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No major budget, very few special effects; but decent acting and a storyline of global doom is enough to sustain viewing.
There are some nice Brasilian sunsets and the characters are believable, but the story of how they interrelate, even if very unusual by our standards, is not interesting enough to sustain a movie this long.
It was aesthetically nice for a while but it could not sustain a very mediocre film.
While the cast did its best to sustain the action and interest of the scripts, I was just caught up in comparing the episodes to the original series.
Not only does she become one of the undead, she uses her goth, temptress persona to sustain her talents as a cold blooded assassin.
This oddity contains Bunuel-like touches, but doesn't sustain one's interest.
There is lots of blood,however it's not all that gory, and for it's low budget it was pretty well done, however as I said it just couldn't sustain it's interest.
This dark, surreal revisionism smears the true and heroic efforts of the Greek people to sustain their lust for life through the tragedies of the 20th century, to achieve more than any of their Balkan neighbors, to have become so politically evolved and globally integrated.
The film quality was poor, and there was hardly enough gang fighting action to sustain even the drunkest person's interest for long enough to watch the entire film.
But lately I've been running out of resources to sustain my fancy.
As cute and adorable as they are, the story of three singing chipmunks just doesn't seem to have enough meat to it to sustain it for an hour and a half.
This belabored and sloppy spy melodrama featuring two buffoonish (one idealistic, one drug addled) California kids dealing secrets to the KGB never seems to get enough steam up to sustain any tension and suspense before it dies a very slow death over two hours later.
Also the parts where they talk about the bridge almost redeemed the entire movie, but it couldn't sustain me through to the end.
Long and long winded this film has way too little action to sustain its 80 minute running time (worse the mummy doesn't even show up until an hour has passed).
Knowing that their paper thin plot was barely enough to sustain a feature length movie, the filmmakers subject us to scene after scene of endless beach parties featuring tons of extras gyrating their half naked bodies in the scorching sun.
The films opening scenes were extremely intriguing and were enough to sustain early interest in the film.
But there are enough likable characters to sustain interest.
Would it sustain the feeling of the first film?
Along with the depiction of a delusional mind, Sen's magic has brought forth many little nuances of human relationships as they sustain stress and strain.
Despite the long running time, Wilder manages to make it quite exciting and is able to sustain the drama even though the outcome is known.
Having only each other and their childhood innocence, their friendship slowly develops into much more as they struggle to sustain themselves, in this sweet coming of age story.
Despite colorful supporting turns by Katy Jurado and Joan Blondell, the general wackiness gets way out of hand, and there's too much hoopin' and hollerin' to sustain much interest.
It could sustain a 3-4 minute comedy sketch maybe, but this is just not a feature film by any stretch of the imagination.
Based on the average short story by horror writer Stephen King about so called 'Sleepwalkers' ancient and immortal cat-like creatures that suck the life out of virgins in order that this energy may sustain them They have supernatural abilities- they can make themselves 'dim' which means they become invisible and can create subliminal mirages to fool people.They have been fleeing humans for century's we are told and have one by one been picked off till there are only two left.The film starts when a beautiful mother and her son arrive in a sleepy town, they are the last of the sleepwalkers and they are on the prowl for virgins to feed on.
This movie doesn't have what it takes to take off and sustain flight, and here is why.
I am a vegetarian because I couldn't kill an animal even to sustain my life.
Firstly, how has Jennifer Tilly managed to sustain a film acting career for all these years based on that ridiculous squeaky voice and the very limited range of hammy facial expressions she employs?
The eight Jean Rollin film I have watched is also possibly the weirdest; the intriguing plot (such as it is) seems initially to be too flimsy to sustain even its trim 84 minutes but it somehow contrives to get inordinately muddled as it goes along!
One man, Daddy, has the maturity and fortitude to sustain the family in the face of adversity.
We all know that killers like Freddy, Jason, Michael and even Leatherface shouldn't be able to sustain the amount of pain they do and still live to fight another day.
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