Sentences with phrase «predictable plot turns»
Uncle Buck bears the unmistakable feeling of a series that was market - tested to death in every predictable plot turn.
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The plot points are predictable as there are no unexpected turns or twists.
What transpires is a plot that is predictable and saccharine at almost every turn so don't expect even the slightest hint of grit or darkness.
The meta - level layering and critical dialogue about horror movies in this sequence (characters with little to no development, predictable scare setups, and shocking turns that don't make much sense) are calls for variation that Kevin Williamson's script leave largely unanswered once the plot proper kicks into gear.
The twists and turns of the narrative are largely predictable — and more than one plot device is lifted wholesale from the «Mission: Impossible» series — but the character shading and vast political subtext provides for a dynamism that few superhero films have attempted.
Perhaps viewers who like survival dramas (the ratings for ABC's similarly premised «Lost» might indicate there are many people who do) will find moments of interest, but Flight of the Phoenix offers very little above standard plot elements and a very predictable turn of events.
Wellington's wife (Jennifer Coolidge) and his associate (Greg Germann, of «Ally McBeal») are involved in a murder plot and an affair, and their scenes are predictable throw - aways of insults turning into lust.
If you were to remove personal affection for the superstar, you would realize that, if you had never heard of Arnold Schwarzenegger and were viewing this as a standalone film, this is one hell of an unfunny movie, with a tasteless premise, predictable turns of events, and wholly contrived plotting meant strictly to show a large, muscular man doing very un-macho things, like crying, dressing up like a woman, and driving himself more by emotion than logic.
What appears to be a predictable plot at the beginning turns into something more surreal that fans will start praising the story.