Sentences with phrase «as a gangster movie»

It also pulls off the clever trick of operating as a gangster movie — these mobsters have missions to complete and people to kill — while at the same time sarkily undermining these same folk, attributing to them a heavy dose of incompetence.

«Gangster Squad» is a western masquerading as a gangster movie.

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The movie, which follows Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), and Alan (Zach Galifianakis) as they're forced to track down Ken Jeong's nefarious Mr. Chow by a ruthless gangster (John Goodman's Marshall), is actually at its best in its opening half hour, as filmmaker Todd Phillips has infused the proceedings with an affable feel that compensates for the lack of wholeheartedly funny elements.

There's a tonal dissonance here: The gangster - movie dialogue of these different groups, as well as a somewhat lame late movie shoot - out, feel far removed from the terse, beautifully choreographed pandemonium of the film's first act.

The Departed marked director Martin Scorsese's return to modern - day gangster movies after an eleven year break, and while it possesses the brutality and violent tension of earlier classics such as GoodFellas (1990) and Casino (1995), it also differed from his previous explorations of the gangster life by following a more linear narrative and eschewing a spoken narration.

There's the easy, lazy trafficking in broad ethnic caricature — Mike Epps as a black drug dealer, Ken Jeong as a prancing, lisping Asian gangster known as Mr. Chow — which is decked out in flimsy air quotes to make it seem as if the movie is making fun of racism.

Many handsome leading men lose their seductive confidence as they grow older, but Bachchan is such a industry - defining star that he can do (and often has done) whatever he wants, whether it's scowling pensively throughout a trilogy of «Godfather» - esque gangster films («Sarkar,» «Sarkar Raj» and «Sarkar 3») or playing a Cyrano de Bergerac - like bum who lends his commanding baritone voice to a struggling young movie star whose natural voice isn't sexy enough («Shamitabh»).

not as engaging or profound as many of the early gangster films were, but cagney was great as always and the movie had its bright spot.

As the boys piece together their night with help from an obliging stripper (Heather Graham) and a gay Asian gangster (Ken Jeong), the movie loses momentum rather than picking it up.

In talking about his cops - versus - Russian - gangsters movie We Own the Night, the writer and director James Gray cites the ancient Greeks» idea «that one's life is shaped primarily by forces outside of one's control, as if the gods had dealt each person a fate — a destiny.»

Director Arthur Penn, at his peak, turned the movie into an ironic blend of twisted love story, dark comedy, caustic social portrait and breezy romantic crime thriller, with Bonnie and Clyde as a pair of deadly innocents, caught up in the poverty of the Depression and the turbulence of the»30s gangster period.

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.

Far from being influenced by movie gangsters of the time such as James Cagney and Paul Muni, and despite being enthralled by them, Dillinger is sartorially his own man.

Lee Valmassy has a lot of fun letting loose as the gleefully farcical villain (a mohawked, golden - grilled gangster who only wears jumpsuits), and Art Hsu turns in a scene - stealing performance as the hero's duck - loving sidekick, but while fans of bad movies might appreciate what «The FP» has to offer, it's not exactly the ready - made cult classic that it's so desperately trying to be.

This time he also throws in a nostalgic look at Hollywood by name - dropping some famous stars of the era, but he's just as quick to flash his lack of respect for the movie industry and seems to compare it to the world of east coast gangsters (such as Bobby's brother played by Corey Stoll).

Get Shorty — Stylish comedy with John Travolta as a gangster trying to break into the movie business.

The quotes pouring from these characters makes them impossible to dislike, taking all the best qualities of the British gangster movie, while not over-indulging as the genre is oft to do.

Max Joseph's «We Are Your Friends,» with Zac Eron, about an aspiring Hollywood DJ, Luca Guadagnino's psychological thriller «A Bigger Splash,» with Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts and Dakota Johnson, Brian Hegland's Tom Hardy gangster thriller «Legend» and Stephen Frears» still - untitled Lance Armstrong movie, with Ben Foster as the cyclist, are all in post-production.

Great gangster movie, almost in the same class as The Godfather.

Where else can you get a sexually liberal (and white hot) Barbara Stanwyck, Jimmy Cagney as a gangster - turned - movie - star (I know, I know) and Eleanor Powell proving -LSB-...]

Young auteurs took the western, the detective movie, the sci - fi flick, the gangster film, and even the «inspirational teacher» genre, and turned them into films as smart and subversive as those below.

But maybe this is understandable, as that is a convention of gangster movies, and aside from that the film tackles racism and homophobia in a well - intentioned way.

I am going to hypothetically go with a gangster / cop movie, as the only movies I can think that handled a cast anywhere near that big before is Pulp Fiction or Sin City.

The career spans his seminal TV series turns Luther and The Wire, movies like Beasts of No Nation, American Gangster, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, Thor: Ragnarok and Molly's Game, as well as his second career as Big Driis the Londoner, an accomplished DJ.

Giovanni Ribisi (Gangster Squad) is back as the villain, Donny, and thank goodness for that, as he is one of the funniest actors in the movie.

The big story, however, is the cast, which includes former Disney stars Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez trying to break free from their squeaky clean images with more adult roles, and James Franco continuing his bizarre acting career with a turn as a cornrowed, gold - toothed wannabe gangster that should make the movie worth seeing whether it's good or not.

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Sarandos also cited as a forthcoming big - budget picture Martin Scorsese's gangster movie «The Irishman,» starring Robert DeNiro, slated to be released on Netflix in early 2019.

Instead, it seems content to follow the same generic formula of every other gangster drama, and as a result, the movie comes off dull and predictable.

The movie might best be described as a relentlessly - haunting saga of Shakespearean proportions, only arriving overlaid with many of the generic elements of the gratuitously - gruesome gangster genre.

Ryan Gosling fairs better in Gangster Squad but he is more known as a guy who takes off his shirt in the movies than for any acting skills.

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Enjoyable for a good 15 minutes or so, mostly due to the scene - stealing powers of the adorable, much - coveted kitty whose name gives the movie its title, this is otherwise a stale, repetitive effort whose one - joke premise — two suburban buddies forced to pass themselves off as gangsters in a grimy underworld where they clearly don't belong — never achieves comic liftoff, much less the richly subversive dimensions typical of Key and Peele's best work.

That being said, I was very curious as to what he'd do with this cast, and a movie of this size: a gangster movie with Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, and Sean Penn has to be some type of gold, right?

However, that isn't the only film that made use of the date, as here is Gangster Squad, the Gatorade and sleeping - in of award season hype hyperdrive hoopla bonanza, a mindless genre movie made to be as thoroughly a piece of Hollywood as possible, while gleefully having no chance of winning any type of award.

Andrew Sarris once described «High Sierra» as «the Gotterdammerung of the gangster movie.»

The fact that these guys are movie fans and decide to film the scenes as tropes from gangster movies or war epics or musicals is something else.

Not as much as «In Bruges,» mind you, but enough to make this action / gangster / buddy movie a worthy sophomoric effort by McDonagh.

The movie was never intended to be made, merely a ruse to get the gangsters to commit to an illegal deal, but as the movie comes together, it becomes hard for the players involved to know whether they are going to go ahead and make the movie for real.

«Passion Play» is an uneasy mix — a sort of David Lynch noir — but you can do worse than a movie that features Megan Fox stripped down to her tattoos and Bill Murray as a pinstriped gangster who says things like, «Kill him and bring her back here.»

Set in 1949 Los Angeles, the picture, which claims to be «based on a true story» but turns out to be as authentic as The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, finds William Parker (Nick Nolte), the city's controversial chief of police (who didn't actually obtain the post until a year after the movie's setting, but never mind), deciding that the best way to stop gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) from taking over the entire city is to organize an elite team to work outside the law in an attempt to bring him down.

Netflix's status as a powerhouse in movie industry has received another boost with the news that the streaming giant has landed Martin Scorsese's next film, a gangster flick featuring Robert De Niro titled The Irishman.The...

Tom Hardy stars as journalist Eddie Brock in this movie, directed by Ruben Fleischer (of Zombieland, 30 Minutes or Less, Gangster Squad).

-- of unlucky henchmen toward an evil boss (Danila Kozlovsky), you encounter Jimmy (District 9's Sharlto Copley, the movie's default star), a chatty shape - shifter and helpful presence who sometimes appears as a British gangster, an exuberant brothel regular or a pot - smoking hippie.

Surpassing his own «Shaolin Soccer» as the highest grossing Hong Kong made movie in Hong Kong, Chow also stars as Sing, a wannabe gangster in 1940's Shanghai.

Directed by Simon West («The Mechanic,» «The Expendables 2»), «Wild Card» ambles episodically from vigilante revenge fantasy to mismatched buddy movie, as Wild comes first to the aid of a woman (Dominik Garcia - Lorido) from his past who's been brutally raped by a pretty - boy gangster (Milo Ventimiglia); and, later, a meek computer whiz (Michael Angarano) who wants Nick to teach him how not to get dirt kicked in his face.

Meanwhile, Smith will play a judge in the movie, with Crowe lined up as a gangster, Pearly Soames.

Stone recently starred in such films as this summer's Woody Allen movie «Magic in the Moonlight,» «The Amazing Spider - Man» movies, and the 2013 movie «Gangster Squad,» among others.

What I will spoil is the fact that this new picture, which stars De Niro as a gangster - turned - informant and seeks to pay homage to great mob movies of the past, is an utter waste of time.