Sentences with phrase «told police procedural»

I felt a bit like Goldilocks - one thriller was too macho, another was too gory - only The Fallen was just right, combining well drawn characters with a solidly told police procedural (by which I mean that there are no great leaps of coincidence that lead to the solving of the crime, just sound, time - consuming police - work, following leads up blind allies, and back down again until the right path is explored).

I felt like Goldilocks - one thriller was too macho, another was too gory - only The Fallen was just right, combining well drawn characters with a solidly told police procedural.

Not exact matches

I'm just so annoyed with both Scott and Crowe for talking shit about the original script's premise for a film told from the Sheriff of Nottingham's perspective, and how this wouldn't work because it played like a medieval police procedural.

Well, you can't tell from «Alex Cross,» a shockingly incompetent major studio release that strands Perry in a poorly written and poorly executed police procedural.

T - Men — This fairly early Anthony Mann film is more of a police procedural, than a noir, as it tells the story of the Treasury Department's anti-counterfeiting detectives in a pseudo-documentary style.

On just about every police procedural, you can tell who the main guy is without watching the show, because the casting is a spoiler: just take a look at who is being featured as the «guest» star for that episode.

This wouldn't be a problem if the developers were capable of telling a light - hearted, fun police procedural instead, but they can't quite do that either.