Sentences with phrase «character drama involving»

Indeed, the film takes way too long to get to Demo's war on crime, frittering away nearly half its length on well - intentioned but ineffective character drama involving Alyssa's transformation and her relationship with Dr. Crowley.

Not exact matches

While the characters in fantasy often have powerful mental and spiritual struggles — struggles that lead them through vales of sorrow and dark tunnels of the mind — they never forget that they are acting in a drama which involves others and which is moving resolutely to an ending.

His characters are involved in this great drama, seeking God and seeking love.

Given the film's emphasis on character and political drama, it didn't come with tons of room for involving material.

Now, this isn't a film that will instantly have you singing his praises from the rooftops but what it is, is a slow moving but deeply involving drama that pays attention to it's characters and their subtleties.

Patiently following a police procedure over about 18 hours, this Turkish drama is startlingly involving, mainly because it quietly deepens our interest through character detail.

Despite a tough and rather bleak story, this Central American drama is bolstered by strikingly beautiful cinematography and involving characters.

The challenge of any historical drama is to engage us so that we're not passively observing a series of events, but actively involved in the characters and their story.

It certainly plays half of the time as a coming - of - age drama with war elements, but in the mix we also find rebel - punk angst, teen romance, quirky comedy, and, perhaps most oddly, a fantasy element involving telepathic connections between characters.

Director Yann Demange's feature film debut merges [Paul] Greengrass» kinetic camerawork with [Jim] Sheridan's character - driven drama; the result is a taut, suspenseful and involving feature that runs a tight 99 minutes.

Berg, has made another intense procedural drama, which succeeds at keeping audiences on the edge of their seats, but fails to build characters out of the multiple heroes involved in these horrific events.

The only real downside to the story mode is that there aren't that many characters involved in the drama, and most notably Jin himself is absent throughout the entire game with many characters talking about him, but only showing up occasionally in a comatose form.

In the current season of the television drama Homeland, the character played by Claire Danes is hot on the trail of a mysterious woman who may be involved in the poisoning death of a treasonous military general — at the request of a chief of staff serving under an authoritarian president.