Sentences with phrase «last reel»

The phrase "last reel" refers to the final part or scene in a movie or story. It symbolizes the conclusion or ending of a narrative, where the resolution or outcome is revealed. Full definition
Getting a golden horse on the first and last reel triggers the game mode and switches screens allowing you to watch your horse race against other competitors in over 48 different cups.
What remained was a handful of shots and a few mistakes, all on one last reel here.
The movie opens in India, its climax is in China, and politicians from Japan and Germany play a significant role, but there's only a passing mention of South America — a high - angle shot of Rio de Janeiro's famous hilltop statue Christ The Redeemer falling to pieces — and nary a mention of the African subcontinent until the very last reel.
An interestinbg if problematic film, whose last reel breaks free from the narrative to take on a more primitive line that recalls episodes out of TV's Outer limits or Twlight Zone.
Immediately after the final credits, whilst beating my hasty retreat down the steps to the foyer, suddenly the projectionist loomed up, stammering «It's n - n - not over yet, I'm after skipping the second last reel
But it's in the nature of the beast that such subtleties are drowned out in a deafening last reel shoot -»em - up that crosses over into crass exploitation — and that this is when the movie theater comes alive.
But the trouble is the feeble dramatic shape Eastwood has given the whole thing: it's a narrative of almost nothing interesting happening until the moment of crisis in the very last reel.
As a matter of fact, what he looks like is the kid in the war movie who thinks maybe he will be shaving soon, though everybody else knows he will get killed in the next - to - last reel.
The surprises last until the last reel.
They don't know each other but they're forced to pretend as lf they're married, so what do you think happens by the last reel?
As revenge plots go, it is a slow, dull burn that goes apeshit in the last reel in ways that feel forced.
And the air in the courtroom fairly crackles with emotional electricity, until that staggering surprise in the last reel.
Jeffs creates a lush atmosphere of desire and approaching chaos, and delivers a bona fide shocker in the last reel.
For director James Bridges, the film looks like a hack job, particularly after the personal anguish of 9/30/55, but it's a very good hack job: strong, simple, and perfectly paced, until the last reel flounders in a bit of overkill.
The picture hurtles along, smoothly if not plausibly, and saves some surprises for the last reel.
Some good interaction between Kirk and Picard notwithstanding, their meeting is saved for the last reels, and Kirk's final send - off is so lame that casual viewers probably won't even remember his fate.
(See the last reel of «Goblet of Fire.»)
Parts of it feel slapped together and the last 15 - 20 minutes seem like the last reel of a totally different film.
There's some on the nose speechifying in the last reel.
CAMBODIA — The Last Reel, Kulikar Sotho.
Whenever I hear the «Bike Chase» ostinato start in the last reel of the film I just smile because I know something amazing is about to happen.
I was fortunate to see John Williams conduct the last reel of E.T. to picture at the Hollywood Bowl a couple years ago; it was definitely something I will never forget.
Everyone yells at everyone else and no one truly understands the other until the last reel when it is all tied together in a matrimonial bow.
There are more holes than surprises in this movie, the compositions are a little dull looking and it's not particularly suspenseful until the last reel.
(That movie was a stinker, but the Home Depot battle zone in the last reel at least had some oomph.)
That said, the last reel delivers some full - on tension, the actors are interesting to watch, especially Hampshire, and the writing's not bad.
This issue comes into focus in the last reel.
Working backward, there's no score on the last reel which is probably the last 20 minutes of the film.
The story remains taut beginning to end, and there's rarely any telling just who is and who is not infected by the last reel.
Until the last reel La Scala doesn't actually show Eric and Co. skating, except in unimpressive 30 - second, handy - cam music - video snippets featuring those blatant stunt doubles with different haircuts and body types.
Though Leone wanted Morricone to compose the music before filming began on each of the preceding Clint Eastwood westerns, only the last reel of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly was filmed and edited according to the pre-written music.
He scratches his crotch a good deal all through the film, except during the last reel.
Well, luckily Duncan has seen the film hundreds of time and knows it from memory, so surviving to the last reel without getting machete massacred shouldn't be too big a problem.
Things are a little more immersive in the last reel or so once Santa and his sleigh gets involved.
There are few surprises and by the time the last reel spools, no one is shocked by the supposed shocking ending.
Eventually a limb does snap and the film becomes too ridiculous in the last reel, when we're blindsided by a dandy plot twist that isn't, unfortunately, properly set up.
Fresh: And the air in the courtroom fairly crackles with emotional electricity, until that staggering surprise in the last reel.
But the way the filmmakers prolonged the tension into the last reel was insulting.
Hell, the last reel alone demands prime placement on your Netflix queue.
Until the last reel, that is, when he — or at times, she — rises up, discovers their true strength and outsmarts and, or bests everyone.
Tragicomedy is that extra dose of tang in the bittersweet, teetering between hopeful and hopeless well after the last reel pays out.
Viewed through the retrospective filter of both the US's Gitmo - ised» 2000s foreign policy and countless subsequent race - to - excess «torture porn» flicks, Audition's last reel might now seem a little tamer in its effect — but this just allows all that precedes it to come into sharper focus, revealing a film of two very distinct (and distinctly colour - coded) halves.
More of an audience pleaser than Siti but also ambitious is Sotho Kulikar's Dom Fill Chong Krauey (The Last Reel, 2014) from Cambodia.
And more puzzle pieces are revealed as Cage - Santoro plays and replays the various tapes - it's almost like watching seventeen Zapruder films, although, for some, we may have yet to see the last reel of that one.
Venice Film Festival It was well before Michael Moore dropped an extensive archive - footage chunk of a Franklin D. Roosevelt speech into the last reel of «Capitalism: A Love Story» that the following thought entered my head, but the appearance of FDR and his homespun common sense crystallized it: Michael Moore is this generation's Frank Capra.
The first of these scenarios describes the last reel or so of Vincente Minnelli's 1956 MGM feature Lust for Life; the second describes, in abbreviated form, Maurice Pialat's 1990 French art movie Van Gogh.
And finally, the last reel of Little Children plays like a thriller, as several events culminate and a true sense of danger permeates the film.
Scott Glosserman's debut film Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon is an intelligent, perceptive skewering and analysis of slasher movies that genre fans and skeptics can appreciate, and it actually becomes an involving horror film in its last reel.
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