Sentences with phrase «as a mercenary who»

The action sequences and fights are briskly shot and edited, the supporting cast is acerbically great, Michael McElhatton from «Game of Thrones» and Michelle Yeoh are excellent as a reasonably formidable foes, and Dustin Clare pops up all too briefly as a mercenary who gets in the way of the Section 20 special - ops team.

Not exact matches

One former employee, who preferred to remain anonymous, described the culture within the company as «extremely mercenary» and shortsighted.

And who can forget how the National Post, Pravda of the Harper Government, functioned as a virtual recruiting agency for Canadian mercenaries to serve the Kurdish cause?

And we were also promised that the sequel would include Cable, a tough - as - nails mutant mercenary who frequently finds himself teamed up with Deadpool, against his better judgment.

How General Dayton's little army would respond is unclear, but it is probable that it would prove just as unreliable as the Fatah mercenaries who refused to fight Hamas in Gaza.

Remember, our players are not designed to be mercenaries who we sell on as soon as they have contributed everything we believe they can.

Theo Walcott who to my mind need to be offloaded as soon as possible in my humble opinion to keep a player who has clearly lost his bottle and who also quiet obviously negotiated a pay rise in a wholeheartedly mercenary way would be a real mistake in my book.

As was the case seven years ago, the loss of our Premier League status should help us to rid ourselves of any self - interested mercenaries who think they're too good for the division they've landed us in — leaving us with a core of players who actually want to play for the club and understand the privilege of doing so.

These individuals are alleged to be controlling hundred of NPP social media mercenaries who serve as conduits for these reported fabricated stories.

The NPP has insisted that the three were neither «mercenaries» nor «terrorists» as being alleged by some officials of the NDC, but were experts who were only training bodyguards for Nana Akufo - Addo and his running mate Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.

It would mean a lower standard of living for future retirees, reduce the ability to recruit individuals who see public service as a career and create a mercenary mentality where the commitment to public service no longer exists.

Unlike a film such as Spielberg's Munich, where it is easy to feel sympathy and empathy for the Mossad agents led by Eric Bana, where you admire the craft of what the filmmakers created, it is impossible to empathise with Meinhof, who it is clear from the start is way out of her depth and the mercenary Ensslin.

As Putin stated in the video clip, the IS terrorist are mercenaries who get paid for what they do.

«[Employers] know there's another class of staffers that are complete mercenaries, and that's most of them, and they will do whatever they can do to protect their boss at any cost, and they have no line,» she said, adding: «Showing a moral line is problematic, because it sort of flags you as someone who could, in a certain set of ethical circumstances, turn on the employer.

From Évariste Galois, the genius who laid the foundations for modern group theory before dying at 20 in a mysterious duel, to René Descartes, who wrote «I think, therefore I am» after a career as a mercenary, the personalities chronicled here expose a side of mathematics far removed from its usual staid reputation.

It probably doesn't help that Gerard Butler (Reign of Fire, Harrison's Flowers), who might possibly be yummy if he let his hair grow out of that unflattering buzzcut, doesn't seem to know what to do with the fact that his soldier - turned - mercenary Terry Sheridan is supposed to be attracted to Croft, with the result that this most often manifests itself as a desire to punch her.

Also: Winston Duke as a rival Wakandan leader, Danai Gurira as T'Challa's chief bodyguard, and breakout Letitia Wright as a spin on Ian Fleming's gadget guru Q. Oh, and Michael B. Jordan, the dynamo who made his bones with Coogler's Fruitvale and Creed and here brings a burning intensity to the role of T'Challa's main nemesis Killmonger, a mercenary who deserves far more screen time than he receives.

Synopsis: Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) is a former Special Forces operative who now works as a mercenary.

Directed by, as the opening credits note, «One of the Two Guys Who Killed John Wick's Dog,» the first 10 minutes of «Deadpool 2» feature roughly the same amount of spectacular bloodletting as both that film and its sequel combined, as wiseacre mercenary Deadpool slices a gruesome swath through waves of villainous henchmen.

Inspired by a popular video game that was released in 1986, screenwriters Ryan Engle, Carlton Cuse, Ryan J. Condal and Adam Sztykiel assemble a scenario that enables Dwayne Johnson to be heroic as he endeavors to save his best friend George, with the help of Dr. Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris), who formerly worked at the evil company run by Claire Wyden (Malin Akerman), and Harvey Russell (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a mercenary who begins working for the evil company and then is tempted to the side of the good guys.

The sneering bad attitude was already there, in Deadpool's previous human guise as Wade Wilson, a Special Forces soldier turned mercenary thug: «I'm just a bad guy who gets paid to f — up worse guys,» he announces.

Even as the perfect crime collapses in betrayal and the irrational impulses of human nature, The Asphalt Jungle is a model of elegant construction, street - level tragedy, and poetic justice, a film that both embraces the romance of the criminal code and acknowledges the mercenary impulses of outsiders and upstarts who have no code.

But Gates, we learn, is basically a mercenary who'd rather make his fortune by plundering other people's programming genius (such as his purchase of DOS for $ 50,000 from an unsuspecting programmer) and selling it with a little smoke and mirrors to the highest bidder.

As played by Richard Boone (in his last film), Perry is a megalomaniac mercenary who makes Custer look like a humanitarian.

Ryan Reynolds plays the wise - cracking anti-hero, who began as Wade Wilson, a mercenary - for - hire who kills and threatens people for profit.

Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro are a pair of mercenaries who act as Kate's superiors; Brolin's Matt is a smart ass calculating individual whilst Del Toro's Alejandro is cold, mysterious, and trigger happy.

It doesn't help much that many of the supporting players — especially Valley, who's rather too convincing as an obnoxious lout, and Jesse Johnson as a sexist Aussie mercenary — have been encouraged to overact at the top of their lungs.

And just when it looks like the finale will be aged Logan with nothing left against Donald Pierce (Boyd Holbrook), a juiced - up mercenary with a robot hand who spends the entire movie pursuing Logan and Laura, a young - ified Jackman shows up to fight himself as a third - gen Wolverine.

(Forest Whitaker is well cast as the smalltime trainer who gives Billy a second chance; Curtis «50 Cent» Jackson less so as the mercenary promoter who proves there's no such thing as loyalty in boxing as long as there's cash money to be made.)

Director Tim Miller's freshman outing, which is sure to be a mega blockbuster, features a career - making performance by Reynolds as Wade Wilson, a special - forces soldier turned low - end mercenary who finds out he has terminal cancer - like, all over the joint.

Reynolds and his costars - including T.J. Miller, who plays Deadpool's BFF Weasel, and Leslie Uggams as the mercenary's roommate, a blind elderly woman - discourse in the kind of dirty babble you'd expect from 16 - year - old stoners.

Although Chloe has the smarts and wits to embark on this quest, she recruits Nadine Ross (Laura Bailey), a mercenary and former paramilitary leader from Uncharted 4 who will act her as muscle as they go head to head against the nefarious warlord Asav.

He's very charismatic in this film, as a version of Hercules who doesn't seem to be supernatural, but who lets the outlandish tales of his exploits flourish anyway, because it makes his job as a mercenary easier.

She moves into uncharted territory again with this fragmentary Jonathan Ames adaptation, starring a bulked - up Joaquin Phoenix as a brutal, tortured mercenary who sets out to rescue a girl from a sex - trafficking ring.

Domino, a mutant with excellent marksmanship skills who often works as a mercenary, made her Marvel Comics debut in 1992.

Jason Statham and Jet Li co-star alongside the brawny filmmaker as a group of mercenaries who undertake a near - impossible operation to overthrow a dictator in South America.

Ryan Reynolds will star as the wise - cracking mercenary «Merc with a Mouth» who is diagnosed with terminal cancer and volunteers himself for the Weapon X program.

Oscar - winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald has taken on one of cinema's trickiest genres with his new thriller «Black Sea», a submarine movie starring Jude Law as a unemployed ship - builder who hires a mercenary crew to salvage...

He manages to get his own sensibility into the tale of black ops mercenaries in a culture of betrayal and retribution, with James Caan as the contract killer who returns from a crippling injury by sheer force of will and the desire for vengeance, and he stage some terrific set pieces to go with Caan's brutal odyssey.

Adrien Brody takes the lead as a stoic mercenary who quickly surmises that they're all in over their heads.

Directed by The Nice Guys and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang helmer Shane Black, the film stars Jacob Tremblay as a kid who accidentally brings the Predators crawling back to eath when he discovers a piece of their technology — and naturally, the intergalactic mercenaries bring a whole lot of violent chaos with them that falls in the lap of Boyd Holbrook «s assassin.

Harlow plays Hollywood superstar Lola Burns, a not - so - thinly veiled riff in her own persona (in one scene, she's called in for retakes on the Red Dust rain barrel scene, certainly one of the real - life Harlow's most famous screen moments), and Lee Tracy is pure mercenary drive as an unscrupulous publicist who actually enjoys the torment he puts her through as he manufactures scandals and breaks up romances with his con - man shenanigans.

The film stars Adrien Brody as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they've been brought together on an alien planet... As preas Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they've been brought together on an alien planet... As preAs prey.

The best of the bunch is Across the Wide Missouri (1951), a frontier western starring Gable as a trapper in Indian country who marries the daughter of a powerful chief for purely mercenary reasons and ends up falling in love with her.

It's based on a DC Comic, and stars Ms Delevingne, Will Smith, Margot Robbie and Joel Kinnaman as members of a gang of mercenary super-villains who fight crime for ulterior motives.

The result was this utter bomb, with Matt Damon as an English mercenary (with a Midwestern American accent), who happens to be in Imperial China at a time when killer iguanas, each the size of a Honda Odyssey, start attacking.

Ryan Reynolds reprises his role as Wade Wilson, a former military man turned mercenary, who has finally met his soulmate, Vanessa, played by the beautiful Morena Baccarin.

The same applies to supporting characters, such as Kooky Scientists (Charlie Day, Burn Gorman), Angry Australian (Robert Kazinsky), Competent Guy Who Provides Computer Updates (Clifton Collins Jr.), and Merciless Mercenary (Ron Perlman).

The echoes with the original Star Wars are unmistakable to any fan; there's a bar filled with mercenary alien types (which Abrams creates largely with old - school make - up and masks), an even bigger and badder Death Star, a masked Darth Vader acolyte (Adam Driver as Kylo Ren) who leads the new Imperial army with the help of the dark side of the force, and yes, those plans reveal the weakness in the new planet - killing weapon.

Mutant Chronicles (R for graphic violence and pervasive profanity) Futuristic sci - fi adventure revolving around a couple of soldiers (Thomas Jane and Sean Pertwee) serving as corporate mercenaries who assemble a band of intrepid warriors to defend the planet when Earth is invaded by an evil race of necromutants.