Sentences with phrase «tense scenes of the film»

However, the interactions with the women in his life are among the most tense scenes of the film.

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Well the film was wide release, so it makes sense there wasn't an entirety of focus on the specifics, but I still think it would have worked better if it was more like the trailers professed intentions; doco style, with vignettes of alien / human scenes that emphasized and helped explain, not found footage either, like for example, after talking about Wikus in the past tense, it could focus on him for a bit then move on, but it stuck with him, and the film changed gears, I just thought it would have been better to focus on other things, as opposed to dumbing the plot down to one man and his battle against the evil government / corporation, and still stay in the doco style, it could have worked, no?

The portrait of Lincoln that Spielberg presents — in a film that often plays like a tense, high - spirited political thriller as influence is peddled behind the scenes and votes come down to the wire — will no doubt surprise viewers raised on a more staid version of the Great Man.

There are a handful of tense scenes in Eddie Coyle too, such as the cold and calculated bank heists and a stake out at a train station which ends in a brief flash of Yates» car chase handling skills, but these aren't what really make the film shine.

While I'm all for a film fading into the heart of a tense scene already in progress, that scene needs either quick context or a hint of something more cerebral that will payoff later.

The film is rife with tense scenes of attack and escape, blended with slower, yet just as unnerving, scenes between Katniss and Peeta — have the rebels successfully broken through his reprogramming?

Yet, the film plays out with little sense of requisite suspense that made the first Psycho such a great film, and many of the scenes, including the murders, play out as if they were made for a psychological drama, rather than in a scary horror flick or tense, nail - biting thriller.

Director Tobias Lindholm knows how to pile on the tension too: Negotiation scenes are filmed from Malling's end, making them unbearably tense when things go awry, and the film's biggest shocks come from its casual way of letting the audience see the passing of time.

This works particularly well in a couple of the film's tenser scenes.

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Schaffner came from TV, and while he has few of the obnoxious visual affectations of the TV - trained director, he tends to restrict the most significant actions and relationships in his films to spatial arenas that could be served very adequately by the tube rather than the Panavision screen: the real convention hustle in The Best Man takes place in hotel rooms, hallways, and basements; the tensest moments in his strange and (to me) very sympathetic medieval mini-epic The War Lord are confined to a small soundstage clearing or that besieged tower; the battle scenes in Patton are hardly clumsy, but the real show is George C. Scott; and Nicholas and Alexandra comes alive only after the royal family has been penned up under the watchful eyes of Ian Holm and then Alan Webb, far from the splendor of St. Petersburg or the shambles of the Great War.

He gives his film several tense action scenes (thrilling shootouts, car chases conducted in night vision) executed at a perfect clip, but forgets to invest it with a larger sense of wonder.

The opening scene that depicts the building's imminent collapse is tense and superbly sets the film's tone; clinically stark, devoid of warmth or any musical score and working within a very drained palette - a style that appears to be straight out of the Michael Haneke handbook (Amour, Funny Games).

Lawther's face in these unbearably tense scenes resembles Maxwell Frere's ventriloquist's dummy in Dead of Night and also brings to mind Michael Redgrave's affecting performance in the same film.

Anderson thinks that the tense atmosphere of the scenes they were filming simply infected the atmosphere on the set.

The tense tracking shots interspersed with static point - of - view sets the scene more than any line of dialogue could - it's two years on from events of 2014 film Dawn and the battle between humans and apes, fuelled by the traitorous Koba (Toby Kebbell), has rendered the world a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

The flight scenes, a combination of stock footage, filmed flying and some clever miniatures, are cleverly staged and often tense, as in an early scene of a half - deployed bomb that makes Nelson the hero of the unit for his quick thinking, or in the fatal climax.