Not exact matches
In this ferociously funny film of misty bus routes, wrong turns and crossed paths, John Crowley's breathlessly assured
direction and Mark O'Rowe's
tight script guarantee that you do not lose your way through the multiple storylines and characters, even if you
never know exactly where you are headed, or what fresh surprise lurks round the corner.
Maintaining tonal cohesion between comic relief and more serious subject matter in a family film is a tricky
tight rope, granted, but How to Train Your Dragon 2 makes the mistake of assuming that the key to balance is constantly fluctuating between two extremes,
never quite deciding concretely just what
direction it wants to go in.
Maintaining a
tight focus throughout,
never leaving a couple of relatively small slices of San Francisco real estate, Reeves also displays a great knack for both the subtleties and awe - inspiring moments of CGI - heavy
direction.
Body control is also found wanting up here, where the road gets
tighter and one turn melds to the next until you
never stop asking the front wheels to bite from one
direction to the other.
I put a lot of thought into how it should work for Sneaky Ninja and decided on totally free movement where you can swim in any
direction, and I tried to keep the controls as
tight as possible so it
never feels awkward to move around.