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The lovely leading lady is played by Joanna Moore, Tatum O'Neal's late mother, she showed promise in this movie, but I can't recall seeing her in any thing else.
When a mine collapses destroying the homes built on top of it, the three sisters of the the family that owned the mine promise to rebuild the homes.
Like many other sci-fi movies from that glorious decade -- the 1950s -- this one begins with some promise.
The promise in crafting an independent feature film in America were richly and passionately exemplified by Who's That Knocking at My Door?, the very first feature directed by great Martin Scorsese.
This movie has a lot of promise.
Christopher Lee is an excommunicated priest who somehow manages to promise to give the Devil a daughter.
But it really lets that promise down.
But as the movie carries on, the story loses its promise and gets worse and worse.
With "The Prince of Egypt," DreamWorks makes good on its promise to deliver a state-of-the-art animated film that will compete favorably with the best Disney has to offer.
The script aids the actors in being inadequate as half the time it just makes no sense and other times begins to show promise and ends abruptly.
The first half hour shows promise, but goes laughably downhill immediately after the real story comes to light.
I don't know if it is just the paycheck, or the promise of a theatrical release, or good special effects, or if they just want to keep on working that makes these people do this.
I promise you won't stop laughing.
I promise that just one episode of this show will have you hooked.
In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other.
What really made the film pay off, was it promising a decent shout-out climax and even coming through on that promise.
His touches of surreality are interesting, and there's always a promise here of the scenario becoming much more provocative, but too many questions are left unanswered.
The books of this game had some promise, the horrible lack of depth and emotion behind Halo's plot was ultimately it's downfall.
The beginning, as pointed out by another reviewer, does hold some promise with a sequence in the Bermuda Triangle - which in this movie isn't really too close to Bermuda but we are given hints of a slightly more intelligent fun film than we are eventually given.
For all of you that say this movie is not funny, you must be crazy, this is the best comedy ever, with the best performances in the careers for daniels and jim carrey if you haven't seen this movie yet go out right now and movie i promise it wont dissapoint
Man... Well, first off I promise I'm not a 'Troll' and I'm not going to say something brainless and general like 'worst movie ever' because it isn't : ) However... after thinking about it honestly, I THINK what this film is, is a good example of what probably could have been a good film and I don't know WHAT the hell was done to it, but man oh man... the result is literally STUNNINGLY awful.
The movie started with so much promise.
Mr. Cronenberg shows promise, however; and, there are at least three sexy scenes.
They must have offered Sean Connery a couple of shipping containers full of unmarked bills and the promise that his character would die early in the movie to get him involved.
The film shows lot of promise when it begins but such a thin storyline is not backed by powerful script that requires interesting incidents and characters.
Instead you get a poorly lit video shoot, a handful of actors who I felt sorry for (they're taking this very seriously and some have promise) slightly above student film quality production values, and a creature that is nothing more than a rubber hand puppet.
Their device is a staged train robbery faked by the team, and the promise of a $100,000 payoff in the future.
Basically one day in a bar that she used to work in, Ruth Etting (Doris Day) met producer Martin Snyder (Oscar nominated James Cagney) who could promise a new and better paid career on stage.
Though I am well aware that the majority of patrons attending this film were most likely drawn in by the prospect of witness Jensen Ackles (of Supernatural fame) in an outrageous Mohawk I can promise that you will leave that theater proclaiming the glory of Ten Inch Hero to anyone and everyone!
The film opens with great promise showing a well-executed battle scene interspersed with text explaining the political landscape of the mid-1600 but then rapidly goes downhill with below average technical production.
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