Sentences with phrase «more of an thriller»

Asking that kind of question is like asking, «Could you do a love story with more of a thriller element, like The Bourne Identity?»

It was more of a thriller than a comedy, which was good.

Director Ron Howard brings his usual light touch to the proceedings and manages to hold the viewer's interest even through the narrative's oddly action - packed final third (ie once the truth about Hannah's character is revealed, the film becomes more of a thriller than a cute little romantic comedy and there's even a chase sequence as the army attempts to capture the mermaid / woman).

This film is definitely worth seeing if you don't go into it expecting more of an thriller.

Michael Mann's Collateral might be more of a thriller than an action movie, but it had some of the same regular - guy - in - impossible - situation thrills as Die Hard.

Langley said the follow - up with will be more of a thriller than Fifty Shades which played out like a classic love story, albeit with hardcore sex at the centre.

Even though it has some very gritty, brutal action scenes, it is more of a thriller (or drama) than anything.

It's more of a thriller than a horror film.

He had Grand Piano come out recently which is more of a thriller but still a totally awesome Hitchcockian little flick.

Although billed and marketed as a comedy, I feel the need to warn some viewers that The Ice Harvest is more of a thriller with dark comic touches rather than one that goes to tickle your funny bone.

The Girl Who Played with Fire is much more of a thriller than a traditional murder mystery — a pity since one of the reasons I liked the first film was that I hadn't seen a straight murder mystery on the big screen for quite some time.

Oddly enough, instead of lifting up the lesser scenes, it just goes to show how problematic those actually are in this Jason Blum production (it's not a traditional Blumhouse horror picture though... much more of a thriller than anything else).

I'm now more of a thriller writer and I didn't want people to associate Everett Powers with horror.

The first two were smaller, Hitchcock - ian suspense novels, and Already Gone was more of a thriller.

The new game looks to be more of a thriller as opposed to the straight out shooter original, incorporating some sci - fi horror elements.

Not exact matches

Podcasts have been around for more than a decade, but it was the NPR audio thriller Serial, which unpacked the murder of teenager Hae Min Lee and subsequent botched investigation...

Podcasts have been around for more than a decade, but it was the NPR audio thriller Serial, which unpacked the murder of teenager Hae Min Lee and subsequent botched investigation by the Baltimore Police Department, that arguably made podcasting take off.

We pretend that romantic comedies or naturalistic thrillers set in the present day are more «realistic» than any that require us to remember that we live between immensities, for no more than a fraction of sidereal time in a world that we did not make.

People haven't begun reading more but they've begun reading, one might say, better: sales of thrillers, romance novels, and fantasy have declined as demand for serious literature has grown.

I'd become a writer of crime novels and thrillers and I was more interested in books than in football.

Sure, the four races haven't been absolute thrillers, more of a mixed bag, but that's how most F1 seasons start.

He's so far knocked out 10 legal thriller books, which were translated into more than 20 languages and osmosed into movies such as «Presumed Innocent» and «The Burden of Proof.»

Technology advanced and filmmakers grew more ambitious, from the high - tension thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock to modern classics from Christopher Nolan, Nora Efron, Quentin Tarantino, and countless more.

Both actors play a convincing cat - and - mouse game, with Franco offering a riveting courtroom testimony as the script transitions into more of a low - key legal thriller about redemption for each man.

«World War Z» isn't your typical zombie movie, but rather a globe - trotting socio - political thriller that treats the zombies more like a viral disease than something out of a horror film.

There's no denying that when George Clooney wants to be an «artist,» he's more than capable of making some lovely art films, and that's clearly the case here, but there's no valid reason why he should spend his money producing a painstakingly slow travelogue set in the Italian countryside like this and allow it to be disguised as some sort of «thriller.»

A mild box office performer, the sheer power of the picture was lost to catty industry gossip, with media types reporting more on the studio itself than the nifty thriller they produced for their debut.

«The American» is an exercise in style and withheld sentiment, a bleak and atmospheric art - house thriller that's more of an aesthetic experience than an emotional one.

A much more restrained Xavier Dolan after his pretentious previous film, and he displays an assured direction and firm control of this suspenseful thriller, even though the narrative seems to move too fast as the characters start to act in ways that are not always convincing.

It's at that point that»71 starts to become a different movie — less an observant narrative of chaos and resistance and more an absurdist thriller.

This cop thriller spans over not much more than 12 hours of tough, gritty and morally grey work in the ugly parts of LA.

The direction by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, Stranger Than Fiction) delivers a fast - paced zombie thriller, and with Brad Pitt front and center, there is a grounding of the film in seeming more intelligent and plausible than your typical scare flick.

The music is superb, the Simon Boswell piano theme is well suited and also suits for the horror genre, I don't really find this as a standard black comedy thriller, it is something like it is ripped off from Coen Brother's Blood Simple, with more of less funny dialogue but I find this a perfect thriller and quite known for its time and still is today because of Channel 4 which is now a popular channel with many sub-channels.

On the whole, I was hardly interested in this snoozefest of a mystery «thriller», but there are moments in which I found myself genuinely invested in this layered and meditative drama, and for those moments, I give some credit to Refn for actually waking up, and even more credit to the real force behind this misguided character study.

Yet, while those films used the experiment as a touchstone, allowing the story to take on more aspects of a thriller, Kyle Patrick Alvarez's film is less concerned with thriller elements, but rather the loss of individuality the participants experienced, and how quickly the guards began to abuse the prisoners, most of whom quickly bent to authority.

Deep Blue Sea 2 is a wet, coarse fin slap to the face of its far superior, and infinitely more fun original shark thriller.

Although the problems appear to have had an impact on the final product, especially in the uneven tone of the comparatively smaller - scale finale and the unsatisfying epilogue, it's a bit of a pleasant surprise that the movie manages to hold together even through some turbulent patches to be worthwhile viewing for anyone not expecting much more than a grandiose, set - piece dominated horror - thriller.

Roman Polanski's recent film Death and the Maiden is a psychological thriller made all the more frightening by the knowledge that it is based upon the political tactic of terror employed by many dictatorships in South America.

The works of Max Brooks, who wrote 2003's satirical and subversively political, «The Zombie Survival Guide», and 2006's, «World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War», provided the kernels of inspiration for this mega-budgeted horror - action - thriller that mostly makes up its own narrative, independent of much of the book content (jettisoning the first - person account style and most of the events), to make it fit more with the ranks of current, eye - candy loaded popcorn movies than a thoughtful adaptation of the best - seller.

Of course, the thriller at least tries to develop this character and tell its story in a more cerebral way than those earlier efforts did.

It feels like there's so much more to this story that's missing, either from the interview subjects» reticence to share too much or the filmmakers reluctance to embrace more of the Cold War paranoia thriller trappings the story can veer into.

Undeserving of the critical savaging it suffered on its release, Killer Elite should satisfy action junkies and those looking for a more off - beat political thriller both.

The biggest appeal in this glossy cop thriller is seeing Denzel playing totally against his usual holier than holy type and if he'd taken more of these parts, I'd like him a whole lot more.

As the stakes escalate, Mark Perez's script still organically makes time for the characters» realities, like Max and Annie having trouble conceiving a child, without such story points feeling too forced, and plays on the expectations of thriller plot twists more than once.

There's more than a glimmer of something engaging in Red Sparrow — a grim, sorrowful thriller with a keenly rendered texture — but the film gets tripped up as it both resists classification and invites all of it in.

Calling big - screen legal thriller «The Lincoln Lawyer» the best TV pilot I've seen in a while really isn't meant as a putdown — the truth is, there's more good stuff on the tube these days than in theaters, especially at this time of the year.

But there were also numerous duds, including animated family film Free Birds, drama Out of the Furnace, and thriller misfire Paranoia, which all finished in the red (some in more ways than one, judging from those scores).

While that tells you more about its 2013 (in a word: disastrous) than it does about its 2014, Open Road did manage to get a lot of traction with critics last year with its Jake Gyllenhaal crime thriller Nightcrawler.

A big - budget psycho - thriller that lets two of our more «sedate» leading men cut loose with some entertainingly juicy performances.

[The clichés of the counterterrorism action - thriller genre] cohere into something with enough surface plausibility to be more entertaining than insulting.