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Yet another attempt a la "Casablanca" to whip up excitement by placing a homely middle-aged American among exotic foreigners, this might have been tolerable had they just lost the dull, abrasive George Raft altogether and made the ultrafoxy Turhan Bey the leading man from the beginning.
The acting is pretty bad and the effects are absolutely horrid, but the plot is decent enough to make it tolerable.
And the whole thing seems only barely tolerable as fodder for the Mystery Science Theatre treatment.
As a parent forced to endure a fair amount of kids entertainment, it is always a relief to find something that is at least tolerable to an adult.
Given the typically British austerity of the film, an illfocused and bleak story, an almost complete absence of passion, and what are by film standards rather sublunary events with no payoff in the end, this flick was barely tolerable.
The twist (of which about 3 tolerable ones were discarded for the most inconsistent).
The first half of the film is trite but tolerable.
The most Franco like aspect of the film however is the jazzy score, which remarkably made the film a lot more tolerable for me.
Maybe the fact that this particular cannibal movie wasn't directed by one of the usual suspects (Lenzi, Deodato) is what makes it so tolerable.
One viewing is barely tolerable, any more would be just too taxing.
And yet it looks like another wise investment for master Corman, as "Galaxy of Terror" is still a guilty pleasure of many horror fans and it's frequently mentioned as one of the more tolerable "Alien"-imitations ever made.
I myself don't care much for hip-hop or rap but in this it was at least tolerable.
Okay, Kirsten Dunst is great and one of the best aspiring actresses today; Randy Quaid made it nearly tolerable; but I can't get over the fact that this was really another typical American attempt to turn people against the system and gain distrust and dispise for authority.
It may not be comedy gold, but a good comic makes even bad jokes tolerable.
Look, if their CV's were good enough for a real job they wouldn't be prostitutes, and if they were remotely pleasant, tolerable, or intelligent people they could have a hot rich guy who is less than 50 years older than them.
The B grade F/X are tolerable; but the story line is where this film falls apart.
There may have been some edits to the film upon US release that made it more tolerable, although I doubt how they would have been achieved.
Then near the end it finally picks up a bit and is tolerable.
JC fans will eat up the non stop action which only runs at about 82 minutes.It has this terminator/Mad Max kinda feeling to it.Yes there was a lot of rip offs(nailing in the desert)but all are tolerable with a mix of Van Damme and slow motion.The chase and final sequence are great and filled with cool stuff.
So in summary, to each his/her own, worse than even Operation Double 007, no hot babes under 30 here, toy sub's and cars and helicopters, really boring, the guy doesn't get any action, the Death Ray is lamer than Battle Beneath The Earth, the MST3K commentary barely makes it tolerable.
If you're a tremendous fan of Ferrell or McBride, then this picture might be tolerable.
Marc John Jefferies and Aree Davis play their two kids and they both actually give tolerable performances.
The running time is only 97 minutes which makes the movie a little more tolerable to watch.
I had some expectations that this film would be at least tolerable.
I agree with Godard, a bad Hollywood action movie is much tolerable than a bad European art movie.
For the first 30, 40 minutes or so, it was quite tolerable, and I was actually very entertained.
The thinking is clear (if rarely spelled out clearly by politicians): whereas a loss of market confidence in the British state’s solvency would most likely trigger a depression, above-target inflation can be rectified at a relatively tolerable cost to living standards (though higher than it should have been).
“Security of property and tolerable administration of justice,” as Smith put it.
In investing and improving, they would add to the capital stock: “In all countries where there is a tolerable security [of property], every man of common understanding will endeavor to employ whatever [capital] stock he can command, in procuring either present enjoyment or future profit...
A man must be perfectly crazy, who, where there is a tolerable security, does not employ all the stock which he commands, whether it be his own, or borrowed of other people...”A larger capital stock would mean thicker markets, a finer division of labor, and a more productive economy.
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