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Why? It's never addressed directly; he just appears to have run out of steam.
Despite the interesting cast of Arthur, MacMurray and Melvyn Douglas, this film literally runs out of steam with the concocted ending it displays.
This movie is full of suspense, great action scenes and an involving story which never loses steam.
My all time favorite scene has to be where Lee takes on a gang of transvestites in a steam bath, after kicking their asses he leaves with the line "See you in hell kid!"
However, with very green and inexperienced actors in front of the camera--and poor cinematography and sloppy editing going on behind it--the picture loses steam even before the halfway mark.
The film runs out of steam a bit towards the end, they don't appear to know how to end it!
"The Woods" does pick up some steam towards the hour mark with the reappearance of Heather's parents and the first words spoken by a formerly silent Bruce Campbell, who plays to his adoring cult following once more here.
With his father and colleagues pushing him away from the piano, he gathers more steam.
But the film loses its steam after the opening credits.
The franchise as lost its steam.
From the absurd opening shot of two old geezers shooting each other, to the more insane mad pirate Captain who lives on some slave ship steam hauler, this film has nowhere to go.
Nor do I recall that he was raised by rats or a rat catcher being a main character who drove around in the labyrinth under the opera house on a steam powered rat vacuum.
A Southern soaper which Warner Bros. was hoping would ride on the advance steam perpetuated by M-G-M and their upcoming "Gone With the Wind"--and starring Bette Davis, who had been bypassed for the role of "Wind"'s heroine, Scarlett O'Hara.
To quote Dr. Strangelove, "The purpose of a doomsday device is to tell the world you have a doomsday device!! WHY DID YOU KEEP IT A SECRET ?!?!?!" It's not like the Chinese actually present a list of demands, or anything, before they blow up the world...it takes a super secret "Mission Impossible" spy mission to discover that the machine exists.Chairman Mao was never about blowing Red China up...it was always his intent to simply steam roll over the West with numbers and the power of Marxism, and allow China (and Communism) to achieve its glorious (and inevitable, in Commie eyes) destiny.
headlines in this action(less) entry as maverick cop (yep, cliché territory, full steam ahead!) Mike Justice, a man who doesn't play by the rules.....etc.
However, I did not find the characters to be as developed as I would have liked, so the film loses steam, even though it is a fairly short film, much less than ninety minutes.
Unfortunately, the film runs out of steam and the comedic possibilities are wasted.
The opening tale involving Shirl in a funeral procession is very witty, but the other six seem to progressively lose steam.
I guess the producers were just trying to ride on their success of the first film and trying to produce as many films as possible so as to cash in on them before the steam runs off.
Well, the steam definitely had run off with the ending of the first film.
The plot, in which Mick gets a job as a movie extra and uncovers an art smuggling ring, is nonsense, and whatever steam might have been left in the series after the dismal 'Crocodile Dundee II' has entirely evaporated in the intervening years.
The film drags a bit and then picks up steam in the final half hour.
This stands out as a camp classic of the Joseph H. Lewis variety: there's even a threatening gadget, in this case a steam cabinet.
Overall The Train chugged to a slow pace before it ran out of steam.
This man ran out of steam long before Full Moon ran out of business.
The rest of the movie is just GORGEOUS with the European locations, set decoration and authentic props (including a steam locomotive!).
Then, the show lost some steam during the interview segment.
?? Now, Sylvia is the secretary and love object of Dr. Kessling, who is the man who is responsible for transporting the sarcophagus to a museum, and he also seems to have discovered the secret of its occupant, who manages to change places with an incoming professor and take his place, that is, after that particular poor soul is run over by a steam roller, egad.
Meaning we all have our prejudices and ignorant generalizations, the important thing is to be aware of them and admit they exist and are not positive traits, which takes much of the steam out of racism.
While it utilizes an "A" cast, led by the superb Warren William, the plot just loses too much steam at the end to really feel like it meets its potential.
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