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All the cliché's of a slasher film without any substance.
This was probably intended as an "arty" crime thriller, but it fails on both counts - there are few thrills and not enough substance.
Simply put this movies is without any substance whatsoever.
That said, such films are more about the action than the plot/acting and, as such, live or die by the action set pieces - that after all is the point of such films - to give 14 year-olds something to smile at whilst the adults watch films of actual substance.
Just re-saw this last night and to put it bluntly: "Style instead of substance".
This is all production value, no substance, but the Disney name probably will help it.
This film is devoid of common cinematic substance and concentrates way too much upon the current "skin trend" in Bollywood movies.
The appeal of this film has to be the artsy Euro style, because there's absolutely no substance.
Those type of movies have substance and are so involving it's easy to miss an important portion of dialog, or a subtle nuance to plot details you may have overlooked.
It jumps from one character to the next, never giving enough substance to any one set of scenes to allow the involvement of those watching.
To sum things up best, the movie had no cohesion, it grossly lacked the substance to delve into the historical environment it covered, and upon ending, left you feeling like what you'd just seen was a series of aborted attempts to engage the viewer by switching from one thing to the next without adequately engaging the viewer in any of them.
I caught this on IFC last week and I thought it was typical of the indie short subject film: heavy on style, little on substance and originality.
Kris Kristofferson delivered a solid performance, there was a lot of substance behind his lines.
Style over substance.
I'd rather see a film with more substance than shooting any day.
This mesmerizing series not only handled the subject matter responsibly, it created depth and substance to almost every character.
I watched it over and over when i rented it from Netflix.It had a lot of substance and meaning for me.
I would recommend it to just about anyone, especially people who like movies with both style and substance.
This move has no meat, not substance, no deep thought provoking scenes.
There is little substance to be found within the plot, but it doesn't matter because nobody goes into this sort of film expecting a life-affirming experience.
The characters in the story are transported to another dimension by the means of a mind-altering substance, where a shape-shifting vampire creature appears to grant them their hearts desires, whilst draining them of their life essence.
The film deals with universal themes, mentioning no specific country as its context: it could happen anywhere--and has, in substance if not form.
While many other films of the decade in general lacked substance, this film is pure substance.
The gist of almost all of these pessimistic criticisms is that, for all its modernistic bravado and high-budget technology, the film doesn't have much substance where it counts.
In this one we have a boy and his dog - having personal problems at "home," running away from something and in the scene right after they run away, changing the substance of their appearance.
Tim Burton is in essence an expressionist film-maker, disinterested in dimensions of character and obsessed with Gothic scope, opting for style over substance incessantly throughout his career.
I'll admit that the whole idea of a Were-Rabbit is ab-it unbelievable and ab-it childish, but Nick Park adds substance to it which what makes everyone love it.
They really added a lot of substance and humor to the show.
Though not exactly a comedy in the usual sense of the word this more rewarding than any movie full of laughs but devoid of substance.
It's a classic Australian production that resembles recent efforts such as LOVE AND OTHER CATASTROPHES, THE SUGAR FACTORY, OCCASIONAL COARSE LANGUAGE, RUSSIAN DOLL, SAMPLE PEOPLE, THE SECRET LIFE OF US, LA SPAGNOLA, STRANGE PLANET, FRESH AIR, DUST OFF THE WINGS, DOING TIME FOR PATSY CLINE, etc..., as a 19-year-old uni student (Newton, in perhaps his best role yet, on par with CHANGI at least) with a bored, over-religious mother gets the shock of his life when she decides to enrol in the same course as him - and before you go thinking ANOTHER GOOFY MOVIE, it's not, there's some real substance here.
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