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After a promising opening sequence, director Jack Sholder completely fumbles the ball and ultimately delivers a shoddy, incomprehensible mess that besmirches the good name of Wes Craven's original masterpiece.
The cover looked promising as was the storyline.
The first half hour was promising, but it rapidly collapsed into a hopeless mess.
The plot of "Tempo" sounded really promising, but the end result is quite frankly horrible.
It starts out promising, with a good cast, nice story and lots of action.
Reading a plot synopsis of this film, it certainly sounds promising, but experience it first hand and you can really get an idea of how it can't deliver.
The 4.5 average rating didn't look too promising.
Initially,the idea of Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson appearing together in a film called Anger Management looks good on paper.Unfortunately,what makes this a bad film is that the idea wasn't carried out very well.The story goes along smoothly enough,but what ultimately kills it is a it's totally ridiculous and disappointing ending.The whole idea that all of Dave's situations were staged as part of his therapy brought a very promising idea crashing to the ground with a thud.Perhaps Adam and Jack will make another film together one day,the story idea will be a good one,and this time the idea will be carried out a little better.Sandler has hits and he has misses.For me,this one goes down as a miss.
I have to say that it is one of the best movies I have ever seen, nearly flawless, with Mann's superb direction, frenetic camerawork, brilliant music score, and a phenomenal performance from Crowe as the whistleblower of a tobacco company, defining him as a promising future star.
no no no no no no no!!! Oh my what a let down, promising trailer till you hear one of the actors speak, then its worse than your daytime soap.
i found the plot synopsis for this movie pretty interesting and for sure the basic ideas could have been easily transformed into an excellent movie, so i found it very promising to check out this flick.
What has Stephen Dorff done to his once promising career.
This has virtually none, despite a promising plot.
The cast are surprisingly good, Thora Birch is a talented lead and the other 3 newcomers are very promising.
The start was quite promising with some suspense, ooh, whats going to happen and to who?
All around awesome movie...these kids have very promising futures with their talent.
Despite its promising start, this series spirals out of control with the reappearance of Kira Yamato from the first SEED.
Directed by Nicholas Cage's brother Christopher Coppola and starring 70s sex icon "Emanuelle" Sylvia Kristel, "Dracula's Widow" may not look like a promising Horror film as such, but at least I expected an entertaining sleaze and gorefest.
Audiences still don't know when they're being narratively cheated, or when a slightly promising idea has gone off the rails, or become a bloated, maddening mess.
The beginning is promising (Hopkins explaining his philosophy to reporters while using one of his contraptions), but the script goes nowhere.
This movie has definitely changed the map of the Egyptian movie making industry.Meaning, future makings should at least level up to half of what Marwan Hamed the promising director has produced.
A promising beginning to a tired formula quickly deteriorates midway through the movie.
After a very promising first fifteen minutes, including a very decent and gory kill scene, this movie unfortunately what follows is a laughable mess that doesn't know if it wants to be a slasher movie, a mystery, or a cops-chase-bad guy who has nothing to do with the plot- flick!
The movie starts of promising but after 5 minutes it's clear you made the wrong choice to go for the catchy title.
Corey (promising new star Matt Twining) moves to a new town for a fresh start after a tragic wrestling match leaves his opponent dead.
I know this film has its defenders, and the opening scenes are promising, but I have to say that in the end I found Two Seconds unsatisfying, despite some interesting elements along the way.
Unfortunately, the large success of Resident Evil: Apocalypse may very well be the deathblow to this promising new trend.
If there were any filmmaker to make an introspective film about sex, one would be hard pressed to find a more promising candidate than Woody Allen.
The show started out promising but quickly deteriorated after Shannen Doherty left the show.
In 1963, Hector Perez was already a promising young singer in his native Puerto Rico when, at the age of seventeen, he moved to New York City to try and make a name for himself as a performer there.
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