Sentences with phrase «builds much tension»

The Interpreter tries to cast itself in the Hitchcockian tradition of Secret Agent and The Man Who Knew Too Much, but apart from the film's climactic bus sequence and another nicely crafted sequence toward the movie's end, this thriller never visually builds much tension or suspense.

Pace and mood are equally glum, and so much information is withheld that the twisty relationship can't build much tension.

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If you can add an element of anticipation to build a little tension, anxiety or suspense, you can hold the attention of an audience until you're ready to release your punch line with much more impact.

Arsenal had the best of them but not by much and the tension of extra time was just building to a peak when Reading's keeper fumbled an Alexis near post shot and it crept in.

If a baby resists every time they are taken to go to the toilet, it could very well be a sign that they have too much stress and tension built up and would benefit from a release of emotions in the form of a supported cry.

Some of you still remember the tension that had built up before the 2015 elections, so much so that doomsday predictions emerged from many quarters including from agencies in the United States that Nigeria would disintegrate in 2015.

The farmer's walk is an excellent exercise to build muscle in the upper - back area because they create so much muscular tension and allow you to maintain that over an extended period of time, this means they give you those thick traps and upper back that make you look like a badass.

I think there was so much great tension that built up from that cat - and - mouse chase that made it all that more exciting when we finally met.

It's not a bad idea for a movie, but what we get is undercooked, with poor logic and even poorer pacing conspiring to prevent any much - needed tension to build.

Dorff is stellar and the film builds some tension but a bit too much required suspension of disbelief, some plot holes, weak dialogue, and two increasingly silly twist endings ultimately sink the piece.

Much time is spent on inter-museum wrangling, and the personalities aren't vivid enough (as they were in «The New Rijksmuseum») to build tension.

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.

And while a lot of Don't Breathe brings that same level of intensity, it's a much more restrained and calculated brand of horror that builds tension through silence — and because so much of the movie is quiet, everything else feels like a punch in the gut.

After building tension and ratcheting up the suspense, Smith shifts focus and spends much of the last third of the film on Ally and Teddy looking for Wallace with retired, alcoholic cop Guy Lapointe (an unrecognizable Johnny Depp).

Yet after so much tension and anticipation was built up through the season, the ending was surprisingly predictable in some ways and incomprehensible in others.

Much like with A Separation, Farhadi has an expert grasp on how tensions build from inside and outside a relationship.

Unfortunately, Egoyan allows his film to take a melodramatic, third - act turn that extinguishes much of the tension he so successfully builds in the first half of the movie.

Included in the deleted scenes section is a much longer version of the film's climactic swim meet, which does a better job of building the dramatic tension and offers a far more satisfying and affecting resolution to the team and individual characters» journeys than the rushed, montage - heavy version that hit the big screen.

But Pusher also feels familiar, and doesn't so much build in tension as it does check off a series of second act boxes en route toward Frank's attempted flight.

Cruise can hang off as many buildings and planes as he wants, but the first Mission: Impossible got just as much tension lowering him from a ceiling and putting in a handful of restrictions.

Because two - plus - hours isn't enough time for key plot points and sources for much - needed tension, a series of end - cards helpfully informs of the significance of this accomplishment, of Jones's aspiration to build a golf course in his native Georgia to honour Scotland's St. Andrews, and that he was afflicted with a rare, painful neurological disorder called syringomyelia.

Much of the success of Everest comes from Kormákur's clever pacing and relentless building of tension and the, at times, dizzying cinematography of Salvatore Totino.

Much of the success of Everest comes from Kormákur's clever pacing and relentless building of tension and the, at times, dizzying cinematography of Salvatore Totino (pictured: Sam Worthington)

Previous trailers, all of which you can see below, have focused on building suspense and tension without giving too much away.

As the Oscar race slowly begins to take shape, there's much talk of prime contenders building a topical «narrative» to fuel their campaigns: Three Billboards is being pitched as a spiky response to the culture of toxic masculinity exemplified by Harvey Weinstein; on a related note, Lady Bird and Greta Gerwig carry heightened hopes for another female best director winner; Get Out continues to mark the temperature of America's rampant racial tensions; Call Me By Your Name takes the baton of LGBT empowerment and visibility from reigning Oscar champ Moonlight.

Although very little, if any, tension and suspense is built, all the waiting and watching makes one anticipate some type of a payoff, but there isn't one; there isn't really an ending, per se, so much as a stoppage.

There may be too much detail for some, but the contemporary survival adventure will keep readers hooked, as will the tension that builds from the story's secrets.

In a matter of hours I had built so much, from observatories to convenient sci - fi gizmos, and I started to miss the struggle and tension that permeates throughout most survival games.

It builds a ton of tension and plenty of deaths; luckily the aforementioned frequent checkpoints will cool off too much heat.

To give the game credit, it is trying to build tension with the slow movement and claustrophobia, but Silent Hill 2 did a much better setup with eerie nothingness.

This tension permeates the exhibition in the war of attrition between nature and the built environment, in the eclectic mix of culture and class but above all in the hoard of color and display and the pervasive sense that so much attention to surface must be concealing something.

The notion of love as passion, so much at the core of Surrealism, has evolved with the sociological changes of intimacy toward a tension between romantic love versus marriage and the attempt to build a new form of relationship based on a more egalitarian exchange, that we could call «amour convergent» or «pure relationship», thanks to the battles of feminism and new intimacy, as discussed in «The Transformation of intimacy» from sociologist Anthony Giddens.

In a related commentary in the Straits Times of Singapore, Khanna zooms in on China's overseas investment patterns, all of which relate to bolstering supply chains and which could be seen as potentially exacerbating tensions as much as they build global relationships.

There is a tension building up inside which just doesn't calm down and taking mock interview services helps in preparing one for their interview and get a feel of the real situation much before it happens.