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There is so much beyond the climb that makes everything they go through so much more tense.
The build up towards the typical mafia execution sequences (guided by an excellent Riz Ortolani score) are extremely tense and the actual killings are sadistic and merciless, which is probably why the film is considered to be somewhat of a grindhouse classic.
This is one of the best Hong Kong (action) films around and it has a tense and exciting storyline as well as great fight scenes.
There are some action and tense moments, but most of the story is played for laughs.
And if your perspective is too tense, maybe this movie isn't for you, and you may need counseling.
Very tense, very moving.
Many fine little bits to savor, like the tense eternity we all go through waiting for the bank approval after the clerk has swiped the credit card...made more piquant when we're not - quite - sure the card is not maxed.
It's stylishly made, with lots of tense action to keep one satisfied.
The action is fantastic, the story is tense and entertaining, and the set design is truely memorable.
Some of the action scenes were very interesting, tense and well done.
Two candidates are up for the position and through ego, bribes and past track record the race is tense to say the least.
Jeopardy is a tense, satisying thriller, a cut above a B but not really a major production.
In this sense the incoming tide doesn't quite have the effect one might have wished, though the movie remains tense and highly entertaining thanks to excellent acting, fine location photography, nearly all of it outdoors, and excellent direction by the woefully underrated Mr. Sturges.
The distressing mood permanently circuited into the latter half of the story by screenwriter Ben Hecht reverberates in Andrews' tense performance as Preminger saturates the film in a relevantly prosaic substance of style.
Legendary director Sidney Lumet gives us one of his finest films in his historic career in this very tense, and ultimately shocking story about a family that includes dysfunctional as one of the children.
To be straight with you, this film doesn't contain much of a riveting story, nore does it make u 'want' to know how it'll end...but I'll tell you something now...never have I been as tense and jumped up before in my life!
We know something terrible is always awaiting her, and that made things all the more tense.
A vast majority of the episodes are very exciting and quite tense, and the acting is fairly good, though I do miss Roberta Taylor as Inspector Gina Gold and Todd Carty as Gabriel Kent.
On the one hand, the story and concept of the movie are really good, tense and have some nice plot twists in it.
The killer in this keeps a scarf over his face like "The Shadow" and he sounds ridiculous but it's always so comical yet tense.
The films main drawback is that whilst various elements position it as a giallo the original intention was a serious minded dramatic mystery (the script went through a number of rewrites to make it into a marketable giallo) and so it never really manages to be as tense, twisted or exuberant as the genre calls for.
It wasn't as violent as Saw, it wasn't as tense as the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, and it's filled with more ridiculous horror clichés than I could list in 1,000 words on IMDb.
The film is tense and exciting, and it's also a good indication of how times have changed; I mean, would you let your kid sleep in a room that is currently being inhabited by a male guest that you've only just met?
However, there were a few scenes that just felt overly tense, such as when--possible spoilers--Kevin begins choking on his food and loses consciousness, when Max learns of Kevin's death (which is more disturbing than emotional), and even the scene where Loretta is strangled (but not killed), which is otherwise understandable.
The scripter and director weave a clever interlocking plot complete with tense and heart-stopping atmospherics.
Things get even more tense.
Some exciting action and tense situations, but credibility is strained when, with the Ft.
Well acted, but characterization is a tad sparse, however that's all right as the film is tense and tightly made so it's not a huge problem.
This movie focuses on the Aetherius Society, a group of devout and passionate UFO buffs who call themselves "contactees" and have been preaching salvation from outer space since the tense and clammy Cold War era 50's.
Very tense, very dramatic and well acted.
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