Sentences with phrase «american revenge story»

A classic American revenge story, Blue Ruin follows a mysterious outsider whose quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance.

Not exact matches

This smart, dark and hard - edged thriller tells the story of political revenge, starring two - time Academy Award ® winner Kevin Spacey (American Beauty, Best Actor in a Leading Role, 1999; The Usual Suspects, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, 1995) as ambitious and ruthless Democratic Congressman Frank Underwood, and Robin Wright (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) as his equally focused wife, Claire.

The tale is pure pulp, a catalogue of seventies martial arts revenge dramas and American B - movie action thrillers, and the style is pure Tarantino: snappy titles, a timeline that leaps back and forth through the story, a mad mix of styles and musical references, and an attitude of loving affection for his inspirations.

It was the sort of year in which I was most grateful for unexpected pleasures like Steve Rash's The Buddy Holly Story, Floyd Mutrux's American Hot Wax, Burt Reynolds» The End, Hal Needham's Hooper, Jack Nicholson's Goin» South, and Blake Edwards» Revenge of the Pink Panther — the last - named among the unexpected simply because the Clouseau formula and Edwards» elegant eye had seemed terminally tired the previous time out (The Pink Panther Strikes Again, 1976).

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Clearly a fan of legendary Korean filmmaker Park Chan - wook, The Gift resembles Park's own stories of vengeance, not only for its similar twists and turns, but because of its understanding of slow, methodical vengeance, as opposed to the the usual bloody, action - filled tales of revenge that American audiences have grown so accustomed to, since that is what usually makes it to our theaters.

And it's all thanks to his role in Alejandro González Iñárritu's film adaptation of Michael Punke's The Revenant, a brutal and riveting story of an early American fur trapper's wilderness survival and quest for revenge.

The screenplay, co-written by Inarritu, is partly based on Michael Punke's 2002 book «The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge,» which takes the story of American frontiersman Hugh Glass (c. 1780 — 1833) as its point of departure.