Sentences with phrase «elements of a thriller»

Ford's adaptation of the late Austin Wright «s Tony & Susan has elements of a thriller, but first and foremost, it's a love story.

Only the ambient hum of a highly unconventional, effective synth score by The The could count as a standout element of a thriller that otherwise borrows relentlessly from the recent past.

The relationship drama, with elements of a thriller and the high - flying style the designer - turned - director is known for, is executed with a painstaking attention to detail according to Ford's starry cast.

The film has many elements of a thriller, but ultimately Antonio Campos's interest lies much more in profiling, yet never over-determining, his moody protagonist.

Gardener includes elements of a thriller but expands them in a human manner that allows it to become something more special.

The most surprising element of this thriller is not the suspense or the performances, but the eroticism.

Not exact matches

Asking that kind of question is like asking, «Could you do a love story with more of a thriller element, like The Bourne Identity?»

A man on the run, the beautiful woman, the last chance for redemption: These familiar elements make the modern thriller a fairy tale for grownups, where sex, violence and guilt are the determining forces of fate.

Blends psychological - thriller elements with unexpected humor for a thoroughly unsettling plunge into a nightmare of fear and intolerance.

The story itself uses the parody of horror cliches to its advantage to create a plot that is classic suspense / thriller inspired alongside comedic elements that don't interrupt the plot but rather compliment it.

The film is on a fine line between fantasy and thriller with an element of sexual fantasy running through the plot for young teenage girls, nothing strong, think along the lines of «Twilight» teenage angst mixed with «Cursed» or a little bit of «Ginger Snaps» but not as in your face as those films, there is still an enjoyable werewolf film here.

That may sound like a bummer for people expecting a sleek and impersonal autumn thriller, but Johnson has crafted a large enough film to house all of those elements together comfortably.

Yet, while those films used the experiment as a touchstone, allowing the story to take on more aspects of a thriller, Kyle Patrick Alvarez's film is less concerned with thriller elements, but rather the loss of individuality the participants experienced, and how quickly the guards began to abuse the prisoners, most of whom quickly bent to authority.

Even if the action and thriller elements fall short of the intended mark, there's never a point when the film fails to at least maintain interest, even when it becomes a bit obvious where things are going to lead.

Elements of some Hitchcock thrillers come into play in this railway thriller.

The final third abandons that tendency in favor of the more generic thriller elements, but that doesn't make the film any less exciting.

Meanwhile, the mystery and thriller elements are contrived to the point where every scene is punctuated by the forced inclusion of one more clue to keep Ruth one step closer to her quest to tracking down the person responsible for the intrusion and burglary.

Filmmaker James Foley, working from a script by Niall Leonard, delivers a blandly - attractive production that delivers everything one might've expected, admittedly, with the smattering of thriller - oriented elements compensating for a narrative that's occasionally just a little too lackadaisical for its own good.

If the last newspaper thriller of note, the Academy Award - winning Spotlight, better than it had any rights to be, focused on the mechanics of reporting and breaking a story, The Post, though it features similar elements, has somewhat different aims.

It has one sterling high point, when all of the different characters and thriller elements come together on a tense bus ride in Brooklyn, as several different people who's fates are connected together unknowingly sit feet away from each other and Agent Keller, the only one who knows what is happening, can't do anything to stop it.

What's key to the film being more than just some exploitative thriller is how Fargeat acknowledges and twists the story's elements of exploitation.

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.

Written by Coogler and Joe Robert Cole (a veteran of Marvel Studios» bygone in - house writers program), Black Panther combines many of the best elements of MCU films past, including: the Shakespearean royal family drama of the Thor movies, the political thriller elements of Civil War and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and even the sci - fi tech aspects of the Iron Man films.

Still, if you want a lower - key, moody piece with some light thriller elements, than THE AMERICAN might be just the antidote you're looking for after a summer of bombastic action.

Seemingly out of their elements, Cliff and Cydney make the classic mistake of befriending the wrong people, a thriller staple, but the filmmaker never goes on automatic pilot; he composes with soft focus photography to give a sense of ambiguity at key moments whenever both couples are within the same frame.

However, Caruso and screenwriters Landon (Another Day in Paradise) and Ellsworth (Red Eye) aren't exactly setting their sights too high, employing a mixture of teen comedies, romance, and paranoid thriller elements solely to deliver escapist cheap thrills.

Sure, there are plenty of loose ends and logic loopholes to have to contend with, but with fine performances, a nifty plot, and solid production values all around, Deja Vu overcomes familiar story elements to deliver a lively and interesting thriller for those who enjoy mysteries mixed with fantasy and science fiction elements.

The disillusion was siphoned off to political thrillers of the period, leaving car chases, hot vehicles and anti-authoritarianism as key elements and adding country & western soundtracks and a small - business, individualist streak, in line with their appeal to the southern and midwest markets where these films were proving highly successful in drive - ins.

For me, it's a hybrid film, because it has elements of romance just as much as those of the thriller, as you say.

Unfortunately, the morsel of romanticism lacks the imminent intensity, and the narrative removes all thriller elements of the chase, bouncing around from a high security anti-trust scenario to a world of mental blockage and sparse movement.

It very much feels like a sensationalist women's drama made for television, with substandard thriller elements that, once all of the cards are revealed, make little sense, while also barely resonating for those looking for more substantive fare.

Combined with the naturalistic acting of the cast and the reserved hand by Marston, «Forgiveness» has an extremely grounded feeling that you don't generally get with dramas or thrillers — most feel put together in a petri dish, either a concoction with overly familiar elements or a collection of histrionic moments assembled to easily stir audience members.

The thriller elements of Cherish make no sense and have no rhythm, setting off the picture's genuinely intriguing premise and performances with just enough regularity to set teeth on edge.

The film works on multiple levels — as a supernatural thriller (though explicit paranormal elements are limited to a hallucinatory dream sequence and the final shot of the baby's eyes), as a psychological thriller about a paranoid pregnant woman who imagines herself at the centre of a conspiracy, and as the last word in marital betrayal, since the most despicable villain here is surely Guy, who allows his wife to be raped by the devil in exchange for an acting role.

There are elements of the story that push the believability of Andrew's obsession a little too far, but overall, how Chazelle is able to craft a psychological thriller out of this simple, off - beat premise, is one of the best cinematic accomplishments of the year.

The sprung romantic elements of Cherish are so literally betrayed by its thriller elements that disabled Max, vital and forceful in the former, is mortally wounded by the latter, his ultimate fate left maddeningly (and sloppily) to our imagination.

The Wrap reports that Will Smith and Joel Edgerton are teaming up for Bright, a cop thriller with «fantasy elements,» that will see one or both of the leads play an Orc cop.

While the subject matter is the stuff that good films are made of, and the quality of the direction and acting are worthy of admiration, where The East fails is in the contrivances involved in the farfetched plotline and the unevenness in the thriller elements (such as a scene in which the cell dresses up to the nines to infiltrate a party for pharmaceutical bigwigs that would feel more at home in a Mission Impossible movie) that undermine what could have been a chilling and realistic story of corporations run amok.

I will say the script doesn't utilize its supporting players nearly as well I personally wanted it to, and the lapses into horror convention, especially near the end, aren't nearly as successful as the psychologically unbalanced elements that make up the majority of the thriller's 97 minute running time.

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Sidney Lumet's final film is back on Instant, a twisty heist thriller with elements of family drama that I'm still eager to check out for myself.

Netflix staged one of the most anticipated events of this summer's Television Critics Association press tour: A panel on Stranger Things, the throwback thriller that channels elements of 1980s horror and science - fiction cinema to depict the mysterious happenings in and around a small Midwestern town in 1983.

That would be all well and good within the confines of a made - for - TV drama, but Perelman sees this story more as a somber thriller, ditching the humanistic elements for some hyperbolic confrontations that escalate feverishly until only tragedy can result.

The theatrical trailer, which we've included below, features quite a lot of potential spoilers, though it does emphasize the thriller element of the movie and serves as an effective hook.

Phantom 8 Studio's Past Cure is an intriguing blend of surreal puzzle - solving, stealth action, and horror elements wrapped inside a psychological thriller.

The story, which could easily have been too convoluted to follow for someone who doesn't understand British laws and government agencies, is relatively easy to follow, and features a nicely developed script by acclaimed screenwriter Steven Knight (Redemption, Dirty Pretty Things), though some all - too - convenient narrative shortcuts are taken to keep the story moving briskly, which may annoy some who prefer courtroom dramas without all of the contrived thriller elements.

Sheridan set out to make a «buddy road film which was also a heist thriller, with elements of the inevitable showdown of a western with some of the real consequences of the flawed characters of a real drama,» he said.

The look and feel of the film are sterile, with another thriller that seems to lack personality and the human element, merely pushing forward the incessant need to play the audience, rather than to tell a story.

With elements of Poe's The Tell Tale Heart, Don't Breathe transforms from a story of home invasion to a revenge thriller.

The movie combines a regular, old police procedural thriller with elements of that so - called «torture porn» subgenre the kids seem to like too much.

There's a terrific sense of menace in this gothic dramatic thriller, which plays on the story's fantasy elements to take us into a teen girl's troubled imagination.