Sentences with phrase «of its intriguing premise»

«Seeking a Friend For The End of The World» is a disappointment in the shadow of its intriguing premise.

After their lukewarm collaboration Your Sister's Sister, director Lynn Shelton and actress Rosemarie DeWitt reunite again for the equally unsatisfying dramedy Touchy Feely, a film that squanders the potential of an intriguing premise.

Though it falls apart at its end and never realizes the full potential of its intriguing premise this comedy remains lightly entertaining.

is a frustrating example of an intriguing premise and skillful execution gone formula.

But while it may be inspired by supposedly true events, «Winchester» never makes the most of its intriguing premise.

Perhaps the original script lived up to the promise of the intriguing premise because the film, as released, certainly doesn't.

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Arena by Holly Jennings: The premise of this book intrigued me.

This sad but intriguing premise wanes in a mish - mash of attempted Russian accents and clumsy storytelling.

Street Kings wastes a moderately intriguing premise by filling it with laughably clichéd dialogue, one - dimensional characters and implausible turns of events.

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With a pair of great performances and a fascinating premise, Southside with You is a leisurely - paced, but intriguing, look at a piece of romantic history.

An overrated thriller that does have a gorgeous cinematography and an intriguing premise but whose development has its share of unnecessary narrative flaws and drags unforgivably, feeling bloated (and even tiresome) with scenes that are elongated for too long.

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It is frustrating to see this intriguing idea and a smart first half lead to a predictable and moralizing message about love and the «importance of family» when it comes to having kids - something so clichéd that it bogs down the whole potential of its premise.

Regardless, Fracture is, indeed, a fractured feature which establishes itself as a taut psychological thriller early on only to undercut an intriguing premise with comical 11th hour courtroom antics comparable to the vaudeville act of Pigmeat Markham.

The thriller elements of Cherish make no sense and have no rhythm, setting off the picture's genuinely intriguing premise and performances with just enough regularity to set teeth on edge.

Directed by Charlie McDowell (son of Malcolm McDowell & Mary Steenburgen in his debut feature) and inspired by the early Spike Jonze / Charlie Kaufman collaborations, «The One I Love» explores relationship dysfunction through an intriguing, high - concept premise (that we can't really discuss here).

However clichéd you might imagine the hit man premise for «The American» to be, know that not only does it contain two of the most intriguing female characters to come along in a dog's life, but it is one of the most sophisticated thrillers you will ever see.

Typically, the films have favored visual flair over an intriguing story, but Self / less gives us the rare case of an outwardly interesting premise becoming underwhelming, while the anticipated avant - garde style is all but nonexistent.

It's an engaging, low - key premise that stands in sharp contrast to the over-the-top fare that generally dominates multiplexes during the summertime months, as Shyamalan, working from a script cowritten with Gary Whitta, offers up an engrossing father / son tale that's enhanced by the inclusion of intriguing sci - fi elements.

Though it eventually squanders its intriguing premise of a math savant underworld forensic accountant who is also a sociopathic killer.

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It's certainly an intriguing premise for a film, with a plot that would have made a fantastic episode of Rod Serling's classic television show, «The Twilight Zone».

Although it isn't entirely original, kudos to Apatow for tackling a somewhat intriguing premise of what a person would do when staring death in the face.

But a lot of him goes almost nowhere in this slack and spiritless solo escapade, spun off from an initially intriguing premise that deflates around you with a low whine as you watch, like a punctured bouncy castle.

His words allude to the film's intriguing premise but unfortunately, they don't hint at how such a premise is wasted despite featuring a stellar cast of some the most interesting actors working today.

Warehouse 13 boasts an intriguing premise — partly dreamt up by one of the regular writers on Buffy — but never quite delivers.

Disney's attempt to capitalize on the sci - fi trend, especially on the rampant popularity of Star Wars, doesn't quite pan out, despite the intriguing story premise.

The premise that over the course of time, people trapped together might be trying to kill one another, is familiar — as is the tick - tock checking - off of characters one - by - one in a «Ten Little Indians» closed - room intrigue.

I love British crime thrillers so I found the premise of Late Shift intriguing, easily holding my attention through the multiple choices needed to proceed from dusk till dawn.

The premise on its own sounds intriguing: a woman joins some men for antics in town but things get out of hand when they transition from a party to a robbery.

While Slash probably won't be one of the most talked about films at SXSW this year, the film's premise intrigues me.

While the premise is intriguing, the movie is unfortunately an incoherent, aggressively dull mess that squanders an impressive ensemble cast of characters.

This British hip - hop drama has an intriguing premise, but it never seems to be more than a knock - off of the Step Up movies.

This is the intriguing premise underpinning Duplicity, an uneven espionage thriller written and directed by Tony Gilroy who landed a couple of Oscar nominations a year ago for Michael Clayton.

When revealed, the intriguing premise of the actual City of a Thousand Planets serves only a small purpose in the scheme of things and the film is not above (bad) slapstick at times.

While the first film offered an intriguing premise (a bunch of kids trapped in a maze with no blueprint in hand), the second one decided to settle for formula, which was disappointing for -LSB-...]

Although hardly an exciting premise in terms of story, the idea of seeing the powerhouse that is Tom Hardy completely alone on screen for the duration of an entire film is quite an intriguing one.

Using a traditional whodunit setup, the premise of The Limehouse Golem is intriguing enough to build on.

Based on World War II tale Beware Of The Dog, 36 Hours stars James Garner as a military intelligence officer kidnapped and tricked by a Nazi doctor into believing the war is over — an intriguing premise which director George Seaton handles in entertainingly tense style.

The film has an intriguing premise and love it or loathe it you have to admire the audacity and commitment of the filmmakers and cast.

When I first saw The Guard on the LA Film Fest lineup, I was intrigued by the cast — Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle — but not totally convinced by the premise of an Irish cop teaming with a black FBI agent on an international drug trafficking case, which seemed to me could get In the Heat of the Night - style heavy - handed in a real hurry.

Despite the intriguing premise, the predictable plot and abundance of corn entirely grates away the film's few redeeming qualities.

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby has an intriguing premise.

As far as science fiction movies go, Andrew Niccol's «In Time» features one of the more intriguing premises in recent years, which only makes its poor execution that much more disappointing.

To say that the movie's premise is intriguing would be to imply that the movie expands on that kernel of a thought to some degree, and this movie certainly does not.

Self / less does not so much have an intriguing premise as it has an intriguing nugget of an idea.

The premise is tremendously intriguing, and many of the early reviews for «A Quiet Place» at SXSW said just that.

Even with a richer, darker, more action - packed premise; a more intriguing world; and a cast featuring some quality UK thespians with actual acting chops in the leads, there is just no denying that the story and the movie are both sub-par, forgettable - and worst of all, crushingly boring by the end.