Sentences with phrase «plot getting»

You would possibly perchance now set up more apps with out the distress of your plot getting chase complications.

I was vaguely aware of the franchise involving jumping off tall buildings, hoovering up collectibles from all over expansive worlds and a much - maligned modern - day sci - fi meta - plot getting in the way of historical shenanigans.

But don't expect too much plot getting in the way, as the game takes a retro style approach to storytelling by letting your combos take the place of exposition.

But even though I found the last half of the film a bit draggy - too much plot getting in the way of the fun - there were enough funny bits of dialog coming out of Brand's mouth and enough of Helen Mirren being... Helen Mirren, to give this a marginal passing grade - you could do far worse if you're looking for a bit of light humor.

If I suspect someone's in my house, I probably won't go walking through it in the dark holding my phone (this is how horror movie plots get started).

It would be reckless for Brussels officials to try to influence a member country's election — imagine the scandal if details of their plotting got out.

Hotmail plot gets dubbed Blairite coup by whips» office.

Other plots get regular doses of misted water.

From a slow start which feels like its gonna be crap to a pretty good thriller which does get you involved as the plot gets deeper.

Overcompensating for an underdone script, Berg really piles on the gore, and his plot gets weirder (but not in a good way) with each progressive scene.

Needless to say the obvious plot gets in the way of some terrific dancing, from the line steps popular in Southern small towns on Saturday night to break - dancing wherein the white guys could effectively challenge the African - Americans.

Way too much of «Game Night» is given away in the trailer, the violence is a bit much and truth be told — the folding in on itself plot gets in its own way, especially in the third act.

The seasons get progressively better, the plot gets more serious, as does

The seasons get progressively better, the plot gets more serious, as does character psychology and production value, and the universe keeps getting darker.

Critic Consensus: Like its characters who aren't able to meet their potential, Accepted's inconsistent and ridiculous plot gets annoying, despite a few laughs.

But by the end the plot gets more contrived and stupid as they quickly try to wrap things up neatly.

Critics Consensus: Like its characters who aren't able to meet their potential, Accepted's inconsistent and ridiculous plot gets annoying, despite a few laughs.

The plot gets under way when heroine Ruth McArthur (Billie Seward) is cheated out of her property by nasty De Long (Wheeler Oakman).

The plot gets even crazier when Richard has to send his mercenary brother (Sharlto Copley) to get Harold safely out of Mexico.

Jackman is of course great (and damn does he still look good in a tank top) and the story was surprisingly moving even if the plot got a little unwieldy.

Based on the true story of Dutch criminal Cor Van Hout (Jim Sturgess), Mr. Heineken follows Van Hout and his gang of similarly beefcake - ey friends as they plot a get - rich - quick scheme that involves kidnapping beer magnate Freddy Heineken (Anthony Hopkins), and although Van Hout's life and the Heineken case could have made for an interesting film if director Daniel Alfredson (The Girl Who Played With Fire) had avoided editorializing, it's hard to be really be compelled by a movie that endorses crime, particularly crime committed by people with a certain amount of privilege.

The plot gets out of this world when Wallace unwittingly activates a coin - operated machine that polices the lunar landscape.

Sure, some of the story lines are pretty contrived and yes, some of the plots get you asking if you've seen this before, but overall, CSI is still entertaining, and that's saying a lot.

The plot gets increasingly silly from this stage, to the point at which it virtually becomes irrelevant.

The sharp and funny characters are nicely played, but the plot gets lost along the way, spinning in circles and trying...

These characters are drawn shallow, while most of the plotting gets shelved for prolonged periods during each film, making way for the special effects and silly scenes of young tomfoolery to take center stage intermittently.

And the plot gets even more ridiculous from there.

He grounds the movie, so no matter how complicated the plot gets and no matter how many characters are crammed into this movie, we will always have Logan to turn to.

But not even Hahn's onscreen presence is enough to keep A Bad Moms Christmas afloat at all times, and the film suffers from far too many boring stretches where the clichéd plotting gets in the way of there being any actual comedic moments.

The plots gets beat like a dead horse.

When the plot gets campy, the tone remains all too serious.

The plot gets too ridiculous to work, but Shannon pulls his weight.

Their sharp improvisational skills give us a terrific look at a slightly tired marriage, even as the plot gets...

The cast still jell but get paired off as the plot gets distracted out of necessity to stave off the film's major reveal, which once broached, forces Gunn to make something happen and it still manages to fell stretched for time.

All of this assists «Felony» in missing the mark of its bigger cinematic ambitions, often feeling instead like a one - off TV movie, particularly as each machination of plot gets more contrived and dishonest.

«The Double» is often hilarious, when it's not being simply a joy to watch, and even as the plot gets knotty as the doubles attempt to outdo each other, the story remains clear and is always propelled by a great score by Andrew Hewitt.

But this isn't a sketch comedy on the television set; it's a big screen film that is supposed to tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end, and plot gets all but lost as director Raja Gosnell goes from vignette to vignette.

It's quite a fun movie and whilst it does take a little while to get started, when it's plot gets juicy so do the jokes.

All that painstaking work was definitely worthwhile, making the singing as intense and personal as possible, something that pays off as «Les Misérables»» way melodramatic plot gets increasingly wild and crazy.

Though the plotting gets a little convoluted and throws in a few twists you'll see coming, «Contraband» remains pretty absorbing.

The plot gets almost as ridiculous as the idea of Lizzy Caplan being Pitt's sister.

More often the laughs die down as the plot gets a little serious.

Beset - upon Kovacs is a genuinely nice guy, and it's hard not to root for him, no matter how ridiculous the plot gets.

The plot gets all muddled with kindness and romance.

The plot gets moving when Emmett stumbles across a free spirit mini-fig with a bright streak of pink hair named WyldStyle (Elizabeth Banks), and in his lovelorn distraction accidentally finds The Piece of Resistance, an ancient artifact she is seeking out as part of the prophecy foretold by Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman), a wise wizardly mini-fig leading the underground resistance against President Business.

The plot gets a little convoluted in order to try to convince the audience it's a smart film, but it is overly predictable and does not play as well on a second viewing.

I just want the reader to enjoy themselves for a few hours and, if the plot gets them thinking and talking, then so much the better.

So it's a shame that a few readers who clearly didn't even understand the plot get to air their views to an audience who would.

I don't want to spoil anything, but the characters are compelling, the action is exciting, the plot gets past the suspension of unbelief threshold very quickly.

- Kirkus Reviews «The plot gets a little screwy in the end, but that seems right for a novel that is half mystery and half screwball comedy.