Sentences with phrase «hoary elements»

It's clear almost immediately that Creevy isn't looking to reinvent the wheel here, as Welcome to the Punch, for the most part, comes off as an excessively familiar, almost generic actioner that's been suffused with decidedly hoary elements (eg the weary cop, the exasperated superior, the skeptical partner, etc, etc).

Untraceable's been infused with a by - the - numbers sensibility that's evident virtually from the word go, as screenwriters Robert Fyvolent, Mark Brinker, and Allison Burnett place an almost relentless emphasis on some of the hoariest elements that the genre has to offer (ie the plucky partner that inevitably winds up in the killer's clutches).