Sentences with phrase «mess of subplots»

Not exact matches

The subplot involving Bishop's stepson Ryan (Gerard Kearns), who falls in with a sociopathic gangster, manages the difficult feat of being both lurid and boring; and the way Bishop finally extricates the boy from the mess is so raucously unbelievable that what no doubt was meant to be a crowd - pleasing finale comes across instead as crowd - annoying.

As all of the most unfairly scathing reviews from Cannes pointed out, Ismael's Ghosts is kind of a mess: a scattershot drama that abandons its compelling central narrative for discursive subplots.

Scripters Simon Boyes and Adam Mason attempt to liven things up by sprinkling the proceedings with distinctly oddball subplots, including an assassin dying of a terminal illness, but, like everything else contained in this mess of a screenplay, such digressions wind up going absolutely nowhere (ie there's no satisfactory payoff for anything here).