Fleischer leads us into this perverse noir world, but it only dallies with its noir atmosphere and instead turns into a straight mystery story — effectively filmed in a semi-documentary style that emphasizes police procedures over character studies or
creating suspense over suspects.
Not exact matches
Wan, with veteran cinematographer Don Burgess, shows a mastery
over the camera as a storytelling tool and
creates evocative, bone - chilling
suspense with just a simple pan or tilt.
This is a suggestive emptiness: a car racing down an empty rural highway,
creating suspense; a sky that hangs ominously
over a gas station, and then begins to fill with the fiery ribbons of a spy satellite breaking up in the atmosphere; people standing in empty fields and clearings in anticipation of the supernatural; the spotless white space of the test room of a secure government facility; the camera pivoting around NSA analyst Sevier (Adam Driver) as the massive hangars of an Army base flicker on one after another, readying for pursuit.
Credit the script as there's not an obvious fighter that should win
over the other
creating some actual
suspense in a boxing movie as to who will be the victor.
Director Roar Uthaug («The Wave») piles on the flashy CG set pieces, from a rickety plane dangling
over the top of a waterfall to the various tricks and traps of the tomb, but they feel more like elements for a snazzy trailer than scenes that actually
create suspense or adrenaline.
Lanthimos and his editor
create suspense very subtly
over the course of the film.