Sentences with phrase «solid first act»

Marina de Van's Dark Touch had plenty of potential, but with an unconvincing lead and its disjointed story the film ultimately loses itself after a solid first act.

(Luckily, we're given a solid first act and a few moments in the second before it does.)

Last we checked, Forte said he met with MacGruber director / co-writer Jorma Taccone and they hammered out «a really solid first act.»

Not exact matches

Arsene Wenger is ready to stump up # 6m to land Norwich City keeper John Ruddy who the French manager has earmarked as the ideal man to act as a solid back - up to first choice custodian Wojciech Szczesny.

You can usually tell when your first child starts teething, as he or she might start to drool more, chew on solid objects or act a lot crankier.

«First it acts like a solid, and then for reasons physicists don't completely understand, all of a sudden it destabilizes and starts to flow like a liquid.

Eminem shows he has a natural talent for acting, delivering a strong performance in this solid underdog story that could have been the first of many for him, and this is a well - written drama despite the linear structure that doesn't really allow for many surprises.

More than a mish - mash of minigames, it's a shockingly solid title with first - class voice acting.

The first two acts are pretty solid but somewhere in the last act it kind of craps out.

Its comparatively simple first act remains a good example of how to apply the horror elements of the Silent Hill games to film with a degree of elegance and wit, and for a solid 35 minutes, it's an atmospheric film about a mother whose deeply maternal desire to help her daughter inadvertently places her in danger, and the need for Radha Mitchell's Rose to find her daughter when she goes missing provides a cogent and palatable, if somewhat slight, emotional basis from which the proceeding action can spring.

First, the acting from the incredibly talented cast is solid from top to bottom.

Before last week I hadn't played a Metal Gear Solid game since completing Sons of Liberty in 2003, so when I returned to Shadow Moses in the penultimate act of Guns of the Patriots it was the first time I'd stepped in the arctic base from the original game in 15 years.

Anyway, the first act is constructed meticulously and absolutely is solid with delivery.

All of the acts are solid, but the first and third are my favorites.

I don't know this for sure, but the way that Ozark season one plays out almost exactly like the first act of a conventional Hollywood movie — right down to the twists that happen in the finale — suggests to me that co-creator Bill Dubuque, best known for his script for the movie thriller The Accountant, took a solid movie idea and tried to stretch it into a TV show.

Aside from the pacing in the first act and when the above mentioned camera technique is on display, the flick is steady and solid.

Sabrina isn't all bad though, and in fact, for the first 90 minutes it's actually quite well done, with good characterizations, nice locale work, and solid acting from the three leads.

Acting as the first true introduction of Solid Snake, Hideo Kojima's maiden project may not have aged well due to its clunky control system, but its story of patriotism, deceit and global terrorism was simply years ahead of its time.

This is the first solid act of bipartisanship to date in the Senate on the reauthorization.

The first game in the Metal Gear series to be genuinely open - world, Metal Gear Solid V is detailed, engaging and well - acted, with missions that let you sneak up on or blow up enemies in just about any way you can think of.

You'll play the first act and think that this is a solid 3d platforming game, but it quickly transforms into something beyond that.

Pros • Well - realized Victorian - era setting • First - class presentation values • Voice acting and motion capture are stellar • Gunplay is solid

Similar to a television series, Ground Zeroes serves as the first act that will bridge the gap between Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalker, serving as the prologue to the highly anticipated Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, the second part of the Metal Gear Solid V Experience.

Voice acting is just as solid as the first entry of the series, breathing life into the multitude of characters featured in the story.

Before we can act, we have to define the problem, and good solid estimates of how much warming is caused by the increased CO2 since 1850 seems to be the very first step in defining the problem, and am important step in doing a cost benefit analysis.

**** Following almost 6 months of solid graft, 8 hearings in 4 States and the ACT, dozens of witnesses and almost 500 submissions, the Senate Inquiry into the great wind power fraud delivered its «doorstop» final report, which runs to some 350 pages — available here: Senate Report The first 200 pages are filled with -LSB-...]

Thanks in part to his efforts, the Philippines became the first country ever to pass a nationwide ban on waste incineration with the Clean Air Act in 1999, followed shortly thereafter by the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act in 2001.

5) The Gallery — Episode One: Call of the Starseed is the first episode of an adventure game that has solid puzzles and a coherent, well - voiced - acted narrative.

NAR supports the Flood Insurance Market Parity and Modernization Act, which unanimously passed the House of Representatives but was not considered by the Senate, as a solid first step in the development of private market options for property owners.