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Foster cruelly sets up rugged, resourceful and resilient innocent ex-con Joe Rolfe (a strong and sympathetic performance by John Payne) as a fall guy in a wicked ploy to buy time to successfully escape the country with the hot loot.
Eventually, he turned his image around until he became a sympathetic tough guy in classics like "Paths of Glory" and "Spartacus."
Some confusion in the script seems to have resulted in Novak's character turning somewhat sympathetic towards the ending, sounding a disingenuous note.
When the war torn drama yields it's tragic outcome, it is touching, sympathetic and memorable.
The very young Marines are seen in a sympathetic light.
It takes years of patience discovery, to learn what happened, but in the end, each owns a piece of the dark puzzle and with sympathetic understanding they approach the answer together.
The character of Bo Barrett was meant to be a sympathetic character, but didn't come across as one to me.
Matthew Nelson gives a surprisingly sympathetic performance.
While still chilling and ambitious, he is also sympathetic and loves his wife to death.
While seemingly limited in their ambitions, the main characters are nevertheless sympathetic and there are some quirky sidekicks whose characters are fleshed out enough to be entertaining as well - everyone from the landlady, the boss, to the friend who drives.
His character is a genius who is out of control, but Conti's talent depicts his situation as comic and tragic at the same time-no small feat-- while being absolutely sympathetic.
-- The star going AWOL for two weeks and being allowed back by a sympathetic manager because of a "woman."
One who has read and appreciated the book on all of its many levels will also miss its many memorable and important "minor" characters; its sensitive and sympathetic treatment of Buddhism and other non-Christian creeds; and will be left wondering whether it was the star, the writers, the producer, the director or some combination of the above who thought they could go Kipling one better by, among other things, replacing his almost-accidental crisis with a Flynn-caused avalanche, then neatly tying all his lifelike loose ends into a big Tinseltown bow.
Kal Penn tries his best and comes of as pretty sympathetic, but these lines he gets are just, ugh.
Now, despite what everybody else says...this movie really isn't bad at all, its got great soundtrack, style and actors.The main actor Vince Colosimo is perfect as the good looking hero of the story and makes the character sympathetic as a tough guy who's just from the wrong side of the tracks and is really a nice guy!Watch out for the part were he hits one of his teachers in the face when she bullies him...cool scene!
The movie goes beyond just being an homage and at several points DIRECTLY rips off Blade Runner (the stripclub, the eatery, etc etc) I could even have liked it in spite of its blatant lifting of Blade Runner's scenes, had it not also had a meagre created world in comparison to the original, and more importantly, had it had a sympathetic main character.
Cyon is the only character which I felt in any way sympathetic towards, and for most of the movie she's being horribly abused (raped, kidnapped TWICE, repeatedly attempting to kill her/steal her body etc etc).
This rather dark film noir with its uneasy comics (Roscoe Ates, Nana Bryant, and Billy House who even repeats his checkers trick from The Stranger) and desperate heroine (Mary Beth Hughes), is further strengthened by the forceful performance of Charles Russell who manages to make his rather ambivalent drifter somewhat sympathetic.
But the acting is quite good with a very sympathetic performance by Tom Skerritt.
I am sympathetic to the message, but please, treating your audience like idiots with melodramatic drivel is a poor way to get that message across.
This film contains serious contradictions, as it oscillates between making some characters appear sympathetic and then suddenly exposing them as baddies.
I'm sure when this film was made in 1934, it was considered a breakthrough and sympathetic.
But viewing it through my 21st century perspective, sympathetic to whom.
His a sympathetic villain who uses questionable means for his gains.
Brutally honest, sympathetic insight into the fall of the many Native American peoples... some of the material is painful, sometimes bleak, but an absolute MUST SEE for any feeling person with even a passing interest in the history of America.
I tried to be sympathetic to young former soldiers trying to make a living back in the civilian world but except for the lead character you didn't know enough about his friends to care what happened to them.
I found it really difficulty to be sympathetic to this main character who didn't seem to be affected by the death of a policeman--even if she wasn't responsible.
The cast also includes Terrence Howard as a sympathetic child services worker, pint-sized Jamia Simone Nash as a powerhouse vocalist, Mykelti Williams as a kind minister, and Alex O'Loughlin of TV's "Moonlight" as Lewis' brother Marshall.
Adam Sandler is fantastic - so sweet, but also hilariously (makes-you-feel) sympathetic when he gets mad at his ex-fiance in the song he shows Julia.
Sacrifices, revolt and chaos ensue, with the Mole People actually the sympathetic characters, an unexpected ending, shadowy photography, and solid direction by Virgil Vogel, make this enjoyable.
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