Sentences with phrase «absent emotional power»

That makes for a cold, pretty, delicate movie — one that too often relies on scene - stealing production design or the overwhelmingly insipid score for its otherwise strikingly absent emotional power.

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Those dance scenes have an expressive power, an emotional charge and a kinetic energy that's mostly absent elsewhere in Jose Padilha's superfluous retread of the daring 1976 raid by Israeli counterterrorist forces to rescue 102 hostages from a hijacked Air France flight out of Tel Aviv.

These dance scenes, that pop - up elsewhere during the narrative, have an expressive power, an emotional charge and a kinetic energy that's mostly absent elsewhere in the hijack - rescue drama.