Sentences with phrase «banal plot»

It's an episodic point - and - click adventure game with an ostensibly banal plot: Conway, a delivery truck driver in Kentucky, must deliver a package to an address he can not find, but which he is told exists along the fabled Route Zero.

Also feeling like it was ripped straight from the TV show is the banal plot, which is bloody silly and not very good from when viewed from a critical standpoint, thus it too oozes nostalgia.

McDonagh seldom resorts to banal plot mechanics, opting instead for hardboiled discourse which channels the film's themes by stealth.

Cosmopolis is close to experimental in its denatured, deceptively banal plot.

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The plots seem banal, the characters undeveloped, the prose often slipshod.

Simon Kinberg's script is awash in banal, expository dialogue — the characters having to keep explaining the plot to each other — but people don't go to X-Men movies for naturalistic exchanges: a few pithy one - liners will suffice, and Jackman puts the ones he does get across with the gruff brio of an old pro.

The secondary tasks are boring, and the plot itself is banal, unfortunately I can not understand where so many positive reviews

The supporting roles (apart from Harrelson's) are one - dimensional, and the plot banal.

But the end result is, at best, a rushed mess that sees the poetic ambitions of Snyder's previous DC films replaced with the banal grinding of plot gears and obligatory character exposition.

That connection between Isaac and Portman's characters is a crucial plot point in the film, but in practice, it's half - compelling and half - restraining, simply because marital problems are so much more familiar and banal than everything else going on.

The main problem with this film is that they are simply so banal and nondescript that it's hard to focus on the plot.

Hamstrung by bad plotting and banal dialogue, not to mention the fact that basically anyone who we think is dead can be resurrected at will, it's nearly impossible to care.

New York Times reviewer Michiko Kakutani says the plot is «willfully banal, so depressingly clichéd that The Casual Vacancy is not only disappointing — it's dull.»

And as we face saying goodbye, some of the news, advertisements, and banal television plots seem particularly useless.

The secondary tasks are boring, and the plot itself is banal, unfortunately I can not understand where so many positive reviews

The plot and other game events are pushed forward by coming into contact with other survivors who, as soon as finding out you are immune immediately task you with some form of fetch quest ranging from the banal but vital task of getting car parts or fuel to burn bodies, to the weird and stupid like searching for some nutters teddy bear and necklace.

The setting, enemy and character design, music, pace, and gameplay are all very good and help to elevate it above its «standard» gameplay and a banal fantasy plot.

While there are side missions that help in small measure to add depth to the plot, Dishonored 2's main story definitely feels under - written and disappointingly banal.