Sentences with phrase «urban drama seems»

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The film plays Daniel cleverly, pitching him initially as a solitary figure in his cold - seeming apartment; but a single artfully placed glimpse of a dinner party shows that he isn't the archetypal lonely man of urban drama, but someone who chooses for himself when he gets to spend time apart from others.

At times the spectacle seems distracting from the human story, at other times his determination to ground the action in human terms (with all the mortal dangers involved) becomes alarmingly intense, less a superhero action movie than a grim urban tragedy (Berg's on - the - job directorial training on the medical drama Chicago Hope comes in handy here).