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He seeks out the man and when she witnesses his happiness, she decides to become the "godmother of the rejected", anonymously helping people that are her acquaintances using her fantasy and little tricks.
Still, one is drawn into this sumptuous bag of tricks almost against his will, and the overall results are fun for '50s connoisseurs.
J.R. is up to his usual tricks but doesn't quite have the meanness of the old days.
Both Lepage's sibling portrayals are spot on, the cinematography tricks are engaging and perfectly pitched, as is the supporting cast.
But these spy things are always a bit like that, tough to make because they are kind of cheap magician tricks, what do you show and what do you hide and if you hide too much its boring or confusing and you show too much and there is not a mystery.
After the exhilarating opening scene, Enduring Love becomes a strange mixture of Claude Chabrol and Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction); not that its strangeness is something negative, it just seems this is a film with many tricks up its sleeve but without a coherent directorial identity.
For example, the way in the terminal room is MUCH too easy, I think in a TV episode the writer would have invented much more "tricks".
I don't think people champion films like this because Byler avoids the cheap tricks that plague so many of the films that are coming out of the independent production world.
What I think he did better than most schlock was that he used actual tricks of the scary movie trade, rather than just thinking of the most vomit worthy ideas imaginable (which are still present here).
I haven't heard of Jolene Blalock but she is excellent in her role as the supposedly raped(was she or wasn't she?) DA who may have some tricks up her sleeve.
The director is still in the conviction that he can move his audience with these simple and obvious tricks.
I will not say much except this is one of the most simple, most beautiful stories made into cinema; there is absolutely no artifice, no tricks, and every detail is pure and genuine.
Johnson's character is clearly a handful even before Jaclyn marries him, and her character's stupidity in falling for his little-boy tricks is a turn-off for the audience.
They are fooled by tricks that wouldn't fool a ten year old and praised for completing tasks that a six year old could complete with ease.
There has to be something wrong, when you start to sympathise with the second leads instead of the two leads, which is the main problem with Griffin Dunne's mildly amusing, nasty, mean and cruel romantic comedy about obsessed and crazy ex-lovers Matthew Broderick and Meg Ryan combining their powers to separate their past lovers Kelly Preston and Tcheky Karyo from one another by playing tricks on them.
I realize they can become invisible and also have some other powers in their little alien bag of tricks, but you take one look at them and you just feel like a group of military folks (even ones like the misfits we so clearly have here) ought to have been ransacked these aliens in and out of this secluded island in about 5 minutes.
I've never seen so many silly cinematic tricks crammed into a single movie.
There is some trick photography, but nothing new; in fact, these tricks (superimpositions, stop substitutions, a fish tank between characters and the camera to represent being under the sea, a tilted camera to make them appear to be going up and down stream) had been in use for near a decade or more even by then.
Tricks like forced perspective, over-sized sets, and double exposures that reportedly took many hours to film to get it right.
Luckily, many of his best tricks are revealed here for posterity.
Not taking kindly to this Jerry turns the table and plays tricks on Tom.
The visual tricks are good but repetitive and rather confusing.
This team may have better luck in the future with some more money to not have to worry about shoddy camera tricks and focus on the story.
Guys turn tricks for other guys PERIOD!!! Ok having said that it would not be quite so horrible if the acting by the lead was good, but its not its awful and unrealistic.
The plot is maybe more tangled than that of "The Usual Suspects", and there are enough distorted/out-of-chronological order events, half-remembered/repeated/altered lines and "was-it-all-a-dream-or-was-it-real?" tricks to baffle even the most avid mystery fan.
I went with 2 of my sons who are major film going people and when asked to describe the plot line,simply could't.It is long- and feels long.Dylan McDermott is easy on the eyes- he uses all the usual tricks to allure- unshaven,motorcycle,architect....but there is essentially no chemistry between him and Ashwarya Rai.
As always, Chuck Jones's wise-guy mice Hubie and Bertie (making their debut) play tricks on an unsuspecting feline.
While this plot is fascinating, the film itself flounders with typical and hackneyed evil spells and tricks used by the witch, which make the true fiber of the story into a peripheral byline until the very end.
The novice camera tricks in this movie give it a hilarious touch.
Office fool Charley at first gets the tricks played on him with mixed humorous results, then he turns the tricks on others only to have them backfire.
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