Graphically unexciting and mentally uninteresting, I can't find anything in particular to recommend it. Joystiq reported the pack's quest to be unexciting and in some cases "downright weak". Thereafter topples over into hokum, with a notably unexciting climax. Basically a faithful portrait of Van Gogh, "Lust for Life" is nonetheless unexciting. Females will spend their entire lives with rather unexciting coloring. Some also criticized that the battle graphics are competent but too unexciting. "Long Hot Summer" was described as "effervescent but relatively unexciting" by Virgin Media. Before the 1950s, Stratford seasons had been widely regarded as worthy but unexciting. "Variety" called it "pleasant, if commercially unexciting," with an "excellent" performance by Carney. Weiss also derided the game's combat, which he considered "redundant and largely unexciting". He also described some of the album's musical arrangements as "genuinely pretty, if unexciting". Hanna and Simon are in a long-term relationship which, though loving, has grown sexually unexciting. The "runaway" squad, however, is treated as an easy and unexciting assignment, and often ridiculed. She called the episode "unexciting" and concluded that the final scene was "anti-climactic". Five months into the shoot, the crew realized their ending was unexciting.