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Threadbare horror outing has an innocent teen (Meg Tilly, appealing as always) attempting to get in good with the popular clique at school (despite the fact they seem to hate her outright) and letting herself be subjected to their sorority-like initiation: spending the night in a creepy mausoleum.
Even if you're willing to suspend disbelief, the story itself is pretty threadbare, a pale imitation of an A.J. Cronin melodrama.
The threadbare plot screams under the weight of its contrivances.
By this point in the series the energy and charm is lacking even more than in 'Herbie Rides Again'; the movie is overlong and threadbare, although it's watchable thanks to the return of Jones's typically likable performance, a few funny bits, and the cast's frantic mugging.
The fact that a film's quality is threadbare doesn't mean you shouldn't buy it.
Deezen does his schtick and has a couple nice moments as well, but the material is just too threadbare than to be anything more than teenage sophomoric time filler.
He takes back a threadbare topic and his efforts are discernible to make a stylish work.
The plot is threadbare, but Coppola does a great job at detailing the emotional life of these characters, and uses editing techniques to relay back story that were not at all common in American films of the time.
Stanwyck, always impeccably professional, does the best she could with the material but it's threadbare.
This threadbare cast, whose combined star power would struggle to illuminate a standard lamp, is perfectly matched by the crummy production values.
This is a movie that deals in nasty, threadbare stereotypes instead of characters, preposterous manipulation instead of coherent plotting, and a hideous cocktail of cloying sentimentality and gratuitous violence instead of thought, wit or feeling.
The sets are really threadbare, (Not sure if that was the intention or not) but the acting is good.
This atmospheric but abysmal British-produced zombie epic endeavors to conceal its threadbare budget by lensing everything from the perspective of the lout lugging around the video camera.
Luke Moberly directs with a wink and a smile; he must have known this threadbare outing was no "Bonnie & Clyde", though he was clearly inspired by that film in visual terms, and his picture gets off to a decent start.
No budget, no actors, and a plot that has been used so many times that it is threadbare.
They are mere shadows that unconvincingly act out the hollow and threadbare plot.
Indeed, "Deathstalker 2" looks like a threadbare straight-to-video sequel.
This story was threadbare in 1930 and there is nothing funny about the kids in question.
Such images as castration, religious icons, and a tacky Latino soap opera are all intertwined in a vain attempt to give some meaning to the threadbare storyline.
While it's a competent movie, and doesn't suffer as much as you might think from Van Damme's complete lack of acting ability, it's weighed down by its hopelessly threadbare plot and a split personality screenplay that can't decide if it's a drama or a beat-em-up.
None of the characters are compelling, the plot is threadbare, and there is virtually no humour.
Premise of the script has merit and could be utilized well in a more expensive production, but is let down by the threadbare production values of this film.
The plot is threadbare, the production values non-existent, and the video presentation was unwatchable.
"Criminal" offers no such special angle or special depth and tries to trade on nothing but the - by now hopelessly threadbare - fascination of lives led according to the principle of the double-double-cross and the "nothing is what it seems".
The script is threadbare, and Landis relies heavily on hammy gags and scenery-chewing.
This threadbare, bottom of the barrel effort will certainly hold you in suspense as you wonder to yourself '"Will it ever end?
The quickie shooting schedule shows, everything looks threadbare (especially the "nightclub" location which looks like someone's basement with a cardboard bar and some flashing colored lights bouncing on the walls.
The story is threadbare.
It is heavy on Cold War "Irony",i.e. the Russians and Americans having to pool their nuclear resources to ward off a threat from outside,a conceit that was hardly original twenty years earlier and which had become very threadbare by the end of the seventies.
OK, so someone took the basic outlines of the infamous "Gor" novels and used them as an excuse for this amazingly threadbare, slipshod excuse for a feature film.
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