overplotted

"To be perfectly honest, The Prestige is wildly overplotted and it contains a final gimmick that you're going to kick yourself for not recognizing sooner," writes Richard Schickel in Time.

GreenCine Daily: The Prestige. 2006

Which brings me to the final complication in that overplotted year.

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

Though this tale of reincarnation and a love that crossed generations starred the peerless Barbara Harris, as a psychically gifted young woman with a past life just waiting to leap out of her, it was generally agreed that the 1965 production was overdressed, overplotted and more or less out of its mind.

NYT > Home Page By BEN BRANTLEY 2011

Dense, ridiculously overplotted and painfully overlong, this gruesome thriller set in a fogbound insane asylum is incomprehensible and fatally flawed, but having said all of that, I will also say this: It never seems anything less than the work of a skillful film buff.

All Stories | The New York Observer 2010

Dense, ridiculously overplotted and painfully overlong, this gruesome thriller set in a fogbound insane asylum is incomprehensible and fatally flawed, but having said all of that, I will also say this: It never seems anything less than the work of a skillful film buff.

All Stories | The New York Observer 2010

While I won't deny that it works within its own confines as drama, the film's final act is a little on the overplotted side.

News 2010

It's easily the worst of the many overplotted, would-be fantasy franchises launched.

MovieWeb: News 2010

Dense, ridiculously overplotted and painfully overlong, this gruesome thriller set in a fogbound insane asylum is incomprehensible and fatally flawed, but having said all of that, I will also say this: It never seems anything less than the work of a skillful film buff.

All Stories | The New York Observer 2010

Dense, ridiculously overplotted and painfully overlong, this gruesome thriller set in a fogbound insane asylum is incomprehensible and fatally flawed, but having said all of that, I will also say this: It never seems anything less than the work of a skillful film buff.

All Stories | The New York Observer 2010

Dense, ridiculously overplotted and painfully overlong, this gruesome thriller set in a fogbound insane asylum is incomprehensible and fatally flawed, but having said all of that, I will also say this: It never seems anything less than the work of a skillful film buff.

All Stories | The New York Observer 2010