I found this refined wuxia tale of an assassin who finds a conflict between duty, family and love to be a wonderfully made film, and genuinely beautiful – though one has to be careful using that adjective which is so often a hesitant euphemism for unengaging.
A third swings kettlebells – a bit of a mis-step: these iron lumps may be capable of crushing a man's skull, but their handling on stage is unengaging.
ASHES OF TIME REDUX The Hong Kong-based director Wong Kar-Wai oversaw the restoration of his imagistic 1994 lone-swordsman spectacle, and the result is splashy, arch, and unengaging.
Dunham has gone for a less mannered and younger version of Sex and the City but the casual self-absorption is cloying and the neurotic sexual frankness strangely unengaging.
Here, Collins uses three male and three female dancers to dissect the relationship but the result, while technically accomplished, is over-artsy and ultimately unengaging.
It's often said that you shouldn't write dream sequences, that they are boring and unengaging.
It is, therefore, no adverse criticism to say that the first episode was confusing and unengaging.
However, I should say that, for what it's worth, I don't honestly think that this made any difference to my overall opinion: for me, it is disconcerting and unengaging that the movie turns out to be less about super-stylish driving and more about super-stylish violence.
Ms. Rossum and Mr. Lysy are not embarrassing, just unengaging.
While the dining room is certainly attractive, after three recent visits -- one ordering from the old menu and two from the new -- we yearned for the variety offered by the old and found most new choices to be unengaging.
Homme is the most unassuming of rock frontmen, tall and ungainly, looking more like an off-duty cricketer in his black jeans and blue shirt, with his stage moves more akin to your dad dancing than to a heavy metal adonis throwing shapes – all aspects I find more endearing than his vocals, which lack the emotional dynamism required of a heavy rock singer, leaving the songs flat and unengaging.
