Tucker gets plenty of screen - time and moments of irreverent hamming, while Chan dishes out some high - flying
action during the fight scenes, even if they are far from his best.
Not exact matches
Sometimes this works rather nicely, such as
during Harley Quinn's
fight scene in the lift, but a lot of the time the song choices feel all too obvious or the
action to accompany them is very routine.
The
action sequences and
fight scenes in the first two acts of the movie are equally impressive in their staging, taking visual cues from sources that include Coogler's own grounded boxing
scenes in Creed, as well as many a James Bond film
during a nightclub sequence right out of something like Skyfall.
I totally agree, some of the
action scenes were too dependent on previous movies, I thought of «Raiders»
during the cave
fight.
The
action was entertaining enough, though there were a lot of cuts
during the
fight scenes.
During this event, an Ordinary White American Divorced Family Man (played by John Cusack)
fights to save his family whilst navigating a series «talking»
scenes (mostly people crying into telephones) which link one stupendous, special effects - riddled, scientifically - implausible,
action sequence after another.
- Locus «Stephanie and Skulduggery's witty repartee is most enjoyable, and the pacing is fast, with constant
action and
fight scenes during which the author neither sugarcoats the violence nor revels in it unnecessarily.»