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There's also a civics lecture halfway through the movie that slows the proceedings to a crawl, and the ending is tidy enough for a cop show.
The film is oddly shaped -- often the action slows down just to let the characters get caught up in odd but well-done seemingly improved dialogues -- during the stakeouts, almost all of the "Machine" get caught up in perfectly delivered humorous monologues -- and Reynolds the director deserves mucho credit for having Reynolds the star step back and give them room.
It never slows down terribly much, but it's not overwhelming, either.
The pace is quite good, it never really slows down, and seldom moves too fast.
And when appropriate the film slows down to let the audience dive a little deeper into the meanings and motivations hidden inside these lovable characters.
It never lags, it never slows down, it is a movie that has a wonderful flow to the plot.
The acting in the film is really well done honestly, but the movie is so slow and so boring, as soon as it gets interesting everything slows to a major halt.
Then it inexplicably slows down, loses focus and starts resembling a traditional French movie only to regain focus in the end with the love relation between Antoine (Depardieu) and Cécile (Deneuve).
The only thing about this movie that's not delightful is Suzy Parker's one-note performance as Grant's love interest, which takes up too much of the film's time and slows down the pace in the second half.
But after about 20 minutes they get separated, and the film slows to a crawl, and even with the occasional fight scene to liven things up, it lacks excitement.
At times, the action slows to a crawl as the camera follows the wordless wanderings of the "cub," who nearly gets lost early on.
Yes I know "talkies" had just been invented for the cinema 2 years earlier when this was produced in 1929 but this film showed that much had to learnt about the art of producing films.It comes over as a filmed "hammy" stage play with the actors melodramatically enunciating their lines,rolling their eyes, using too many pregnant pauses and using gestures more appropriate to silent cinema, which I suppose was normal during the process of educating them to appear more naturalistic on screen.The gaps between lines spoken should have been tightened up during editing as it considerably slows the film.It is now only of interest for Titanic buffs who want to see an early example of this marine accident on film.In next chronological order they could see "Titanic" (1953) A Night to Remember (1958)"Titanic (1997), to see how the cinema's depiction of this tragedy as evolved over the years.There have been many documentaries and TV films made including the atrocious "SOS Titanic" (1979) On my version which is a DVD, David McCallum gives the introduction.It was he who played Harold Bride Marconi's junior wireless operator in "A Night to Remember"(still the best feature film - please read my "Tribute to Walter" comments on IMDb under Howard Morley.demon.co.uk)and gave the commentary on the series of 4 videos entitled "End of a Dream" so he was well qualified to give the narration.Of more interest I found was a recording accompanied by actual photos of the 1912 US Senate hearing which is also on the DVD.Actors speak the actual words spoken by Lightoller 2nd officer, J Bruce Ismay,Managing director of White Star, Harold Bride and others including Gloria Stewart (The "old Rose" in Titanic 1997) whose voice is used for one of the first class women survivors.
Some of the episodes I recall are the one where he takes the experimental drug that slows down action.
The only reason I give it a 9 out of 10 is that it slows down a little in the middle, but it comes back strong in the end.
The self-serving government investigations are given a lot of screen time, which slows down the film towards the end.
The movie then slows down to develop the characters and introduce a love triangle between Jack, his girl and the professional boxer.
She slows down for "Make Believe" (which gets perhaps too slow), but the dramatic "How Does the Wine Taste?" is amazing.
I think the story is great, and there's never a dull scene that slows the pace of the movie down.
Now imagine that except at 1/2 speed and Lewis Black making anal sex jokes as the rest of the incredibly banal commentary slows to almost sub atomic speeds.
Though after the first 20 minutes of the film the pace really slows down.
This means there are few parts where it slows down enough to let your stomach rest from laughing.
The movie starts out in good speed but slows down after a while.
The story continues, and slows down a bit and we follow Chun-Li's journey.
Unfortunately the pacing slows down a bit during the second half of the film and the dialogs begin to sound repetitive.
But then the film slows right down, and unfortunately it is very clichéd and never really sparks.
This movie goes at a good clip too, and it rarely slows down and there are a few twists along the way as well.
The early scenes and music indicate that the film is going to be another trashy eighties thriller, which is fine by me; but suddenly the film slows down to snail pace, and despite a few nice murder sequences early on; there really isn't much to remember Looker for.
A shame, because it starts off quite good, then slows to a crawl and the interest peters out.
The character development in this French/Dutch film is fantastic in that this is the first time I've ever been drawn to the evil character, but the lag time in the movie slows it down immensely, which is it's only problem.
The pace slows down fast and the story reverts to boredom, the dialogs are horrible, the make-up effects are miserable and the acting performances are lamentable.
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