Sentences with phrase «more dramatic stakes»

Not exact matches

As the story builds, these characters become richer and more complicated — and the stakes become more deadly — resulting in a movie with a delayed but no less potent dramatic punch.

Entertaining and light in its first two episodes, Trust turns more dramatic with higher stakes in episode three as a cold - blooded mafia killer enters the picture.

But while there isn't much to distinguish Born To Be Blue's dramatic stakes from any number of stories about self - destructive, self - centered artists (or «movies about jazz musicians,» as they're more commonly known), the film is given a spark of life by the inspired casting of Ethan Hawke.

For all the levels on which Cobra Kai is derivative and tonally inconsistent, it absolutely delivers a more complicated set of characters and dramatic stakes than Karate Kid.

Either way, I honestly think the action would be more involving if there were dramatic stakes.

In the most dramatic example, the Anglo - Australian giant Rio Tinto in July sold its stake in the world's most expensive coal mine in Mozambique — effectively writing off more than $ 3 billion.