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THE GREAT DICTATOR produces few laughs today because it under-estimated the extent of human evil, but it succeeds despite its artless and inappropriate speechifying, because it has the distinct advantage of being vindicated by history.
The story intertwines with themes from Shakespeare's play: King Lear, but never succeeds in capturing the audience and making them care.
A good question which House of the Dead 2 succeeds in answering.
It's hard to make a bad movie with the "underdog finally succeeds" sport theme, but this movie succeeds admirably.
In this it succeeds - the only thing missing being something involving a small dog. 3 out of 10 for this one purely for Gabriel Macht's performance - he was the only member of the cast who was a) well cast and b) able to convince in his role.
Rajkumar Santoshi tries his hands at comedy and succeeds.
sometimes movies are just meant to entertain and be fun, and this one succeeds on both levels.
Jack Lemmon is great, as always, as the somewhat nervous plant operator and Jane Fonda succeeds again in bringing some real emotions into the story.
So he invents a first sabotage that succeeds but one of the victims, the friend of the one who dies in it, becomes the prime suspect and run-away for the sabotage.
The situations that they are in are all situations that we all have found ourselves in, and that is where this film succeeds.
Along the way, he meets some interesting supporting characters (this time, Paul Guilfoyle as "Pearly" Gates) and during his unraveling of this not especially compelling mystery (none of them really are), Templar is extremely erudite and just plain cool! George Sanders is once again the consummate sophisticated British do-gooder and he succeeds once again in making an excellent B-detective series film.
Made on a micro budget, this black and white digital movie is very much a European film and succeeds brilliantly in spite of the limitations of DV.
The gap between them can never be bridged, but the director succeeds in bringing the two as close to the brink of an affair as possible without damaging the story's plausibility.
This one succeeds at both.
Uzumaki succeeds as at plunging you into a bizarre surreality where Uzumaki shapes haunt and curse a town.
The movie, although not faithful to the original novels, succeeds in creating modern gothic vampire vision.
It succeeds on all levels.
A mannequin of a man incapable of love who succeeds professionally, but fails miserably in his personal life.
Or him and eddie going up there naked... not love) that make the rest of comedys go from good to crap, it lacks the usual dilemmas that one must overcome in most other comedy movies... unless you count the fact that they poisoned the guests and must escape from the guests green vomit as a dilemma thats similar to other comedy movies..... No, this movie just sets out and succeeds in doing one thing AND ONE thing only: Making one laugh.
So often comedies try to be so intentionally funny that it misses, but here is finally a movie that succeeds in being hilarious in the most subtle of ways.
The film succeeds in presenting abstract concepts in an unembroidered, totally engaging manner.
As an experiment, however, it succeeds just spectacularly.
The script and direction both make this entry more of a cat and mouse game between the two characters and that is one of the reasons this entry succeeds so well.
Kaige succeeds in this beautifully done film.
good doc succeeds in curing Larry's werewolfism,but Dracula tricks the doc and ends up contaminating his blood and makes the good doc a crazed lunatic.oh
An interesting pairing of stories, this little flick manages to bring together seemingly different characters and story lines all in the backdrop of WWII and succeeds in tying them together without losing the audience.
"Hell To Pay" bills itself as the rebirth of the Classic Western... it succeeds as a Western genre movie that the entire family could see and not unlike the films baby-boomers experienced decades ago.
Loony is an apt description of both what it intends to be and what it succeeds in being.
So, even though this review is almost a back-door review of SUNSHINE, I hope it's read for what it was meant to be; strong support for a BBC telefilm that succeeds where most big-budget, bloated cinematic spectacles fail.
Pink Flamingos succeeds because Waters made the film he wanted to make.
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