You usually have a pretty good idea where all the characters are at any point in the game and believe it or not, there actually is something resembling
a coherent plot in the mix.
Not exact matches
More interested
in getting to the next
plot turn than
in telling a
coherent and compelling story.
What this film seriously lacks
in a
coherent and discernable
plot and character development, it more than makes up for it with tons of style, great cinematography, and well - placed tension.
Rather than collecting a bunch of funny people together on a set and just letting them riff, the film establishes
coherent characters and drops them into a twisty mystery
plot that's tightly crafted enough to generate some real narrative momentum while never getting too bogged down
in its own
plot that it forgets to be funny.
Ehren Kruger's (The Skeleton Key, The Ring 2) script does have a
coherent premise and the semblance of a
plot, but it's so hard to spot underneath the constant and very forced ad - libby nature of the cheeseball, comical interplay, and even tougher to remember after experiencing action scenes that go on for five, ten, or,
in the finale, nearly an hour at a time.
There's less a
plot in this movie and more a series of extravagant events hoping to be a
coherent film.
What Sightseers gets right where Seven Psychopaths (out today and reviewed here) gets it wrong is that this film does not try to admonish itself for including violence, and incidentally is much less indulgent
in the violence, along with having a much more
coherent plot with better direction, writing, acting, and presumably better catering too.
The caper can barely bother to make the surfing and sky - diving part of a
coherent plot, resulting
in an extreme sports highlight reel burdened with too many dead spots
Unfortunately, the lack of
coherent plot (well, it is about stoners after all) becomes tedious, and when you don't know what the hell is going on it's difficult to get invested
in characters» plights.
As I mentioned
in the intro, Full Throttle is a bit more
coherent than the first film, and unlike its predecessor, they actually construct each scene as part of the overall
plot, even if it is sometimes tangential.
Action films then expanded
in the 80s and 90s, with the growth of special effects techniques and
in response to jaded audiences who demanded faster
plots (
coherent or not), greater violence, and stimulation.
The movie flirts with the outline of a
coherent plot, but the answers to its dramatic questions have all sunk to the ocean floor
in a plume of beatific marine footage and Cronenbergian body horror.
It has been such a long while since someone actually made a weird movie just for the sake of being weird
in today's conformist Hollywood that one can't help but like Rubber; even when the movie seem to roll about
in search of a
coherent plot towards the end of its very brief running time of 85 minutes.
It's as if the team charged with forming Final Fantasy XV into a
coherent product knew the
plot was a mess and erected these moments
in the periphery to compensate.