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Note: It's an especially hard thing not to notice so soon after enjoying the impressive practical action in a film like Mad Max: Fury Road.)

He's also had success with nail - biting tension and action in films like Assault on Precinct 13 and Escape From New York.

Not exact matches

And for every hit like «X-Men: Days of Future Past» there were flops like the raunchy western - comedy «A Million Ways to Die in the West» and Tom Cruise action film «Edge of Tomorrow.»

Trump told the crowd that, as a holder of a permit to carry a handgun in New York, an attacker would be «shocked» if he encountered him, and that he would act like Charles Bronson in the 1970s action film Death Wish.

During his film career, Adkins has been cast in mostly direct - to - DVD movies like the two Undisputed sequels, Assassination Games, Ninja, however he finally got to get a bigger role in Stallone's ensemble cast testosterone - packed movie «The Expendables 2» and star along other great action stars like Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, the all - powerful Chuck Norris, Jean - Claude Van Damme and many others.

She was the object of Adam Sandler's misguided affection in the comedy Just Go With It and she's currently filming What to Expect When You're Expecting alongside heavy - hitters like Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez, while her action / alien invasion flick Battleship is set to hit theaters next year.

After his action - comedy vehicle Double Take was a January 2001 washout, Jones was poised to team with Ivan Reitman for the latter's summer 2001 sci - fi comedy Evolution.Still, Jones retired as 7 - Up's pitch man in early 2002, and would spend the 2000's nurturing his film and TV career, appearing in Runaway Jury and Drumline, as well as TV shows, like The Adventures of Chico and Guapo and Rules of Engagement.

As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

The film lacks any kind of real «action», which makes it a departure from Mann's other work like Heat or Last of the Mohicans, but it still feels like an action movie because of the aggressive way in which Mann directs it.

It makes the viewer willing to excuse the film's flights of fancy, like a fiery action sequence in a hidden room where escape follows a familiar movie formula, or a denouement that feels a bit padded.

The film feels predictable, rushed and overdone, like the filmmakers tried way too hard at masking a revenge themed action movie, and in turn the results are unimpressive.

There's no reason the imaginative freedom that animation allows shouldn't be unleashed on adult themes, especially when graphic novels have entered the literary mainstream and when CGI has blurred the line between live action and animation in films like «300.»

By focusing on the specific (and frequently heartbreaking) stories of the aforementioned parents, former Congresswoman and gun - violence survivor Gabrielle Giffords, and Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts — who was motivated to action by Newtown and unwittingly sparked a grassroots movement on Facebook — the film lays out the gaping holes in the system where regulations are needed, and offers hopeful examples of activism in the face of what often feels like an insurmountable prAction founder Shannon Watts — who was motivated to action by Newtown and unwittingly sparked a grassroots movement on Facebook — the film lays out the gaping holes in the system where regulations are needed, and offers hopeful examples of activism in the face of what often feels like an insurmountable praction by Newtown and unwittingly sparked a grassroots movement on Facebook — the film lays out the gaping holes in the system where regulations are needed, and offers hopeful examples of activism in the face of what often feels like an insurmountable problem.

The Movie: The idea of George Clooney playing a (mostly) silent assassin holed up in the Italian countryside with gorgeous European women sounds like recipe for a solid dramatic experience, so why Focus Features is marketing «The American» as some sort of action thriller when in fact it's an arty European film, will throw some moviegoers off and just outright anger others.

Despite the fact that «Ant - Man» is rooted in San Francisco, «Spider - Man: Homecoming» is an ode to the bridge - and - tunnel crowd, and «The Avengers» climaxes with a «Battle of New York» that looks curiously like Cleveland, all of these films still feel like glimpses into a parallel universe made out of plastic — a bizarro alternate timeline (complete with its own 9/11) where everyone has been reverse - engineered from their own action figures.

Some of her actions in the film are the actions of someone you do not want to like.

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.

Both Thor and Thor: The Dark World presented us with something drastically different than what was before it, including expanding beyond the cosmos and accepting the God - like characters as normal, which really pushed the medium of comic book films, while also blending humor and action in a way that made the character both interesting and viable.

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.

Verbinski certainly did his western - movie homework, for outside of all the rootin» - tootin» Rube Goldbergian action scenes, the director consciously evokes John Ford with his widescreen vistas of sun - baked deserts (on - location shooting took place in Utah, Texas, and beyond), and his nod to films like The Searchers with scenes of near - helpless families under attack in the wilderness.

And if you like marching bands, this film's cinematography puts you in the middle of the action.

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.

Sound was added during production, but the film's trance - like images could stand on their own as a visual poem in which the action seems to take place on the cusp of dreams and reality.

Frankly I do nt think comedy trailers should really bring «all the funny» just like action films shouldn't «put all the action» in them.

Still, in the eyes of near - sighted Hollywood executives, Chan's star power was proven by the financial success of mediocre chop suey action films like «Rush Hour» and «Shanghai Noon.»

Even before its late detour into action movie silliness (including a ridiculous badass set piece that belongs in a James Bond movie) Sicario feels like a film whose immaculate craft disguises its hollow center.

Based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story «The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether,» the film relocates the action from Poe's France to a remote corner of England, though the movie was actually shot in Bulgaria, which might look more like England if England looked a little more like Bulgaria.

Instead of using his newfound clout to take a starring role in another prestige picture, an action vehicle, or a superhero movie, his next gig will see him play a supporting role in a twisted comedy from the mind of Taika Waititi, the director of films like Thor: Ragnarok and Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

It feels like a detached exercise rather than a project which the director was passionate about, a chance for him to develop his skillset in another genre and while there is certainly nothing wrong with a stripped down action film too often Haywire feels diffuse and perfunctory.

The acting isn't as bad as everyone is making it out to be, for an action film focusing on robots vs robots carnage, it's pretty decent, and the film had it's comedic moments without overdoing it like they did in RoTF.

Now don't get me wrong, I enjoy fun action films like The Mummy franchise starring Brendan Fraser, but the humor in those movies felt more natural and organic.

By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Much like «Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol,» which marks the feature - film debut of animator Brad Bird, we're predominantly interested in next year's «John Carter» because it's the first live - action effort from Andrew Stanton, the genius brain behind Pixar's masterpieces «Finding Nemo» and «WALL - E.»

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Garland's film has a lot to offer for the diligent and focused filmgoer; however, its carefully structured, sometimes plodding revelation of details and plot may frustrate audiences more accustomed to quick answers and bountiful action responses, which are few and far between, but no less intense in a film like this.

By this point the action is flashing by like a fire engine without any clear end in sight, other than more and more violence, and the film feels as if it could go on indefinitely, or at least until the whole of Queens lies dead on the restaurant floor.

It's not like the film deals with this subject sensitively, but, again, I liked how it dealt with its characters and their actions in high school.

Movies like Leon: The Professional and even Jason Bourne echo throughout the film's exhausting proceedings, but whereas those films had a certain edge in their approach, not to mention solid action set pieces and, most important of all, expressive performances, The Hunter's Prayer serves to be a shoddily - executed version in comparison.

Remember Jet Li, the action star known for his very physical roles in films like Lethal Weapon 4, Romeo Must Die, Hero, and The Forbidden Kingdom??

The film comes, in part, from the desk of Luc Besson, the French filmmaker whose crime - and - action preoccupation led to an initial burst of cinematic promise with films like La Femme Nikita and Leon: The Professional.

«Toxie,» as he's called by punk bands and pop film critics everywhere, has become so famous since his introduction in 1984 that you can now buy Toxic Avenger action figures, games, Topps trading cards, and even designer jewelry — all this in tribute to a head - crushing killer whose face looks like it's been bashed in with a bag of nickels, impaled with a turkey fork and barbecued on a George Foreman grill.

The key visual precursor here is Mamoru Oshii's 1995 animation Ghost in the Shell, and Mann's film often feels like a live - action reimagining of that classic of cerebral melancholy.

Although I will say this about THE REVENANT (a film I did not like), at least Lubezki's camera was fluid, even in action.

Known for his roles in action films like The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Lone Ranger, Hammer has also had smaller roles in indies like Nocturnal Animals and The Social Network.

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It works on the stage as the conflict can entrance a room, but on the screen it just feels like actions in search of a story and isn't enough to really carry a film.

Even though the film is comedy first and action second in its priorities, it is like getting stuck in the best game in the arcade for two hours.

It's fast paced (and like all of Edgar Wright's films, the editing punches you in the face every chance it gets), witty and filled with glorious comic book inspired action scenes, complete with onscreen sound effects text.

Having thrived and evolved for eight consecutive decades in the public imagination - in prose and graphics, on the big screen and small, in games and properties of all kinds - Conan's exploits in the Hyborian Age now come alive like never before in a colossal 3D action - adventure film.

Indeed, as an action - adventure film it does offer enough thrills to keep audiences interested, and in Edward Norton it has an antagonist with the potential to become a real threat to Cross / Bourne in future films, much like Brian Cox in Supremacy.

After the recent success of the movies like Alice In Wonderland, Cinderella, 2016 Jungle Book and Beauty and the Beast, Disney studios knows it is onto a really good thing by making its animated films into live - action movies.