Citizenfour has a few true-life suspense moments, like the scene in which Snowden nervously responds to each phone call to his hotel room as through his cover were about to be blown.
The Army is a life of perpetual suspense: the soldier waits for war to begin and then waits for it to end.
As he meets political activists and agrees to drive one client to clandestine meetings, Fly's episodic life builds some suspense, but this energetic novel is all about the voice, and the fares.
I'll save you the suspense: Life will still continue to throw you obstacles wherever you are.
Although this year will have plenty of slam-bang adventure and science-fiction films, including Paul Verhoeven's "Hollow Man" (opening Aug. 4), with Kevin Bacon as an invisible man, and this month's "Battlefield Earth," adapted from an early novel by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, the trend seems to be toward real-life, character-driven suspense.
This sounds nice until you really focus on the sentiment, as seen from a kid's point of view — it means life is over, the suspense of what is going to happen has been relieved.
Carlos's risky journey from a near spiritual death back to life provides plenty of suspense, tersely knowledgeable warriors' dialogue and bad guys so bad you don't care about the terrible things that happen to them.
Those depositions describe the trajectory of an immigrant boy raised in a quiet Swedish town northeast of Goteborg who grew into a man with a life out of a suspense thriller, including secret courses in weapons training and trips financed by the Shiite militant organization.
In real life, we might feel suspense when walking through an unfamiliar, reputedly dangerous neighborhood at night.
In it, the three individuals walk the streets of (presumably) Brussels before the suspense of life and death is acted out in the form of a beautiful woman in a bedroom as a child looks on.
