Sentences with phrase «act as vigilantes»

I don't think the Mexican gov» t is going to allow US citizens acting as vigilantes to come into their country and wage a war against the cartels.

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Former Member of Parliament for North Dayi, George Loh, has condemned what he describes as the increasing spate of lawless acts by vigilante groups affiliated to the New Patriotic Party (NPP), saying such acts were minimal and not extreme as is happening currently.

The film doesn't shy away from the horrors of slavery, yet the grim material is balanced with a deliciously dark sense of humour - just check out the scene with a band of white - sheeted vigilantes, acting as a precursor to the KKK, which is one of the funniest scenes Tarantino has ever written.

A lot of movies pontificate on the meaninglessness of revenge without much conviction, reveling in vigilantes acting as our proxies for the indulgence of our worst instincts before paying lip service to law and order.

It originally starred the acting icon Charles Bronson and I always felt the 1974 revenge «classic» (based on the novel by Brian Garfield) was always overrated, but it did have a strong lead in Bronson as the unforgiving vigilante Paul Kersey.

A movie centered on a main character that acts like a vigilante does not have the most creative premise as we've seen plenty of movies like this before.

Batman continues to act as a force of vigilante justice in Gotham City, but his presence causes a number of copy - cat «crime - fighters» to complicate the situation.

However, they can't get far, as acting on their own brands them as criminals, which means the Avengers who've signed the new law, led by Iron Man, must keep the peace so that costumed vigilantes aren't acting of their own accord, possibly causing more distrust from the public and governments they've sworn to protect.

The 2014 hacker vigilante adventure Watch Dogs conveys the physical act of drinking as a series of minigames spread across Chicago.

Edging along the rafters that link Gotham City's rain - stricken rooftops in Arkham Knight — the studio's latest adaptation of Bob Kane's vigilante, and alleged final act in its trilogy — games ™ peers out over the conurbation as it stretches for miles into..

The film even has a few good ideas of its own, which give the film a stronger female presence than any other iteration of the franchise on top of that — Marian (Alyssa Milano) is the head of a rad vigilante group called the Power Corps (because no one could think of a more nineties name, apparently) and the Lees are trained by Satori Imada (Julia Nickson), who acts as the orphans» badass mother figure (despite the actress being barely ten years older than the guys, but she gets a token grey streak in her hair to «establish» her wisdom).

That a small group might — by acting as «climate vigilantes» — be able to prevent that from happening is an exciting, even inspiring prospect.

A Thompson Rivers University law professor says that privacy acts can be effective tools for lawyers attempting to help innocent individuals ensnared by vigilante groups such as Creep Catcher, which outs suspected pedophiles by posting their video and personal information on the internet.