Sentences with phrase «more predictable plot»

But Bell and co-star Simon Pegg are such enjoyably unlikely rom - com leads, and they have such crackling chemistry from the word go, they more than make up for some of the film's more predictable plot elements.

The new movie is still wildly energetic and eye - catching, but it also has a more predictable plot that takes fewer risks.

Not exact matches

Continue to read your child books with predictable texts and familiar words, but also include those with a richer vocabulary and more complicated plots.

One's interest does, as a result, begin to wane considerably as the film plods into its increasingly predictable midsection, with the inclusion of hackneyed plot twists - eg Nick and Billy must whip their ragtag group members into shape, Billy is forced to contend with an obnoxious rival (Max Minghella's Graham), etc - ensuring that the movie only grows more and more interminable in the buildup to its expectedly uplifting finale.

More troubling than this predictable (if startling) plot point per se is Creasy's blackness (as opposed to the 1987 incarnation's whiteness) in relation to it.

Characters lean too heavily toward the Southern grotesque, and the direction the plot is heading is more predictable than it should be.

However, the plot moves forward a bit quicker than it should and becomes more dramatised in it's second half and it is an undeniably predictable storyline but unlike his more recent films it's decently written, well intended and quite funny.

The script is particularly weak, being more concerned with moving from one joke to the next via predictable plot points than it is about developing the characters and moving our fantasy world on a little bit.

A disastrous film that wants to be more complex than it should be, coming up with more and more unnecessary details at the expense of simple concision, and so the obvious, predictable narrative gets lost amid contrivances, implausible scenes and plot holes the size of Africa.

Critic Consensus: Due to its use of cliched and ludicrous plot devices, this thriller is more predictable than suspenseful.

More action - packed and manga - style, but its predictable plot points (punch - ups and air - battles) are secondary to Miyazaki-esque scenes of women's work, the indifferent beauty of nature and war as nightmare.

Critics Consensus: Due to its use of cliched and ludicrous plot devices, this thriller is more predictable than suspenseful.

Perhaps a bit too dry or sedate for a Saturday night sleepover sort of horror experience, The Invoking does benefit from at least two performances that are worth enjoying (Miller and Midili); a calm but welcome amount of attention paid to things like mood, tone, music, and atmosphere; and a plot that starts out as the epitome of predictable and gradually grows more novel as we move on.

I consider this more or less balances the murky yet predictable plot and humdrum cinematic styling.

At first glance, the plot's trajectory may seem quite predictable or basic but, again, there's more to the story than that.

Full of all those iconic sounds, and a predictable plodding plot to go along with them, this movie gets less scary and more tedious as the minutes tick by.

The film is a lengthy two hours, and the plot does take a few too many swerves, with each more predictable than the last.

As the movie grows more far - fetched it actually gets more predictable, in both plot twists and camera setups — you can actually see when Edgerton frames a shot so that a character can get «unexpectedly» slammed by a car.

The twists and turns of the narrative are largely predictable — and more than one plot device is lifted wholesale from the «Mission: Impossible» series — but the character shading and vast political subtext provides for a dynamism that few superhero films have attempted.

Either as scripted or, more likely, as directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (the Resident Evil movies), Pompeii fails to make us care about any of its stock characters and, therefore, any of its predictable plot developments.

The vast majority of movies feature pretty predictable plots, so I think it's much more important to see what the director does with the material; I worry less about the originality of the story itself.

It's predictable and underdeveloped, but it makes this chirpy crop - duster far more interesting, and adds some unexpected diversions in a plot that otherwise heads exactly where it has to go.

Borrowing heavily from The Muppets (or even High School Musical), the overall plot — put on a show, save the home from closure — is predictable, but the performers are clearly having a good time; Michael Gambon is deliciously cruel as the show's controlling musical director, while unlike Marigold Hotel, Maggie gets more to do than simply look at people with a withering expression.

Stripping aside, the plot couldn't be more predictable.

If you were to remove personal affection for the superstar, you would realize that, if you had never heard of Arnold Schwarzenegger and were viewing this as a standalone film, this is one hell of an unfunny movie, with a tasteless premise, predictable turns of events, and wholly contrived plotting meant strictly to show a large, muscular man doing very un-macho things, like crying, dressing up like a woman, and driving himself more by emotion than logic.

As mentioned previously the visuals are certainly impressive, and for anyone hoping to walk around some of the finest worlds and moons of the one of the best sci - fi universes, Star Wars Battlefront II is a great recreation, but from the very first mission to the very last, mission pacing is excessively slow, the set pieces — whilst stunning — are predictable and the story is nothing more than the typical revenge plot we've seen so many times before.

Cons: Story mode sucks, and the plot was even more predictable than the first Some content from the first is gone The music is way worse than the first, the first game's soundtrack was amazing, this one is terrible, it doesn't even have one song from the first.

What appears to be a predictable plot at the beginning turns into something more surreal that fans will start praising the story.

But unless you want more reading than gameplay, dull characters, predictable plot, or just have a good chunk of disposable income and really enjoy punishment, avoid this game at all costs.