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And the lead actor was always tense and monotonous.
The plot, though slow is tense, holding an audience's attention throughout.
Despite some criticism of the film and quite a low general rating on IMDb, I liked the film and thought that it was a tense and interesting film by Roger Michell.
Overall, the movie was tense from the start and is filled with suspense, humor and a great deal of drama.
In an era in which everyone seems to want either tense thrillers, puerile comedies or awesome special effects (the only one here, as has been pointed out, is a cheaply put together tornado), both movies offer little more than a thoroughly improbable plot and a focus on character development.
This movie is tense and full of action.
It is soft and sweet one moment, difficult and tense the next, but always subtle and sensitive.
The tunnel confrontations were incredibly tense and gripping!
Director Jacques Tourneur once again proves himself to be a master in creating an unbearably tense atmosphere.
The hero did not really have any tense challenges.
The ambitious script deserves some credit for the way it keeps intercutting the past with the present tense, a technique that results in some intriguing effects; in one scene we see somebody killed, in the next scene there he is, moving and talking!
This movie was quite tense - not so much as say "Seven", but it was still an enjoyable watching experience.
As it is not one of the more wider known parts of World War Two, it makes the first half tense and exciting.
Updated version of the old tv series and based on the novel by Oscar Fraley, "The Untouchables" is fresh, smart, and "extremely" tense.
The film never creates the tense, doom-laden atmosphere of William Gibson's short story about corporate espionage in a grim near-future setting, leaving the viewer to spend a numbing hour and half with unheroic and uninteresting characters doing not much of anything.
Then in 2005, Stephen Gaghan made Syriana, a tense, well-researched, politically charged drama about the oil industry - which made plenty of sense to those steeped in world politics and economics, without outwardly offending anybody.
Very tense ending, I was on the edge of my seat.
Director Raoul Walsh orchestrates every tense, tender, and action-packed scene very well and Max Steiner's haunting score kicks the film's mood to high gear.
However, there's a nice undercurrent of vicious, tense horror movies with a little touch of something different coming out of the UK as well.
In several scenes is shown that Marie still talks to her husband in the present tense, like he's only gone for a couple of days but will return very quickly.
Guided by the terrorist's voice on a cellphone, what follows is a tense voyage through the underbelly of Cavite, a city in the Philippines.
This movie offers the quintessential Cagney, by the lamp post in the rain, a tense close up that signals the arrival of a star.
Luckily young master Ryan is able to get a few days off school to persuade the Russian Premier and the President of the United States that he knows better than either of them and after some jolly tense moments the President grits "Stand down to Defcon 3",thus earning young Jack a Gold Star.
I was really disappointed that Katharine Isabelle was so wasted in this as she only has a few lines, and I thought Tatiana Maslany was brilliant as the psycho Ghost as she was really creepy and unpredictable, plus it had quite a few tense scenes.
A "water-cooler" entry-- I expect people all over the country were talking about this tense 30 minutes the next day.
There are no gore scenes, there's almost no blood, but there's a tense atmosphere since the beginning (and the soundtrack helps it a lot, with some classical and disturbing string sounds!).
Snaps:Unleashed" is almost as good as the first one.The soundtrack is awesome and creates a creepy atmosphere of desperation and isolation.There is plenty of gore and violence and some really vicious werewolf attacks.The acting is excellent with outstanding performance by Emily Perkins.The film is really tense,so if you liked the original you won't be disappointed.Highly recommended.
At times, the movie does exhibit a terror-filled tense background and their are subtle nice flourishes of horror touches inserted throughout the movie, but they are unable to make up for the rest of the jumble of weaknesses that pervade this movie.
It was tense and it had the exact feel of what we all loved about the early Fridays.
This is first shown in the dinner party scene as she discusses Jean flippantly and in the present tense, Ozon using a study of Marie's friends' reactions to show that something is not right.
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