Sentences with phrase «twisty plot»

The Castlevania lore has always been bonkers and the original Lords of Shadow was no exception with a fairly twisty plot, so I certainly wasn't expecting something easy to follow, but Lords of Shadow 2 feels so loosely held together that I'm worried a sneeze would result in the entire thing crumbling.

The liberally - sprinkled Mark Twain quotes and references make this witty yarn a treat for the literary - minded, and better yet, the twisty plot will satisfy the pickiest mystery fiend.

That's my favorite part of the whole process, coming up with a good plot with lots of twisty plot points.

Wonder Woman's backstory is fairly well - known — Amazon princess, isolated island populated only by women, defender of truth and justice, snappy golden lasso, etc. — but Bardugo breathes zippy new life into the story with a twisty plot, whip - smart characters, and her trademark masterful writing.

With vivid, painterly artwork and a twisty plot that includes everything from demons and genies to drug runners and Israeli soldiers, the book sets its magic - realist tale of adventure and enlightenment in the context of the always volatile Middle East.

That the twisty plot machinations of the backstretch actually facilitate the drama, rather than nullifying it, is a testament to what the director has accomplished.

Peace Walker is set shortly after the events of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, returning to the 1970s to tuck a characteristically twisty plot into the series» timeline.

Be that as it may, it didn't work as House of Games does telegraph it's twisty plot beforehand in many cases and as a result loses it's ability to create true suspense.

«Brigands,» widely regarded as one of the best unproduced screenplays of the last decade, is a rule - breaking western epic about a gang who plan to rob a town during an almighty storm, and its unique voice, fascinating characters and twisty plot certainly put Zahler on the map.

The simple pleasures of a twisty plot work in concert with Soderbergh's fascination with the visual textures of ordinary human spaces, resulting in a film that feels lived - in, even at its most cornily artificial.

Additionally, none of the characters are very likeable, and though Wesley Strick's screenplay is jam - packed with twisty plot turns, by the time it gets even remotely interesting, you'll likely have already tuned out.

Again, Farhadi's tracking in a kind of old - fashioned melodrama that hasn't been especially fashionable of late, with big emotions and a twisty plot.

There are also some good moments in the ponderous script that offer up food for thought, and had the twisty plot been a little less ambitious, Changing Lanes could have been a very good film.

The actress constantly operates in a less bludgeoning register than the film, which is only really concerned with the matter of Dominika's allegiances and how the mechanics of the twisty plot keeps that suspense percolating.

From the sardonic humor, to slapstick violence, to the twisty plot, you could call it the British Reservoir Dogs on crack.

So while we're intrigued by its twisty plot, we can't quite figure out what...

It may be warm and gentle, but the honest humour and twisty plot make sure the audience...

Paradoxically, Red Sparrow itself puts its glum - looking star through a parade of indignities: The movie's most shocking feature isn't any of its twisty plot reveals — mainly involving Dominika getting romantically mixed up with a CIA operative (Joel Edgerton)-- but the exploitative brutality it rains down on Lawrence.

For my money, The Ides Of March — with its dark view of human nature and satisfyingly twisty plot — is one of the most entertaining films ever made about the political process.

This old fashioned political thriller is marred by a needlessly twisty plot and a miscast Nicole Kidman, but director Sydney Pollack still has the chops to pull it off.

Engaging characters, distinctive dialogue style, twisty plot, humor - in short, a fun movie worth watching just for Malkevich.

Plenty of twisty plotting, grim atmosphere and MI5 staff with a rich variety of psychological afflictions, in six parts.

Once a compelling and exciting director who merged twisty plotting and interesting characters with really dynamic and effective work behind the camera, the filmmaker had drunk his Kool - Aid to such an extent that he became a self - parody and it looked like there was no way he could crawl back out of the hole that he had dug himself.

offers tense legal drama with courtroom overtones, twisty plots, and loads of atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Rather than collecting a bunch of funny people together on a set and just letting them riff, the film establishes coherent characters and drops them into a twisty mystery plot that's tightly crafted enough to generate some real narrative momentum while never getting too bogged down in its own plot that it forgets to be funny.

Too violent and plot - light for Le Carré fans, not pacy or twisty enough for Bourne addicts, not shiny and fun enough for those craving James Bond and far too classy for the John Wick crowd, Red Sparrow is a good - looking, well performed, somewhat worthy espionage thriller that it's hard to recommend to anyone.

Director Marc Forster (The Kite Runner) seemed more interested in recreating the Bourne Identity than continuing the twisty, edgy plot line from Bond's last adventure.

The plot is twisty and has many people dotting in n out which doesn't help with the constant mindless fighting going on between everybody and anybody, and the fighting is your usual one man army killing groups of baddies single handed type affair * groan * To be honest it's all rather silly apart from one or too reasonable performances, Sangster and Kingsley mainly, with the realistic historic backdrop attempt that reminds me allot of the old BBC series «Robin Hood» with Michael Praed.

Rather than wind his way through tortuous twisty genre plots with dazzling visual effects, Nolan keeps «Dunkirk» deceptively simple.

It's got some kinks and never rises to anything of substantial merit, but the twisty nature of the plot is entertaining, and the great performances from the three actors help it rise above its minimalistic trappings.

Given that the twisty slow - burn plot hinges on «something making splashes in the gene pool,» perhaps it's appropriate that the film feels like a hybrid itself, roping together DNA strands of multiple genre specimens.

Although the plot itself is nothing special, this kidnapping comedy keeps the audience entertained by filling every scene with outrageous characters and twisty interaction.

Things get twisty and more complicated from there — perhaps a bit too complicated, as major plot points later in «Small Crimes» hinge on a past we never see with characters we never meet described only through expository dialogue that is difficult to keep clear.

As its plot enters unexpected and twisty territory, it grows ever more difficult to pin down, but the cumulative effect is one of the most indelibly haunting experiences in recent film — a vision powerful, bold and new.

Director Fede Alvarez advances to a stunning degree with Don't Breathe, a straightforwardly plotted, yet twisty - as - hell reverse - home - invasion - flick, in which our junior criminals (including the stellar Jane Levy) find themselves outmatched by a blind Army veteran (Stephen Lang) with a cache of cash.

Perhaps not the twistiest of plots, this story is still entertaining and amusingly madcap.

Without wanting to spoil a twisty - turny plot that moves too fast to question and thus requires a degree of post-viewing unpicking, Ultron comes in a form that modern audiences will recognise as a threat: a computer virus.

The twisty, brilliant plot includes a paranoid, Travis Bickle - like hacker, Elliot (Rami Malek), a plot to end all debt, and Christian Slater playing a revolutionary anarchist.

The plot of Killer Joe is twistier than an East Texas back road but it's primarily a mood piece.

Once has good music, lots of heart, and a twisty enough plot to make you long for the sequel, but it is so badly shot it's almost unwatchable.

«It's a twisty page - turner (and Chicagoans will enjoy seeing the Lincoln Park and Wrigleyville neighborhoods cast as mean streets), but if Harvey had chosen either a lighter plot or darker prose, the book could have been much better.»

It's a twisty, turny plot that'd be right at home in the series.