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The CGI, is OK, that's the only thing in the movie I don't hate, but it's far from a redeeming factor - I feel like this heap of a movie was created for the sole purpose that some guys can hone their special effect skills.
She plays a sort of female Indiana Jones type with nifty kung fu skills, and whups numerous bad folk from start to finish, ably supported by Tung Shing Yee.
My advice to the directors would be "hone your directing skills and leave the writing to the professionals"!
In his only stint as director of a feature, Steve Railsback, although a charismatic actor, obviously lacks those skills requisite for guiding other players, since he merely turns Russell and Glenn loose to fish for whatever they might find of worth within a sloppily written screenplay and as these two happen to benefit from a strong director, their mannered performances must rate at the bottom of their portfolios.
Some of us are really laid-back and low key, with excellent concentration skills, and are detail oriented to a fault.
In the late 70s, french director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and designer Marc Caro met and found they shared a lot of interests in the visual arts, their friendship soon became an artistic team that would spent the whole 80s making short films where the duo was able to explore and master the cinema language, perfecting their storytelling abilities and visual design skills, preparing themselves to make a career in film-making.
Linda McCartney was one of the best advocates for animal rights and vegetarianism for years, the film barely mentioned her cooking skills and cookery books devoted to vegetarianism.
Whatever kid has the charisma and public speaking skills to influence and control his flock-of-sheep high school class isn't a kid to me.
Chris Kramer put the skills on this, he's a great actor.
He showed his skills and then some.
There is evidence of good writing skills in the script, but the quips come off as unintentionally funny - and, they are too flowery for the subject matter (which seems old hat, anyway).
Debbie James is nice in the looks department, but light in acting skills.
You can expect lots of kick boxing action, and the cyborg you ask? Almost a needless part of the plot as she is a rather weak cyborg with no fighting skills or anything that would even indicate she is any different than a human.
I think she was actually relying on her 'acting' skills on this one.
Tommy Lee and Cate, for all their acting skills, failed to evoke any kind of warm, sympathetic response in me.
Harrison Ford was fine as a young actor, although his acting skills did develop considerably in later years.
Though he drops a couple of notches in the screen credits from his first picture, "Sinners' Holiday", James Cagney still dazzles as a top mobster's second in command and hones the skills that will find him topping the bill for 1931's "The Public Enemy".
What we get is a lot of blah blah and some showing off of the skills of Rodriguez.
We may never know how accurate it is historically speaking but both Part I and Part II of CHE prove not only Director Steven Soderbergh's sharp skills in the art of film-making but also Benicio Del Toro's ability to make us believe he is Che Guevara.
But with a small cast, some decent camera skills, and a few friends in the police dept, these guys made a film that's funnier than a lot of big budget comedies coming out of Hollywood.
Those skills are now being put on display by Russia's spymaster president.
They may also grow more confident that their skills will be properly deployed in a fast-growing economy, further spreading the prosperity that many fellow citizens have only recently started to enjoy.
Essential here, is to attract expatriate Afghans with skills and professional achievements to help in rebuilding the country by establishing small firms that will suck up the unemployed.
Certain cities are ideally suited for this, because they concentrate different kinds of human capital and encourage random interactions between people with different knowledge and skills.
Money enables us to trade – and thus to benefit from each other’s special skills and advantages.
Often, they will – for example, if the parents lack the skills to build a good playground.
Costs invariably far exceed initial estimates, and planners often woefully underestimate the skills and funding needed to ensure maintenance and repairs.
He defines superintelligence as an intellect that is “smarter than the best human brains in practically every field, including scientific creativity, general wisdom, and social skills.”
So successful industrial upgrading and economic diversification requires first-movers, and improvements in skills, logistics, transportation, access to finance, and various other changes, many of which are beyond the first-movers’ capacity.
That is why we believe African governments and bilateral donors should deepen their investments in programs that provide farmers with the skills to produce long-term crops, especially trees, sustainably.
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