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She is funny at times, sometimes hilariously so (her standup routine is actually quite interesting, though not always funny).
roberts does a routine job of the former ugly duck (yeah right!) into the girl next door (where did i see this before?)
Standard "paint-by-numbers" monster fare, filled with a bunch of routine plot devices from big-creature movies.
The plot outline is terribly routine and with the exception of a few poor scenes, the typical Gordon-touch is never recognized.
This hand-me-down process may be an authentic way of transferring power in a Mafia Family, but why is so much made of this boring routine?
The story is pretty routine stuff, but the atmosphere is what really makes it come alive; in fact, the ghost story is almost an afterthought.
Indeed, after the initial setup involving the ten million lira scam, the picture devolved into a fairly routine revenge flick with a minor twist in the identity of Rick's (Al Cliver) character.
This is a low-budget potboiler from 1936 that probably seemed very cool to audiences of the time... but seems awfully routine these days.
A film like this, an "Odd Couple"-ish, war of the classes, should be light and fun, with leads who can bounce off one another with witty, even romantic, dialogue, for what else can a film whose plot involves two disparate people stranded, really be? Honestly, I don't think anyone involved knew exactly the tone they were trying for; it succeeds neither as comedy (I defy you to laugh even once) or romance (Madonna's ice-princess routine precludes ANY chemistry).
And as if that is not bad enough, she gets involved with both her schoolmate Avigdor (Mandy Patinkin, whose best moment is the shot of his naked rear end) AND his fiancée (Amy Irving, who does her usual sleepwalker routine, a bit of schtick the poor woman always resorts to when the director ignores her and she does not know what she is doing).
A routine mystery/thriller concerning a killer that lurks in the swamps.
The fine cast cannot uplift this routine tale of a secretary murdered by her married paramour.
The two leads try hard, they really do, but Leno is no actor and Morita's fish-out-of-water routine gets old in a hurry.
I would give the film one-star strictly on its good intentions, but the screenplay is a transparent and lazy mass of routine predicaments and the production is cheapjack.
Burstyn's role teeters on camp, while Tilly gets stuck doing the dreamy-eyed-waif routine.
From then onwards, this becomes a seemingly routine haunted house flick yet the utterly retarded and implausible script still makes it somewhat exceptional.
The action is merely routine and the plot is only mildly interesting, so I need lots of silly laughs in order to stay entertained during a "Trancers" movie.
But then again, gentlemen prefer brunettes ;) Well, anyway, the whole premise is that society is superficial and if love is true it transcends all social facades; the way they showed this, with a dude shaving another's scrotum and the million-times-mutilated-and-beaten-to-death-horse premature ejaculation routine (with obvious allusions to American Pie and Happiness - the latter in the disgusting scene denouement involving the family dog).
The plot, the basic "making into show business" routine, is almost nonexistent.
Christopher Lee (who has since said that he was duped in to appearing in this by his producers who told him loads of great actors were involved) is Father Pergado and gets to do his usual serious and scary routine.
Instead it's just turgid, dull, and routine.
And the action itself may have been impressive back in 1978, but it's routine by today's standards.
The movie goes on and on based upon this principal idea but the result is just bad routine; even the weird twist at the end does not save the movie.
The scene when the two witch and her victim (played by the same actress) are in the house together sets up like a 3 Stooges routine, and the plot begs the question: if the witch wants to possess this other woman's soul, why doesn't she just do it instead of leading these people on this elaborate chase?
Strictly a routine, by-the-numbers western (directed by genre-mainstay Andrew V. McLaglen, so is that any wonder?).
Annette Bening (whose acting was touted as being Oscar worthy) comes off here as mannered, with her performance seeming routine.
The performances are routine, the direction flat, and even the set dressing perfunctory.
We now travel to a parallel universe where the appearance of giant prehistoric monsters flattening cities are part of the daily routine.
Films like "Tarzan" and "The Emperor's New Groove" have made an attempt to move away from the traditional song-driven routine of Disney's past and into new, uncharted territory.
Their usual routine gets disrupted when Carol's lonely, repressed, but still alluring widow mother Jennifer (a superbly moving performance by the lovely Jennifer Welles) drops by for a visit.
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