Sentences with phrase «thriller elements»
"Thriller elements" refers to the exciting and suspenseful features or aspects found in a story, movie, or book that keeps the audience on edge and wanting to know what will happen next. Full definition
There are some horror / thriller elements in the movie, but it's ultimately a portrayal of how awful people can be to one another.
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And many of the more current «disaster films» have been overshadowed by action - thriller elements in the plots.
Written by Coogler and Joe Robert Cole (a veteran of Marvel Studios» bygone in - house writers program), Black Panther combines many of the best elements of MCU films past, including: the Shakespearean royal family drama of the Thor movies, the political thriller elements of Civil War and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and even the sci - fi tech aspects of the Iron Man films.
Yet, while those films used the experiment as a touchstone, allowing the story to take on more aspects of a thriller, Kyle Patrick Alvarez's film is less concerned with thriller elements, but rather the loss of individuality the participants experienced, and how quickly the guards began to abuse the prisoners, most of whom quickly bent to authority.
I'm glad I chose this title for one of my Blindspot picks as it is the perfect blend of genres for me: a dystopian world with psychological thriller elements running through its bloodstream.
The final third abandons that tendency in favor of the more generic thriller elements, but that doesn't make the film any less exciting.
It has one sterling high point, when all of the different characters and thriller elements come together on a tense bus ride in Brooklyn, as several different people who's fates are connected together unknowingly sit feet away from each other and Agent Keller, the only one who knows what is happening, can't do anything to stop it.
A winner at festivals including Sundance, it's known for being filmed one day a week for 52 weeks and marries a documentary style with drama and a truly pervy thriller element that is intriguing if not always interesting.
I think the films story is great, a film does not have to contain explosions every few minutes to keep my attention, especially if it is one like Entrapment, that has a crime thriller element.
Still, if you want a lower - key, moody piece with some light thriller elements, than THE AMERICAN might be just the antidote you're looking for after a summer of bombastic action.
However, Caruso and screenwriters Landon (Another Day in Paradise) and Ellsworth (Red Eye) aren't exactly setting their sights too high, employing a mixture of teen comedies, romance, and paranoid thriller elements solely to deliver escapist cheap thrills.
It very much feels like a sensationalist women's drama made for television, with substandard thriller elements that, once all of the cards are revealed, make little sense, while also barely resonating for those looking for more substantive fare.
The story, which could easily have been too convoluted to follow for someone who doesn't understand British laws and government agencies, is relatively easy to follow, and features a nicely developed script by acclaimed screenwriter Steven Knight (Redemption, Dirty Pretty Things), though some all - too - convenient narrative shortcuts are taken to keep the story moving briskly, which may annoy some who prefer courtroom dramas without all of the contrived thriller elements.
Now called The Truth About Charlie (2002), this is a progressive throwback to the pre-Something Wild Demme, a breathless romantic travelogue with incidental thriller elements.
Add to that an unpersuasive crime - thriller element involving a shooting at a local hotspot, and you get a series that uses the birth of hip - hop as a backdrop for what is, so far, an overheated and spread - too - thin ensemble drama.
Hopefully the inevitable sequel will learn the lessons of the original and not attempt to shoehorn in a plot or thriller elements where none are necessary.
It's not without a certain maudlin appeal, and Blunt is very good as a lost woman desperate to reclaim her dignity of self, but the actual thriller elements work no better on screen than they did on the page.
It's unfortunate that Pollack didn't just stick to the tricky thriller elements.
Perhaps if Binder had tried to stick to an «empty suit» agent finally coming to terms with dealing with what's really inside him, without all of the obvious gags and dumb thriller elements, Man About Town would have had the chance to be as erudite as Binder tries to deliver during the more serious moments.
The adaptation was a smashing success in every respect, performing very well at the box office for its exciting thriller elements, while its writing, directing, editing and cinematography would earn it eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, a first for an R - rated film (although 1969's X-rated Best Picture winner, Midnight Cowboy, had been re-rated to an R in 1971).
It's at this point in the plot that I'll leave off any further details, as everything that comes afterward will potentially spoil the conventional thriller elements of what had started as a fairly gripping family drama.
An assured piece of filmmaking, Cold Hell succeeds in mixing social realism with more standard thriller elements and scenes of gut - wrenching violence.
Girls will melt into the romantic storyline between Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, while boys can enjoy the supernatural thriller element of Swayze's recently deceased character trying to protect Moore from a killer.
The gripping thriller elements of The Cove ultimately leave the most lasting impression, which should net first - time director Louie Psihoyos his first Oscar.
From the crew that brought us the sleeper cult comedy, Super Troopers, Broken Lizard now taps into the slasher flick genre with Club Dread, a mix of gory thriller elements and unbridled hedonism that keeps all of its gags completely on the surface.
Even its fleeting flirtation with 90s sex thriller elements and brutal violence are watered down with disinterest, as if it doesn't know that that salaciousness is why we've showed up to Train in the first place.
My theory is that people don't read his books for the rather rudimentary, step - by - step, point - to - point thriller elements that form the backbone of the story so much as for learning a little bits of history, philosophy, and even fantasy elements that reside above the surface, many of them expounded upon at length in between the plot points.
Get Out turns out to be more fun, and more provocative, than it is scary, at least in the traditional midnight - movie sense: The film works so well as a gauntlet of social horror that Peele almost didn't need the more traditional thriller elements he introduces in the third act, when a carefully calibrated build in just - because - you're - paranoid dread gives way to some disappointingly conventional survival games.
Despite a few thriller elements clearly owed to Claude Chabrol (on whose La femme infidele Unfaithful is loosely based), Lyne presents an unapologetically erotic, surprisingly mature - themed film (amidst much monumentalized puerility) despite its deficiencies and a few throbbing lulls.
Release: Friday, February 26, 2016 (limited)[Netflix] Written by: Perry Blackshear Directed by: Perry Blackshear They Look Like People is the debut feature from Perry Blackshear, a quietly unassuming hybrid of horror and psychological thriller elements built on a shoestring budget.
It's a great story with all the international thriller elements, including a floating dead body in the Gulf of Finland.
«Lady in White» has a marvelous blend of horror and thriller elements in that it's a ghost story in which the most dangerous character is still alive.
Batman Begins started the trend to a certain extent, but this sequel removes many of its predecessor's lighter touches, and in its place, a great deal of psychological thriller elements that is unusually intense for a grossly commercial PG - 13 endeavor.
It feels like Search Party has genre - skipped, from a comedy with thriller elements to a full - blown thriller.
The danger is that people will watch it for the thriller element, and they might miss his bigger message.
Asking that kind of question is like asking, «Could you do a love story with more of a thriller element, like The Bourne Identity?»
Blends psychological - thriller elements with unexpected humor for a thoroughly unsettling plunge into a nightmare of fear and intolerance.
For the most part, it was really just a dull drama with some thriller elements tossed in here and there.
Meanwhile, the mystery and thriller elements are contrived to the point where every scene is punctuated by the forced inclusion of one more clue to keep Ruth one step closer to her quest to tracking down the person responsible for the intrusion and burglary.
Rather than try to top the first film in terms of the action and thriller elements, directors Andrew Lau (Dance of a Dream, Sausalito) and Alan Mak (Initial D, A War Named Desire), along with screenwriter Felix Chong (Tokyo Raiders, Gen - X Cops 2), go entirely in a different direction, making an already good film even better by the sharp contrast in tone and substance.
Unfortunately, the morsel of romanticism lacks the imminent intensity, and the narrative removes all thriller elements of the chase, bouncing around from a high security anti-trust scenario to a world of mental blockage and sparse movement.
The thriller elements of Cherish make no sense and have no rhythm, setting off the picture's genuinely intriguing premise and performances with just enough regularity to set teeth on edge.
The theatrical trailer, which we've included below, features quite a lot of potential spoilers, though it does emphasize the thriller element of the movie and serves as an effective hook.
A chamber drama combined with thriller elements and — well, I can't tell you that — is a lot to take on for a first feature film, but director Dan Trachtenberg does impressive work with a picture that will surely have Hollywood soon knocking on his door.
If Siri finds the material so boring that he needs to pump up the volume and overcook the thriller elements to the maximum degree, where does that leave us?
Alas, Gutierrez's script doesn't do her performance justice, especially the final scenes, which are an excursion into ham - handed inanity, unraveling in the most cliché of ways until even most viewers who may have been reeled in by the thriller elements will lose interest, having traveled down this road enough times to not be surprised.