- in The
Guardian both gave the film 3/5 stars,
calling it "handsome but
ploddingly predictable". A
review in BFI
Sight and
Sound called the film "plausible...
-
about as
scary as
Barney the
purple dinosaur in what is
ultimately a
ploddingly predictable, gore-lite yawner". Mark
Kennedy of the ****ociated
Press stated:...
- " The
Boston Globe felt that the "segments
featuring the
Boohbahs are
ploddingly slow,
maddeningly repetitive, and
without much purpose ... the live-action...
-
British film
critic Mark
Kermode described the film as "the most boring,
ploddingly put together, infantile, cr****, adolescent, stupid,
chauvinistic twaddle...
- the film for
slowing down
towards the end,
particularly when it gets "
ploddingly sentimental" once it
focuses on the
decline and
death of Eazy-E. Scott...
-
fathers who fail
their sons, a
suspect metaphor that here
becomes all too
ploddingly literal". She
praised De Niro's direction: "Among the film's most striking...
- 90/10. The website's
critical consensus reads, "After
Earth is a dull,
ploddingly paced exercise in
sentimental sci-fi—and the
latest setback for director...
-
ornaments of a
later time.
Saintsbury argues that the Wits drew on the
ploddingly academic verse-drama of
Thomas Sackville, and the
crude but
lively po****r...
- an
innovative thriller. TV
Guide describes it as "dull, contrived, and
ploddingly directed,"
calling the film a "never-ending
series of
repetitive interviews"...
- and
Miyori in the
title roles. However, he
found the
movie to be
often "
ploddingly dull" and the
songs the "best part of the show." O'Connor, John J. (December...
