Sentences with phrase «mystery plot»

We hoped that a murder mystery plot in which a group of high school students pursued the culprit would connect with the players.

Without the comedy, the murder mystery plot does not engage, and attempts at drama fall flat.

The action set - pieces are as exciting as they are funny and the whole thing is wrapped up tight in a solid murder mystery plot.

Deliver a murder mystery plot of the quality you'd find in a Scooby - Doo cartoon, along with a dark serious revenge story.

A solid concept and the promising comedic pairing of Steve Carell and Tina Fey fall victim to sloppy filmmaking and a needlessly convoluted mystery plot in Date Night, a disappointing comedy that fails to fully deliver the indelible stamp of personality that makes either of its lead performers special.

4:15 am (20th)-- TCM — Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941) No relation to the 2005 Pitt - Jolie vehicle, this Mr. and Mrs. Smith is one of Hitchcock's only straight comedies, no suspense or mystery plot in sight.

Rather than collecting a bunch of funny people together on a set and just letting them riff, the film establishes coherent characters and drops them into a twisty mystery plot that's tightly crafted enough to generate some real narrative momentum while never getting too bogged down in its own plot that it forgets to be funny.

Along with a constant stream of barbed humour, the film has an enjoyably knotted mystery plot and action set - pieces that feel like...

Director Guy Ritchie is being quite honest in this new clip: A Game of Shadows will basically feature everything that the filmmaker's first Sherlock Holmes movie had (murder - mystery plot mechanics, witty banter, stylized action, and explosive set pieces) and make it even more plentiful or flashier - in the hopes that moviegoers will enjoy this new cinematic roller coaster ride across 19th century Europe.

Most notable among these is the gently playful shoehorning of genre elements into a whispery character study: 40 - odd minutes in, the film casually yawns, stretches and takes up an shaggy - dog mystery plot born of the director's love for detective fiction.

While not uproariously funny, this story about a kidnapping game gone real brings the fun through charming characters and a zigzagging mystery plot.

Indicated by somewhat straightforward mystery plots that elaborate death scenes and gory climaxes serve to punctuate, the giallo (so named for the colour of the covers — yellow — that enshrouded Italian penny dreadfuls) genre of thriller reached its stylistic apex with Argento's 1975 Deep Red, just prior to the director experimenting in the «supernatural» sub-genre of Italian horror with his masterpiece, Suspiria.

The basic conspiracy thriller / sci - fi mystery plot has been retained, even if the fun side trip to Mars has been dumped.

A deeply frustrating and thrilling film in the best ways, Gone Girl manages to expand the rote murder - mystery plot into greater discussions of the media, the psychology of marriage, and the strange things women are forced to do when they are systematically denied agency.

With the hallmarks of the Italian horror sub-genre joyously honoured (the bizarre mystery plot, the elaborate murder set - piece, the lurid set design and cinematography), Delplanque's feature debut is impossibly beautiful to behold and executed with admirable amounts of artistic gore and disturbing eroticism.

Hicks deftly mixes details about art history and forgery into a fast - paced, nonstop - action mystery plot, which will aid some readers in suspending their disbelief that two 12 - year - olds could get mixed up in such a devious scheme.

The popular puzzle franchise Professor Layton will soon be a television series, which is exciting news for fans, puzzle enthusiasts, and anyone who likes an adorable mystery plot.

The first is the giallo, films indicated by their impossibly convoluted mystery plots and elaborate set - piece murders; the second, of which Suspiria is one, is the «supernatural,» distinguished by their surreality and lack of a traditional narrative.

When Barri discovers Sylvia dead in her apartment, it sets off the murder mystery plot of the film, as she begins to suspect Sylvia's son Anthony (Kevin Corrigan, almost doing his best Christopher Walken impression) of foul play for the life insurance policy.

The old Hollywood glam and classic murder mystery plot should make this one another perfect beach read for romance lovers.

It's no part of a murder mystery plot.

The first season introduced all the characters and had a murder mystery plot.

While it isn't the pinnacle of mystery plots, there's a fun Holmesian method to the way our three characters solve the missing person quandary by assessing several puzzling clues left at the «crime scene.»

Eventually the movie becomes bogged down by a drawn - out mystery plot that makes the film drag in the second half.

Though the mystery plot isn't much more complicated than your average Murder She Wrote, Williamson's script does proceed from a suitably nasty premise to some R - rated horror sequences, locating the never - before - sought middle ground between a scary campfire story and Crime and Punishment.

A real layer cake, this horror lark from British TV guys Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman uses a mystery plot to present a trilogy of...

The mystery plot is somewhat staid: a series of revelations as the crime - solving duo of Arno and Giordani follow up on each of the nine leads they uncover (hence the film's title).

That's where Frank the Bastard finds itself, since despite having a mysterious title and a mysterious premise (a young woman confronts her past when she returns to the creepy commune she grew up in), the movie just spins its wheels as it looks for the dullest way to finally admit the pitiful details of its mystery plot.

The mystery plot is just an added bonus.

But the big lesson I take from Chandler is that the mystery plot is just an excuse to let private eye Philip Marlowe observe and comment, in his unique voice, on humanity's foibles.

When I was rewriting the book that will be my first published novel, I knew I needed to amp up the mystery plot (and tone down the romance plot a bit).

Third Girl refers to the title of an Agatha Christie novel, a mystery plot with a quintessential triangle of suspects whose ambiguous relationships slowly come into focus as the culprit of the crime is revealed.