Sentences with phrase «thoroughly predictable story»
It's a thoroughly predictable story inhabited by sympathetic characters.
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Add to that a cavalcade of clichés from the local color that reads like a Chamber of Commerce video (jazz bands, an overdose of zydeco flavoring in the score by Ry Cooder wannabe Steve Mazzaro, Bobo's swamp house that's apparently just down the bayou from Jason Statham's in «The Mechanic») to the utterly predictable story beats, and you've got a thoroughly generic movie that can only sporadically provide even gut - level thrills.
Whereas suspense was previously achieved through a simple but nonetheless effective narrative that hid enough cards to maintain interest through the end, this new story is instantly and thoroughly predictable.