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the entire first two acts of the film are great, setting up a tense situation where the viewer is intently waiting to see the dramatic climax.
great film, very tense and at times you don't want to look! very good characters and very well acted.
The only good thing that has come from this film is the quote "I'm tense because your making me tense."
The cryptically titled The Beat My Heart Skipped concerns come of the same themes that made A Prophet a tense - and epic - cinematic tale.
The makers of this movie are to be congratulated for turning a Tom Clancy doorstop into a tense, tightly woven international thriller with a top notch cast and believeable plot.
Although the film contains some disturbing scenes, it is exciting and tense throughout, with an impressive and unexpected twist at the end.
There are some very tense or creepy moments, but they are few and far between, unlike other Karloff works with a feeling of dread throughout.
Child has has several tense emo moments with parent.
Ishii seems to borrow a lot from the Hong Kong school of gunplay action which keeps the movie interesting but the story and plot drag at times and there are many odd moments of fancy such as Ikko and Jil's dancing sequence in a hotel room which seem a bit out of place but I guess breaks the gloomy and tense atmosphere of the story.
Director Stuart Gordon relates the absorbing story at a brisk pace, does an expert job of maintaining a tough, gritty tone throughout, and stages the thrilling action scenes with rip-roaring verve (the climactic jailbreak sequence in particular is quite tense and stirring).
This is a tense and ingeniously plotted noir film, based on a clever novel by Hugh Wheeler (writing as Patrick Quentin), and excellently scripted by Nunnally Johnson, who also directed.
There's a lot of suspense and tense moments.
The movie takes place in a past tense with flashes of memory as everyone tries to figure out what happened, including the audience.
Good mystery with lots of action and tense drama.
Despite its badness, "The Ring" is tense at times.
Lake" plays like an exciting mix of "Deliverance","Straw Dogs" and "Open Season".It's a tense and extremely well-acted survival thriller with some great scenes of violence.The shootout begins after the rape of Huffman's girlfriend.So if you are a fan of survival cinema you can't miss "Wolf Lake".It's a crying shame that such obscure Canadian movies are still unavailable on DVD.9 out of 10.
Prag is not only a good feature with a tense atmosphere between two people who are breaking up.
This tense 1931 melodrama stars a very young Barbara Stanwyck in the title role as Lora Hart assigned to take care of the two young daughters in a wealthy family.
Uniformly good acting especially from the two leads, cameos from Queen Latifah and Samuel L. Jackson, tense atmosphere and a funny, slang-heavy script all act in its favour, but a lack of originality and a rather mediocre ending bring it down a notch or two.
This is well shot and has some tense moments and considering its small budget it is a remarkably accomplished and enjoyable piece of work.
i have read a lot of reviews slating this movie but i found this to be tense engrossing thriller.
I was beautifully done, the acting was beyond superb, very tense and horrorfic and funny.
It was very slow and didn't have the tense moments of A Few Good Men.
And to politely end my tirade, the one thing that annoys me more than the rest is how the show really takes only 10 minutes while the rest of the show just keeps cutting to characters faces repeatedly during seemingly tense moments.
Quick-paced & tense with good supporting performances from Paul Koslo as "Dutch" & Rosalind Cash as "Lisa" Dated now it is, but still stands the test of time as a truly great 70's sci-fi & if you haven't seen it, then you are in for a treat.
"Children of the Revolution" gives one a sense of the sometimes tense situation down under in the '50s, which prompts Joan to go to the Soviet Union in the first place.
Mike Leigh's film starts, roughly speaking, from a position of tense, impecunious stability and simply slides through the misery gears.
It had lots of blood, lots of kills and was rather tense.
Director has done a great job by having that videogame atmosphere by use of light, but still keeping the movie tense.
The many sub-subpar giallo attempts must truly be THE WORST for offering a glimmer of tasty material, tricking us with what seems like a tense build-up, and finally, cruelly, robbing us of any payoff.'
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