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The parts that were supposed to be serious were somehow destroyed by the poor lack of funny comedy.
Considering that this movie had a serious and quite successful launching campaign, I would have expected something to be worth the fuzz...from the opening scene on (in which the two brothers "sensually" caress each other, laying naked in a bed) it goes rapidly downwards...nothing to get the attention, not a mind-catching thing in the whole plot, baaad baad acting (a few minor exceptions, but artificiality is at its best).
The cast isn't good, the actors are over exaggerating and making foolish gestures, the costumes are so clean and tidy that everything (even Arab clothes) look fake and for the serious spectator who thinks twice this movie can be seen as a comedy instead of mystery drama.
Vijay Krishna Acharya made a serious mistake to take as an actress Kareena Kapoor.
The subject matter is very serious and deserves much better treatment.
On a scale of 1-10 (10 being excellent, 1 being horrible) the acting in this movie is a 4. Brenda Song is talented in comedy, but with this kind of movie, in some of the more serious scenes, her acting was laughable.
If Farrah isn't really "serious" about a career, why does she have a manager (and why is he wasting his time)?
stuck with it trying to find what it was about this film that made snoop pick it as his first serious role but frankly it was a poor choice.maybe
musical maestro he may be but a serious actor snoop ain't.the
I'm serious, this is one of the ultimate b-movies.
Scream and Scary Movie at least did not take them self serious!
You do not go to see a Van Damme film because you want serious action.
As it is, My Name is Modesty is a deathly serious film.
This movie really seemed like it was trying way too hard to be serious, and that was definitely not what I was wanting from this sequel.
It has nothing to do with his performance, which is terrifyingly convincing.The movie occupies an uneasy position between sheer exploitation and a half way serious treatment of the subject, without quite settling into either mode.
The script needed some serious rewriting as it seems to be completely devoid of any feeling and pales in comparison to the book.
If it didn't take itself so serious, I would think it was supposed to be a black comedy.
A very bad movie, to be avoided by any serious horror fan.
How does a serious actress like Demi Moore got involved in such crap?
The casting was good, it was well directed, filmed, and edited, but the story line tried to be about something serious with just some Stooges antics and musical numbers (which I guess were good back then) thrown in.
It's very clear to me that the person who wrote this movie must have a very serious self-deluding ego, and serious inner-demons to see Kali as so horrible and terrible.
Even if you can accept a preacher with peroxide hair who advocates a return to first principles, the Reverend Billy is pretty hard to look at as a serious figure.
Serious race-related social issues are wheeled on in contrived and opportunistic fashion in order to justify armed robbery, then they're ditched as soon as the film has to produce the inevitably conventional ending in which crime is punished, the LAPD turns out to be a bunch of caring, guilt-ridden liberals (tell that to Rodney King), and aspirational 'good' sista, Jada Pinkett Smith, follows the path of upward mobility out of the 'hood and into a world of middle-class self-indulgence opened up for her by her buppie bank-manager boyfriend.
Like Kubrick and Noe he does show that the desire to shock linked with supposed serious intent may be the worst cinematic con trick of recent film.
So too much Kubrick and not enough Haneke (a serious and moral filmmaker) here labels this as one of the most moronic films in years.
The twee police station looked like the set from Heartbeat ( a nauseating British series set in the 60s).This film just couldn't make its mind up what it wanted to be- a comedy or a serious examination of the undercurrents in women's friendships.
It was serious.
So of course, take this serious tale and add nauseating music and camp it up with every character from prancing orphan boys to mincing bobbies and suddenly it's uplifting?
The first two are comic (THE VERGER is like a prolonged joke, but one with a good pay-off), and the last more serious (as health issues are involved).
Instead I thought of it as a disbelief of reality where someone is going to get a serious beating.
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