Sentences with phrase «aging action stars»

In execution, however, this means they're a team of aging action stars trying to recapture the limelight, only ending up parodies of themselves — leather - clad, botox - faced yahoos on motorcycles looking like every affluent mid-life crisis this side of Orange County.

Escape Plan has Stallone and Schwarzenegger, two aging action stars trying to prove they still have box office juice.

Despite its literary origins, the film feels a bit like a writer tossed a few darts at a board labeled with aging action stars and various terrorist groups and just decided to make it work.

So long as there are aging action stars looking to hold onto a piece of their heyday or UFC / WWE wrestlers looking to make a name for themselves, the Expendables franchise will never stop.

If you're expecting some transcendent breakdown of action tropes, pitting two aging action stars against their own...

He's played a supporting role in the more successful «Expendables» franchise, but those films feature a handful of aging action stars, including Sylvester Stallone, Harrison Ford and Bruce Willis.

Liam Neeson continues his late career resurgence as an aging action star by re-teaming with his Unknown director, Jaume Collet - Serra, for Non-Stop.

French director Pierre Morel more or less started the «aging action star» trend with Taken, and now he's giving Sean Penn the «Neeson» treatment with The Gunman, an international action thriller that unfortunately won't be Penn's springboard into genre superstardom because frankly, the movie's sort of a bummer.

JCVD (R for profanity and violence) Jean - Claude Van Damme plays himself in this crime comedy about an aging action star who lands back in the limelight when he ends up in the middle of a real - life hostage drama.

This vigilante justice story — standard fare for the aging action star — could have signaled a new turn in Chan's career, but he has to share this movie with Brosnan's far more fascinating plot about dynasties of terrorism.

February 2013 has plenty of films for romantics, but it's the battle of aging action stars that has us most intrigued.

Largely thanks to his role in Taken, Neeson has created this niche of a normal, aging action star that he can't escape from, and I for one will keep watching.