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Promising in sentence

1273 examples of Promising in a sentence

The trailers, the posters, the casting, all looked promising.
I really like Sci-Fi movies, and this one had a promising plot, I thought.
Radioactive Dreams starts out on a promising note.
This one has a promising video cover and an intriguing title ("The Secret Of The Seagull Island"), but don't be fooled (like I was).
It had a really promising beginning, an interesting premise, and some fairly intelligent dialog in the pre-launch portion of the movie.
antonio baderas is high in my list of today's most promising directors and this film shows the perspectives he has as a director.. any way you should go see this movie and don't let its rating stop you from watching it because it almost did it to me and now i realise how i would have regretted had i not rented this movie instead of an other
Finally, the first few minutes start off promising and there is some humor but that vanishes further on.
The movie started out a bit promising but sank after the opening scene.
On my, oh my, where has the promising career of Wesley Snipes gone, he mixed it up with Stallone in demolition man, played alongside Sean Connery in Rising Sun, even had his own comic book trilogy of movies, and now he's decided to muscle in on Seagal, Van Damme & Lungren territory - the straight to video market !
This film starts off promising with a very dark creepy opening sequence.
First of all, I have to tell I mainly watched this movie because the special effects was told to be made by the FX group and the poster was very promising about them.
It might have been promising if it was not translated, just imported.
Granted, the information on this movie was not promising, but with Shandling writing and acting, I thought it would have to be at least somewhat funny.
It's another in the long line of films that filled theaters in the mid to late 1970's like Kentucky Fried Movie, Groove Tube, American Raspberry, Tunnelvision promising to do what Saturday Night Live was doing but with dirty words and naked women.
Wars starts off promising enough,with some scenes of jet fighters doing maneuvers,which look pretty impressive.after
Terror at Tenkiller started off looking promising, with the right mood for a slasher film and cool 80's synth music.
The beginning was interesting and promising.
As mentioned in an earlier review the story line sounded very promising.
A gang of grating young criminals (each with 'issues') meet a Rick Moranis-ish scientist in the desert in order to procure the titular character for an Internet client who is promising to deliver a large sum of money (it seems as though they lack common sense when dealing with those junk chain-letters that arrive in the 'ol Inbox).
A poorly developed action adventure film shot largely in Mexico, this affair begins in promising fashion, but after its first of several changes in direction occurs within the plot line, little remains that will interest a viewer.
Uma Thurman makes a promising acting debut, however - and am I wrong to believe that Dillon is Matt's identical twin?
I eagerly popped it in the DVD player when I got home and it starting off fairly promising with a suspenseful burglar scene and cool 80's soundtrack music.
Which does make a depressing kind of sense, since it's a racing movie; what makes no sense at all, especially given some promising set-ups, is the total absence of kinetics or pyrotechnics.
The film is an ambitious and promising if under-edited piece.
The star of the film is Lila Leeds, a promising starlet who had very minor roles in earlier films, but achieved worldwide notoriety when she was arrested along with Robert Mitchum and other for smoking pot in 1948.
"Career Opportunities" starts off promising enough, but after an hour it slips into "Home Alone" territory and becomes silly.
It's a feast for the eyes (with nary a morsel of food for thought) as masterly cinematographer Gregg Toland captures the poetry of Young's huge, soulful peepers and full promising lips with one lovestruck close-up after another.
The acting of the main actor Rodolphe Marconi is very promising.
It looks promising at first glance of the case, the Canadian version is called "Kinky Killers" and the woman on the cover is practically in bondage.
The film being an adaptation of a fantasy trilogy that I haven't read, and the movie itself promising an interesting story that just advertises for the old paper medium, I just had to rent it on DVD to give it a shot.
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