High Crimes is a bad film with good actors, and it just might seem credible enough due to the performances to entertain viewers who aren't as concerned
with a tight plot than in good actors and melodrama.
Not exact matches
Let me know if you think this
tights -
with - sandals thing is something you'd try, or if I've totally lost the
plot.
Demme runs a
tight ship and he knows how to produce a film that draws his audience in, even
with a
plot that is relatively guessable, and a narrative that hardly whizzes along.
The
plot is
tight, the performances killer,
with more than a few twists to keep you satisfied.
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...
It's a
tight, unsparing 85 minutes (that will feel much longer to those not engaged by cinematic visions like «Dead Man,» for example, that aren't overly concerned
with plot).
The script is dense
with plot complications and
tight spots that the hero and anti-hero must escape from.
There is a point where the the side storyline of the serial killer converges
with the main
plot, and here is where Identity starts to lose some of the sure footing, not because it isn't ingeniously conceived, but because it should have been
tighter and more efficiently handled.
One can't help but admire that kind of single - mindedness of intention at this stage in our history and writer - director Stephen Gaghan's thoroughly complex
plot and
tight direction that manages to maintain our understanding of the intricate story even, but there's an inherent zone - out factor to much of movie because so much of it exists on that two - dimensional plane of connecting
plot with politics without any humanity to draw us in.
While the former depicts complex psychologies
with nuanced language, I explain, the latter is genre fiction that consists of nothing more than a
tight plot.
A Sport version lowers the entire
plot by some 15 millimetres for an even lower centre of gravity — «facilitating
tighter body control,» says Infiniti — while a whole bunch of electronic safety nannies, including Automatic Park Assistance
with Around View Monitor (AVM), make the Q30 easier to park.
Tight plotting combined
with raw voice and emotion will propel readers through this thriller.
- Publishers Weekly «Although Flynn sometimes struggles
with the large cast of characters she has amassed... the
tight plotting and engaging characters carry the reader over the few rough patches that appear.»
This second installment in the Magisterium series is much more effective than its predecessor (The Iron Trial, 2014): the
plot is
tighter, the stakes are higher, and Call's struggle
with whether or not he is destined for evil adds to the tension.
It's a fast, fun read
with crisp dialogue and a
tight plot.
Creating a good game,
with crisp graphics, a
tight plot, and challenging yet achievable missions is just the first step.