Sentences with phrase «fascinating premise»

The storyline - which follows Kevin Bacon's Tom Witzky as he willingly submits to hypnosis at a party and subsequently finds himself able to see and hear dead people - is nevertheless intriguing enough to essentially render such complaints moot, with the film's almost inherently fascinating premise heightened by its myriad of overtly positive attributes (eg David Koepp's compelling directorial choices, Bacon's expectedly captivating performance, etc).

Fascinating premise destroyed with dull gameplay, hard to read dialogue text and a sense of confusion which in theory should help with the

Fascinating premise for a movie, and big OSCAR buzz already.

Mr. Gavin's quietly fascinating premise — combined with some stellar music, production design, and cinematography — provides all you need for an effective thriller about the power / danger of blind faith, but A Dark Song is also backed by a pair of simply fantastic lead performances.

As with all of Niccol's movies (like The Truman Show, which he wrote), the film begins with an utterly fascinating premise, and as with some of Niccol's films (like In Time), it doesn't fully come together in the end.

Fascinating premise destroyed with dull gameplay, hard to read dialogue text and a sense of confusion which in theory should help with the message the game is trying to prevent but instead just ends up being frustrating.

However, it's this very ambiguous approach that contributes to the film's allure and fascinating premise.

Spike Lee's film is certainly a fascinating premise.

Imagery and acting on a high level, but a fascinating premise puts this show way above the rest of the competition.

Imagery and acting on a high level, but a fascinating premise puts this show way above the rest of the

The story of Sarah Winchester and the haunted house she owned for so many years felt like a fascinating premise, especially knowing the similarity it could have had to The Conjuring films.

With a pair of great performances and a fascinating premise, Southside with You is a leisurely - paced, but intriguing, look at a piece of romantic history.

What keeps Code 46 from living up to its fascinating premise is the lack of empathy we feel for William and Maria.

Drawn from the 2008 novel by Tom Rob Smith, Child 44 has a fascinating premise and setting — a Stalinist hero investigates a series of child murders in a society that dismisses murder as a capitalist affliction.

You have this fascinating premise, where we're thrown into this world in which aliens have lived on Earth for 20 or 30 years, and they just happen to be confined to the Johannesburg townships, in a situation very reminiscent of apartheid.

And just as that film had a fascinating premise from the title and brief synopsis, so it to was ruined by the trailers.

With a fascinating premise, sure - handed direction from Steven Knight and an incredibly accomplished central lead performance from Tom Hardy,

With a fascinating premise, sure - handed direction from Steven Knight and an incredibly accomplished central lead performance from Tom Hardy, Locke is a provocative thriller that succeeds by bucking convention.

Director / co-writer Charlie McDowell (2014's The One I Love) returns to the Festival with another metaphysical thriller that uses a fascinating premise as a launching point to explore complex issues in a deftly absorbing fashion.

The series» launch wielded loads of promise with a fascinating premise taken from Robert J. Sawyer's 1999 novel.

With a stunningly lavish world and a fascinating premise, Kubo and the Two Strings is a highly satisfying and entertaining adventure.

Band of Robbers certainly has a fascinating premise with copious amounts of ideas on what to do with its plot and characters, but alas, there are probably too many ideas.

7.5 — Destructoid: «Horizon Zero Dawn is a fascinating premise wrapped in a tortilla of tropes.

With a fascinating premise, a powerful leading man, Jake Gyllenhaal, and a talented director this film had nowhere to go but up.

Again, that sounds like a fascinating premise, albeit one that's highly likely to go in unforeseen «Animal Farm» directions.

The criminal eluding capture for just over one year, trying to disappear by making himself unmemorable; the writer tracking him years later, erasing himself to follow another person's journey, physical and emotional — a fascinating premise made all the more intriguing by the autobiographical elements of the novel.

Maria has chosen to rebuild a life without revealing anything about Zoe's incident to her new husband or stepson, and in so doing, creates a fascinating premise ripe for conflict.

It has a fascinating premise, although I still don't love the idea of early access titles on Xbox One.

Gone Home presents the player with a fascinating premise.