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The plot, about mistaken identity, payroll robbery and murder, is as trite and perfunctory as you'd expect it to be in a 1930s low-budget western, but Wayne's strapping good looks, easygoing charm and way with a line go a long way to making this more enjoyable.
I had high hopes for this movie, and the genre of HK buddy cop actioneers is one that i don't despise, but very rarely do i see a storyline as trite and ludicrous as this one was.
Nothing about the somnambulant performances or trite script would raise the dead in "The House of Seven Corpses," but a groovie ghoulie comes up from his plot (ha!) anyway, to kill the bloody amateurs making a low-rent horror flick in his former abode!
The dated aspect aside, Jigsaw suffers from many problems, including overwrought acting, silly and stilted dialogue, LSD flashbacks that go on interminably long even after the point has been hammered home in the first 60 seconds, a failure to create any true suspense even though the actual plot is, on paper, a great vehicle to do just that, and an ending that is so trite and predictable (not to mention reminiscent of a lot of bad television shows) that the climax is actually an anti-climax.
Another movie that relies upon the trite, worn-out cliché of the mad scientist gone madder.
While the actors are all personable, the story is so trite and goes nowhere.
Something to avoid when making a film - characters blabbering senseless, overwrought, convoluted monologues on screen that are ultimately trite and unconvincing.
The earlier part of the film was rather enjoyable but towards the end it became trite.
Even the reliable Fred Willard couldn't save the trite dialogue, the state jokes, and the banal plot.
The script, by longtime PRC hacks Arthur St. Claire and Sherman Lowe, is trite, laughable, full of unfunny "wisecracks" and plot holes the size of Outer Mongolia.
The disrespectful way in which it dealt with sexual abuse and the trite and insulting viewpoint of small-town America, I think, were the two main reasons why this film failed in hitting it's mark.
The notion that this family go off to Genoa to forget the unfortunate death of the mother is so trite that if we have another film like that, all dead mothers have a right to complain at being exploited.
The writing is bad because the plot is perfectly trite and the dialogue is wooden and implausible.
She wears ill-fitting trite clothes and scowls at random kids.
A sappy, trite verse and that will be $3.99, thank you very much.
Yes, the plot is thing; yes the lines are trite; but whoever was at the helm of this was not a fan.
I'm astonished that so few have commented on how utterly jingoistic, sentimental and trite the dialogue in this film really is.
The ending was pitifully trite; obviously the producers were leaving the door open for a sequel....and there were many.
The dialog is trite and one wonders how the actors managed to deliver any of it with straight faces.
But not even Ronda Fleming and Stewart Granger can help this 1957 movie which carries nearly all the trite characteristics of westerns of the reformed gunfighter turned good guy.
In what could have been an otherwise run of the mill, mediocre film about infidelity in the sixties (the subtle "free-love" period), the creators of this film pile on ridiculous scenario after ridiculous scenario and top it all off with a trite little cherry on top, happily ever after ending.
The story makes zero sense and the dialogue is so trite it's nauseating.
Simply, I found the TV show "Mash" trite, preachy, oh ever so "politically correct", repetitious, pretentious and biggest sin of all, and that is,? that it is (was) incredibly dull.
The characters are shallow and trite as are the dialog and plot line.
So trite, so standard, one knows what's going to happen in each scene.
The cinematography is terrible, the acting is laughable, the "special effects" make "Plan 9 From Outer Space" look like "Spider-Man", the story is trite, derivative and stupid.
Consider yourself very brave if you're able to survive the entire film, because it tests your patience like few films have before.Varma may borrow his plot and characters from the original film, but his version is trite and hollow and doesn't have any of the spirit and energy of Sholay.
Maybe its the trite, formulaic jokes that pull her comedy even lower than her character can take it by herself.
The premise is ridiculous, the characters unbelievable, the dialogue trite, and the ending absurd.
However, I can't imagine that the heavy amount of narcissistic navel-gazing, trite humor, or banal subject matter would be particularly engaging to anyone over 30.
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