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The nuns attire was outdated, and the hospital looked like something from the 40's, with its wards and wooden staircases and things.
The acting by the three leads is wooden.
Having read the novel before seeing this film, I was enormously disappointed by the wooden acting and the arrogance of the producers in their blatant disregard of the plot.
It had wooden acting, terrible script from pieces from the Bible like hurricanes, tidal waves and earthquakes.
The acting is wooden and stiff and the writing is just so cliché, but not at all in a good way.
Mira Sorvino's blank and wooden acting surely must've been inspired by Freddie.
This film not only lacked in what seemed to be production value (it looks like it was shot on a bad camcorder, although it is surprisingly clear), but also in acting (wooden, hollow, and pathetic don't scratch the surface), as well as just generally bad movie feeling.
This movie is a dog, from start to finish, and it's dull and wooden with nothing much going for it.
Extremely poor action film starring the ever wooden Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee trapped in a sidekick role that never seems to gel.
The acting was wooden and stilted, even by early talkies standards (the exceptions being Lee Tracy and HB Warner, neither of whom can do wrong).
The fact that it doesn't take itself seriously (usually a good thing) works against it, primarily because the actors are so wooden you really would swear they are reading cue cards.
In addition to having atrocious acting, even from John Barrymore,this is perhaps the greatest example of how far Hollywood (especially early Hollywood) would go to revise and change a famous novel just to beef up its chances at the box office.All of the novel's beautiful,poetic language has been absolutely eradicated, and Ahab has been changed from a brooding,blasphemous,obsessive madman to a dashing,misunderstood hero who only wants to kill Moby Dick after his fiance(!) turns away from him after seeing his wooden leg.
Noni Hazelhurst's performance is quite good, but it sits amidst a jungle of abhorrent scriptwriting, mediocre direction and wooden acting from the bulk of the cast.
You will groan at the flimsy attempts at humor, the awkward camera work, the sexism and racism, the ridiculous story line, the wooden acting.
One final thing I will say about the film was the puppets in the TV shows were just a bit more wooden than where the actors in the film.
She was clunky and wooden.
This film was a yawn from titles to credits, it's boring to the point of tedium and the acting is wooden and stilted!
Be prepared however for you mind to be invaded by extremely wooden acting by absolutely everyone (in fact the best acting was by the people who said nothing).
His talentless real life son Barry, a wooden actor who has rarely been in anything that didn't involve his father, plays his son in the series.
No wonder his actors are so wooden.
The acting was mostly shallow, wooden, and unbelievable, timing was off all around.
Lucy Liu graduates her acting from a wooden start to a workman-like finish.
I bet that writers were sitting around a large wooden table and figured that a) The word "poop" equals big laugh.
The acting is wooden & largely unimpressive.
But the direction is very wooden and there is no nightmarish/frightening moment in there.
The performance even of the stellar Jerzy Stuhr is here wooden and strangely bad - he just pulls unfunny faces and repeats on saying phrases like "I am in the elevator with a nude chick and I haven't done anything to her!".
The rest of the cast was wooden at best, but mostly paper.
The actors don't get to do much either - Jude Law is wooden, Gwyneth Paltrow is annoying and stupid, Angelina Jolie is wasted - and it's all because of an awful script - the sort that has to explain nearly everything.
The acting is wooden, the effects are crap and the set is a couple off rooms used over and over again.
Of the leading actors, Nicholas Walker inspires no sympathy at all for Paul Keller's plight and his acting is wooden.
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