Sentences with phrase «lack of a compelling story»

Although there are numerous problems with Fifty Shades Freed, the third and final installment of E.L. James» trilogy, the fundamental one is also the most obvious: the lack of a compelling story.

Andrew Payne reviews This is 40, a comedy that doesn't deliver enough laughs to make up for its lack of a compelling story.

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Critic Consensus: This story of addiction may lack the typical flash and glamour, but Hoffman makes Mahowny compelling.

Critics Consensus: This story of addiction may lack the typical flash and glamour, but Hoffman makes Mahowny compelling.

But while the movie's gorgeous visuals do a great job of portraying the distressed state of the town and its characters, Green fails to deliver a compelling story, instead opting for a non-linear narrative that lacks focus or coherency.

But what it's lacking in visual flair it makes up for in workman - like spirit; it's the perfect example of a compelling story well told.

So compelling is writer - director Joel Potrykus» unnerving scenario — with its largely ambiguous tone of horror dramatically offset at times by explicit frights — that a viewer isn't necessarily bothered by a lack of basic story information about who, what, when, where and why.

Slightly similar to The Longest Day in one respect, like that film it told the story of an infamous day from the perspectives of the different sides — the build - up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour is seen from both their perspective and the Americans», with an almost documentary - like approach aided by a lack of genuine movie stars producing a very fine, compelling picture.

Even if the scenery and story were more compelling, the lack of charisma, personality, and humanity would keep this from reaching the same heights.

This is borne out by the film's relative lack of interest in anything that happens after Grant dies — the compelling story of the cell phone footage, the trial, the controversial verdict, and the unrest and memorialization that followed is told mostly through curt, pre-credit-roll titles.Yet the film also tries hard for a verite style, as opposed to something more allegorical, and so we have to conclude that we're supposed to accept its less believable moments at face value.

While the narrative format and lack of a truly compelling story development are liabilities that make this a very flawed and overly preachy way to spend 88 minutes, the acting is still superb all around, as is Carnahan's dialogue between people of depth.

«Eddie the Eagle» will be a huge hit in Britain, but the lack of information on Eddie Edwards in the States could provide American audiences with quite a compelling suspense story, despite the fictional elements to the movie.

The science is balanced with a couple of compelling personal narratives — that of Henrietta Lacks and her family and that of Skloot on her journey to get to the bottom of Lacks's story.

The Last Empress, which opens where Empress Orchid ends, lacks the compelling rags - to - riches / love story elements of Empress Orchid and tends to read like a series of vignettes not a continuous novel - probably the result of trying to squeeze nearly half a century of turbulent history into less than 300 pages.

Overall the story is quite compelling and as the mobile game progresses you learn a lot more about the characters and the world, however, there is rather a lack of information on the antagonist as not even his order of the sworn six of Pardia is mentioned in the game.

Cave Story 3D, despite it's lack of compelling new content, is still a terrific video game.

A re-imagining of a classic series with a compelling story yet lacking polish for consoles and PC.

It's a compelling template that has inspired multiple rivals and, while the Mario edition boasts familiar characters and locations, it lacks the variety and depth of Puzzle & Dragons Z. However, Z in turn gameplay does become bogged down in a rather tedious story in places but when the game gets going, it's an addictive experience.

Here again, however, the selection of stories lacks sufficient focus to compel me to use this on a regular basis.

DAI is developing and implementing an advocacy strategy to inform policymakers and the general public about the critical significance of PAS, as well as mobilizing a grassroots parent / youth network to share their compelling stories of the need for benefits and lack of PAS.