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She tries, perhaps too hard.
"The Other Side of Heaven" stands out as a movie that tries to fill the viewer with a sense of goodness in a people and those who would serve them.
And quite frankly, I don't want to know.You try so hard to understand what NO SMOKING tries to say, but the film is like one big puzzle that refuses to get solved.
It starts out with Keichi Morisato, who decides to order some lunch, but accidentally dials the Goddess-help-hotline but when he tries to tell them it was a mistake, and all of a sudden Belldandy comes out of nowhere!
When a movie tries to get most of its power from a plot twist you've figured out well before halfway , there's a serious problem.
He is nervous, he is insecure, he tries to think and the more the movie follows him, the less it is clear, how much this person can be trusted.
The movie tries too hard to be moody and creepy, and ends up being cheesy.
Prof Hundert lives in his little-boy world of the Classical "Greats", and wrongly assumes that the great Greco-Roman leaders were men of high principles and honor, values he tries to instill onto his students.
So in that respect, Emperor's Club was even worse than DPS, because the basic premise that "men of honor" ruled the world of long ago is flawed, whereas in DPS, Prof Keating acknowledges the chaotic passion in poetry, and tries not to moralize as much as instill his students with the same romantic passion great poets felt.
the smokers is a film that tries to convey an angst ridden coming of age movie based around the lives of three young girls.
The script really tries hard to uphold the mystery and to keep the real killer's identity secret, but it doesn't matter all that much since we're just watching the film for the murders anyway.
But after seeing the Ahmad guy tell his boss that he's finish doing deeds for him and then minutes later he tries to save his life, I just couldn't sit there anymore, I turned the damn thing off before my exhaustion drive me to aggravation and might just break the damn DVD which I didn't want to end up paying for.
The overthrow of Batista had just occurred and is the background for this story, wherein Dagget tries to find Miller but runs into ex flame Monica (Allison Hayes) who is now a night club singer and is being taken care of by a wealthy Cuban Fernando Ricard (Eduardo Noriega).
The movie tries to redeem her, but only makes her pathetic.
My main problem with "Manhattan Midnight" is that it tries too much (especially with that overbearing music score) to play like some sort of poetic tragedy, when its main character is a smug, unredeemable professional killer who doesn't mind killing innocent people (the "second" Maggie twin being an exception), and whom by the end you'll probably want to see dead as well.
This cheap, irritating and boring "horror" film tries to be a combination of Final Destination and the Skulls.
A cannibal-movie that actually tries and succeeds to be different.
So, Tom wants to impress her but ends up being outwitted by Jerry--who then tries to woo the girl cat (that's kind of weird, huh?).
Another disappointment to me was that the sex scenes weren't even that good for a movie that tries to play the sexual notes.
Melanie tries to win the friendship of the owner of a fashion boutique by buying expensive clothing that she probably can't afford, helps her with cleaning up her apartment, only to get coldly rejected when due to a misunderstanding she dis-invites the boutique owner's boyfriend.
Better known as Godzilla vs The Smog Monster, this flick tries to take on a different format that resembles a poor man's James Bond movie.
this movie tries desperately to be "the big chill", so if you're in the mood for that sort of thing, then rent the big chill, even if you've already seen it a thousand times.
It tries to aim at comedy, but most of it is unintelligent comedy, which they overuse quite often.
I especially resent this type of emotional manipulation when it tries to make a greater statement about our present day criminal justice system through questionable comparisons.
It is no surprise who the killer is in this movie of the disturbing murder of a sweet teenage girl raised by Patty Duke Astin, who tries to be a friend as well as a mother.
This movie just tries to create an atmosphere full of conspiracy, paranoia and so on.
It simply tries to shock.
It tries to present another catalog of urban tribes, but it fails on that too.
However, in this case, as a result of the butchering, the story does not make sense, lacks any depth, and is a disappointment from A to Z which the director tries to hide by using cheap effects and repetitive and lame shooting angles.
An utterly unbelievable criminal-turned-angel Delon tries to go straight after a 10-year sentence but the effort is shattered by an utterly unbelievably evil police detective.
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