Sentences with phrase «as a thriller instead»

Some people might call this a clone of Paranormal Activity, except playing out as a thriller instead of a found - footage tape, and with aliens as the home invaders rather than evil spirits.

Not exact matches

The way to a woman's heart lies instead behind a veil of mystery: 19 per cent of women picked thrillers as the sexiest genre a man can read (James Patterson and Ngaio Marsh, take a bow!).

Instead they prefer men of mystery, with 19 % picking thrillers as the sexiest genre a man can read, so any men palming through one of Benjamin Black's crime fiction novels (real name John Banville, he uses Black as a pseudonym - it just adds to his mystery!)

The way to a woman's heart lies instead behind a veil of mystery: 19 per cent of women picked thrillers as the sexiest genre a man can read (James Patterson and Louise Penny, take a bow!).

The way to a woman's heart lies instead behind a veil of mystery: 19 % of women picked thrillers as the sexiest genre a man can read (James Patterson and Lee Child, take a bow!).

Too muted and pensive to work as a thriller, too withdrawn to be a character study, and too cold to evoke any sympathy, the film is instead a dull and alienating exercise in how to take a strong actor and interesting premise and mostly waste them.

The nature of a movie involving reincarnation seems like the perfect set - up for a captivating supernatural thriller, but instead, Glazer uses the seeming return of Sean as a way to explore Anna's grief and how her love affects her grip on reality.

In this tale of an unexpected family unit, he doesn't find humor but instead a thoroughly gray compassion, in a film that begins as an uneasy thriller and ends as a delicate (if sometimes too wistful) romance story, with the audience on - board nonetheless throughout its shifts.

Instead, there are some twists that reduce the terror in favor of character tension, which in a thriller would work fine, but in this film come off as gimmicky and distracting.

Instead, it plays out as a more or less conventional direct - to - video - style thriller, distinguished by a handful of subtexts and images that might have been developed in a different version, but here register as mere quirks.

In that sense, A Simple Plan is as traditional a morality play as a thriller can get, but Raimi has never been a director unwilling to splash about in the shallows; instead, the inevitability of the plot is his point — even the simplest of decisions carry whole worlds of consequence — and Raimi injects each emotional beat with unspeakable tragedy.

The plot may be a bit preposterous, but it's an interesting theory nonetheless, and I love the idea of staging it as a political thriller instead of a more generic historical drama.

It isn't exactly the horror that it's been marketed or advertised as — instead leaning more to psychological thriller — but there's no mistaking Peele's dramatic flair or natural ability to work outside his comfort zone.

Regrettably, the Oscar - winning director (for Traffic) saw fit to interpret what might have made a compelling corporate espionage thriller (ala Michael Clayton) into a lighthearted romp revolving around Whitacre's cat - and - mouse relationship with the FBI's incompetent Keystone Cops who served as his contacts, instead of focusing squarely on the pricing scandal.

However, by ditching the high - concept, flimsy mystery premises of their previous films and instead providing old - school action / thriller gravitas, Serra and Neeson manage to deliver their best film yet - one that should more than suitably appease fans of the genre, and / or Neeson's career as an action star.

Though presented as a thinking man's thriller, «I Origins» instead asks intelligent auds to dive deep, while insisting that they overlook its more glaring plot holes.

It doesn't even really feature on Earth predominantly, instead coming across as the kind of claustrophobic Sci - Fi thriller that echoes the likes of 2001: A Space Odyssey or Alien.

Instead, he's made a heck of a career as a mystery and thriller writer.

But, instead of leaving the fate of their stories and characters into a stranger's hand, decide, as New York Bestselling thriller novelist C.J. Lyons brilliantly put it, to appoint themselves CEOs and build their own media empires.