Sentences with phrase «while other action film»

While other action film directors rely on vertiginous stunts, CGI and / or gore to stun audiences, Greengrass manages to make incredibly simple violent encounters thrilling.

Not exact matches

While the studio did not name the troubled film, Variety and other outlets reported that the culprit was believed to be the live - action, computer - animated hybrid Monster Trucks, which cost more than $ 100 million to make.

And while some are tastefully filmed, with no action «down below», others leave nothing to the imagination.

As in «Infernal Affairs,» the Andrew Lau film upon which «The Departed» is based, the action centers on the two cops» attempts to uncover each other's identities while protecting their own secrets.

For those of us who prefer to judge Gibson solely in terms of his art, the movie is a virtuosic piece of action cinema — particularly in its second half... And while there has been no shortage of recent films that decry the horrors of war and man's inhumanity to his fellow man, I know of none other quite this sickeningly powerful.

While Harlin's big action sets in other films like Die Hard 2 suffered from an unfortunately dated sampling of CGI, everything you see in CutThroat Island has been constructed — and destroyed in grand fashion.

While the film does not offer easy solutions, it allows us to discover the power to face our own demons, knowing that redemption does not lay in revenge, but only in acknowledging and taking responsibility for actions that may have caused harm to others.

While some critics tend to agree that Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon know how to make a great action film, others believe that the previous «Bourne» films had set the standard too high for just any regular follow up.

More than any other film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Panther addresses the world today in ways that, while not distracting from the action and adventure, fills the movie with deeper meaning and moral weight.

These misses narratively combined with other elements of Deadpool 2 make it feel like a backwards step or at the very least of a stalling of the series from the first, there's a sense here that everything's a little auto - pilot, the action too taking a backwards step from the imaginative sequences of the first film and while perfectly entertaining, this is an experience filled with nothing that would suggest Deadpool 2 is going to be a film you'll be going back to anytime soon.

While the pacing isn't as tight as some other films on this list, the Russo Brothers prove here that they're the ones to beat when it comes to dynamic action sequences that seem to be lifted directly from the comics.

Darkest Hour is a film of flummoxed old white men hollering at each other, a perfect foil to (and double - bill alongside) Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, both because the two take place at about the same time during the early years of World War II — as Hitler's world domination began to take shape and an invasion of the UK imminent — and because they are entirely different experiences: Dunkirk is all action, while Joe Wright's film is all words.

While Tom Cruise's reputation as an action actor in Jack Reacher, the Mission: Impossible movies, Minority Report and War of the Worlds holds up in this story, the film's content, much like the content in his other movies, pushes Oblivion outside the realm of general family viewing.

John Carpenter directed and co-wrote both sci - fi action films, and while some call «Escape from L.A.» over the top, others ask: Isn't that the point?

While the opening scene, which serves only as back - story and general reasons as to why it takes so long for Raleigh (Charlie Hunnam) to return to the Jaeger game, is fluff for the film and even in the moment felt unnecessary as opposed to just being retro - actively less awesome than the other greater action sequences.

While it riffs on a few notable sci - fi / action films and traffics in storylines audiences have seen in other YA adaptations, there is a sense of urgency that doesn't let up, a lot of well - constructed action, and propulsion to a film series fitting of the title Maze Runner.

Just as other films of its ilk (The Phantom, The Shadow), the updating of the material involves keeping the core of what makes the Green Hornet the Green Hornet, while stuffing it into a modern - day action and comedy style.

But while many people may think that the action scene has moved on to other parts (mostly Thailand and South Korea, plus a mini-boom of excellent American direct - to - video films like «Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning» and its ilk), there's still a lot to offer from the once reigning king of cinematic punches and gunshots.

While Gareth Edwards» Star Wars spinoff film, Rogue One, was pretty heavily overshadowed by other Star Wars news and announcements at today's live - action panel at Disney's D23 Expo, it did get at least a few moments to shine.

While Joe Johnston helmed the original, giving it the retro sensibilities and spirit of Johnston's other fantastical action film The Rocketeer, Captain America: The Winter Soldier is directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, a pair that are better known direction comedic television.

While this film certainly does break some new ground from a cultural level, this entertaining action flick also feels a little too big for itself at other times because as well done as the narrative and storytelling aspects of this film are executed, occasionally the action sequences don't...

In the first, they are tender, playful and passionate together - the actions of a couple who know each other intimately - while their second coupling, which occurs after the film's massive revelation, is a brutal and aggressive scene which leaves Edie bruised and in tears.

While the film seems at first glance as if it is going to go down familiar tubes of crass and crappy comedies, there's a core intelligence to its characterizations and situations that allows the story to stay afloat during the sloppier passages, and unlike may other dumb sport comedies, the action on the ice is quite well shot and edited.

It's a remake of a minor classic 1972 film of the same name, starring Charles Bronson and Jan - Michael Vincent, and while this is a glossy, modern - day take, it's for the interesting character touches that The Mechanic doesn't become too «mechanical» to disappear into the action movie abyss many other Statham starring vehicles fall into.

One sequence resembles the unveiling of the dream city of Shangri - La in Frank Capra's Lost Horizon, another recalls the casino action in half a dozen Bond films, while still others rescue the exotic excitement of jungle - adventure fantasies from the colonial condescension of Great White Hunter movies.

Per Batman-News.com, there was a test screening recently and while the special effects were still in the early stages, the film was described as «an emotional action movie» with a tone more similar to Wonder Woman than to other entries in the DCEU.

While the film is, on the one hand, effectively portraying the appeal of a life of crime, on the other, it is also unflinching in its portrayal of the consequences of such actions.

Why do these films, and others in the action genre, concentrate on the fate of the main characters while overlooking the loss of human life and the cost of property damage that occur in their wake?

«The Raid 2»: Does for action and martial arts movies what «Singin» in the Rain» did for musicals, reminding you of everything you love about the genre while (literally) kicking things up a notch and raising the bar for other films to follow.

While not gaming news, we have been big fans of Thousand Pounds Action Company who have made some excellent Street Fighter short films, amongst others.

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