Sentences with phrase «characters plot their next move»

Filmmaker Francis Lawrence, in attempting to expand Suzanne Collins» novel into two features, employs an aggressively lethargic pace that's compounded by a tedious, uneventful opening hour, with the movie's first half comprised almost entirely of sequences in which characters plot their next move.

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The stock 1950s characters lined up at the bar comparing campaign stories, plotting their next moves and generally shooting the concordant breeze.

The script is particularly weak, being more concerned with moving from one joke to the next via predictable plot points than it is about developing the characters and moving our fantasy world on a little bit.

The third is a bit of a slip in the wrong direction, but the characters really don't matter in this installment, which moves from one plot point to the next, stopping only for exposition, a random bit of usually unsuccessful humor here and there, and revisiting old memories before the gang's climactic return to Vegas.

It isn't all that invested in its espionage plot or action mechanics beyond motivation to bring this odd assortment of characters together and keep them moving from one swank - looking locale to the next.

Less than a year ago we were manically inputting deadly combos, flipping over Ultra attacks and plotting our next move with the characters in Street Fighter IV.