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The animation is stunning, and it really is the best action movie of this year, and the past four to five years.

Director Mimi Leder made the step up from television for her first big feature (she had directed numerous episodes of ER, starring Clooney and executive produced by Dreamworks's Steven Spielberg) and it received reasonable notices, though I can't really think why (it was nowhere near as good as the other big, dumb action movie of that year, Air Force One).

I've had my doubts about Machete, but with the stellar supporting cast of Cheech Marin, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba and Michelle Rodriguez among others, paired with Seagal's bad - ass moves with the swords and Trejo's good one - liners, I think Sylvester Stallone might just have a rival here for the best over the top action movie of the year.

This week's Blu - ray roundup features one of the coolest action movies of the year, a somber, snowy drama, a five - film box set, and a documentary about cats.

The best action movie of the year?

Not exact matches

None of the upcoming movies listed over the next two years will have women behind the director's chair and, as Casey Cipriani and Melissa Silverstein of IndieWire have noted, no woman has directed a live - action film for the studio since 2010.

The 70 - year - old action movie icon, who's also a former Mr. Universe and governor of California, has played the tough - guy persona for decades.

With the best Rotten Tomatoes score for any Bay movie (66 %), the mix of action and lighthearted moments made it one of the biggest box - office hits of the year.

The live action Beauty and the Beast has been the top - grossing movie of the year so far, which is a good sign for the company's other live - action remakes in development such as The Lion King and Mulan.

Had Marvel served up another big helping of the same big, dumb action fare that's dominated summer movies for the last 40 years, the MCU has enough built - in fans to propel Guardians 2 to the top of the box office.

everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine

In the hands of director J.J. Abrams, it lived up to the hype to become not only the biggest box office hit of the year, but also one of the most fun action movies we've seen in a long time.

The new Lion King movie saw a lot of hype stirred up for its casting announcements last year, but now, it looks like Disney fans will have a new point of attachment to the live - action remake of the 90s classic.

Liam Neeson has become extremely popular over the years for his amazing action - packed movies and one of a kind fight scenes...

When given a choice, 3 - to 6 - year - olds growing up in the United States — one of many countries saturated with superhero movies, video games and otherworldly action figures — preferred performing real activities over pretending to do them, Lillard and colleagues reported online June 20 in Developmental Science.

This action platformer felt like a coked - up twelve - year - old's idea of a platformer after he watched too many sci - fi movies.

But it's a bit like the man - child Steve Carell character in The 40 Year Old Virgin who, towards the end of the movie, makes one tiny change — boxing up his action figures — as a signifier of his life - change into manhood.

Years later, the movie observes as the Department of Veterans Affairs repeatedly refuses to treat her, and a class - action suit she joined is dismissed because rape is an «occupational hazard» of a career in uniform.

If you saw the original Pacific Rim several years ago, then you might be aware that it was an attempt by Guillermo Del Toro to merge «giant robot» anime with live - action Kaiju movies and a VERY high dosage of Independence Day.

Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) is a lonely 11 - year - old boy who escapes from his bleak reality by glorying in the action adventure movies of his favorite film character, Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger).

During the past year, several of the studios releasing superhero movies have upped their game, moving into new territory without tossing aside the tropes that differentiate comic book - inspired fare from its traditional action / adventure cousin.

And much like last year's «Wreck - It Ralph» (or the more tonally similar «Adventure Time»), «The Lego Movie» anticipates a certain attention - deficit quality in its audience, constantly plunging the action into new and different realms, while poking fun at the various characters and customs that make each sort of silly along the way.

It lacks anything like adult emotion, and its themes and images arrive at a dizzying, stupefying pace, as if vomited up by some voracious creature that ate the last 20 years of sci - fi and action - movie history and only partly digested them.

HOMEFRONT is an action movie about a widowed ex-DEA agent who retires to a small town for the sake of his 10 - year - old daughter.

The passing of nearly thirty years has undoubtedly bid farewell to some of the film's original audience and those taking their place are just as likely to watch a dated movie like this for the unintentional laughs as for the old - fashioned action sensibilities.

Comparing it to poetry seems absurd — after this, this is about a man who uses science fiction technology to «relive» the antics of his assassin ancestor 500 years earlier — but this isn't your regular action movie.

Every year is a good year for action cinema, at least from a financial standpoint: If you count superhero movies, the genre pretty much has the top of the box - office charts on perpetual lockdown.

I love action movies anyway and this has to be one of the best films released this year.

After years of promising a kick ass action flick, its time to finally unleash Battle: Los Angeles, the latest movie from South African director Jonathan Liebesman, who started in horror but has transitioned into pure action.

A new report says F. Gary Gray, the filmmaker behind last year's billion dollar grosser The Fate of the Furious, has signed on to direct a M.A.S.K. movie based on the action figure toyline from the 1980s.

An abundance of great supporting performances (led by a perfect return by Harrison Ford and incredible newcomer Sylvia Hoeks) and effective cameos move the action forward, while the most vivid cinematography and special effects in years make you wish the movie would never end.

As Guardians of the Galaxy did two years ago, this action romp comes at the Marvel universe from a witty angle that makes it a lot more fun than the overcrowded Avengers movies.

Until this year, Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur mostly made two types of pictures: dramas in his native language about men trying to survive under brutal conditions («The Deep») and action - adventures in English with American movie stars («2 Guns»).

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A Legendary Pictures production acquired by Netflix after the film parted ways with Universal earlier this year, Spectral is a big action movie with a tinge of sci - fi to it, anchored by an appealing collection of character actor or perennial supporting players at its centre (James Badge Dale, Emily Mortimer, Stephen Root and Bruce Greenwood among them).

Beyond the fact that Statham's partner this time out is a kid, this looks more or less like most of the other Jason Statham action movies that have hit over the past few years.

Zemeckis has gone 12 years since directing a live - action movie and a bit of rust shows in his pacing.

Yesterday in Hall H at the San Diego Comic Con, the new company FilmDistrict presented a panel featuring two films: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and Drive, the latter being the sort - of action movie that won Nicolas Winding Refn the Best Director award at Cannes this year.

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The action sequences are tame in comparison to any other action movie made in the last 10 years and the self - referential humor and one - liners which were a big part of the first two are lazily written and unoriginal.

On that level, it works extremely well, though not as much as some of the great action movies of the decade or so, but again, this is a pretty bad year.

Of course, as The A.V. Club reported last year, women made up the majority of movie audiences for the fourth year in a row in 2013, and they like action - packed superhero movies, though they prefer them with female protagonistOf course, as The A.V. Club reported last year, women made up the majority of movie audiences for the fourth year in a row in 2013, and they like action - packed superhero movies, though they prefer them with female protagonistof movie audiences for the fourth year in a row in 2013, and they like action - packed superhero movies, though they prefer them with female protagonists.

Something similar can happen in Telluride, where attendees celebrate their shared good taste and finally get to have the kind of conversations about movies — and other subjects, which this year included Natalie Portman - produced meat - is - murder doc «Eating Animals» and global - warming call - to - action «An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,» introduced by Al Gore himself — they can't have back home.

One of the year's best action movies and underdogs is Marvel's ANT - MAN and it's coming to Blu - ray.

This is the feature debut of Vaughn Stein, who's acted as an AD on everything from Harry Potter movies to last year's smash live - action Beauty and the Beast adaptation, and the cast on this thing is totally wacko.

By refusing to follow the usual formula, filmmaker James Gunn has made Marvel's best - yet movie, a summer action - adventure that provides more cinematic fun than the rest of the year's blockbusters rolled into one.

Aquaman is Warner Brothers only live - action superhero movie this year, so there is a lot of pressure on it to perform during the holiday box office season, especially since Justice League disappointed all expectations.

But I do feel the sound work really stood out, probably the best sound mix of any of the summer action movies (Green Zone is the tops for the year IMO, but unlike Salt has very little chance at an oscar nod).

The latter action isn't always in response to unworthy choices (though I imagine many will deem the inclusion of, say, relatively unproven comedian - turned - movie - star Russell Brand premature), but more to the tardiness of others: every year, I find myself surprised that so - and - so wasn't already a member.

Charley Varrick (1973)-- 9:00 PM, 35 mm «characteristically clean, fascinatingly and unfussily detailed, beautifully paced — a model of movie craftsmanship and a pointed affront to those slovenly wrecking derbies and indiscriminate bloodbaths that have been passing for contemporary action thrillers the last year or so.