suspenseless

(səˈspɛnslɪs)

adj

lacking suspense

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"Annabelle Comes Home" "Conjuring" franchise demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) wisely get out of this suspenseless, unoriginal horror prequel early, leaving their 10-year-old daughter (Mckenna Grace) to deal with an inept teen babysitter and a demon-infested doll.

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The liberal opposition candidate who did run--notorious TV personality Ksenia Sobchak, an ex-reality show host sometimes dubbed the "Russian Paris Hilton"--was almost certainly a Kremlin pick, intended not only to maintain the pretense of a "real" election but to add a bit of excitement to the suspenseless campaign.

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An overly long final confrontation is suspenseless, and that's because the filmmakers haven't bothered to give McCall any vulnerability whatsoever.

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"They" takes the premise of Stephen King's "It," borrows a bit from David Twohy's "Pitch Black" and incorporates the suspenseless subway car finale of Guillermo Del Toro's "Mimic," while never making much internal sense.

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So it was rather unfair of me, while on that journey, to dismiss What Lies Beneath as a suspenseless, unthrilling drama.

Video: Don't look down; Suspense is the order of the day as Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer combine brilliantly in this shocking thriller

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