Sentences with phrase «bit of a thriller»

Akuma No Riddle is a bit of a thriller with yuri leanings, while Certain Scientific Accelerator is another spin - off from the Certain Magical Index light novel series, and fits in with their popular Certain Scientific Railgun series.

This week's GoodEReader Ebook of the Week is Hope Road, a detective mystery with a bit of thriller thrown in, thanks to author John Barlow.

But there is one crucial difference — a plot twist that makes this third installment a bit of a thriller.

Not exact matches

Sounds a bit like the sci - fi thriller In Time (lLOL), but in order for on - demand companies to move past the «Uber of...» era, a huge market opportunity will consist of consumers looking for DIFM options.

When you first watch the movie, it is a bit of a suspense thriller.

They dropped an OT thriller w / Team Goldin and it might take a bit of time come back from that one.

Sure, it wasn't a proper thriller, but there were lots of epic moments and quite a bit of drama to keep us entertained.

ESPN hockey commentator Gary Thorne was every bit as entertaining and energetic during the 92nd minute of the May 12 double - overtime thriller between the Blues and the Red Wings as he was at the opening face - off.

In a game five thriller, Hbox was able to clutch out the tournament in a nail - biting last stock situation, giving him his first Summit title, and the potential spot of the No. 1 Melee player in the world for next years rankings, an accomplishment Hbox has been trying to reach for years.

My interests include movies (comedy, action, thriller, little bit of romance), music (rock, reggae, classic rock, anything similar), riding back roads, hanging out with...

The film is on a fine line between fantasy and thriller with an element of sexual fantasy running through the plot for young teenage girls, nothing strong, think along the lines of «Twilight» teenage angst mixed with «Cursed» or a little bit of «Ginger Snaps» but not as in your face as those films, there is still an enjoyable werewolf film here.

It doesn't measure up to the best of the thriller films, but still provides a fair share of nail - biting moments and nifty double - crosses and twists.

Although the problems appear to have had an impact on the final product, especially in the uneven tone of the comparatively smaller - scale finale and the unsatisfying epilogue, it's a bit of a pleasant surprise that the movie manages to hold together even through some turbulent patches to be worthwhile viewing for anyone not expecting much more than a grandiose, set - piece dominated horror - thriller.

Even if the action and thriller elements fall short of the intended mark, there's never a point when the film fails to at least maintain interest, even when it becomes a bit obvious where things are going to lead.

Sleek and satisfying... Almost a drawing room thriller, unhurried and genteel but enlivened with suspense and surprising bursts of sly, even biting, humor.

For a low budget thriller, Civic Duty is one of the better ones, but it never does reach its full potential, and it somehow leaves you wanting a bit more.

There is another nail - biting scene at the movie's climax that is reminiscent of some of the great spy thrillers from the seventies like The Parallax View and Day of the Jackal.

By the end, director Sidney Pollack has spent so much time with Silvia and Tobin at the expense of the tension, building plot elements a thriller needs to keep moving forward, that he has to play quite a bit of bait and switch to get things where they need to be for the climax he wants, which is moving but by that point a bit ridiculous.

«The Interpreter,» directed by Sydney Pollack, who made 1975's «Three Days of the Condor,» has the nail - biting allure of an old - fashioned thriller.

Deja Vu lives up to its name a bit by being somewhat derivative of other recent science fiction thrillers, but it never cribs from any of them enough to merit labeling it as an out - and - out rip - off of any of them (there is a subtle 12 Monkeys vibe to the plot, even if the events are vastly different).

The pic boasts one of two potential awards - worthy performances by Tom Hanks (the other being Saving Mr. Banks), and the latest trailer teased something quite a bit more thoughtful than a straightforward thriller.

A remake of the buzzy 2011 French thriller Sleepless Night, it's essentially Jamie Foxx «s Taken, with a bit of The Departed mixed in.

Stars Mandy Moore and Claire Holt are stranded at the bottom of the ocean surrounded by the world's fiercest predators in the nail - biting new thriller directed by Johannes Roberts, coming to theaters June 16th

A hard - bitten group of robbers target the Federal Reserve Bank in an L.A. heist thriller that features Gerard Butler and O'Shea Jackson, Jr. 50 Cent is their co-star rather than the amount of money they get away with.

It's impossible to read the primary text upon which Fitzgerald's script is based, Guardian reporter Luke Harding's breathlessly written and meticulously researched The Snowden Files, and not imagine a whopper of a nail - biting thriller.

«The Captive» may appear to bite off a little more than it can chew but it's one of the most satisfyingly baroque thrillers of the year, and thanks to a perfectly judged performance by Ryan Reynolds, it's quietly heartbreaking, too.

So yes, it has a little bit of «Taken» in his pages that makes it a similar thriller.

District 9 is not only an action thriller, but a thought provoking critique on our own culture that can't be ignored as the Aliens or Prawns (derogetory term given to them by the humans) play a much larger emotional and dynamic role in the film than the trailer or bits of viral marketing let on.

It's really a nail - biting thriller and De Niro was superbly scary, man that scene of him and Juliette Lewis was sooo creepy!

However, this is perhaps where the biggest breaking point for Past Cure comes in to play as it tries to straddle the line between survival horror and action thriller, and the only area I feel where it has a little bit of difficulty trying to take on both at the same time.

It's not an improvement, merely a modernization, and while it lacks the satirical bite and comedic asides of its predecessor, it still manages to entertain quite well as a straightforward thriller with intelligence.

While this claim is a bit silly (he's a novelist; coming up with the worst - case scenario is an integral part to his success), the new thriller The Sum of All Fears, based on Clancy's novel of the same name, has a strangely important relevancy in commenting on the state of the world.

Yet, the film plays out with little sense of requisite suspense that made the first Psycho such a great film, and many of the scenes, including the murders, play out as if they were made for a psychological drama, rather than in a scary horror flick or tense, nail - biting thriller.

Frankly, this thriller is a bit behind the curve in its storytelling, so even though it's a solidly well - made example of the found - footage genre, it feels derivative and tired.

Comparisons will immediately be drawn between Divergent and The Hunger Games, as both are dystopian sci - fi film series based on a trilogy of young adult novels written by women, featuring teenage female protagonists in an action - thriller scenario leading a rebellion against a corrupt and manipulative government force, while also engaging in a bit of romance on the side.

Paranoia is one of those thrillers that has excellent presentation of high caliber actors and excellent filming, but it totally lacks any misdirection of plot and situations which makes the whole movie pretty predictable and the ending a bit anticlimactic.

Charlie's difficulties in producing an «anti-narrative about flowers» is set against Donald's ease in producing a coveted bit of colluded formula called «The 3», a serial killer / multiple personality thriller that sets Hollywood ablaze.

An adaptation of the Nobel Prize - winning author José Saramago's novel «The Double» (and not the thematically similar Dostoyevsky book of the same name which confusingly, features elsewhere on this list) this psychological thriller sounds a little bit more damaged and arthouse than Villeneuve's aforementioned studio film and given uncompromising nature of that picture, we're rather psyched to see how «Enemy» turns out.

Whether you're in the mood for a gripping game of criminal cat and mouse or something a bit more horrific, this thriller has you covered.

Official Synopsis: Academy Award ® winner Denzel Washington stars in this «riveting and powerful nail - biting thriller» from Robert Zemeckis, the Academy Award ® winning director of Forrest Gump and Cast Away.

However, the choice of director for the project is a bit surprising: Phillip Noyce, the man behind such thrillers as Salt, Clear and Present Danger and Patriot Games.

Breslin's switched easily between genres over the course of her career, but she has relatively few straight - up thrillers under her belt so The Hive represents a bit of a change of pace for her.

Though it maintained the scrupulous formalism of his stylish, thoughtful Ian Curtis biopic, Control, Anton Corbijn's The American was nonetheless a bit of a disappointment, a chic spy thriller that otherwise felt fossilized.

Though it's been floating around the web for a bit, the international trailer for Lynne Ramsay's (We Need to Talk About Kevin) upcoming vigilante thriller You Were Never Really Here (which got rather solid reviews out of the Cannes Film Fest) is now here to melt the eyeballs out of your face.

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.

Providing an action hero for that community would've given this film a greater purpose beyond just being a really solid thriller which is a bit of a disappointment.

It's a consistent suspense thriller with a little bit of blood and gore in the final 20 minutes.

This is more of a mystery thriller than a gory horror flick, perfect for if you are a bit squeamish.

The Guillotines has spent a bit of time on the development turn wheel and because of this, Lau, who already has an iconic crime thriller under his belt, feels like more of a hired gun.

A bit lengthy run time for a thriller, but absorbing throughout nonetheless, this murder mystery, somewhat loosely based on the dense best - selling novel by the late Stieg Larsson (which in its native Swedish literally translates to «Men Who Hate Women», the first in his «Millennium» trilogy), is dark, and more than a little sensationalized (involving perverts, murderers, rapists, Nazis, and literal Biblical interpretations) to be believable, but, like most good thrillers, it's riveting in a way that you won't be able to turn away from it, even during some of the film's most brutal moments.