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There is a tense, exciting build-up to the finale.
The tense mood that we are supposed to experience is completely spoilt by the childish looking room.
So for a thriller it is not tense and unpredictable enough but also as a drama it's a failure.
Also, the ending goes on forever, making a potentially tense climax seem silly after a while with Barbara Bach screaming and screaming.
The finale was, again, neither dramatic nor tense: nobody around me cared about what was going to happen next.
I cringed at the appallingly predictable plot, the lame acting and laughed at moments which were supposed to be tense.
Indeed most of the audience seemed pretty bored and chatty even at the "most tense" moment of the movie.
This movie is really nothing besides an admittedly well-crafted series of tense sequences punctuated with an inevitable "gotcha!" at the end of each.
As F. Scott Fitzgerald (Gregory Peck) and Sheilah Graham (Deborah Kerr) are lounging on the beach, suddenly things become tense and Sheilah begins to cry--at which point she tells her lover about her sordid past.
The chase through the city of demented, blood-thirsty villagers isn't really tense as much as it is irritating, and there are enough bad wigs and extras who all but look into the camera and wave to make this train-wreck a little fun.
This is one of those movies that's trying to be moody and tense, and instead, ends up tripping all over itself.
The special effects are good for a TV show and it becomes quite tense as he dodges around the apartment using his wits to survive, sometimes getting the upper hand and other times not.
I realize that you need to create difficult situations which would cause suspense and the tense feeling of whats going to happen next, but this movie was so predictable, and is just not believable.
This of course was the film makers way of showing us how incredibly tense things are getting up on the Immortal Hills Cemetery.
It was gruesome, and tense, but not my taste.
Einstein and his buddies are a good relief from Tim Robbins' boring, almost tense quest to steal Meg Ryan's heart.
Why every horror director wants to imitate "The Exorcist" is a complete riddle to me, as William Friedkin's "classic" is a very overrated film and, in my opinion, not all that tense or shocking.
There are only a few tense moments in here, not anywhere as near as many as should have been for a film of this genre.
Only the soundtrack, the droning angsty alt-country and the tense fluctuating score provide any palpable tension.
The music used is pretty tense and creates the perfect atmosphere for the executions.
Sometimes the mood becomes a bit too tense, and that isn't always fun to watch when you are expecting more amusement.
A tense and amusing climactic Mexican stand-off likewise tickles the funny bone something hysterical.
It is a tribute to everybody involved that what sounds on paper remarkably like a piece of nonsense is in fact a tense exceptionally well made picture with fine performances all round.
The film has a tense, taut pace and Harlin knows how to build his scenes.
There is a tense uncertainty to the film's movement which, intentional or not, adds to the grim proceedings.
Brilliant on the level of entertaining thriller as well, tense, and packed with double-edged dialogue.
The script is a little over-sentimental at times and the climax doesn't really come as a big surprise, still the atmosphere is very tense and uncanny.
In a tense scene of confrontation between the Colonel and Nogales, his son's killer, the Colonel is offered by Nogales, a paid government agent, money enough to equal the Colonel's full pension.
Four teenage girlfriends drive to Fort Laurdale for spring break.Unfortunately they get a flat tire in Medley,Georgia and one of the girls witnesses a brutal murder deep in the woods.The local sheriff is behind the crime and the nightmare begins..."Shallow Grave" is a pleasant low-budget surprise.The cast is likable enough,the direction is steady and the violence is particularly nasty and misogynistic.Especially the second murder is pretty grim.The murderous sheriff isn't one-dimensional character-in a couple of scenes it seems that he feels remorse for what he's done.The subplot involving the two boys they meet in the diner goes nowhere,but the stalking scenes in the woods are tense and exciting.7 out of 10.
It is educational, funny, interesting and tense.
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