Sentences with phrase «mexican stand off»

Not exact matches

Wenger should put out the following 4 -1-4-1 team to take the piss out of Mourinho and their fans and we can have a 90 min Mexican stand - off and agree before hand to share the points:

The Chilean international has been strongly linked with the exit door this summer, with his current contract having run into his final 12 months, and with a mexican stand - off having ensued.

So it looks like this will become a Mexican stand - off.

If you are in the middle of Mexican stand - off, you do not just put your gun down on the floor.

At present all involved in Labour's Mexican stand - off have a gun pointed directly at their own feet.

And the as the uneasy truce between the two sides begins visibly to break down, the Labour Party finds itself in a Mexican stand - off that could end very badly for all involved.

There followed a Mexican stand - off where the guest sat down at a random table, fully expecting his full English.

The filmmakers burn up so much energy getting Chow onto criminal turf that the relationships once there are hastened towards poignancy, as when one of the thieves (Danny Lee) shows his loyalty to Chow by starting and engaging in a Mexican stand - off with the remaining gang members.

Including the odd Mexican stand - off, the action bounds along, jumping between heist scenarios constructed with a clever sense of humour.

Compare it to the same year's narcoleptic, madly - overpraised, utterly irrelevant Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (which also ends in a literal Mexican stand - off, as it happens) for a succinct précis of the wide gulf between what's popular and what's good.

Yet Kick - Ass isn't a satire so much as a shrine — a celebration of not simply what we love when we go to the movies, but also what the movies inspire us to be on drowsy Saturday afternoons, drunk on Mexican stand - offs, cops and killers acting like brothers, and physics that bend just enough to allow our heroes to run on walls, dodging bullets in their dark sunglasses.

Paycheck is Woo ripping off the best of Woo: all his standard signatures (doves, slow - motion, long dissolves, meticulous matching shots, Mexican stand - offs, sliding - while - shooting, starfucking), plus stuff about switching faces (Face / Off), bird cages with hidden compartments (Hard - Boiled), motorcycle chases (Hard Target), and Lazy Susan meet - cutes (A Better Tomorrow II, Mission: Impossible Ioff the best of Woo: all his standard signatures (doves, slow - motion, long dissolves, meticulous matching shots, Mexican stand - offs, sliding - while - shooting, starfucking), plus stuff about switching faces (Face / Off), bird cages with hidden compartments (Hard - Boiled), motorcycle chases (Hard Target), and Lazy Susan meet - cutes (A Better Tomorrow II, Mission: Impossible IOff), bird cages with hidden compartments (Hard - Boiled), motorcycle chases (Hard Target), and Lazy Susan meet - cutes (A Better Tomorrow II, Mission: Impossible II).

The recurrent Mexican stand - off used in Dogs, True Romance and Pulp Fiction is, once again, on display as well.