It's never hokey or over-the-top;
the rapid pace of the film and its ever - quotable lines are ridiculously enduring — this is the kind of movie that never, ever gets old.
Not exact matches
Scenes tend to linger for longer than they should at times, while others are strung together in
rapid succession; journeying through Spike Lee's late - 90s sports drama is a little like flipping through the pages
of a photo album — you tend to gloss over several photos and pages and stay on others, and that's precisely how the
film is
paced.
Welcome to the Punch sets itself up as a rather conventional genre
film, but where the writing may lack a depth
of character or thematic weight it's more than made up for in terms
of sensory - appealing thrills and a hyped up rhythm that keeps things moving along at an appropriately
rapid pace.
Because the
film's
pace is so
rapid, some
of the characters end up being reduced to caricatures.
Be it the
rapid paced action, or even the dimness
of the
film's picture, there are moments in the first two acts
of the
film that wonk out in the 3D realm.
The sequence doesn't quite fit in with the narrative
of the rest
of the
film, save for the fact that its
rapid - fire
pacing keeps the
film moving.
Ritchie is no stranger to
rapid - fire montages, but the approach locks the
film into the rhythms
of one
of his wisecracking crime movies, a
pace ill - suited to a depiction
of a time period we often associate with lumbering carts and soldiers weighed down by heavy armor.
No other
film on the list inspired such low expectations from me before viewing it, but celebrated Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has kick - started the played - out Brit gangster genre with a dose
of existential neurosis, refreshingly languid
pacing and ream upon ream
of rapid - fire, ferociously literary dialogue that credits its audience with as much intelligence as its audience.
Seriously, this thing is full
of jokes, and they come at a
rapid fire
pace that puts the
film squarely into screwball territory.
Even the reasoning behind the whole alien invasion seems pretty plausible, and though the
film doesn't have time to get caught up in a lot exposition, the little bit there is never stalls the
rapid pace of the story.