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After having such a promising start, Critters 2 reiterated the Karmic rule of what goes around comes around.
The film looked very promising in the trailers but fell flat... Maybe the original idea was good, but between a bad script and bad acting the movie became boring and empty.
It seemed promising, meeting all the standard requirements of any horror movie machine: drawn out beginning with antagonistic character present, a cannot be omitted sex scene, and the all too familiar pre-spook (when they spook you unexpectedly but it turns out to be the idiot buddy).
I cannot for the life of me imagine why any of these great (or promising) actors and actresses would allow their name to be associated with such trash.
When I was a child, Carry On films filled this niche slightly better, which is a really sad indictment of a film with such a promising cast.
"Direct-to-video" is a phrase that never sounds promising to the consumer unless its a direct-to-video sequel to something that went direct-to-video in the first place.
Perhaps a promising enough basis for a plot, in actual fact the film does not progress beyond this premise.
The DVD cover looked promising but you know what they say, don't judge a DVD by it's cover.
A moderately interesting start, some pretty scenes in sixteenth-century Japan, and a promising idea.
A boring voodoo-on-campus tale of terror starring the once so promising Corey Feldman (STAND BY ME, THE LOST BOYS, etc).
I recently rented this promising mini series, I didn't even know they had adapted it for television.
The beginning of the movie where they are at war was promising.
Thirdly, there's this incredibly derivative and soporific piece of Aussie horror and, finally, I have yet to see the promising "Rogue".
The first 30 minutes of the movie were promising, the actress did a nice job in her portrayal, and the world around her was well thought out and meaningful.
I really wanted to like this movie, and there were promising moments, but the next scene would suck the life out of it.
So many potentially promising conflicts between the family members that could have been developed and elaborated but it was all dropped and not taken care of.
So from the promising start you became increasingly disappointed as the non-story went along.
A serious rewrite and better editing might have saved it, as the premise and story outline are promising.
The premise sounds promising: a couple gets a visit from a mysterious person who offers them a million dollar.
The premise is interesting and having Lance Henriksen in the cast (ALIENS)gave "The Untold" a promising outlook.
The initial precept was promising, but in all respects afterwards it was totally awful.
Elio Germano is very, very good: the most promising young Italian actor, according to me.
Both of these boys have promising futures.
Although it doesn't seem very promising for a long stretch, Renoir's French Cancan ends up being an effortlessly charming film.
Both are young and promising, and I think we should see more of them in future western productions.
In this case, the contrived plot about a spoiled rich girl who schemes to take her nieces away from the Greenwich Village 'bohemian' who is raising them, only to fall for him herself, is not promising.
I guess since Kristine was of age, it was held against her and her promising career came grinding to a halt.
Jacqueline Bisset is a throwback to the days of Greer Garson and Loretta Young and Hart Bochner steps in, teasing us, promising something spectacular that will eventually materialize in 1989 with "Apartment Zero", Meg Ryan, as Bergen's daughter is already Meg Ryan.
The director and my co-writer, Steve Ianat, died a few weeks after the picture's release, cutting short a promising career and leaving behind his lovely wife Sally, his daughter, Gaby, and newborn son, Stefan.
Hope's boyfriend from home, played by newcomer Brett Halsey, is promising to marry her.
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