Sentences with phrase «john woo»

Legendary action director, John Woo's mobile game Bloodstroke is arriving on the Chinese mobile market place today.

Major directors like John Woo and Tsui Hark, along with star Chow Yun - fat, tried...

You can vault over cover, resulting in slow motion in which you can continue firing at your enemies, but fans of John Woo will certainly be disappointed with the lack of a shoot dodge ability, given that the game partially takes its inspiration from Woo's own Chinese action films.

This was a totally unfair comparison, given that the true heart of the game was that of John Woo - style acrobatic gunplay as well as stringing fancy combos together.

Ram, the games central and playable character has been given great motivation following the murder of his father, so that's perhaps why he is capable of copying many of the one - man army actions of John Woo «s movie cast.

Initially inspired by the bullet ballets of John Woo and Ringo Lam, it allows players to trigger a slow - mo action sequence in which multiple enemies can be targeted and shot without fear of recourse.

Ninja Gold, a new film and game project, will be headed up by John Woo and Warren Spector.

The Spin Attack is a cinematic, which opens up with a John Woo trademark of white doves fluttering up in front of Tequila and shows a fiery blaze of bullet casings flying from their chambers as Tequila takes out all of the enemies in the room.

The attempts to do a Metroid movie go as far back as 2004, when action director John Woo bought the rights, seeing the potential in a storyline that fuses adventure, horror, and suspense.

Just as with Metroid, John Woo was purportedly signed on to the film at a time when the screenplay went through numerous changes and re-writes.

Such tweaks to movement are hardly going to transform Gears of War 4 into a John Woo flick, but that extra fluidity gives you a little extra maneuverability when navigating a firefight.

Simply put, if you love the kung fu scene from any movie, and especially if you like John Woo movies, then check out Sleeping Dogs.

Thanks to Koei - Tecmo's prolific Dynasty Warriors franchise, John Woo's 2008 film, Red Cliff, and...

Stranglehold, the John Woo and Chow Yun Fat action game, is revealed to only be twelve hours long.

Been polishing your keyboard in preparation for John Woo's Stranglehold later this year?

However, unlike other shooters, Max can only carry three different firearms at a time and must drop the larger weapon if he chooses to go dual shooting John Woo style.

It's a little John Woo and a lot John Carmack.

Video games-wise, I've worked on Slugfest, Blitz: The League, Ballers, Mortal Kombat Armageddon, John Woo Presents: Stranglehold, and BioShock Infinite.

However if you pull out two side arms Max will just drop the rifle in favor of a John Woo style gun handling.

You can definitely feel the John Woo influence on the game.

Various forums users are believing this mysterious title is a sequel to Stranglehold — which was connected to the film Hard Boiled and was directed by John Woo.

All of these pieces together make it feel like you are really playing through a John Woo movie.

It has not really been on my radar but I saw people describing it as part John Woo and part Quentin Tarantino.

There are some really solid effects in this footage, from the blurring in the foreground when you use your sight, to the slow - motion dueling with two pistols (John Woo would be proud).

After a brief hiatus, he turned down a project with John Woo to fully commit to the project in 2007, and after three years of actual development, one of the most ambitious Wii games ever created is under two months away, and Spector couldn't be happier.

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The Blade (Tsui Hark, 95)-- Mar 19, 2014 Heroes Shed No Tears (John Woo, 86)-- Mar 28, 2014 Once a Thief (John Woo, 91)-- Mar 28, 2014 Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (Stephen Chow & Derek Kwok, 13)-- Apr 03, 2014 Love in the Time of Twilight (Tsui Hark, 95)-- Apr 04, 2014

Cast: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames, Richard Roxburgh, John Polson, Brendan Gleeson, Rade Serbedzjia, Anthony Hopkins Director: John Woo Screenplay: Robert Towne Review published December 24, 2007

In this latest installment French director Jean - Pierre (Delicatessen, City of Lost Children) Jeunet has crafted an action film that owes more to Hong Kong action meister John Woo than to the previous installments at times, but it all works out reasonably well in the end.

Games Gamblers Play (Michael Hui, 74)-- Jan 07, 2014 Time and Tide (Tsui Hark, 00)-- Mar 25, 2014 Tri Star (Tsui Hark, 96)-- Apr 01, 2014 Chungking Express (Wong Kar - wai, 94)-- Apr 01, 2014 Mission: Impossible II (John Woo, 00)-- Apr 04, 2014

Red Cliff Where: Embarcadero Center Cinema, 1 Embarcadero Ctr., 415-352-0835 When: All Week Why: John Woo's Chinese - language historical epic finds the Hong Kong auteur at the top of his game, staging a third - century battle royale that's as breathlessly paced as it is artfully choreographed.

It takes an awful lot to make John Woo looks tame.

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo, Martin Henderson, Frances O'Connor, Christian Slater, Jason Isaacs, Brian Van Holt, Roger Willie Director: John Woo Screenplay: Jon Rice, Joe Batteer Review published June 17, 2002

Shoot Em Up's USP seems to be to deliver high - octane, uncensored action that makes John Woo's wackier entries look like an old - fashioned yawn fest.

Melville was a big influence on John Woo and John Wick has traces of Melville and Woo.

John Woo's Mission: Impossible 2 is the biggest film of the year so far, and it's nothing, nothing at all.

Otherwise, this year features campy 80s classics like Top Gun, The Karate Kid Part II, and The Name Of the Rose, a fine Jim Jarmusch film (Down By Law), John Woo's breakthrough A Better Tomorrow, and the best basketball movie ever, Daavid Anspaugh's Hoosiers.

Windtalkers seems like an odd vehicle to catch the interest of over-the-top action director John Woo (M: I 2, Face / Off) in many ways.

Where would Ang Lee, John Woo, or Zhang Yimou be without the heritage of Kurosawa?

John Woo has been applauded - generally by the sort of person whose pretentiousness takes the form of inverted snobbery - as a maestro capable of transforming bombs and bullets into a gorgeously kinetic oriental ballet, or poem of violence (perhaps his apologists are confusing him with Takeshi Kitano).

(Probably the dumbest last half hour of a movie this side of John Woo I have ever seen.)

Legendary Hong Kong action director John Woo was also reported to be developing the project, but it has been dormant for well over a decade.

No other filmmaker can channel the sophistication of Jean - Luc Godard and the violence of John Woo through the veil of a 1970s exploitation flick — much less attempt to in a coherent state of mind.

The Killer is still a big flashy John Woo action movie, but the story is simpler, there's less action, and there's more work in developing at least Chow's character.

This is John Woo's most effective film, both visually and in terms of the limited thematic interests Woo has (namely the similarities between good guys and bad, which he also explores in The Killer and Face / Off).

Cast: Chow Yun - Fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh, Chu Kong, Kenneth Tsang, Fui - On Shing Director: John Woo Screenplay: John Woo Review published February 21, 1999

Lured by the prestige and mythology of the Hollywood dream factory, folks like Chow Yun Fat, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, John Woo, Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark, and so on have transformed the honesty of their craft into the same sort of boom crash opera we've been churning out on Yankee shores for decades now.

Director Chad Stahelski goes balls to the wall, earning John Wick a coveted hard R. John Woo and Michael Mann heavily influence this film.

Same when John Woo started making Hollywood movies.

The Killer — The first really great John Woo film (that I've seen) stars the great Chow Yun - Fat as a hitman who accidentally blinds a woman in a shoot out and tries to make amends but gets double - crossed by his boss and ends up teamed up with the cop who's been pursuing him (Danny Lee).