Anything that could keep the movie's narrative momentum chugging at full speed was brought in, and it all worked.
The 124 minutes would be considerably more absorbing had greater care been taken in developing a coherent narrative momentum.
At first you're not sure that what you're seeing has any narrative momentum at all.
And it is a hunt and chase story of growing narrative momentum.
What the sequel lacks is the narrative momentum of the original.
Id takes more pains to give the player a story than in previous games, but there is little sense of narrative momentum.
These are simple, utterly repetitive pursuits that break the narrative momentum and add little to the game other than length.
The lack of narrative momentum is another difficulty.
There's no narrative momentum aside from the sense that you're waiting for the director to empty her bag of tricks (1:25).
His efforts, and the obstacles he faces, provide the film with narrative momentum.