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The opening scene looks promising, when the fat nurse drops the canister of blood and runs for her dear life.
Anyway this project might have worked as a radio play, but as a movie with a promising noir title, it's a disappointment.
It has a very promising start, but the middle just drags on repeating itself, and ends with a completely poor twist which any monkey could have figured out.
In the Southwest circa 1950, a poor gambler (not above a little cheating) wins an orphaned, would-be teen Lolita in a botched poker game; after getting hold of a treasure map promising gold in the Grand Canyon, the bickering twosome become prospectors.
"Werewolf Woman" of 1976 is a film with a highly promising title, but, sadly, the film itself is pretty far away from being a must-see for my fellow Italian Horror buffs.
Well, subtlety, where are you now!!?? My fears have manifested...a promising movie has gone wrong.
Too bad as the premise is promising (as it so often is in Duhllywood), but in the hands of this scriptwriter it segues off into la la land.
Writer-director Tony Piccirillo adapted his own play about a straight man, recently widowed, learning in the last three weeks he is HIV-positive; he tracks down the one homosexual partner he ever had, brings him to an apartment and ties him up, forcing a blood test on the guy and promising bloody revenge if the results come back positive.
The promising Dutch television Sophie Hilbrand star should not add this movie to her CV.
Superficically, "Brigadoon" is a very promising entertainment package.
The opening credits of the film was somehow promising.
I've even watched a lot of SciFi Channel movies so I know not to expect much - a usually promising movie that has no ending to speak of.
The plot is acceptable - a promising young artist just reaching his peak shot dead by an assassin he walks in on by mistake.
I myself was sold by the promising descriptions of "nuke mutants," "motor-psychos," and of course the "exterminators" themselves which, according to the back of the movie-store case, are all cavorting around a post-apocalyptic barren wasteland wreaking all sorts of mayhem.
This film limps from self indulgent moment to self indulgent moment, promising to develop into something worth hanging on for.
Essentially my view seems to match a number of others - the first half hour was fresh, sharp, deep, entertaining and promising.
It seemed promising.
Unfortunately after the promising opening the flick went straight to hell.
The premise and subject about making a criminal realize what his victims went through by capturing his family hostage sounds promising and interesting.
A promising opening, with the ambushing of some cavalry by the Cheyenne.
Agonisingly slow to develop a non-existent plot based on a promising premise, the experience is, shall we say, trying.
I was seriously looking forward to seeing this film because it seemed truly promising from the coming attractions: Jim Carrey with Godlike powers was an idea that most definitely worked for me.
As a huge fan, I was sure he'd be supremely in his element with such a promising premise, and what could go wrong?
There are some promising ideas in there, but while the director was clearly aiming to wind up with a hauntingly ambiguous film, what he ended up with was a confusing mess.
It sounds promising and the ever-reliable Brenda Blethyn doesn't disappoint but the material is sitcom-thin.
It was promising; at the time there was some saturation out of the "supernatural" cases after a decade of many X files already, so the natural spirit to lampoon it naughtily too (imagine Mulder as womanizer !). However (Special Unit 2) wasn't the strongest in this, or a strong when it comes to make a comic Sci-Fi show.
It all looks very promising from the get go.
In a career that is sliding rather swiftly toward tabloid obscurity, Ben Affleck, once a promising comic character actor who became enmeshed in the Hollywood publicity machine to recreate himself into a romantic leading man.
The premise of this film is quite promising, Jack Black and Ben Stiller in a comedy with a lot of potential, but it completely fails to deliver.
I heard someone online describe this movie's villains as "subhuman cannibals", and I thought it was promising because I thought it would be like the Descent.
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