Plenty of suspenseful grit interspersed with intriguing sound-bite treatises on that particular film genre.
As a point scoring device in the sound-bite driven immediacy of a TV studio debate, it's quite useful.
The newly chipper Russian President arrived at last week's Helsinki summit trailing a string of sound-bite warnings that he would not budge.
Above all we need a mayor with sound and responsible political judgement, who can put aside the quick sound-bite, the populist response, the media opportunity.
The twice-weekly jousts between the prime minister and the opposition leader in the Commons mean that both have had years of practice in the art of the sound-bite.
Set against the harsh tongue and poor syntax of his predecessor, Mr Walesa, the nattily dressed, sound-bite-loving ex-communist looked the more modern man that the country was in need of.
That is what the sound-bite media quote tells you.
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In particle physics, sound-bite explanations are much harder: wave-particle duality, quantum mechanics, general relativity and string theory make good mathematical sense, or so I am told, but they generally defy translation into English.
But he was also a superb rider, winning a remarkable 191 races, including a record 42 stages in the Giro d'Italia, and he has lost nothing of his natural self-confidence and penchant for the sound-bite.
This is physics by sound-bite.
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But I would tell Bush that all he has to do is to stay nice and loose, working Gore in a rope-a-dope sort of way, mocking him lightly, and wait for one of those openings that can produce a fatal sound-bite -- something along the lines of Lloyd Bentsen's line in 1988: "I knew John Kennedy, and you're no John Kennedy!"
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"What we want is to take the time in this forum to not just hear a quick sound bite -'yes, I'm for reform of don't ask, don't tell', " he told the BBC News website.
In our star-obsessed, sound bite culture, hot looks, reality show appearances, stop-bys on Oprah or Saturday Night Live and zinger tweets seem to qualify people for higher office.
To know how to get word-for-word the exact sound bite or quote you want in the final story.
Mr Brown has long believed that only when the Westminster-watching elites are sick of hearing a sound bite is it beginning to get through to ordinary voters.
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Merrill publicly denied Spitzer's charges, but the embarrassing e-mails were hard to explain away in a sound bite.
Fortunately, I have created a system that will allow these logical, rational, linear thinkers to turn any message point into a sound bite that is irresistible to even the most hard-bitten journalist.
But something was missing--the triumphal speech to his fellow Chinese, the grand gesture or immortal sound bite that would capture the historic nature of the moment.
Following Sarid's self-congratulatory modesty, Yediot gave former defense minister Moshe Arens and Infrastructures Minister Uzi Landau a sound bite apiece to lash out at the withdrawal.
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