Word: lifelessly
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...couldn't imagine why he was doing that, and then I realized that he was probably taking his money." Connie ran back into a side door of Port of Call and called 911. Then she went back out into the street and knelt beside Mike's lifeless body and held his hand until police arrived...
Director Michael Caton-Jones presents a confused jumble of bad accents, loud music, stale techno-babble and Richard Gere in a lifeless remake of the 1973 hit The Day of the Jackal. Traveling by minivan and rotating hair colors faster than Dennis Rodman, the Jackal (Bruce Willis) stalks a mystery target while the FBI scrambles to catch up with him, using the expertise of Gere's former IRA terrorist Declan Mulqueen. When Mulqueen and the Jackal finally meet, sparks fly and a gay kiss occurs. OK, not really, but it sure would have made this dopey flick a lot more...
...make up for the thinly drawn characters and lagging plot, director Les Mayfield keeps the flubber and the film moving at a thunderous pace. It almost seems like a filmed amusement park ride at times, a roller coaster of frenetic special effects that must hurdle the obstacles of a lifeless plot. Yet the pace is brisk enough to make up for any of the slow stretches--there's always the glimpse of another gooey dance scene in the near future...
...have yet to recover. Each director has tried and failed to make a film that transcends the blunted, lifeless prose. Is it time that we deemed the task an impossible...
WASHINGTON: And so Mars continues to confound. For every theory that says our sister planet is and always was a barren, lifeless rock, there's one that suggests it once teemed with life ? and sure enough, we're more likely to listen to the latter. That was evident when a report in the journal Science pooh-poohing NASA?s claims over the supposedly fossilized Martian meteor was elbowed aside in the media by Friday's edition of Nature. The latter, gathering evidence from the Pathfinder mission, said Mars was once warm, moist ? and more likely to have harbored some form...