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It has enough action and laughs to sustain it.
This has some excellent spots but the length of the film can not sustain the wafer thin plot.
Yes, it was great to see Mary and Rho together, and yes, maybe the film didn't sustain the comedy of the original series, but there were enough moments that recalled the spirit of the series to make this a fitting tribute.
De Palma's movie makes a really good case that style, when handled properly, can sustain a feature length film.
The 126 minutes' length hints of a genre-piece that can't stop itself: the director wrote twice as many fainting scenes, dream sequences, and face-offs between heroine-villain as any film could sustain, and then left in every damned one of them.
The riffing of Joel and the bots is still entertaining, but it can't disguise the fact this film is pretty thin on usable plot and relies mostly on Steve Reeves rugged looks to sustain itself.
At first the characters don't seem to have the depth needed to sustain the movie, but as we watch we learn more about each and the decisions they make to "better" their circumstances and the repercussions of those decisions.
The actors did engage, and each character had enough depth to sustain an interest, but only enough to feel let down at the end.
Aficionados of film noir find very few movies in the cycle without some interest -- even the poverty-row programmers that come in just under or over an hour tend to have something to sustain interest.
The plot of this movie (two ill children escaping the bubble they live in to take on an endeavour in the outside world) is very thin and failed to sustain my interest.
This film is a major disappointment by Amos Gitai.One should even call it a blot on his career.Promised land is neither a feature film nor a documentary nor anything which can lie in between.It features two popular stars Anne Parillaud and Hanna Schygulla but even their presence is not helpful enough to sustain viewers' interest.The film is about the plight of some Russian girls which are sold in Israel but its presentation is really bad.
Strong sexual content and some nudity equal an R rating; but a large percent of the film is subtitled and may sustain flaccidity.
The rest is a very skinny gypsy revenge melodrama, not complex and interesting enough to sustain a big screen movie.
At least Kim has a recurring television role to sustain her.
it's the grocery chain generic version of laundry soap or pop corn or a cheap version of a scouring pad/sponge. in order to sustain an industry you have to have product and this is pure product.
It is, however, excruciatingly long, and is without enough story embellishment to sustain interest; an even more fictionalized account might have been a wiser course of action.
Set and filmed in a cheerless lower class district of Sydney, with its casting auditions held at various schools of that city for many of the younger featured players, the piece won an award at Cannes Junior, yet there is precious little to sustain viewer interest in most sequences, responsibility for this shortcoming falling upon Cameron's disjointed screenplay.
The emotional roller-coaster this movie put me on was one very few films can achieve, let alone sustain throughout the length of the movie.
But as it is, it's seriously overlong with nothing to sustain it.
A rather long movie, but it manages to sustain the viewer's attention throughout.
While "Zelig" has its moments, it is ultimately tedious, running about twice as long as it's one-note gag treatment can sustain.
It had anti-stereotypes like accountant-torturers that wouldn't sustain a SNL sketch let alone what felt like a 16 hour movie.
What is going on is a desperate attempt to sustain the relationship in a way crazy existence.
Playing out like something contrived by a bunch of drunken college students, this flick invents wacky characters and then has them pop up as necessary to sustain it as it dogs its way through its meager plot.
It does have some suspense but isn't able to sustain a level of interest as it goes from being creepy to scenes of inane chatter by the camp counselors.
There is enough action to sustain interest and the story is pretty good (if not original).
This is very grim stuff but also an extremely moving and thought-provoking look at what human beings in the most miserable of circumstances will do to stay alive, and how through it all they sustain their desire to ultimately fight back.
ATHF can barely sustain a 12-minute show.
Having managed to sustain genuine brilliance across the last four cartoons, 'There They Go-Go-Go' feels like a very tired entry into the series.
All in all, 'There They Go-Go-Go' is a disappointment but is easily excused as an inevitable hiccup in a series that managed to sustain the same premise for an astonishing amount of time.
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