Sentences with phrase «predictable story beats»

Given the game's ho - hum script and its predictable story beats, it's hard to get too invested in any of the characters or their ultimate fate.

Where I was enjoying the experience of being in these characters» company, I suddenly felt distracted by the machinations of the script and started anticipating predictable story beats.

Add to that a cavalcade of clichés from the local color that reads like a Chamber of Commerce video (jazz bands, an overdose of zydeco flavoring in the score by Ry Cooder wannabe Steve Mazzaro, Bobo's swamp house that's apparently just down the bayou from Jason Statham's in «The Mechanic») to the utterly predictable story beats, and you've got a thoroughly generic movie that can only sporadically provide even gut - level thrills.

Not exact matches

The problem is that these moments are rather few in what might have worked better as a character study, as the story at its core is not particularly new or interesting, and plods along to a predictable beat to its ultimate conclusion that feels too long in coming.

It may just suffice as a sun kissed slice of distraction but in reality, there's not a beat of this story that isn't predictable or even tries to subvert the overly familiar.

This is a very familiar story, so familiar that he skips across the predictable beats in an elliptical fashion, focusing mostly on odd details.

Far too many of the comedic beats miss their mark in this predictable and lazy story for me to recommend it....

The biggest problem with the story is how trite and generic it all plays out, with all of the expected story beats and Sci - Fi tropes present and accounted for; the game thinks it's being clever at times but, in all honesty, it's so predictable that it essentially became background noise for me after an hour or two as I feigned surprise at all the tired plot revelations.