Sentences with phrase «of dramatic tension»

And I probably shouldn't use the word «drama» in connection with this film because practically no dramatic events take place and there's a complete lack of dramatic tension.

What's ironic is that this critic provides about the only source of dramatic tension in the screenplay.

It's just long periods of exposition without a whole lot of dramatic tension.

There's a genuine sense of dramatic tension as the plot moves forward and the build - up has the right amount of punch to carry it over the slow parts.

In theme and execution, in caliber of performance and level of dramatic tension, «Sleeper Cell» is an impressive, relentlessly gripping drama.

Who is involved, what they're actually doing and how any of this could possibly be worth their trouble alternates between unclear and dull, but that's not the only source of dramatic tension.

The turnaround of the attitudes of the class seems too pat and expedient for believability, and many of the events of the film strike me as heavily embellished for the purposes of dramatic tension.

Moving fluidly between emotive monologues and snatches of dramatic tension this ensemble cast work hard to make things look easy.

The blend of dramatic tension and the overall sense of something sinister unfolding is what makes the film so effective, but given the film's two - hour running time, I could have possibly enjoyed it more were some of the scenes of «WE ARE A FAMILY BUT I AM MAD!»

By trying to make one feel «in the moment» director David Ayer loses movement of dramatic tension.

Passengers has been sold as a love story, but for the sake of dramatic tension films like it are often guilty of normalizing abuse

Purportedly a heist film — we know almost immediately that the story is headed in this direction — the movie surprisingly has most of its dramatic tension in the first half, during the scenes between Gal and Logan.

For one, it takes almost the entire movie to introduce a lone demitasse of dramatic tension (i.e., the set - up described in the above paragraph), and then, it more or less spits it out on the floor.

Bullock, Swearengen and Hickok form the nexus of dramatic tension, but things heat up when a rival, slicker saloon owner Cy Tolliver (Powers Boothe) finagles his way into opening up shop directly across from Swearengen.

The performances are fine, but it never digs deep enough beneath the surface of its melancholy atmosphere to achieve any kind of dramatic tension or emotional payoff.

The bulk of the dramatic tension doesn't come until later: Initially, the focus is on the couple as they relate to their children and to the big - hearted folks who have invited them into their home for relaxation and conversation.

Top - billed Julie Harris provides much of the dramatic tension as the woman who finds her affections divided between the two boys.

The film's opening is a doozy, and generates a great deal of dramatic tension for nearly every scene that follows it.

Romanek wants to make a mood piece about the nature of love, The lack of dramatic tension means it's difficult to emotionally connect with the central characters and their dilemma.

The push and pull of dramatic tension, the black - as - night humour combined with real, weighty pathos, the lush and detailed cinematography, the absolutely fantastic characterisation — really, it's an embarrassment of riches, and every filmmaker who didn't make In Bruges — no matter how otherwise accomplished or celebrated — should consider that fact solemnly and henceforth intone a grounding, humble mantra once a month:

While critiquing and questioning the work against very traditional ideas of dramatic tension, structure, character, dialogue, and so on, other questions are continually asked: What do you want this film to say?

The best ghost stories make great use of dramatic tension, and Carroll is no slouch here, either: she amplifies the scariness of the stories — full of ghosts, murder, and monsters — with startling page turns revealing grotesque, squeal - inducing images.

The three procedural cases in the episodes I've seen are all decent and sometimes even clever, it's just that a formula sets in so quickly that a lot of dramatic tension is sapped.

John Logan, screenwriter for Gladiator, provides some good moments of dramatic tension, even if Shinzon looks and acts a bit too much like Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus to think he wasn't borrowing ideas from himself.

One of the problems with a movie this long taking that approach is once the overall premise of the film is set up, you feel like you know what is going to happen and the movie has a shocking lack of dramatic tension.

It doesn't help that the film acts like a news reel at every opportunity, interrupting action with voiceovers and cheesy inserts rips all of the dramatic tension from the movie.