Sentences with phrase «movie more suspense»
That imbalance at least has the benefit of giving a formula movie more suspense than it deserves.
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Another standout sequence in Public Enemies is more effective for comedy than suspense, and involves Dillinger's reaction in a movie theater to an on - screen announcement warning the audience to be on the lookout for him, America's «Public Enemy # 1.»
It's welcome to see another movie that relies more on apprehension and suspense than torture chambers.
This retread has been bloated far beyond its B - movie origins, beefed up with more characters and an all - star cast, stripped of any real suspense and loaded down with music cuts and one - liners aimed at pleasing a crowd of rowdy male teenagers.
A bit more suspense would have gone a long way here, and while director David Gelb, whose prior experience had been in the crowd - pleasing documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, has turned in a slick - looking feature for one with such a small budget (reportedly, only $ 5 mil), it really can't compete with better films out there in terms of quality, while it's too straight - faced in execution to at least give us some choice b - movie thrills.
More than anything else, the film keeps its preeminent place because this is the movie in which Hitchcock became «Hitchcock,» earning the reputation he never relinquished as «The Master of Suspense.»
Michael Sheen and Frank Langella are swell as David Frost and Richard Nixon in the adapted - from - the - stage - adaptation movie, but I feel — and I believe the above clips demonstrate — that these five minutes provide more compelling drama and suspense (and adrenaline) than the entire feature film.
He doesn't seem terribly gifted or graceful in the helm, as the film shows flashes of sharp suspense thriller but is more often reduced to mindless, artless B - movie dreck.
The movie does forecast its moments of danger / suspense a bit more than needed, but this may be its only method of catering to its family film classification.
Superbly acted with a deliciously creepy score from Michael Abels that ingeniously mixes up Swahili vocals (another ghostly warning echoing from the past) with Bernard Herrmann-esque suspense, the movie is a treat for the intellect, gut and funny bone: 12 Years a Slave meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers, yet infinitely less glib, more ghoulishly delightful and more endlessly surprising than that description implies.
Admittedly, the production value has improved with more characterful creature effects and the claustrophobic locations make for more scope for suspense, but the pedestrian direction and tired formula makes the film feel like a TV movie with little in the way of flair or imagination.
Yet, Stories We Tell often feels more like a dramatic suspense saga, or even a gothic romance, more than a movie about Sarah Polley because even though she sits at the very centre of the frame, this is really a biographical portrait of a ghost.
The director disguises the doubles he uses for the actors by cutting to distant overhead shots and jumps around the match highlights in a manner more befitting SportsCenter highlight reel than a suspense movie.
Even the above - average cast — with Paul Giamatti livening things up as the requisite concerned - scientist / exposition - delivery - machine — can't seem to make it work as anything more than a series of reasons to get from point A to point B. Which should be fine, given that it's how disaster movies generally play, but Peyton can't sustain suspense past the first earthquake scene, set at Hoover Dam.
Factor in that the movie had to be watched over the course of at least three weeks and perhaps it's no surprise that the stunted suspense was no match for more pressing concerns in Latin, chemistry, geometry, American history, and the such.
It is a perfect mixture of suspense, action, and intellect that you want in any movie all while telling so many perfectly depicted character arcs you are satisfied and begging for more.
The pirates» approach unfolds with more tension and suspense than any horror movie idea.
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Like her earlier large paintings these small paintings evoke a sense of impending doom, by suggesting that there is more outside the picture - like a cliff hanger in a movie trailer that creates suspense by gesturing toward what is yet to come.