But Mr. Kitamura, an action enthusiast who prefers to show rather than tell, seems unaware that the film's dialogue is laughable, its characters unfathomable and the acting often less than optimal.
As laughable of a character as Rotondo may be, his story is a fundamentally sad one.
The plot was impenetrable, the characters laughable and the single player campaign judderingly short.
Can't nobody talk that way to me!" This nearly laughable non-exchange — the characters lecture more than they converse — is more or less where "The Good Negro" begins.
In 2011, another couple of local guys, Andy Carl Valentin and Chris Durbin, tried to book Room 212 at the motel from the movie, where the Wilson brothers' characters — the laughable, aspiring criminals Anthony and Dignan — hole up after stealing some money from a bookstore.
When everything was pitted against his characters, it seemed laughable that they should find any sort of redemption.
The characters in "Mondo Desperado" are flimsy, laughable creatures, stupid, self-deluding or venal, and quite bereft of the humanity the author's earlier protagonists possessed.
Otherwise, these are generic and stock characters, set in story that is laughable and manipulative.
Now, not really, because while it was controversial then, it is laughable today, held only by this cast of characters increasingly ignored by their colleagues.
The cue to the movie's creamy boutique reverie is its laughable lack of vulgarity; a fart would blast its characters off the screen.
