Sentences with phrase «tight script by»

The film works thanks to the tight script by David Magee, fluid direction from Marc Forster, and the marvelous cast.

Thanks to a tight script by John Lee Hancock and Eastwood's always steady direction, «A Perfect World» is an emotional roller coaster with Costner giving one of his best performances.

Taking an excellent, tight script by Tim Talbott, previously best known as a «South Park» writer, Alvarez makes effortless - looking work of a deceptively difficult scenario.

Not to be overlooked is the air - tight script by Taylor Sheridan.

Not exact matches

Ayer's script, co-written by A Good Day to Die Hard's Skip Woods, isn't as tight, and though there are some twists thrown in late in the story, they're not particularly unexpected.

With a script by Chris Terrio, adapted from a 2007 Wired article by Joshuah Bearman, the film certainly seems to take some creative licenses to ratchet up the tension — were people really so close to not answering a crucial phone call, was the timing of the escape climax really so harrowingly tight — but we believe in its earnest depiction of real - ish events nonetheless.

The script is by Stephen Knight, whose work is usually tougher and tighter.

Working from a tight, uncompromisingly bleak script by Jonathan Bernstein (The Spy Next Door) and James Greer (Just My Luck), the director follows up last summer's Logan Lucky with another genre - bending, self - financed effort that has more going on just underneath the surface than initially meets the eye.

Debut director Yann Demange has quite a bit to juggle with there but the script by Gregory Burke (who wrote the acclaimed play Black Watch) is as tight as a Lambeg drum and we have the outstanding presence of O'Connell to hold everything together.

But while Chandor's script does well to inject some suspense into the story by keeping things tight and claustrophobic with everyone trapped in the office like rats in a cage, it's the actors who truly make the material interesting, even if you don't always understand what they're talking about.

Ultimately, The Nice Guys gets by on the strength of the two leads and a handful of laugh - out - loud moments that are unfortunately few and far between, although a little bit of editing and re-working of the script could have made all the difference, making it tighter where it gets a bit flabby and keeping the momentum going because, unlike Lethal Weapon, there is the sense that Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling have had to work a little bit harder than Mel Gibson and Danny Glover to get that spark going between them.

Although the film runs slightly too long after it shows its final twist, the script by Chan - Wook and frequent writing partner Seo - Kyeong Jeong (Thirst, Lady Vengeance) is notably tight — marked by a distinct lack of extraneous information.

If you like your tight - scripted drama with a compelling narrative that's effortlessly portrayed by a wonderful ensemble cast, then this is definitely your kind of film.

A mess of a film this one.Plot lines confused and blurred.It seems to have been made up as they filmed.All the American cliques are there.Ugly brutal men in a one horse town, yet the place is full of emotionally wounded gorgeous women.The men are macho and the women inconsequential.The acting is rather uneven, veering from impressive, going down to Benny Hill.This is Cages best role thus far, but his normal low standards means his acting is still below par.The plots descends into a quagmire of nuttiness and by the end is daft romantic nonsense.A tighter script was needed, the director needed to be replaced to stop the film's plot wandering off in all directions and finally someone with greater gravitas was needed to take on Nicholas Cage's part...

Dragonfly's characters are stock, its scares are telegraphed (the script by committee mistakes «eye - rolling» for «tight»), and before it's done, it dips into a shocking Mead - era noble savage syndrome complicated by more conventional exploitations of race and illness.

Mr. Right is the second of four movies written by Max Landis that will hit screens this year and while it's got quite a bit in common with his last script American Ultra, this flick feels a little tighter and is a hell of a lot more fun.

The good performance and tight direction by Foster help cover some of the story glitches in the script by Jamie Linden, Alan DiFiore and Jim Kouf.

However, the cast surrounding Cairon are considerably less interesting, a fact not helped by the games habit of introducing a steady flow of characters without ever stopping to dwell on any of them, leaving them as hollow husks that could have been so much more had the time been given to them and the script tighter.

That's heavily outweighed by tight - script, smooth directing and the sheer novelty factor of the best co-op in years.

By providing a user a script of tight questioning, and a legal framework for them to follow, they avoid the often heated, confusing, distrustful exchanges that occur with individuals who are being detained or arrested.