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My best moment is when the "Butte Police" character is at home and wastes some time in the sofa and stares around thinking of something to do.
It fails miserably and wastes the talents of the stars.
"Nukie" doesn't even have the "so bad it's good" charm of other horrible wastes of celluloid such as "Troll 2" or "Hobgoblins."
When everyone sounds Donald Duck it wastes only 30 minutes of your time.
Dolph Lundgren stars as Nick Cherinko, a former Russian super soldier (I think it is the same character in Red Scorpion!) who this time uses his special skills for vengeance when his family is wiped out by Russian mobsters however this is just the first fifteen minutes as Lundgren wastes literally no time in delivering payback and it is when he finds out that the mobster lived that it becomes apparent that he must return back to Russia and even the score.
Samuel L. Jackson narrates the thing, and really just wastes time.
Nikita Taylor is not a good girl.She's a heroin addict who participates in robbing the pharmacy.It ends up badly and she's the only survivor.She's sentenced for life for shooting a policeman.But one day she finds out Nikita no longer exists and she has to work as an assassin.Things get more complicated when she falls in love with a cashier.Nikita is an action thriller directed by Luc Besson.In 1993 John Badham made an English version called Point of No Return with Bridget Fobda in the lead.In the French version Anne Parillaud does a great job as Nikita.Jean-Hugues Anglade is terrific as her boyfriend Marco.Tchéky Karyo is brilliant as Bob.Jeanne Moreau is wonderful as Amande.Jean Reno is fantastic as Victor the cleaner.We all remember his outstanding performance also as a cleaner in Leon (1994), a Luc Besson masterpiece.The restaurant sequence looks quite awesome.She has to make her first assassination on her birthday.And the job she does with Victor, and he wastes all those bullets on those men and gets shot.I wish Luc Besson could come up with stuff like this some day again.Nikita is a great representative of the action genre.
Next, Yor and two companion villagers embark on a quest out in the great prehistoric wastes.
It's a lousy movie all around and even manages to wastes Honor Blackman (as Widmark's sharp tongued literary agent).
In them, a rich young man wastes his life and ultimately ends up in the "looney bin" (or so they called it in 18th century Britain).
The movie never wastes its time to pull out tears or laughs from the audience.
Bad enough that this turkey wastes the talents of future stars Tom Cruise and Shelley Long.
Donald has just released a preternaturally cunning and spitefully ferocious black leopard to hunt and engage in a battle of wits; a creature that wastes little time going after Nancy's half sister... Anyway, this movie is basically junk.
Hit me wastes the film rights to Jim Thompson's excellent novel A SWELL-LOOKING BABE.
This has to be one of the biggest wastes of money, time and effort ever!
It wastes Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski, Kyle MacLachlan, Ming-Na, Robert Downey Jr and John Ratzenberger on complete nonsense.
This movie wastes the talents of Sterling Hayden (who obviously made this movie to fund his famous off-screen pursuits) and Ted de Corsia, who was a great Western villain.
It was cheaply made in the coastal California area, and has beautiful scenery, but the script is horrible, and wastes the talents of everyone involved, including Lee Van Cleef, who is an additionally villain.
Similarly, environmental laws make firms liable for their toxic wastes, and many countries, including the US, have enshrined the principle that "polluters pay," that is, companies must pay for the damage they cause.
As a result, most Africans use biomass (animal and vegetable wastes and firewood) for lighting, cooking, and heating.
Studies like one by the World Health Organization's Commission on Macroeconomics and Health show that with an $11 trillion dollar annual national income, America could finance the control of AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and many other killer diseases for a small fraction of the money it wastes in Iraq.
Refusing to prioritize is unjust, wastes resources, and costs lives.
In the environmental technology industry alone, nanomaterials will enable new means of reducing the production of wastes, using resources more sparingly, cleaning up industrial contamination, providing potable water, and improving the efficiency of energy production and use.
Tubing for ventilators (hung to dry over a hole in the floor used to dispose of urine and wastes) was not disinfected correctly.
By contrast, subsidizing current, ineffective solar power or ethanol mostly wastes money while benefiting special interests.
According to the Institute of Medicine, the US currently wastes more than $750 billion per year on unnecessary or inefficient health-care services, excessive administrative costs, high prices, medical fraud, and missed opportunities for prevention.
He was attached to respirator and to another machine to clear wastes from his body, and was fed through a stomach tube.
Bush and others imply that Africa wastes the aid through corruption.
But it hardly wishes to colonize the frozen wastes of Siberia.
While hibernating bears can also survive for seven months or more without excreting their urinary wastes, humans would die from the buildup of these toxic substances after only a few days.
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