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An interesting cast - Joe Pesci, Brooke Adams, Danny Aiello, Jonathan Pryce - have all done better, the action is sluggish and sparse and only John Scott's exceptionally fine score (part of which turned up in the last reel of Die Hard) makes a positive impression.
In finality, Bowie was in the film for a total of ten minutes and the songs and dance sequences were sparse and left something to be desired.
We know a killer stalks the perimeters of the school but his body count is pitiful and sparse and in the absence of the visceral horrors one expects to find in the giallo, we get no sense of sinister mysteries/unspeakable secrets festering behind a facade of order and piety and rightness which is the kind of movie La Residencia wants to be but doesn't quite know how to do it.
The sparse dreamscapes were reminiscent of Wyeth paintings and amazingly effective.
The dialog is more sparse than most movies that I've seen, but adding a single word more would become verbose.
You might think a movie about conjoined twins would be wacky or even funny, but somehow the Farrelly brothers knew how to suck every bit of comedy out of a potentially hillarious film and leave the viewer with nothing more than a few sparse chuckles.
The violence/gore is too sparse and VERY badly done (there is a scene of a stabbing where you can clearly see that the knife is just thrust to the left of the victim), with the exception of a couple of death sequences.
I say often because there are sparse moments of amusement, but these are too rare to make the show worth watching.
The premise of the story - a young girl finding a time barrier at an abandoned naval station - is truly intriguing, add in some atmospheric direction from a team of excellent directors, sparse but brilliantly executed location footage and some solid performances - special note goes to the flawless and concentrated performance of Denis Quilley as Commander Traynor and you have a remarkably entertaining and memorable series.
The DVD is very sparse and why Criterion ever got involved I am not sure.
They have become sparse enough in this area, that the professionals are almost there for the tourists and as historical re-creationists, rather than as a professionals performing a civic duty.
The dialogue, when occasionally present, is carried by sparse words and heavy pauses.
Entertainment value is sparse, except for derisive laughter.
Completed in less than one month and having a sparse budget, the skillfully edited work benefits from a forcefully driven narrative that includes several parallel plot strings.
It seems to me that with the sparse dialogue and emphasis on body langauge and position and cast and director really had to give a personal performance drawing from experience and so on.
A sparse and atmospheric cross between Suspiria and A Watcher in the Woods -THE WOODS delivers subtly for its first two thirds and erupts in a rushed finale that deserved a more thorough and complex screenplay.
Though set in the sparse, almost barren confines of Black Mesa, Arizona, the film comes to life with sparkling and intelligent dialog that underscores it's mission to give meaning to the lives of it's two protagonists - Allan Squier (Leslie Howard) and Gabrielle "Gabby" Maple (Bette Davis).
One 6 minute sequence of a totally implausible rescue during a storm at sea earned an Oscar nom for Special Effects - must have been a very sparse year in this category.
The dialog is fairly sparse, letting Alex's expressions and body language show his fears and emotions, which are masterfully rendered.
Dialogue feels too sparse and wanna-be offbeat, not to mention being so predictable and underdeveloped that it feels more like a synopsis than dialogue.
The training sequence, a staple of the "fighting tournament" B-movie, is a perfect microcosm of how the movie is as a whole; shabby, questionable in logic and technique, sparse in action and intelligence, heavy on clichés, and despite the possible enjoyment one could get from how bad it is, simply uninteresting.
It is not a movie full of snappy one - liners,dialogue is sparse and significant.Miss Genevieve Bujold is also excellent as the Rape Crisis Centre boss,outwardly a ball - breaker,but wanting to trust this odd cop who offers so many contradictions.
The dialogue is very sparse and some of the worst I've heard in a long time, none of the characters are developed at all, I couldn't care less what happened to anyone at any point in the film.
The actors (I use that word advisedly) are dreadful; the dialogue is sparse and stupid and the film is padded out with endless shots of cars driving past and shots of streets from the driver's point of view.
Beautifully styled shots and a sparse yet rich sound design leaves you feeling emotionally drained by the end.
Lots of beautiful guys, but very sparse on gals.
The (sparse) fight sequences don't involve any weird Van Damme midair split-kicks to the head; they're straight-ahead brawls.
It's a "Wag the Dog" type of film that gets only sparse, occasional laughs.
The gore is tame, and far too sparse, but there are a couple of weirdly effective moments.
The population is sparse – roughly 700,000 people on territory the size of France – with agricultural communities nestled in deep valleys and a few herdsmen in the high mountains.
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