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Headshot is also a reminder that Hollywood seriously needs to build its own action films around Uwais (who had a supporting role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens).

Not exact matches

Disney has one of its biggest movie slates for FY2018 with Ant Man and The Wasp, The Avengers: Infinity War, Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Incredibles 2 and Mulan (live action film) around the corner.

This Friday marks the release of the eighth installment of the Fast & Furious films, the long - running, high - octane action franchise that revolves around Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his motley crew of street racers - turned - international - crime - fighters - who - are - also - kind - of - criminals.

FOM can use the footage to customise and edit replays, using the cameras to focus on whatever action is happening at the time and missing far less, because every car will be filming everything that's happening around it, all the time.

The action was filmed with 18 3D motion capture cameras and 11 high - definition game day cameras to capture impacts from dozens of angles around the field with the goal to better understand the forces and motions that occur when a player receives an impact.

Sure to delight X-fans everywhere and thrill action - lovers all around, this movie is most likely the best comic - to - film adaptation produced yet, despite a few changes made for the sake of creating an original story.

There's a curious insistence in Hollywood action - adventure films these days (doubtless aided by the comic books that provide such an increasing amount of their adaptive material) on the centrality of origins, from the X-Men to Batman to Bond and beyond — often, if not always, revolving around daddy issues.

Knaggs» character, a mute seaman, narrates the film's key sections with an internal voice - over monologue that is more hissed than spoken, leading the audience down all manner of strange psychological paths around the script's action; Knaggs» seaman ultimately rescues the hero from near - certain death.

For anyone not familiar with the events in Entebbe, the film is engaging enough as a historical account of a watershed moment in how the world chose to deal with terrorism — the actions of the Israeli Defence Forces prompted governments around the world to reassess the way they responded to acts of hostage taking.

The film lets these questions hover around the action in ways that give the film a soulful core.

Marvel's Black Panther features a killer soundtrack and reliable performances all - around, but its story lacks surprises and the action struggles when compared to other Marvel films.

The film was funny, had well paced action sequences, and good dialogue, but once the ending came around, which goes on for about twenty minutes more

Namely, how do you get around the issue that the action centrpiece to the film is over so quickly?

The film has an interesting cast — Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Alexander Skarsgard, Michael Shannon and, of course, 50 Cent — but the action seems to revolve around Control star Sam Riley as a man who assumes the identity of a dead man only to end up in a high stakes game of Russian roulette.

Deadline reports that the Jungle Cruise movie will be an Indiana Jones - like action - adventure, and Collet - Serra was very much interested in getting his hands on a film of its nature, a potential franchise that he will be able to mould around an A-list Hollywood star like Johnson.

The script, written by brothers John - Henry and Jez Butterworth (who also co-penned the Tom Cruise / Emily Blunt action film «Edge of Tomorrow») bounces around, back and forth, through the timeline of Brown's life.

Reduced by Refn almost to the point of abstraction — it could have been called Notes on a Rehearsal for an Action Movie — Drive may do little to win over multiplex crowds who prefer the fast and furious to the moody and languorous, but it reconfirms Refn as one of the most exciting young directors around, and Albert Brooks (stealing the film as a small - time Jewish gangster with an aversion to loose ends) as a national treasure.

Still, if you typically like live - action Disney fare, you may find it all innocuous fun, but as a film, there is little more to it that regurgitated themes from the previous films wrapped around music video style montages all meant to make you tap your toes and have a reasonably enjoyable time.

A satisfyingly tense desert - island thriller — just without the desert island — the action this time around is set at a Norwegian outpost (the one referenced by the guys at the U.S. - run Antarctic outpost at the beginning of Carpenter's film).

The characters aren't very compelling either, and that's a problem in a film built around action.

As in every Bond film, the movie opens with a spectacular action sequence, but this time around, the brief encounter on a train doesn't end the way we expect.

However most of the film's action centers around government deceptions and the escalating turf war between the mechanical extraterrestrials.

There's also a slight lull in the action around halfway through the picture, just after the two Sams have established exactly what's happening to them, but this is a minor flaw in a film that is generally well - paced, and which builds to a satisfying climax.

After her actions in the last film, Mystique is now a hero and inspiration to young mutants around the world.

To make matters worse, around about the same time we get an action scene that's... well... it's just ridiculous, and really took me out of the film.

The one - liners from Wayne still induce the chuckles, the car chases and action (including car «jumping» London Bridge) is swift and well done for the time, and it's an all - around fun film.

After teaming up for the hit Irish action - comedy The Guard, actor Brendan Gleeson and writer - director John Michael McDonagh made the unexpected decision to set their next film around a priest.Brendan Gleeson [L] and Kelly Reilly...

And of course, these films have some of the best action sequences around.

The action is less spectacular than Li's Hong Kong films, but should be enough to please his fans, and production is solid all - around.

As a full - fledged, major motion picture release, the bar is raised much higher, as they have to not only set the whole film around one central location, but also make all of the motivations and actions plausible.

Though most of the action is set in and around a Los Angeles skyscraper, the film manages to wring many convincing sequences out of such a claustrophobic setting, from one - on - one fights to an explosive last - act rooftop setpiece.

It's been awhile since Russian director Timur Bekmambetov's last effort, the 2008 action film «Wanted,» but he's done the vampire thing before, and I'm looking forward to seeing what he has up his sleeve this time around.

That new perspective is the way the film looks like an action movie, filled with car chases and fights and shoot - outs, while behaving in a way more akin to a musical (For further evidence of the musical's influence, one need only look to the opening credits, which has the hero dancing around the city, as an assortment of visual gags highlight certain lyrics).

Another of the most - discussed titles around this year, Walter Hill «s action film was described by one buyer as «total madness.»

Rather than simply filming the beautifully - designed, choreographed action, they feel the need to throw their cameras into the fight, whipping them around and tumbling them every which way.

Pup Star: World Tour: Family film takes audiences around the world, as the action - packed spin on popular TV singing competitions goes global when «Tiny,» the adorable singing Yorkie pup, packs her bags for far - away places from Africa to India and beyond.

Despite Doctor Strange being released back in October 2016, much of the film's action takes place around the same time as July's Homecoming.

It honestly just felt like a group of guys got together and threw all their favorite action movies into a pot and created an amazing looking incoherent film before coming back around and adding a story to it to try and make everything have some sort of meaning.

Civil War was also partly filmed with IMAX cameras and the movie in general tends to feel big, visually - speaking, in - between its action sequences and many establishing shots of locations around the globe (as well as the massive title font that's used to identify each individual change in location)- making IMAX the preferable viewing format for Civil War.

Sucker Punch is a man's action movie fantasy — rolling everything a guy would enjoy in a film like hot women, heavy gunfire, a mother dragon who basically makes explosions come to her, and enough insanity injected into its most adrenaline racing scenes to keep you talking around the water cooler for hours.

The film ironically feels more humanized this time around, but holds back on delivering over-the-top lock - and - load action pieces.

As McCauley says, «Have nothing in your life you can't drop in 30 seconds when you feel the heat around the corner...» (Also has perhaps the singular best shootout scene ever filmed in an action movie!)

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Alien Trespass (PG for smoking and action) Sci - fi adventure, set in California in 1957, revolving around an astronomer (Eric McCormack) and a waitress (Jenni Baird) who join forces to save the planet after a spaceship with a man - eating alien (Jovan Nenadic) lands in the Mojave Desert.

Details are being kept under wraps on the action film, but THR reports «the plot revolves around six billionaires who fake their own death and form an elite team to take down bad guys.»

If the incredibly convincing Hoffman is the film's pitiful central character, most of the action actually revolves around the problems of a dysfunctional New Jersey family.

Production on the film is set to start in the summer in and around New York, and it is set to be released on April 15th, 2016, which will see it go up against Disney's live - action remake of The Jungle Book and the Jason Statham - Jessica Alba vehicle Mechanic: Resurrection.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 5, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Alice in Wonderland (PG for fantasy, action, violence, scary images and smoking) Tim Burton directs this animated sequel to the Lewis Carroll children's classic revolving around now 19 year - old Alice's (Mia Wasikowska) return to the whimsical kingdom for a reunion with the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) and other childhood friends, and to end the Red Queen's (Helena Bonham Carter) reign of terror.

As with any Apatow - produced flick, the runtime is overlong and the amount of improv often derails any momentum, but for the first time in the run of films produced by the man, that momentum is incredibly important: in action cinema, tension and pace is required to make things exciting, but Pineapple Express forgets about that so its characters can sit around smoking weed and saying silly things another four or five times.

Maybe what most marks Beau travail as a film by a woman is the way Denis uses African women to subtly impose an ironic frame around the story; from beginning to end, they figure implicitly and unobtrusively as a kind of mainly mute Greek chorus — whether they're dancing in the disco, speaking in the market, appearing briefly as the girlfriends of some legionnaires (including Galoup), or serving as witnesses to portions of the action.

By segregating the movie into three separates character portions, he allows the film to move at a brisk pace while keeping important items connected around the idea of suicide and what drives humans towards these self destructive actions.