"dull plot" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a story which is not especially exciting or interesting. For example: "The movie had a dull plot, so it was hard to stay focused throughout its duration."
The story has a mildly dull plot, though.
It's certainly an awful lot better than the previous film Inglourious Basterds, which I attacked on account of its misfiring spaghetti-Nazi theme and bafflingly dull plot.
While Wings recreates the feel of combat in Final Fantasy XII, it also does too good a job of recreating the feel of that game's story, with an equally dull plot and bland characters.
But we live in a real world context of endemic male sexual violence in which about 90% of rapes go unreported and only 7% of the remaining 10% are convicted … raped women are not objects to be used to shake up a dull plot or add juice to a sanguine character".
IGN writer Jeremy Dunham wrote that the "only exception in the game's mass list of progression is the plotline," explaining that it has one of the more basic Dragon Quest stories; but he also mentions that the game still manages to take a dull plot and make it entertaining.
Earlier this year, two dull plots of land in Mumbai's suburbs were selected – one in Powai, the other in Borivali East.
Where The Missing had a simple plot – father loses son in horrid circumstances in a woebegone part of France – this had four, if not 14, separate dull plots, linked only by their unwatchability.
Yates and Tesich reunited for the intriguing political thriller Eyewitnesss (1981), which was markedly more successful than the sword and sorcery epic Krull (1983), in which special effects and lush sets were no compensation for dull plotting.
That would make for a pretty dull crime plot, though, so naturally she is framed for a murder (committed via baked goods) and turns amateur sleuth to clear her name.
Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide found that it was "one of the most politically unambiguous episodes ever," but that "[it] is very dull and the plot isn't sustainable".
In this he is dead-on, but his byzantine plot dulls an otherwise witty edge.
