Sentences with phrase «mystery plot into»

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.

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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.

Woody Harrelson plays a small - timer suckered into a fake kidnapping plot and facing hard time if he can't untangle a mystery involving three women (Shue, Gershon, Sevigny), false identities, cold...

It's a harrowing place to begin the story (with the clean - up job excruciating in its unease), but once we get into the proper plot it prefaces — a mystery / slasher genre piece — things get a lot less gripping.

With a Hitchcockian mistaken - identity plot, this film can't help but draw us into its slickly woven web of mystery.

It's deliriously happy to be a video game, but layers on Asian film influence, its plot starting as a curious murder - mystery, before billowing into an Infernal Affairs style tangled conspiracy as the four characters» tales begin to intertwine.

Language: English Genre: Mystery / Thriller MPAA rating: R Director: Bryan Singer Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Benicio Del Toro Plot: Five men are hauled into a New York jail for separate crimes but end up working together.

Even if the plot takes too long to come together, this film has a darkly foreboding tone that's thoroughly mesmerising, drawing us into its mysteries while touching on issues of race, religion and sexuality.

The plot centers around the two as they are «hired by the Underground Investigative Service to look into the rampant «unexplained» activity in Los Angeles — all while uncovering a larger mystery that could threaten the existence of the human race.»

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.

The plot is fairly simple and, like the original, sees our characters jumping from locale to locale in search of answers as to how they fit into this mystery.

But about 25 minutes in, another film begins and leaves this one behind, instantly transforming Crying with Laughter into a breezy «mystery» thriller with plot holes.

Language: Korean Genre: Horror / Mystery MPAA rating: NR Director: Jeong - ho Lee Actors: Jeong - hwa Eom, Kang - hee Choi, Jin - woong Jo Plot: After being accused of plagiarism, Hee - Soo decides to move from the big city and into a rural area with her small daughter and work on proving her innocence.

The plot of director Mark Palansky and Mike Vukadinovich's screenplay is little more than a murder mystery, and it's one that doesn't even incorporate the central gimmick into the story enough for the concept of a memory - recording device to really matter.

As for the mysteries of the plot, it feels as though Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy winked at us viewers during the descent into that bunker.

With The Grand Budapest Hotel, Anderson seems to be not so concerned with history, but with the history of cinema; we can see references to Kubrick and F.W. Murnau, and the plot descends into an elaborate caper full of bizarre character studies, wondrous sequences (including a superb cat - and - mouse chase where Gustave and Zero zoom down a precarious mountain atop a toboggan in pursuit of Willem Dafoe on skis), and meticulously - designed, glamorous sets that are reminiscent of the traits of classical Hollywood films and murder - mysteries.

«Origin thrusts Harvard symbologist Langdon into the dangerous intersection of humankind's two most enduring questions, and the earth - shaking discovery that will answer them,» said his publishers Doubleday in the US and Transworld in the UK, in a note about the novel's plot that is as cryptic as some of the mysteries Langdon has solved in the past.

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.

In Cherie Priest's The Family Plot, a woman is pulled into the mystery of a haunted house as her salvage company picks it over for valuable items.

Yes, there are echoes of Green's award - winning Looking for Alaska (2006): a lovely, eccentric girl; a mystery that begs to be solved by clever, quirky teens; and telling quotations (from The Leaves of Grass, this time) beautifully integrated into the plot.

Private eye Jackson Brodie delves into three ice - cold cases in a literary mystery that melds complex characters, wicked humor, and sophisticated prose in one beautifully plotted package.

Little by little, Wilmot enters a mirror house of illusions and hallucinations that propels him into a secret world of gangsters, greed, and murder, with his mystery patron at the center of it all, either as the mastermind behind a plot to forge a painting worth hundreds of millions, or as the man who will save Wilmot from obscurity and madness.

None of these tie directly into the story, but each series of interviews tell a story all their own and Arkham's messages lead to a very satisfying plot twist surrounding a key character and a mystery the player really has to solve on his own.

To this, he answered that the game's plot will delve into the mysteries that were left unsolved.

With an exciting plot, unusual puzzles, and fascinating hidden object scenes, Hope Lake will delight those who love the hidden object genre, and the terrific background music gives this game a unique charm that will plunge you deeper into the immersive mystery of the Hope Lake Boarding School!

Meanwhile, the murder mystery that the game kicks off with almost seems to get forgotten about entirely rather quickly, fading into the background in favor of the bigger overarching plot and never getting properly resolved.

Horizon Zero Dawn features a plot set in the 31st century where humanity regressed into primal tribes and its up to you to unravel the mystery of the technological predecessors that made reality what it is.

With the game's plot shrouded in mystery and the game being delayed into 2016, many fans are hoping for some bit of information to tide them over.

There was an action game where you break into a building and do all sorts of picking up clues and things like that, and then there was the story which involved a plot where you had to figure out who the mastermind was and what cities they were in, and it was an involved mystery - type plot.