Sentences with phrase «plot moved along»

And of course the plot moves along and still leaves you surprised at the end.

The characters are all enjoyable, if not very deep, and the plot moves along fast and the movie never lets up.

The plot moves along very quickly — having barely settled into the house or unpacking their bags for the night, Shaun and her children find themselves separated and at the mercy of three house invaders.

The plot moves along at a fair clip, but Frank remains a funny, if largely uninteresting character, forcing the script to do the heavy lifting when the characters can't manage it.

The premise has the fresh originality many modern sci - fi outings tend to lack, there's just the right amount of action to keep the plot moving along swiftly, and Hugo Weaving's Agent Smith makes for a memorable baddie.

The plot moves along at a brisk pace and the characters will stay with the reader well after the book is finished.

The plot moves along swiftly, Hawley's «lives» of the title measure out in gunshot wounds he has suffered over the years, and the circumstance for each wound is covered in a flashback.

Hart writes well, describing her characters memorably, the plot moves along quickly (Patricia M).

Grimbledung (who suffers from Pixie Madness due to a ricochet to the head in the last Pixie Uprising) is the instigator that keeps the plot moving along.

She fleshes out every beat of the story, which makes it a little slow to start, but it proves to be a very rewarding strategy as the plot moves along.

The plot moves along, and the girls begin to drop some hints indicating that things aren't quite normal.

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Noah seems to work as a film because of a plot that is paced to move along, convincing special effects, and quality performances from name brand actors like Russell Crowe and Anthony Hopkins.

The rainfall runoff plots were engineered to collect rainfall that moved laterally along the soil and near the surface.

La Soga was a deep character, but the rest were just shallow characters that helped move the plot along.

The film is too busy moving along to the next tedious plot element to give Superman any time to shine, or really any time to do much of anything.

At its best, the movie feels like an extended skit, but the script feels witless and is far too focused on moving along the convoluted plot.

The plot was suspenseful and moved along briskly, and thanks to the skills of the British actors, every character had a personality and was not a stereotype.

A friend pointed out that the first set piece was good not just good because it worked, but because it also moved along the plot.

The film looks fine from a technical standpoint, and things move along without too much muss or fuss, but likeable actors and competency in the lensing fall far short of turning this plot into something worth following for more than a few snickers at its expense.

I'll admit that going into Gridiron Gang, I was very skeptical that it would have anything to offer that I haven't seen before, but it surprised me, not because it did have anything unique, but that, for a formula film, it is competent, efficient, and until the final game, shows excellent restraint at not trying to overplay anything beyond what is necessary to move the plot along.

Warm, thoughtful and personal, their song book stays true to the spirit of the characters and helps move the plot along, allowing Mia and Sebastian the opportunity to say what they might not otherwise in «real life».

Seyfried is very amusing and endearing, but at times her character is just needed to move the plot along.

Most of them were there to move the plot along.

The details of the this plot as it unwinds in the film would be most fascinating elements if they weren't poorly handled as the film moves along.

10) The Snowman — This convoluted, misogynistic mess of a movie relies too heavily on convenience to move the plot along.

In much the same way the acting moves the plot along, but is hardly memorable.

Also, there was just one too many plot conveniences and contrivances that allowed them to move things along to the next action sequence without having to worry about making sense.

The only real weakness of Insomnia other than the fact that it is a remake, is that the plot isn't very fresh, and it takes quite a few shortcuts to move the plot along without good explanations as to why.

Other actors like Stacy Keach, Juno Temple, Jeremy Piven, Ray Liotta, Christopher Lloyd, and Christopher Meloni make appearances, but they are distant secondary characters that don't have a lot of screen time and just move the plots along.

Most just add brief filler to move the plot along.

The characters, while some what flat (besides the inspiring Jane Levy) are merely there to move the greater plot along, the rise of the deadites and the reign of the «abomination.»

Truly the music moved the plot along.

Exact plot details are unknown and writers haven't been specified, but this project is obviously moving along at a swift pace with everything coming together to hit that 2018 release.

Punctuated by loose jazz standards, quippy, fast - paced dialogue, including dairy-esque monologues moving the film's plot along nicely.

In fact, the film could have been longer — if there's any drawback here, it's that sometimes mood is undercut by the necessity of the plot to move along like a — well, like a train.

Dialogue shouldn't be about conveying plot or moving the story along.

He also moves the plot along at a strong pace and makes sure that the focus always remains solidly on the story; although some digressions seem to take place, any side - trips still stay on the correct path and fit neatly within the framework.

Sam does just enough to move along the plot, but nothing about the narrative manages to create a sense of intrigue.

Malcolm Barrett puts in a decent comic turn as Wade's brother, but that and Grier's scowling can't hide the fact that the rest of the group are just there to move the plot along.

However, there was one major problem that the movie suffered from: it often moved at an extremely slow pace, so much so that it prevented me from understanding and following along with the complex plot at times.

They mostly exist as mannequins to move along the minimal plot and to look good in front of the lush scenery.

While the film offers a steady moving storyline and plenty of laughs, the violence (spoof or not) and some moderate profanities, along with the threads of sexual misdemeanors woven into the plot, follows a similar pattern to Chan's Rush Hour series.

Still, Fleder covers over all of the plot holes by keeping the action moving briskly along, and the interaction of the performers leads to several moments of dynamite confrontations.

Each chapter brings another element into the plot with expansive, even rambling description that does nothing to move the story along.

At parts i felt like it was a bit slow, like trying to fill the pages rathen than move the plot along, but the last 100 pages were so awesome that i just have to read the third book.

I had a long discussion with a friend who's an aspiring author about how to move the plot along and engage the reader at every turn.

It dithers around a lot without moving the plot along much.

You also have to condense a tremendous amount of information into 120 script pages, leaving you little time to do much more than the basics of introducing characters, moving the plot along, and resolving the conflict.

I love deep rich descriptive language, full of metaphors that make me sigh, characters that become my best friends and help me learn about life as they make their meaningful discoveries which move along the plot, a sincere fullfilling message (even if sad) from the characters via the author.

Far more of the plot revolves around her than it did in the first book, and the story also moves along at a faster clip, with few slow spots (if any).