Sentences with phrase «wrong as this thriller»

Clearly something went horribly wrong as this thriller was being made, because despite a solid cast, gorgeous locations and an intriguing premise, the film is an incoherent mess.

Not exact matches

You can't go wrong with any of these fine thrillers but today I'd like to single out Cast a Dark Shadow, a gripping and remarkably grim British production starring Dirk Bogarde as a suave young Romeo who seduces wealthy older women for financial gain and then murders them in cold blood.

And so, our choice for the best movie of 2011 is Nicolas Winding Refn's stylish «neon noir» thriller Drive, an adaptation of James Sallis» 2005 novel starring Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stunt - man and in - demand getaway driver who finds himself having to deal with the fall - out from a heist gone wrong.

This tense, often confusing spy - thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence as a Bolshoi ballerina - turned - spy, gets a lot of things right, but also a lot of things wrong.

There's nothing wrong with being preposterous, but this guilty pleasure thriller has a tendency to be pretentious as well.

This is a nightmarish thriller with an occult premise, which comes across sometimes as a mad documentary and at other times as a soft - focus sex comedy gone wrong.

As Telegraph Film Critic Tim Robey says: «Pure pleasure is what Hitchcock came close to achieving with this peerless wrong - man - running chase thriller, one of his most effortlessly entertaining films from any period.»

An American remake sounded like a suicide mission, the sort of wrong - headed thinking that allowed the superb and uncompromising Dutch thriller The Vanishing to be remade as a dim - witted Yankee property, complete with a tacked - on happy ending.

Antonia Bird's stylish and political crime thriller from 1997 stars Robert Carlyle and Ray Winstone as members of a gang of thieves that falls apart when a heist goes wrong.

Alicia Vikander is tremendous as the damsel in distress, and Ex Machina is a superb, effortlessly efficient sci - fi thriller that hardly puts a foot wrong and keeps you guessing till the end.

What begins as a robbery gone wrong thriller, quickly turns into scene after scene of plot reformation.

Now a British thriller writer who sells his novels as ebooks for as little as 70p is proving the naysayers wrong.

Though not the most original of names, this 2008 psychological thriller follows an American couple as they make the journey from China to Russia on the Trans - Siberian, but trouble ensues after they befriend their cabin mates and get caught up in an ever - deepening plot that incorporates mistaken identity, deals gone wrong and the most adventurous railway enthusiast to make it to the silver screen.

[Reviewed on PC] A group of teenagers dice with the paranormal during an island vacation gone wrong in this thriller adventure, but Oxenfree is as much about relationships as it is about ghosts and ghouls.