Sentences with phrase «lacks narrative tension»
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Yet Goro lacks his father's storytelling richness and narrative sweep, and for all the gorgeous detail of the animation he fails to create much tension or energy.
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The often impossibly tedious narrative is compounded by stilted dialogue that rarely sounds authentic or even plausible (ie it's as if everything's been translated into English directly from another language), while the total lack of tension ensures that the movie's second half, ostensibly designed to operate as a suspenseful thriller, feels even more aimless and irrelevant than anything preceding it.