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Set in South Africa, a young black guy tries to land a part in a 'gangsta' movie.
Even if Jennifer tries to kill her, which she tries.
It tries to create that feel of emergency and people helping.
It tries to spin or twist the genre with preposterous plot lines of a a crazed fan turned psychotic - the movie meanders into nothing.
This sequel is thoroughly uneven, incoherent and rambling in "plot" (if there really is one)and tries too damned hard to be modern (ridiculous, out of period and character 21 st century style songs predominate) and cute (yawn: there are too many manufactured, belaboured jokes with animals.)
This movie tries to look "genuine" and the characters should be supposed "real people".
When Billy Zane tries to kill someone, he feels bad...but he doesn't look like to.
Kevin, wussy extraordinaire, tries to impress his girlfriend, manages an assistant security guard job, fights with rakes, and plenty more stuff in this very badly made series of images.
A biker punk has sex with a cycle slut on a pinball table in front of a crowd of people, then tries to rape the scientist's virginal daughter Jessica (Debra Hunter), who is in love with another biker (Dale Midkiff, from PET SEMATARY), who, in turn, is in cohorts with the assistant!
This movie is about a couple that tries to find out the changes going on in the world like places in China where there was an earthquake and end up at a convent run by eight nuns and a priest.
In addition, it takes on burdens which it staggers igniminiously under when it tries to draw analogies with the current Northern Ireland peace process: the woman is told by her lawyer that she "must lay down preconditions" for her return.
From the moment Christopher Lee puts on a pair of punk sunglasses and tries to sneak into a punk rock club, you know you've got a stinker on your hands!
He tries 2 b funny here but its maybe worth a smirk of a chuckle.
Robert Carlyle isn't Hitler he is a man who sadly tries to be Hitler.
The film tries to cross Heathers and Bring It On and fails .
Miike's surreal vision of a dysfunctional family almost tries to be Lynchian in terms of confusion and film-making, but ultimately lacks the style and intrigue.
The movie tries to come off as "artistic", or something.
Jack Black tries to make something about a comedy about disappearing dog crap, and Christopher Walken, perhaps on of the greatest actors of his generation, simply looks embarrassed to be there.
Though it tries to be original by focusing on the teen father instead of the mother showing the problems that the dad would go through.
This movie is once again, one of those movies that someone thinks or tries to make others think that they understood it.
Anyone who tries to make any sense of this is a MORON!
It is far off compared to the 89 Batman that it tries to coppy.
Gary Busey tries out the Mel Gibson role from "Lethal Weapon" and while Busey is a serviceable actor the screenplay damns the whole movie to mediocrity.
He is awful when he tries to act tough - he barely manages to keep that trademark smirk off his face while saying his one-liners which, by the way, aren't very funny.
this film really tries to hard.
Redd Foxx does his standard schtick, Michael Warren at least tries to bring humanity to a one dimensional character, and Pearl--Pearl what were you thinking--?
To console himself Joe tries to buy a porn mag but is shocked when the clerk (Kevin Devoy) refuses to sell it to an underage girl.
To get Ryan to like Robbins, Einstein tries to make Robbins look like a brilliant scientist.
A pathetic father who fails at everything he tries e.g.
Renown writer Mark Redfield (as Edgar Allen Poe) tries to conquer old addictions and start a new life for himself, as a Baltimore, Maryland magazine publisher.
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