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It's an interesting, and promising premise, but unfortunately, it fails to deploy.
Anyway, it was quite promising in the beginning.
I am writing this review having watched it several months ago....the trailer looked promising enough for me to buy this lame excuse for a movie.
The setup was promising, in the 1920's Cecil B. Demille makes his opus of the Ten Commandments.
Incest and lesbianism are promising themes, but the script analyses none of the two in depth ( mind that a possible excuse of the makers, saying that they aimed for a subtle movie would be hilarious, unless subtle and superficial mean the same thing...).
While channel surfing, we found this movie with its promising synopsis.
The beginning of this movie actually looks somewhat promising.
As an engineer, I must say this show's first season started out very promising.
I saw Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman were on it, so it seemed promising.
Casey Affleck, so promising in Good Will Hunting, is awful here--he seems to lack both intelligence and guts.
The opening was promising, a long shot over a jeep of soldiers across the Albanian-Greek border.
The beginning is promising with a car wreck and a woman and her daughter being burned alive in front of a police officer, Edward.
And the commercials looked so promising...
The premise of this movie sounds potentially promising, the whole teleporting concept, but the direction they went with it was completely uninteresting.
Vivek Oberoi who made a promising start with Saathiya is sadly losing his balls quickly in Hindi cinema.
'Set It Off' wouldn't be worth getting angry over if wasn't a symptom of the tragic decline and ghettoisation of African-American film-making since the promising breakthrough days of the early 1990s.
Disney's choice of voice actors looks very promising.
It's about a maths teacher who takes some promising kids on a maths trip to a company where the successful Lindsey(Drew) shows them some information.
Instead we see a lot religous rubbish which is the only thing that spoils the film and eventually spoilt a very promising career.
The movie is also a debut of a promising villain on Indian screen- Sadashiv Amrapurkar as 'Rama Shetty'.
Edie' Bouvier Beale,78,witty and dry and her daughter, 'Little Edie' Beale,56,(emotionally about 13) a still beautiful woman who once had a promising future,live in isolation from the rest of the world except for their many cats and raccoons in the attic.
My friend and I picked "Paperhouse" out of a random pile of movies on our weekly excursion to the Horror section-- neither of us had heard of it, but the blurb on the box was really promising.
I picked it because of the actors, Gere and Claire, and the story looked promising..I have just watched it and i can say - i'm overwhelmed.
On the other hand "Men of honor" includes a fine performance from Cuba Gooding Jr. who has been one of the most promising young black actors since "Boyz n the hood".
The result is promising if not exactly exhilarating.
A young and seemingly promising college graduate (played by Blair Underwood) is sent to jail for the murder of an innocent young girl and is put on death row.
So, even though the beginning is not promising, the movie ended up turning into a pretty good one.
They seem to be taking Pecker's worst valuation of his work as gospel, when I think the film pretty clearly states that he is indeed a promising artist.
Eric Valette's long-feature debut "Maléfique" was a very promising and engaging horror picture too, and he's already off to the Hollywood as well to direct the remake of Takashi Miike's ghost-story hit "One Missed Call".
They got that in season 3 and brings us a promising series future for season 4. Its good to see that such a different format of a series, can be so hugely popular.
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