Sentences with phrase «climax of a thriller»

In the climax of a thriller, tension is often extracted when the main character is hiding from a dangerous threat lurking nearby.

Not exact matches

The banter climaxes when McAffrey presents Della with a necklace of pens and she finally admits that when someone reads a big news story they should have «newsprint on their hands», an odd thing to emphasise in a political thriller.

J. Michael Straczynski's original script was jettisoned in favor of an unfinished one by political thriller specialist Matthew Michael Carnahan (State of Play, Lions for Lambs), with «LOST» - alum script doctors Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, Cloverfield) and Damon Lindelof (Star Trek Into Darkness, Prometheus) brought in later to write a host of reshoots, including a new climax and ending to the film (the repeated use and imbibing of Pepsi products during these scenes would indicate the source for much of the additional reshoot budget), that pushed the release date from a winter of 2012 release to the summer of 2013.

Sure, the political references are ridiculously presented and totally unnecessary (especially those hinted through the reaction of the African Dictator of the movie's focus to the climax), but the fact that The Interpreter usually works as a clever thriller is undeniable.

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.

This section also sees the climax to remarkable story: the inclusion of the micro-budget crime thriller Black Pond, directed by Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley.

An official selection at the Berlin International Film Festival, this animated neo-noir thriller from Chinese auteur Liu Jian mixes follows interweaving storylines that lead an eccentric cast of characters to a bloody climax over one bag of stolen money.

Darren Aronofsky is a director prone to grand gestures and prolonged climaxes whose films can be at once mesmerising and confounding, and his balletic psychosexual thriller centred around a pair of New York dancers proved no different.

When an unpredictable thriller finally succumbs to standard formula theatrics, embarrassingly akin to the aforementioned The Terminator, there is a deflating of intensity due to familiarity that makes for a climax that, while certainly exciting, doesn't quite reach the fever - pitch that such a magnificent build - up would warrant.

Melville is quite simply France's master of crime dramas (no disrespect to Chabrol or Clouzot, who tended a bit more toward the mystery / thriller aspect anyway), and this film combines elements of crime drama, police procedural, and heist film together perfectly into an intricate slow burn building to its inevitable climax.

Sure, the core tale of personal redemption is standard stuff but Zak Hilditch's breathless, batshit - crazy thriller tears through orgies, mass suicides and murderous rampages to conclude on a scene as moving and terrifying as the climax of Melancholia.

Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters In Winters» bold alternate history thriller, slavery in America didn't end at the climax of the Civil War, but instead has continued in four states in the Deep South.

I found that the allure of thrillers comes from not only what their stories are about, but also how they are told: high stakes, non-stop action, plot twists that both surprise and excite, settings that are both vibrant and exotic, and an intense pace that never lets up until the adrenalin packed climax.

A thriller or suspense novel involves a chilling event that is threatening to happen or an escalating series of events or murders that build to a thrilling climax.