaves viewers with a sense of hope and promise.
After the appalling Absolute Beginners, a film that - despite all the promise and potential of a great novel and a decent cast and a soundtrack by Bowie - falls short of the target by miles, Temple manages to barge around with an admirable lack of skill here in this cardboard cutout piece of cheap music hall.
It actually starts off quite well and shows promise, but when the movie more-or-less forgets about one of it's main stars - The Crocodile - it slips into a boring movie about a group of people being attacked by angry African soldiers rather than being a movie about a group of people being killed off by a big nasty croc.
I looked forward to watching Hysterical Blindness, as the HBO promos showed some promise.
Daniel Day Lewis, equally talented, is the tortured lover who must choose, a promise of marriage to Mae (Winona Ryder) or risk his stalwart reputation in society to express his love for Pfeiffer.
One viewer said, "as echoed on my "lord of the rings" comment, this production captures a positive aspect of the Tolkien material that I believe is missed by current critics and readers-namely the distant but constant promise f success in the quest."I
Guess I hoped for more than was shown, pity; thought this may have had promise, maybe even a plausible story.
I can promise you will find this film amusing, when you'll see 'Laska' coming home, reminiscing his dad or 'Grucha' wearing his pink sweater and falling in love with the prostitute.
Too bad; this scenario, with Mix and Earp in Lotus Land, had promise.
Seldom seen these days on television, it still keeps the romantic promise we remembered.
You will enjoy it greatly, though I promise you, you will be VERY depressed by it.
but in case you ever do stumble on it, just at least fast forward to that scene i promise you won't be disappointed.
I highly recommend this film, especially to young people, I promise this film is not out dated it is timeless and it's lessons are as well!
Go out and buy the DVD, you'll love it, I promise.
Other performers have absolutely no redeeming value whatsoever, where Andrews shows promise.
There are some splendid supporting performances: Virginia Leith, with a voice just like that of today's Selma Blair, was intriguing and had such promise, but never got the parts to show what she could have done in her career.
I am glad some-one saw promise in this old C-Grade movie.Cause I never would have!
Thinking this was a horror movie (billed as such) and starring guys like Bela Lugosi and Lionel Atwill, I wound up disappointed.....even more so because this movie started off pretty well and had promise.
This movie had promise, but turns into mainly a giant rat movie with Bert I. Gordon's main technique the old rear projection monster.
So this one is one that has promise, but fails to deliver.
Normal Life starts out with great promise, with a great burst of energy right at the start.
Part of what makes this one work so well is that they point out the negatives of war, especially the more traditional battles, so marvelously; the officers are devoid of a sense of reality beyond their comfy chair and desk, the assignments all contain the unwelcome promise of certain and meaningless death, boredom is rampant during a lot of the waiting, and the front runs out of supplies and the substitutions... you don't want to know(not sure why they felt the need to go into such detail about it, much less have so many of that type of jokes, but I digress).
I'm aware of the fact that trailers are often deceiving, but judging from this movie's trailer- I truly believed that the film showed promise.
You do get ideas about how you'd like to have that much money so that you could live on a yacht without responsibility and the promise of toast after toast with your latest shag, but the continual slaughter of sharks, sea turtles and stingrays for a movie such as this leaves one filled with guilt.
What started out with so much promise (Donald Sutherland) just blathered away into a Jane Austinique exercise in excess.
The chemistry shows promise at the outset, but has really evaporated by the film's end.
Beautifully done there, I promise you that your eyes will have a feast on all the spices.
I promise, the effect will be the same.
3 show promise of operatic/symphonic greatness, but the fourth wants to sing jazz.
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