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Sylvester Stallone stars as Ray Quick, a professional hitman hired by May Munro (Sharon Stone) who wants revenge for her parent's murder, in this overblown and sub-par actioner which stands out only for James Woods' performance as a crooked FBI agent.
This film stands out while looking at the DPP list of Video Nasties due to its wacky title.
Maybe Paul Valentine would have made a better cover boy than the late Herman Slater, but the fact is Paul Valentine wasted no time in telling what his organization is all about, what he does and what the WCSL stands for.
Sure, Goodfellas has some black comedic moments, but on whole, it stands as a "drama" rather than a comedy.
Palmer is equally good as his girlfriend, a practical woman who stands by her man.
But kudos go to the magnificent Helen Hayes as the new addition to the family who stands up to Hale, John Beal, as her sensitive nephew who falls in love with her, and Robert Montgomery playing Hayes' husband, still under the control of his mother.
I just saw it this week after not seeing it since the 70's, and the film stands the test of time marvelously -- still as fresh, funny, and involving as when I saw it originally.
This feature stands alongside "The Gold Rush" and "Modern Times" as among Chaplin's best.
The girls get an outside assignment taking care of some little girls who are slowly being starved to death for insurance money by "Nick", (Clark Gable!) Lora stands up to Nick as only Barbara Stanwyck can when she's steaming mad.
As it stands the film seems cold, with as much inspiration in at as a McDonalds commercial.
The view of the Polo Grounds stands shows the largely male crowd in derby and straw hats.
Hill is attractive, but personally I thought Noelle Reno was much more attractive and she gives a darn good performance that stands out in this film, showing that she has that rare blend of good looks and talent.
As a collection of three stories, The Night Gallery stands as one of the best horror anthologies ever filmed.
Young Sherlock played here pretty well by Nicholas Rowe stands out amongst the others by some degree.
As it stands I don't rate this a one, I give it a three.
Well after the amazing first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film and the second not quite amazing but still good Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2:The secret of the Ooze the turtles return to the big screen for the unlucky third time where in the first 2 films they had a great opening sequence like in the first we had never seen the turtles on the big screen and really alive before so they kept that suspense going for about a awesome 10 Min's we finally see them all together right after there about to jump at the main titles and in the second one the turtles all jump up and the main title goes right there it was pure awesome and everyone couldn't wait for them to come up.....but in the third there is no thought no imagination its just the turtles dancing witch couldn't even succeed at being funny and brings me to splinter witch if you think splinter was an undeveloped character in the second...wait until you see him in the third splinter is supposed to be a main character that teaches the turtles but in this movie he just stands in his under ground house and at least the first two films he looks really cool but in this film he looked like a puppet behind a wall and only appeared in a few scenes witch was pointless so lets get to the plot April buys a some sort of time warp thing and warps the turtles in time and this movie would have been good story and have something that fans wanted such as shredders return and the debut a krang if thats what you are hoping to get......your wrong...instead you get 2 weird stupid undeveloped characters that nobody cared for why? because we didn't know these characters from the cartoon show and they don't look cool there just siting on a horse shooting guns and ones the gos guy and other is the bad guy and the Michaelangelo gets kidnapped witch keep the turtles back April as well gets set back in time where her and mike and prisoners and the turtles costumes just look so awful it isn't funny and there is only a couple fight scenes not involving all the turtles until the end at least the previous films had more then one for scene with all the turtles more then once so as you can see they pretty much went wrong where ever this is buy far the worst tmnt film as well as it being one of the worst films and let downs ever and goes to show that most three's in a sequel flop the first,second and fourth tmnt films are all great so lets just pretend the fourth is the third and leave this horrible film as a past and killed off memory.
Diana Rigg of the television show "The Avengers" delivers the only worthwhile performance and nobody else stands out in this lackluster but more accurate rendition of the classic yarn.
For reasons that eluded me Marc, by now convinced that Devos has some hidden agenda he can't fathom, lights out for Hong Kong literally in just the clothes he stands up in and spends a few days - weeks, months?
The sock hop - which was rocking beforehand, let me tell you - screeches to a halt and everyone stands gape-mouthed at this dolt.
It stands alongside "Zulu" and "Hamburger Hill" as the best, in my opinion.
As a soft core feature, Emmanuelle 2 stands out as one of the very best of it's kind.
However, there is one great, great moment in "Big Trouble" that stands out: the world's longest spit take.
Against a cast like that this version stands with no chance, Richard Crenna is a decent actor if he plays a decent role and the one thing you can say about him is that he doesn't look as ridiculous as the rest of the cast.
It is performance that most stands out.
Leadership is dependent on strong and often ruthless decisions that mean only the alpha female may bear pups, and the fate of the group's breeding age adults becomes a series of illicit one night stands with rival non-related meerkats, and hard learned lessons in meerkat morality that leaves younger wanton daughters ousted for pregnancy.
As it stands, the woman who directed this and the producers who handed over the money for such tripe should be executed for squandering!!
As it stands this movie is a travesty.
Everyone who stands in his way is done for.
This melancholy entry in the Peanuts quadrilogy stands out among the four, simply because of the difference in tone from the other entries.
Coeurs, the latest achievement of French master Alain Resnais, stands out as one of the finest European productions of 2006, a fact confirmed by the Silver Lion it was awarded in Venice.
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