Sentences with phrase «from the opening scene»

The movie announces its measured, quietly confident tone right from the opening scene of a father - son deer - hunting trip, the first of many images of predators pursuing their prey.

This is all apparent right from the opening scene.

I must concede that he does his best in what is otherwise a sinking ship from the opening scene on.

Aside from the opening scene, this film could've been in a practice ring.

We know from the opening scene, a car chase captured entirely from the dashboard camera of their car, that they aren't opposed to deadly force.

A lot of the tension comes from the opening scene that shows the protagonist getting sold out by a member of their group, and thus every character introduction is met with some suspicion.

From the opening scene embracing a vigorous dance by fun - loving kids, we get the point: it's good to be young, though with one reservation.

An all around fascinating film from the opening scene to the end.

The visuals in the game are very smartly crafted and really showcases the dedication of getting the world to feel just right; it shows from the opening scene to the last.

The above image is taken from the opening scene in which the incomparable Song Kang - ho (also the star of Bong's monster hit The Host), playing weary but determined detective Park, arrives in the middle of a starkly - coloured field to investigate a body that's been dumped there.

Apart from the opening scene, which incorporates special effects to help create a massive dry dock that serves as a prison (the prisoners hauling a ship into it with lines as thick as tree trunks), and a few brief establishing shots, which include dramatic rises and falls of the camera through space and time as each new stage of the story begins, Les Misérables keeps us in close — sometimes very close — proximity to the actors.

It's a brisk 300 pages, engaging from the opening scene which thoroughly sets itself up for life - threatening danger, to the denouement which is really just an interlude / set - up for the next book in the series due out in 2013.

As for the lead performance, Quvenzhane Wallis is quite endearing as the latest incarnation of Annie, right from the opening scene where she ostensibly takes the proverbial baton from a freckle - faced redhead (Taylor Richardson) resembling all the other actresses who've previously played the part.

by Sean Rom «Asghar Farhadi's tough, penetrating film, A Separation has you in its grip from the opening scene.»

From the opening scene with the atrocious b rated acting and fake police, to the horrible motor - bike scene with the terrible acting kids, this movie was pure rotten.

Vincent Zandri captures readers» attention from the opening scene of his new suspense novel, Orchard Grove, and proceeds to careen through lust and lives.

Telegraphed from the opening scene to the final moments, only some insightful or complex characterization would warrant this story now.

We can certainly tell from the opening scene, in which her friends record her fellating a police officer, the latest in a string of blackmail targets used to raise funds to bail her absentee father out of prison.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: DVD Features Detectives on Trail of Copycat Serial Killer From the opening scene, this snuff flick hits you over the head with the idea that NYPD Detective Stan Aubray (Willem Dafoe) is damaged goods.

Some surviving Swedes from the opening scene pop up again but by this time we share Jack's sense of burnout.

On the way they stumble across the homestead from the opening scene, and pick up the only survivor, Mrs. Quaid (Rosamund Pike), still clutching her dead baby.

From its opening scene slowly falling down Violet's closet in a continuous panning shot that makes her hat boxes and skin - tight dresses seem more like a modern city than a wardrobe, Bound quickly proves itself as a tightly constructed (and unexpectedly funny) lesbian noir with incredible camerawork, solid acting by the entire cast and tight pacing that'll keep you feeling empathizing with Violet, Corky and Caesar as their high - stakes game take several reversals of fortune.

Even from the opening scenes, he trusts the audience enough for them to jump right in, no need for backstory - it's all shown in the details anyway.

«Get Out» is not a film that takes breaks for comedy routines (even if Howery allows a little relief, it's often in the context of how he's convinced all white people want black sex slaves), keeping us on edge and uncertain from the opening scene to the final one.

Strange, despite the setting and dorm - room violence, aside from opening scenes there are no classes or signs of administrative influence, aside from a bent shop teacher who is masterminding much of the illegal activities.

Thanos has the upper hand from the opening scene and it's the heroes who are struggling to stay on top of the chaos that follows.

We're trained from the opening scenes to fix our attention on young writer Bob Leckie (James Badge Dale, later the star of the short - lived «Rubicon») as he signs on for Marine Corps duty after Pearl Harbor, ships out, and starts the hardscrabble fight for Guadalcanal in 1942.

The lesson from these opening scenes is to never get used to Shutter Island as a locale, because each new setting within it seems as foreign as the one that proceeds it.

Hasbro's Force Friday line also includes some throwbacks to The Force Awakens, like an action figure set of Rey with her speeder from her opening scene on Jakku, and other properties from the Star Wars universe.

It's clear from the opening scene of Michael Haneke «s controversial 2001 classic The Piano Teacher, available in a new HD digital transfer on Blu - ray from The Criterion Collection, that some severely repressed feelings are lurking under the surface.

She pours plenty of emotion into Katja from the opening scene to the dramatic conclusion.

And the ending is so heavily foreshadowed, it practically flashes onscreen in neon lights from the opening scenes.

Iñárritu and DiCaprio never let go of the jugular from the opening scene on.

«Annihilation» breeds tension — from an opening scene meteor strike to the final, somewhat creepy shot.

As the head of the local police force, Woody Harrelson is reliably great, with perhaps more of a gentle, affecting edge than we might expect from the opening scenes.

By Blair Jackson From the opening scene — a pathetic re-enactment of a supposedly «real» 911 call — «The Devil Inside» flops in a big way.

Franco clearly loves playing Wiseau, from his opening scene screaming «Stella!»

They find the cat in the possession of Cheddar (Method Man), a gang leader who mistakes the duo for the assassins from the opening scene.

The intimacy is almost overbearing from the opening scene, in which our couple burst into an apartment, strip off and have urgent sex on the floor.

Born after Creed died fighting Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, Adonis never knew his father — though, as we see from the opening scene, set in 1998 Los Angeles in a juvenile detention centre, he's inherited the champ's cast - iron punch.

Gregg's weak direction necessitates not only telegraphing the film's endpoint from the opening scene, but ensures that the proceedings will eventually turn to violence of some sort.

It's a heady brew from the opening scene, which stitches two seemingly disconnected storylines with aggressive editing that seems to rewrite the script as it weaves scenes together.

Doyle's smooth, Irish - accented baritone hooks listeners from the opening scene in McKinty's latest crime novel starring Sean Duffy, of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, who is in trouble with the brass again and in deadly danger as he investigates the murder.

By taking time to deconstruct a number of other novels all the way from the opening scene to the end, you will start to see the range of variety within your genre.

Here's a sample from an opening scene, when the author and her siblings sleep outdoors the night before her family's lamb roast:

You'll hear all about what Dan Aykroyd thinks of the upgraded design of the iconic proton pack, which quips Bill Murray brought to reprising the role of Peter Venkman, why the librarian ghost from the opening scenes of the original film returned, and much more.

is littered with mistakes, omissions and misrepresentations from the opening scenes.