Sentences with phrase «surprising plot developments»

Not exact matches

Winner's superb direction and the screenplay by David W. Rintels and Gerald Wilson keep the film from vanishing into a morass of plot holes, surprise twists, and confusing narrative developments.

The plot is a thinly - veiled ripoff of «The Silence of the Lambs» minus the people eater — and the intrigue, suspense, surprise, complexity, character development, mordant wit, originality, and shell shocking horror.

There inevitably does reach a point, however, at which the thin storyline's lack of surprises becomes an insurmountable obstacle, with the overly familiar atmosphere ultimately exacerbated by plot developments of a decidedly questionable nature.

Even as he blurs the line between surprise twists and plot developments, the filmmaker seems to cater to expectations to do something unexpected.

The plot development is, to say the least, a complete surprise, and it makes the little details that have come before it more important while making the major developments seem almost insignificant by comparison.

Black has lots of interesting character touches to amuse, and some unexpected plot developments that lead to a few genuine surprises to keep expectations off balance.

But Johnson's ambitions here can easily be over-sold: Most of the surprising plot twists and character developments that eventually enliven The Last Jedi walk back their radical implications on the story, and revert to the resolutions we've come to expect from a trilogy beholden to recycling its themes of misplaced hope and heroic sacrifice.

The only real problem here is the main story itself, held together by the barest of plot developments and a surprise ending which probably won't be much of a secret to anyone.

The plot twists are both logical and surprising, with developments and motivations straight out of classic L.A. noir.

I am now reading Dwight's «The Tolling of Mercedes Bell» and can not say enough about its quality, surprise plot twists, and character development.

The plot moves swiftly with many turns and surprises, yet the character development does not suffer.