Frequently, as laborious exposition alternates with frenetic action sequences, "Van Helsing" feels like an especially lavish episode of "Scooby-Doo" mounted on a scaffold of baroque supernaturalism.
The rising action, the dramatic irony, the laborious, grandstanding speeches ("Spite, spite, is the word of your undoing…When you're rotting somewhere beside the railroad tracks, remember, and don't you dare blame it on me") — I kept wanting to exclaim, "It sounds like a play!" Was I the only one?
"In a franchise," she said, "it's a great feeling to wake up everyday being able to be creative, and knowing you can take action, versus going through some long, laborious process of decision making and bureaucracy".
But getting global action against tax evasion was "endlessly laborious" work, he added.
Mottola, working with a script by Michael LeSieur, throws all the comedy in Galifianakis's direction — the same joke throughout the film — while the script sets up the action part of the movie with an interminably laborious and close-fitting literalness that hardly lets any of the actors breathe.
Tracing more than 60 Ukrainians listed as missing in action in Afghanistan during the 10-year war is laborious.
Among photographers, meanwhile, to photoshop is common currency for what you do to an image after you've snapped it, maybe because it's an activity so far removed from the laborious darkroom processing of physical film that it needs its own new word.There is no to microsoft or to apple, obviously, because those words don't stand for any particular action.
The laborious wet-plate negative process made it impossible to take pictures of battlefield action, so the photographers captured the casualties of war during the brief window between the end of a battle and the burial of the bodies.
She seemed for the time to be taking a rest from that laborious and fatiguing function and to have abandoned herself to some mechanical impulse that directed her actions and freed her of responsibility.
"Angel Eyes" alternates between scenes of furious action in which Sharon spins around Chicago playing macho superwoman and the lovers' laborious pas de deux, which consists mostly of long walks in which Sharon repeatedly asks, "Who are you?" and the exchange of enigmatic messages on their answering machines.
