Sentences with phrase «action scenes like»

In «Child 44,» however, key action scenes like a desperate fight on a prison train and a struggle for survival in a mud - filled trench are so dirty and dark that it's nearly impossible to make out who is doing what to whom.

Prior to that point in the film, while the filmmakers thankfully also spare us another swinging sequence through New York skyscrapers, it does hit some generic mini action scenes like the predictable elevator saving sequence.

Not only does it test the limits of his quirky charms and comedic chops, but also the guy gets to play out action scenes like musical numbers and nails the physicality with ease.

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While many media requires users to imagine or visualize what a scene might look like, YouTube illustrates it in action.

Attempts to keep up with changing buying behaviors are very much like a car chase scene in an action packed movie.

While the current rule effectively does the same thing, it feels like it's removed the tense, quiet moment before an action scene.

Lopez came on the scene, Stephenson turned into our own little soap opera, and now younger players like [Juli] Inkster and [Patty] Sheehan are getting in on the action.

Your tips above are really helpful for someone new to this like me & I will definitely be putting them into action — any excuse to submerse myself into the craft scene!

When its birth - star burst into a giant supernova, calcium fled the scene like an action hero diving out of an exploding car.

The show goes behind the scenes, thoughts and actions of successful people, and has interviewed the likes of Ashton Kutcher, Keith Rabois and Kevin Hartz.

The violent action scenes have the humans operate the 7 feet 6 inches tall to 8 - foot - 5 robots by voice - activated remote control, as the robots pummel each other like boxers in front of excited crowds.

There is far more concentration on action than narrative in this chapter, and as such, scenes like the infiltration of the ultra-secure Gringott's Bank in search of another horcrux is literally a roller coaster ride, ending with the Trio's exhilarating flight on a dragon.

Watch the trailer and this looks like it's going to be an Adam Sandler superhero movie but there is only a couple scenes with any action... I laughed a couple times but I definitely wouldn't buy this on dvd.

The mouse city, which uses boxes and other discarded goods to replicate landmarks like Big Ben, is a lot of fun, and the action scenes are fluid without being showy.

All the more action - based scenes, like the quidditch match, the broomstick lessons or the wizard's chess scene near the end, feel like set - pieces which have wandered into what otherwise resembles a recital rather than a film.

I suggest anyone that likes bloody action scenes to watch every episode immediately.

Like most of the more notable critics have pointed out; no personality is to be found among the Decepticons (the least they could've done is to synthesize StarScream's rasp to throw the fans a bone for God's sake), an overly active camera and «busy» robot models make some action scenes little more than a confusing blur, and goofy, unfunny dialogue permeates the story.

It is as stylish as it is unpleasant, and there are some well - staged action scenes, but overall, the series is loud and tiring, like spending an hour in an MRI machine.

I liked the mechanics of the transforming, but many actions scenes were so fast it was difficult to see what was going on.

The action scenes were well made and the editing was good so i didn't feel like i missed anything.

Many people like to think that blockbuster and / or superhero movies are little more than fluff, an excuse to tap into a ready - made fan base and have some cool action scenes and colourful costumes to grab a large demographic market.

This film plays out more like a very slow - burn romance with a few action scenes that are pretty average.

With it's dark humour, violent action scenes, great acting and interesting story, Kill Me Three Times is an original movie that deserves to be well known.Sure, the movie is not perfect and has it's flaws like the fact that the scenario is not all that clever, there was some annoying plot holes and overall the movie is silly but it's still a great entertaining movie.

I do like some of the action scenes, but 1 problem was there was too many explosion scenes.

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.

While Iron Man 2 had some ups and downs like a rollercoasters, it still delivers high quality entertainment with its action scenes, less CGI, and solved the problems of the first Iron Man.

Usually I would be defending the action scenes in a big comedy, but it takes a good director like David Gordon Green or Jody Hill to make it work.

Because the nerves have grown numb now, there are scenes of cruel torture in the picture — the kind that a troubled child would enact on his action figures after a few days of standard play: Dr. Strange at the mercy of glass needles, Nebula (Karen Gillan) bloodlessly segmented like a plasticine exhibit in a sadist's medical museum... The atrocity escalates because there's nothing at stake here.

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.

Like director Michael Bay filming one of his many explosive action scenes, Hollywood loves to unleash its biggest guns (and sometimes subsequent duds) during the summer season.

He's also added bed - based brooding and Tommy Lee Jones - talking to his considerable repetoire of skills; meanwhile, it looks like returning director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum) has finally mastered the art of shooting a tense action scene without shaking his camera like he's tap dancing on the San Andreas fault.

The future scenes also contain some good action beats that bookend the 1973 section, but because many of the featured mutants (like Bishop, Blink, Warpath and Sunspot) are appearing on screen for the first time with almost no introduction, you don't really care what happens to any of them, especially when the actors only have about three lines of dialogue combined.

There are a few well placed action scenes, but nothing like what we got in the last instalment.

There's a fight scene in a men's room that almost feels like Wright is showing off as he captures the action in what appears to be one take.

It's a very empty action movie, with some incredibly intense and thrilling zombie horror scenes but by the end it still feels like it's lacking something.

Wright orchestrates his action like it's being primed for a Technicolor musical, which is completely understandable given that he tagged performance artist, choreographer, and designer Ryan Heffington for the assist behind the scenes... Granted, there's always been a musicality to Wright's work, but it's never been to this scale and hardly at this volume.

The principal cast looks like a solid and tight - knight crew, and we're eager to see some tank warfare action scenes.

Megan Farokhmanesh, The Verge: «Even at its best, The Last Knight feels like a series of action scenes wrapped up together in a thinly stretched narrative.

This chapter may not be as spirited as the last one, but the Russo brothers — veterans of TV shows like «Arrested Development» and «Community» — demonstrate an unexpected facility with action scenes.

The game's trailers play like scenes from a crossover action game, showcasing MvC3's wide array of characters tussling in setpiece - style battles.

Blackhat tries to be the new Heat and some action scenes actually look like Micheal Mann copied them straight out of Heat and Collateral.

All of these action scenes are great fun in the moment, but they ultimately prove to be somewhat exhausting — it feels like there's one set piece too many here — and makes the promising story feel mostly forgettable.

In these early moments, like a half - hearted action scene set in a Chinatown restaurant secretly run and frequented by extraterrestrials, MIB3 smacks of desperation as it sadly goes through the motions it so cleverly unveiled fifteen years ago.

Bob is six - foot - four and built like an action figure, which comes in handy in scenes that require him to do battle with a nunchacku - wielding assassin on a motorbike, or pirouette through a battle zone tossing tiny explosives from his fanny pack like Bugs Bunny as Brünnhilde strewing flower petals in her wake.

«There are no dramatic new features,» admitted, Ebihara, «but there's a reliable sort of fun here, like there always is, between the new action scenes and the charming story.

There are a few cool action beats, and one particularly amazing death scene, but at times, it doesn't even feel like a Riddick movie, with the title character gone missing for most of the second act.

When a Reversal Edge hits, you can enjoy a powerful production like a scene from an action movie, highlighted by a dynamic camera.

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.

The action scenes were exciting and I liked the special effects.

But the action here is all political as coaches are managers play one another behind the scenes, like in a national game of chess.Director Reitman even uses a neat trick here showing different frames of the action taking place at the same time.