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Matthew Lillard is up to his usual standard, and is perfectly cast as "maniac".
The soundtrack is great and there are two songs of The Dictators in it: Those alone, give it a good rock n' roll injection that raise "Horror House on Highway Five" on a higher rank than many (boring) "standard" slahers I've seen!
Aside from its propagandistic aspects (it seems to argue that America has the right to invade any foreign country in the name of "law and justice"), this is a standard, brainless actioner, with lots of explosions and large-scale stunts, but not much excitement.
Held to the Disney standard, this is a very poor stab at making movie magic.
Unfortunately it ended up being standard Don fare with a ludicrous plot about a virtual reality fighting game that goes haywire and in essence is an excuse for loads of fights.
Beau Bridges set the standard for what I think a True Man is like.
Elliott Gould is bemused and colorful as a Vietnam veteran back in college, stuck between a rock and a hard place; he's working semi-seriously towards getting his teaching credentials, and yet is stymied by his fellow classmates who want to protest the hypocrisies of the Establishment (with Gould's help), and also by his instructors, hypocrites with power who work by a double standard.
The acting is the same fairly low standard as that of the first.
I think the film had enough humorous moments to make a 30-minute episode of the standard we've come to expect from the TV series.
For 99% of the movie he speaks "standard American English" (no identifiable accent).
What makes "Mifune" stand out from standard Hollywood movies are the painfully real characters, who make it feel like a real-life romance between two people rather than a hypothetical story about hypothetical characters none of us is ever going to meet.
First of all it begins as a standard Military war film, setting up the plot for about 45 minutes!
They spent a little money making this flick, but ultimately it doesn't quite pass the test, even for a standard thriller.
Acting from the two vets was of highest standard.
It's just your standard cliche laden "romantic" date movie.
The songs are standard period fare, ponderous and somewhat shrill.
Standard fare?
If you want more, sorry, as long as these movies make a ton of money in Japan, they aren't required to raise the standard on GODZILLA.
Set in 1939, its about the British navy trying to capture "The Graf Spee" pursued by the "HMS Ajax", "HMS Exeter" and "HMS Achilles".Most people say it is not up to the standard as, say, "A Matter of Life and Death", but I disagree.
now,that is.this is a pretty standard western movie,which follows the general formula of westerns at that time.however,i
The animation can't be compared to Pixar or Dreamworks, as it was the standard of animation almost seventy years ago, but you can tell by watching it that the film was made with a lot of skill and love by the artists.
Granted, it's been over 10 years since I've seen it (though I'm downloading it right now... found it on Sharaza, hence my urge to look it up here), but it quickly became the standard all other XXX movies had to live up to, since (most don't hold my interest for more than ten minutes.
Writer/director Lance W. Dreesen offers a fresh and novel spin on the standard werewolf premise by cleverly blending the more horrific elements with a surprisingly potent and touching domestic drama.
Leo Putt as Lord Wang brings some much-appreciated comic relief to what in lesser hands could've been an overly-grim slug fest of the "mechanical martial arts" variety (wherein the standard katas are performed by actors whose expressions never change).
Zhao and Mok manage to infuse a standard HK action plot with emotion and complexity, and the film becomes "The Killer" meets "24 Hours."
EASY is not a "chick flick" (though women will definitely identify with the main character) and is not your standard Hollywood romantic comedy.
'Christmas in my Hometown' is standard Lifetime TV holiday fare.
Rife with every standard post-"X-Files" pseudo-horror trope (look!
All this matched by an ending which establishes a new standard for 'lousy'.
On the surface Red Sun appears to be a fairly standard shoot-em-up with the attendant 'who's the real nasty?' sub-plot thrown in for a bit of mystery.
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