Sentences with phrase «into predictable story»

What's astonishing about the film is how awake it is, how it doesn't fall into predictable story routines.

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This could easily have turned out to be one of those formula feel good films with their predictable story book endings but, In the capable hands of director Mara Nair («Amelia»), she brings warmth, emotion and an understanding of the Ugandan culture into this lovely and heart warming film.

What emerges from this pretentious if diverting mishmash is a story that is equally predictable and contrived, but nonetheless offers some worthwhile insights into the notion of the male gaze and the subjugation of women.

It resorts to a story line so predictable that its willingness to go so earnestly into unoriginal territory is doubly disappointing since its first half had so much more going for it.

Fans of light puzzles and predictable stories with damsels in distress that turn into the champion by the end will find what they're looking for here.

The narrative might not take an ambitious route and falls into predictable patterns but the backwards premise and refreshing Napolean - Dynamitesque cast provide enough fun to propel the story forward in a sea of fairly well delivered laughs.

The arrival of Chris Pine's character adds some much - needed conflict to the proceedings, although it takes the story into more predictable territory, while the religious undertones (from the Eden - like valley, to Caleb's snake - like instigator) are laid on a bit thick.

Although this film falls into the ever - bulging genre of inspirational stories of courage and hope against all odds, director David Gordon Green has given Bauman's story a grittier, less predictable edge with Gyllenhaal never going for cheap sentiment or movie cliches.

There are admittedly segments of the investigation where the movie falls into a formulaic story that will be predictable for adults.

Zathura is predictable to a certain point, and the home invasion sequence by the reptilian Zorgons drags on much longer than necessary, but just when you think that the story's ideas have petered out and the movie is going to go into coast mode to the finish, a new story wrinkle emerges to keep us reeled in again.

The final product of A Vigilante may have left me feeling indifferent, but I commend the places Daggar - Nickson took the typically predictable story to deliver a fresh take on the revenge thriller that leans more into the emotional aftermath of the everyday violence that thousands of women suffer through on a daily basis, while also letting Wilde be a complete badass.

As the case begins to crack, Antoine makes a decision that sends the story into an unforeseen crisis that is at once shocking and predictable.

Some of the developments feel a bit predictable — shot in the dull hues of gray that match Maud's life, Suffragette occasionally turns hard truths into platitudes — but the story is inspiring, buoyed by a fine cast, a pointed, important examination of the price paid for a shot at equality.

There are some predictable moments, such as Dan's date with an ugly duckling who has turned into a beautiful swan, his daughter's first big drive, and a few other examples, but Dan in Real Life always seems to know just the right ways to overcome inherent story clichés with surprising grace and affability.

Those groups are typically written about in superficial, knee - jerk ways (their stories often shoe - horned into predictable political narratives), so there's an opening to write about them with nuance and complexity.

Unfortunately, the folks over at DICE have somehow managed to turn a golden opportunity for a new, unique and exciting Star Wars story into one of the most boring, predictable and uninspiring tales seen in some time.

What appears to be a predictable plot at the beginning turns into something more surreal that fans will start praising the story.

While the story begins to tinker with those ideas, I was a little disappointed to discover that the campaign pretty quickly shifted into a more predictable path that makes it clear that, yeah, there's only one «good» side in this particular showdown.

Additionally, the lack of any real innovation in both story and gameplay departments translates into a very predictable game.

The story heads into some very predictable directions often, with a particular twist early on turning a unique take on Batman's history into something less exciting as a result.