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Writer/director Harry Essex, who also wrote the scripts for the classic 50's fright features "It Came from Outer Space" and "The Creature from the Black Lagoon," pukes forth a 50's style micro-budget clunker that boasts all the necessary bad movie vices to qualify as a real four-star stinker: the flat acting from a lame no-name cast (flash-in-the-pan 70's drive-in flick starlet Maria De Aragon in particular just takes up space as fetching love interest heroine Jeanne), sluggish pacing, ragged editing, rough, grainy cinematography by Robert Caramico, meandering narrative, a roaring, overwrought score by Robert Freeman, several ludicrous touches (the fireball stalks people before it kills them!), and a hackneyed "it ain't over yet!" ending all combine together to create one laughably lousy and leaden lump of a total stiff.
Like more than a few other unfortunate souls, I rented this based on the presence of Jeffrey Combs, whose unusually stiff performance tipped me off to the long ride ahead.
The movements are stiff and the faces are not very animated.
That aside, this is a shockingly brutal and powerful film...yes the acting is stiff but I do believe that this was intentional in order to reflect the times.
You do not sympathize with Cap because the actor is so stiff he is in no way believable.
He is a stiff actor.
This film is hybridized by other culture.It's colorful,but it's insipid.This film is international commodity.Maybe the producer just want to get money from Korea and Japan by using Korean and Japanese in the movie.I'm a Chinese.I found it very stupid to listen to two foreigner conversing by using their stiff Chinese.The director want to express some ideas,but I think he chose a wrong method.These kind of film just look like a copy of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.Maybe using anther way to express his idea will be impressible.In my opinion,unadorned movie is more cordial,and it is a good way to express Chinese culture.
Mr. Mitchum was stiff as a board throughout the entire flick.
Marilyn, never more beautiful, outstages a stiff Olivier in this fairytalish comedy.
The performances are generally stiff, except for Bela Lugosi, who overworks his facial muscles.
I took the movie more as a study of how he changes throughout -- he starts out so stiff and rigid (Ultra Businessman) and ends up relaxed and charming, particularly in their dessert scene.
Bad guy (creepy and menacing up to that point) gave up too easily; Shari Belafonte was oddly stiff -- and there were a lot of things left unclear, like how Cannon's brother figured out what was up in the first place.
The dead pan, stiff style of Wilder is dramatically improved when placed alongside the kinetic energy of the street wise, Afrocentric humor of Pryor.
Full of flaws, stiff acting, bad effects, bad plot and very silly stereotypes of non-american soldiers.
The director has no style, the acting is stiff, and the action scenes are poorly shot.
She's chasing Tyrone Power across South Africa, although he's something of a stiff, but she also loves hearty Richard Egan.
It's a stiff and self-conscious circus, albeit one with an opulent 1920s production design.
The zombies look scarier, Barbara isn't annoyingly scared stiff like in the 1st version, and its updated in color.
The dialogues are stiff and dull, and often supremely silly.
Yet, the ones who aren't over-the-top are wooden and stiff.
"Stiff?" "One dimensional?"
Norris is as stiff as ever, of course, and there are plenty of hokey fight sequences, often filmed in slow-motion, although I can't quite understand the necessity of that "gimmick".
The dialog is so stiff and stilted and full of anti-communist cliches.
The movie started off a little confusing and Eric Bana seemed a little stiff in the lead role and i was worried this movie was going to be a big disappointment.
The acting is terrible and stiff.
The acting is so stiff.
It starts of very stiff, no kissing, he just takes off his trousers and "does it", then stands up an puts them back on.
what's not to like, unless you are overly stiff
The film is slow and stiff with long embarrassing moments of nothing.
Sure, Jason Robards is a little stiff at first, but he gets better as the film goes on.
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