Sentences with phrase «losing narrative momentum»

But Midnight Special is a chase movie, and like all chase movies it runs the risk of losing all narrative momentum once it arrives at a destination.

Not exact matches

The narrative does lag the slightest bit at the midpoint when Carl decides to leave LA behind for a quick trip to Miami and the script loses its focus, but as soon as he gets his hands on that food truck and he's back to being a man on a mission, the film takes off with even more momentum than before.

Regrettably, the momentum of the pic's midsection is lost when the narrative transitions to the «90s, but the movie wraps up before it completely collapses.

For a book which is ostensibly a chase, this does tend to halt the narrative's intended pace as frequent intervals, meaning the story loses momentum at moments where it needs to be pushing the reader forwards.