Sentences with phrase «of elaborate plot»

While Hill does a great job making sense of the elaborate plot, and Redford and Newman replicate their wonderful chemistry from «Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,» the film wouldn't be such a timeless classic if it wasn't for Ward's smart and unpredictable script.

It's part of an elaborate plot by Gary to get back into game night.

This led a collective of online conspiracy theorists to posit that these weren't school shooting survivors at all, but rather «crisis actors» paid off by George Soros as part of some sort of elaborate plot to disarm America.

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Russia rejects Britain's accusation it stood behind the attack and has cast the allegations as part of an elaborate Western plot to sabotage East - West relations and isolate Moscow.

Bozaina Mohamed Mustafa Sheraqi told daily newspaper El Mundo that Atta — one of the masterminds behind the September 11, 2001 attacks — was the victim of an elaborate US plot and had done nothing wrong.

A press release elaborated on its plot: «The comic depicts early events in Colonel Sanders» life that eventually led to the discovery of his real super power: the combination of a pressure cooker and secret blend of 11 herbs and spices, better known as his world - famous Original Recipe Chicken.»

Rows of swamp white oaks are likewise arrayed in rectilinear plots or square planters fed by elaborate subterranean irrigation systems.

I detected a fairly large plot hole towards the end of the film, but I won't elaborate because I don't want to spoil anything.

The plot to kill Mr al - Mabhouh, who has been chased by Israel for 20 years for his role in the kidnap and murder of two Israeli soldiers, was especially elaborate, as the 11 assassins entered Dubai posing as tourists, complete with wigs and fake beards.

There is also a continually updated Crisis Tracker, with attack alerts and plotted / heat maps of categorically defined crises (divided according to: civilian death, abduction, civilian injury, displacement, looting, LRA sighting, returnee, and media), complete with verification ratings and elaborate timelines (see image below).

Soon reunited with their newly released leader, Accion Mutante plots the elaborate wedding reception kidnapping of Patricia, a wealthy socialite.

The wife of a gun manufacturer is held hostage in an elaborate plot by a man seeking revenge for the death of his daughter in a high school shooting incident.

The devious brain behind a heist draws a top police detective, on the eve of his retirement, into an elaborate plot of robbery and revenge.

That was obviously one of the high points of the film, but what makes the film good is the elaborate plot twists that the film offers to the unsuspecting viewer.

Similarly, his endings have necessarily become more and more arbitrary, climaxing a series of elaborate set - pieces rather than resolving plot and character.

I love how High Moon Studios have created this elaborate plot and by the final chapter of the game, chapter 13, everything magically falls into place.

Nero plots an elaborate revenge scheme whereby he travels back through time to destroy Spock's home planet of Vulcan and make him watch it.

Not much about the plot is known, but it seems safe to assume it will serve as elaborate pretext for a bunch of breathlessly cool daredevil stunts, many of them performed by the 55 - year old Cruise.

The Killing (1956)-- 7:00 PM Stanley Kubrick's hard - edged 1956 heist thriller was low budget by Hollywood standard but far more elaborate than her earlier Killer's Kiss, with a bigger cast, a complicated puzzle of a plot and a clever construction that slips around the timeline of a racetrack heist.

However, the best of them are the ones that intrigue an initial idea and elaborate upon it with the kind of well - developed characters, ingenious plots and emotional resonance that is rarely seen in films aimed at family audiences.

Though he appears in just three scenes in Roman Polanski's 1974 masterpiece Chinatown, John Huston creates one of movie history's most formidable villains: Noah Cross, the wealthy and ruthless land baron who masterminds an elaborate plot to buy up cheap desert property in the San Fernando Valley, irrigate it after bribing the water department, and sell the land for millions.

Language: English Genre: Comedy / Action MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Steven Soderbergh Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon Plot: Danny Ocean, with ten associates, plans an elaborate heist of three major Las Vegas casinos during a boxing match.

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.

The other plot holes are so numerous I have no room to elaborate but I continue to be bewildered at how many people were so dazzled by the special effects and novelty of a new Jurassic Park film that they not only dismissed the absurdity happening in front of them but praised a film that pretty much spits on its source material.

Compared to the ruthless simplicity of Halloween, The Fog is seriously dumb and overly elaborate hokum — yes, the plot involves a 100 - year - old curse and killer ghost - leper - pirates bent on revenge (they even have glowing blood - red eyes).

This plot point is very matter of fact and necessary to elaborate on some of the film's themes.

When François Truffaut asked Alfred Hitchcock to discern the difference between his two attempts at this story about a vacationing family that gets wrapped up in an elaborate murder plot, Hitchcock famously said: «Let's say the first version is the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional.»

The game's heavy focus on the design of the world and its mechanics creates more of a virtual and engaging experience than what is generally possible from games with elaborate plot twists and lengthy cutscenes.

While the plot is little more than a series of elaborate pranks, there's an unstoppable momentum that builds to a riotous party climax.

At well over two hours, it's tedious stuff, and the elaborate, drawn - out bank robbery plot doesn't make a lot of sense, especially when it tries to pull off a final twist straight out of The Usual Suspects.

There's something both admirable and off - putting about the elaborate plotting of Gringo, which depends on some questionable decisions, plenty of coincidences, and a heaping pile of situational irony.

Via a series of cryptic texts sent to him over a supposedly secure network, Marks is suckered into an elaborate plot involving $ 150 million, a snuffed captain and a ticking bomb, all of which place him as the prime suspect.

The confused motivations and complications are simply discarded when the film shifts from mystery to elaborate battle of wits between Moriarty, determined to finally kill the meddling detective, and Holmes, who plots to end Moriarty's reign of terror.

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.

The functional plot and Gordon's non-flashy directorial style aren't what make From Beyond such a memorable cult item; as with Re-Animator, it's more the audacity of staging elaborate sequences that mix up steamy sexual proclivities and monster madness.

A classic cocktail of mystery, suspense and paranoia, Guillaume Canet's Tell No One is a tense thriller with a knotty plot that harkens back to Hitch in its themes while satiating modern audiences with its brisk narrative momentum and elaborate action sequences.

Ratner has rounded up an impressive ensemble cast (Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick, Casey Affleck, Gabourey Sibide and an invigorated Eddie Murphy) to play the staff members of the eponymous condo tower, who plot an elaborate robbery to steal back the pensions that a Bernie Madoff - ish crook (Alan Alda) took from them.

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.

Cue the elaborate — but, it would appear, perfect — Hitchcockian murder plot, with a diabolical bit of blackmail throw in.

Another teacher details an elaborate lesson plan based on In - N - Out Burger's secret menu, plotting the cost of additional beef patties and cheese slices for a Double Double (input: Double Double, output: $ 2.65; input: 3x3, output $ 3.55).

Needless to say, the «plot» we end up with isn't anywhere or anything we could have imagined at its outset, but I won't elaborate for fear of spoiling the fun.

The playful Havana will spend time plotting an elaborate ambush, suddenly diving from behind a chair or leaping off of a fireplace mantle to pounce on unsuspecting family members.

I miss coming across random space stations on barren rocks with unusual side missions, it'd be nice to have more of those with elaborate plots that might lead you across the galaxy.

Party members besides Mario himself were removed, moves in battle were now performed via consumable items, and the story and cast were simplified, as series creator Shigeru Miyamoto felt that the constant introduction of new characters and elaborate plots had become unnecessary.

Written by comic scribe Paul Dini, the story involves an elaborate plot by The Joker to lure Batman into Arkham Asylum and best of all, the tale is oozing with Batman mythology.

God of War III Remastered will bring epic battles to life with stunning graphics and an elaborate plot that puts Kratos at the center of carnage and destruction as he seeks revenge against the Gods who have betrayed him.Set in the realm of brutal Greek mythology, God of War III Remastered is the critically acclaimed single - player game that allows players to take on the fearless role of the ex-Spartan warrior, Kratos, as he rises from the darkest depths of Hades to scale the very heights of Mt Olympus and seek his bloody revenge on those who have betrayed him.

First off, there is no story so for those out there who are buying this game to be plot driven, the story is nonexistent, for those who play Power Tennis you will all know that there was a plot to the game, although it wasn't over the top it still had some sort of storyline substance, and although Mario Tennis Open did not have any story either, I felt that this game deserved a story even if it wasn't long or elaborate.

Despite being 2D fighting games at heart, both featured an unusually elaborate plot, set after the events of Persona 4.

Using an early Hewlett Packard computer to plot multiple multiple open cubes, she created an interlocking and elaborate dimensional structure, the background a tangerine orange wash of color.

For papers that use elaborate or new or both statistics or that turn mostly on the data analysis (as opposed to someone doping silicon and measuring conductivity and doing a 1 / T plot and getting best fit on it and slope of that) it is a really good idea to show more thorough methods descriptions.