Sentences with phrase «lost as this action hero»

Not exact matches

The ability to regrow limbs lost through accident or the action of their nemesis is a power usually thought of as belonging only to comic - book heroes, but in nature the ability to regenerate tissues and even whole limbs is surprisingly widespread across the plant and animal kingdoms.

LOST IN SPACE Packed with «Star Wars» - style visual dazzle, this warm but dumbed - down action picture, based on the 1960s TV series, offers the surprising Matt LeBlanc as likable hero Major Don West.

It stars Alan Arkin as the washed - up hero who has lost his powers (pre-dating «The Incredibles» by a good couple of decades) and Christopher Lee as the super-villain who forces him back into action.

But this provocative idea is quickly lost to muddy motivations (Zeus was always a flip - flopper, but just try to follow his train of thought here) and tiresome action that suffers from a lack of audience identification in a hero who sorta wants to save the day, as long as it doesn't mean taking any favors from Dad.

The story, such as it is, is recounted in flashbacks by the 16 - year - old narrator - hero, David, as he sits alone in a train compartment at night, looking out the window at the dark countryside; it has to do with the deterioration of his father, Frank (Denis Leary), after he loses his factory job (he becomes a wife beater), and then of his mother, Sarah (Diana Scarwid), after Frank goes overseas to fight in Italy and is killed in action (she gradually goes mad).