Sentences with phrase «lack of narrative drive»

Much of the problem comes from the film's slowness and lack of narrative drive.

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Earnestly presented and well acted, particularly by newcomer Nicole Beharie in the central role, the film shares with many other such agenda - driven dramas a complete lack of narrative surprise, merely connecting the dots.

This is largely due to the lack of a clear narrative drive once the group are down in the sewers.

Many critics felt that, due to lack of genuine conviction, Spielberg failed to give Walker's folk tale a narrative drive or emotional push, resulting in an overly fractured saga, devoid of the pop - folk religiosity that served as the glue that held the episodic book together.

Since it's based on true events (from the life of journalist Simon Carr), this story is rather un-cinematic, lacking a driving narrative.

But what it might lack in narrative drive, it more than makes up for in a beguiling, melancholy mood not quite like anything they've made, abetted by photography that's among the directors» most beautiful, despite the absence of usual collaborator Roger Deakins.

Just saw a preview of «Shotgun Stories» in London yesterday, and while I concur on the immense promise of both Nichols and Shannon, I found the film fatally lacking in narrative drive.

by Bill Chambers The Lucio Fulci apologists like to say that gore and general impropriety are the raisons d'être of his work, not storytelling, but there's a built - in fallacy to that implicitly macho challenge: It presumes that his films are light on narrative when in fact it's narrative drive that they lack.

You really are being trained to the fullest of your ability in each program but it still lacks the purpose of narrative driven missions.

It's either going to engage players completely and utterly, or its lack of audible narrative and ability to identify with characters through their back stories coupled with the fact it doesn't hand all of the mechanics to you on a plate is going to drive players away.