Sentences with phrase «point narrative momentum»

and an infantile but to - the - point narrative momentum, Retaliation has almost no character development and its second act is a disaster of storytelling.

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While she keeps the action hopping from one flash point to the next and cooks up a couple of exciting sequences in the last 30 minutes, she doesn't develop the narrative momentum needed to sustain a two - hour story.

The inclusion of a few standout sequences (eg Charlie confronts Hans» dying wife) generally compensates, as does the effectiveness of the various performances (ie Rockwell has never been more entertaining), but the film doesn't wholeheartedly begin to engross until around the one - hour mark - after which point the narrative's escalating momentum becomes more and more difficult to resist.

It starts as an intriguing enough mystery, evolves into a suitable second - act quest; however, some third - act «twists» just derail whatever narrative momentum the story manages to build, and muddles both the mythology and character relationships developed up to that point, leaving us with an awkward ending that doesn't feel much like an ending so much as a chapter break.

At various points, the film feels like The Village, The Truman Show, and an episode of Rod Serling's «The Twilight Zone», but it just doesn't have the narrative oomph to take its momentum right to the very end.