Sentences with phrase «way of suspense»

With little in the way of suspense or vested interest, all we can do is sit back and admire the visuals and Jim Carrey's manic performance, which just isn't really enough to make a series of movies on.

Sadly, it's in service to a film that lacks in the way of suspense, depth or originality.

Not exact matches

And surely some account has to be given of the drama of baseball: the way it reaches down into the soul's abysses with its fluid alternations of prolonged suspense and shocking urgency, its mounting rallies, its thwarted ventures, its intolerable tensions, its suddenly exhilarating or devastating peripeties.

I'm sorry to have left you in what must have been the most suspense - filled two weeks of your life, wondering when I'll finally post another recipe -LCB- or at least I like to think that you feel this way -RCB- but life has become busy.

What happens when Robin pursues her suspicions all the way to NIH and the hearing rooms of Congress is the source of the story's tightening suspense.

It goes without saying that now is way too easy to get paranoid, I mean, The Master of Suspense open our eyes to the worst monster, the monster that is impossible to see until is too late, the monster that we can become, that maybe we already are and just do not know it.

There is comedy in the shy clumsiness of the young couple, and also excruciating suspense as they make their way toward the hotel bed.

There's no real suspense, of course, as we know the outcome, but the swift and observant storytelling sustains interest all the way in a film that doesn't overstay its welcome despite its vast cast of characters and the considerable ground it covers.

The game offers so many different ways to complete missions and infiltrate locations that you could play through each mission more than once and still feel the suspense of finding and killing or saving your target.

A hauntingly beautiful experience that offers both the relaxation and the suspense of deep sea diving in a simple yet enthralling way.

A bit more suspense would have gone a long way here, and while director David Gelb, whose prior experience had been in the crowd - pleasing documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, has turned in a slick - looking feature for one with such a small budget (reportedly, only $ 5 mil), it really can't compete with better films out there in terms of quality, while it's too straight - faced in execution to at least give us some choice b - movie thrills.

Alex Garland's screenplay is pretty lean in terms of story (in the way that Jaws can be described as lean) and is more concerned with psychological suspense as opposed to philosophical speculation.

Part of what makes German director Christian Petzold's pulp psychological thriller so special is the way it wrings complex shades of suspense and disquiet out of very basic techniques, and its finale — the most sublime gasp moment of the year in film — is a master class in simplicity of form, cut almost entirely from just two angles and carried by stars Nina Hoss and Ronald Zehrfeld, whose performances have been building to this one exchange of subtleties.

There's no suspense like sexual suspense, which is another way of saying there's no business like show business.

Rather than try to cheat his way out of this constrained premise, director Jaume Collet - Serra (who previously directed Neeson in the chase mystery Unknown) makes the most of it, using the absence of an exterior point of view to build suspense.

Screenwriter James V. Simpson provides the sort of set - up that allows Antal to really tighten the screws, to work the film's warehouse setting, plus both inside and out of the impenetrable vehicles that give the film its title, in a way that maximizes tension and suspense.

Larraín has an interesting way of crafting his version of her story almost as if it's a suspense film with his central character always on the precipice of completely losing it.

Feeling more Dawn of the Dead than helplessly infirmed, the titular creatures are impressively made - up in increasingly horrifying ways, but they sum up the major problem Crazies faces as it continues down a path of doom: it prefers horror over suspense.

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That heat takes a while to build up, but not in the tension - filled way that ace horror directors like to slow - burn their audience with drips of suspense before gunning everything into full - throttle when the final act comes.

From a bent nail posing as Chekov's Gun to damning and life - saving «rockets», Krasinski proves himself a maestro of suspense behind the camera, holding hostage audiences breathless and on knife's edge from damn near the very first frame, finding room for fine - tuned familial drama and smuggling in a touching coming - of - age subplot along the way.

Although the effects are now noticeably outdated, the story itself — with a screenplay co-written by David Koepp («Carlito's Way» and «Death Becomes Her») and Michael Crichton, the novel's author — is a marvel of suspense, adventure, comedy, and nonstop excitement.

GET OUT An unbelievable achievement from a first time director and a film which has inspired discussion around an important subject in the way that the best horror / suspense films always do, utilising subversion and subtlety instead of bombast and realism.

And he's also heard two sides of the same, Middle Eastern coin in the flashback suspense of «Argo's» Iranian escape, and the intensely immediate, throbbing search for Osama Bin Laden in «Zero Dark Thirty,» with both thriller scores expressed in unique, and subtly intense ways.

However, despite many easy attempts for the masked men to kill them, they hold themselves back, as a way of turning the planned murders into a game, into a suspense film within a suspense film.

My mom and I both loved the Master of Suspense — in ways that seem different but were, ultimately, not unrelated in the least.

Delivered as a deadline, time became a way for the makers of the game to crank up the suspense.

Admittedly, the production value has improved with more characterful creature effects and the claustrophobic locations make for more scope for suspense, but the pedestrian direction and tired formula makes the film feel like a TV movie with little in the way of flair or imagination.

Suffice to say both Gilroy and Anderson know their way around this kind of material and ratchet up the action and suspense while keeping it so authentic it is hard to believe this isn't a true story to begin with.

As secluded and as empty as it might be, it's just too large an environment not to think that someone in Kinsey's family wouldn't find a way to escape and bring back some form of help, and as such the suspense factor is brought down substantially because of this.

Gillespie and Kostanski know their way around satirical genre material (check out Manborg, Father's Day, and The Editor) but this flick earns unexpected points for (mostly) eschewing the humor in favor of suspense, tension, dread, carnage, monsters, tentacles, and more carnage.

In a way, it is similar to Jaws in its basic story, but Carnahan lowers the suspense and raises up the contemplative moments that suggest that there is more to the design of their fate than mere coincidence — it's a test of their wills.

The Commuter (PG - 13 for profanity and intense violence) Liam Neeson stars in this suspense thriller as an insurance salesman who finds himself caught up in a criminal conspiracy on his way home from work after being offered $ 100,000 by a mysterious stranger to uncover the identity of a passenger hiding on the train.

Blessedly, Ayer's finale corrects course in a major way, stirring up smoke and suspense in spades, giving all five of his characters a fitting send - off.

That battle, by the way, provides not the slightest thrill or bit of suspense; it's an action sequences that feels tacked on and slapped together.

The Parallax View is Alan Pakula's hommage to Alfred Hitchcock, employing many of the Master's techniques and devices, particularly his penchant for experimenting with different kinds of suspense and various ways of fulfilling — or not fulfilling — audience expectation.

The comedy loses its edge, and the horror never rises to the occasion of even mild suspense, despite pounding from an attic that should be empty, and the way people find themselves swept under snowdrifts with barely time to yell for help.

A basic haunted house story that's way too scary for tots, Monster House held me almost to the end, when its need to hit all the notes of a conventional action / suspense climax finally wore me down a little.

However, the points made by Matt, Christy and many others on the panel — do have relevance, in terms of criticism of the «action» and suspenseful movie — and what are the various ways, that directors, actors, scripts and projects, can generate these emotions of suspense and danger, within the movie viewing public.

Eventually the movie's sustained ambiance gives way to a kind of sickly thudding suspense, and these elements fail to work together.

Recently, the staff here at Way Too Indie put together a list of independent films we thought Alfred Hitchcock might have made if The Master of Suspense had come up in the Kickstarter Era.

It's an ingenious way to subvert the rules of the home - invasion thriller, and a significant pivot for director Fede Alvarez, whose Evil Dead remake relied more on gallons of gore (literally — that film has the record for most fake blood ever brought onto a set) than expert suspense.

Though director Henry Miller does a decent job of creating and maintaining an ominous air, the picture really has far more to offer in the way of shock than suspense.

A tapestral suspense drama about the intertwined romantic fates of a quartet of Baton Rouge residents — each wounded in their own way, and some more freshly than others — The Ledge exhibits a willingness and desire to let its characters bat back and forth opposing philosophies of life and faith more frequently found on display in literature or off - Broadway theater.

Hitchcock did, indeed, shoot his suspense thriller in 3D, but by the time it made its way to theaters, the 3D craze of the 1950s was waning, and — outside of relatively few cases — it ended up getting a 2D release in the vast majority of theaters in which it played.

The notes section gives a list of ways that suspense is created.

Twilight Times Books recently released The Solomon Scandals, David Rothman's entertaining mix of suspense and satire on Washington, D.C.'s oft - bizarre ways.

Minimize subplots — Subplots can still be done, but they are more of a challenge, so I try to limit the way I think out a story.The subplot must be integral to the overall story and enhance the pace or suspense.

By the way, if you usually get your books from the library and are frustrated by the number of holds on Gone Girl, you might check out The Expats by Chris Pavone, another smart suspense novel that concerns deceptions in marriage.

In December 2008, Twilight Times Books will publish electronic and paper editions of The Solomon Scandals, my Washington newspaper novel — a mix of suspense and satire on D.C. «s oft - bizarre ways.