Sentences with phrase «suspense out of the premise»

There's no gangster counterpart to Ja - sung's cop in this story, but Park still wrings plenty of suspense out of the premise.

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In the end, the only real suspense comes from seeing whether the film can stretch its wafer - thin premise and paucity of ideas out to a full 90 minutes — and at 88 minutes with credits, even there it comes up short.

Rather than try to cheat his way out of this constrained premise, director Jaume Collet - Serra (who previously directed Neeson in the chase mystery Unknown) makes the most of it, using the absence of an exterior point of view to build suspense.