Sentences with phrase «as an action hero»

But despite all the films she's appeared in, the actress has never really gotten the chance to take center stage as an action hero.
As every action hero doesn't like to end up dead, you take up your guns and kill them off to ensure you end up alive.
«The Devil Wears Prada» actress takes on her first role as an action hero in her latest movie, and even though she prepared for it with...
Taken established Liam Neeson as an action hero with tremendous acting chops.
Hugh is set to solidify his status as an action hero as the actor has signed up to fight robots in a new film.
This latest look at Steven Soderbergh's thrilling drama sells MMA star Gina Carano as the action hero of 2012.
It is a symbolic passing of the torch from one generation to the next, As Schwarzenegger gets older, his role as action hero seems increasingly preposterous.
The trailer shows several different forms of knocking around Helghast as well as the action hero staple: breaking the neck with bare hands.
Liam Neeson's «retirement» as an action hero turned out to be less an actual retirement and more of a temporary hiatus.
Damien Chazelle's musical paean to Hollywood outshines James McAvoy in Split and Vin Diesel's return as action hero Xander Cage
Hollywood hunk Hugh Jackman is set to solidify his status as an action hero as the actor has signed up to fight robots in a new Steven Spielberg production.
Similarly, why did you cast Naveen Andrews, who is most known for his role in Lost as this action hero, as your romantic lead.
It did amazing business, and established Neeson as an action hero at the age of 56, which he's parlayed into a numerous other heroic roles well into his 60s.
As an action hero Gerard Butler does show some promise.
Though Channing Tatum doesn't really hold a candle to Gerard Butler as an action hero, and Jamie Foxx is a puzzling choice to play the President, the thing that matters most with movies like this is a huge action quotient, and judging by the trailers (which includes Foxx's POTUS firing a rocket launcher from a moving vehicle), there's certainly no shortage of that here.
I didn't mind Brody as an action hero in King Kong, but the difference here is that Brody seems to be acting tough.
Worthington, who has garnered a following as an action hero, lacks the same crackle playing a normal guy done wrong, and his difficulty shedding his Aussie accent makes his dialogue come off as odd during many key scenes.
It's a summer blockbuster featuring Channing Tatum as an action hero, Jamie Foxx as the President of the United States, and an attack on The White House.
Liam Neeson would run away from a fist fight.The 65 - year - old actor starred as action hero Bryan Mills in the «Taken» franchise, but in contrast to...
I would have never in a million years thought of Firth as an action hero.
Additionally, it positions Sarah as an action hero in the film with the tagline, «A woman's work is never done.»
Douglas is too old for the boy prince role and Curtis is unconvincing as an action hero but makes the prettiest slave boy in the movies, and their combined star power overcomes their miscasting.
When: October 19th Why: I'm not sure what's worse — the idea of Tyler Perry as an action hero, or the fact that he's playing a character first brought to life on the big screen by Morgan Freeman.
He's not terribly convincing as an action hero, and even less so in dramatic scenes, but he sure is purty to look at.
The 6» 4» Neeson is perfect as an action hero, and this is the fourth action movie he's completed with director Jaume Collet - Serra.
Biel (whilst not having too much to do) looks great as the action hero, and Reynold's Hannibal King is great, providing the comic relief as well as some kick - arse action.
Could you ever have imagined Liam Neeson's late career as an action hero?
Many of our greatest action movies are about ordinary characters doing extraordinary things, but off - beat casting choices can add a whole other meta - dimension to this idea, showing us actors we'd previously not thought of as action heroes stepping up to play big parts.
While she's likable and offers no shortage of concerned, white - of - the - eye reaction shots, she simply doesn't click as an action hero under Uthaug's direction.
Not only is his action prowess well regarded, but his work in films such as the Kung Fu Panda series perfectly draws from his stunt filled days as an action hero.
Perhaps he has fallen victim to his own blockbuster success as an action hero.
There's even Jeffrey Dean Morgan as what I can only describe as an action hero version of Andy Daly's Dalton Wilcox character («the poet laureate of the west»).
After trying his hand as an action hero, he does what all big wannabe action stars do, they go the kiddy route.
Pegg plays the character as an action hero lost in the real world (with a few hinky exceptions, like the detectives) and it works against the film.
This film succeeds at, if anything, showcasing Johnson's talent as action hero, so it is recommended for you.
This reboot finds Tom Cruise replacing Brendan Fraser as the action hero.
Kitano is as much an existentialist as a action hero, however, and his crime movies (like «Sonatine») rarely end with victory for himself and his friends.
Chan was no fan of guns, but John Woo developed a balletic, two - fisted style of gunplay while imagining romcom mainstay Chow Yun - Fat as an action hero in the Clint Eastwood mold.
In a welcome change from most child actors, they never resort to cloying «look how cute I am» mugging and line readings to endear themselves to the audience; in fact, it's their spunk, strength, and steadfast refusal to act cute that makes them so likable — and so completely believable as action heroes.
In Liam Neeson's latest venture as Action Hero, we are presented with Non-Stop.
Johnson, typically may be typecast as an action hero on account of his imposingly hulking build and his ability to turn his face to stone (or rock, I guess, for those who know him from his wrestling days), but comedy is the mode in which he genuinely shines.
Neeson, who has established himself well enough as an action hero, kicks ass yet again in this tense, edge - of - your seat film.
It's a great action, science fiction, horror, and war film all rolled into one — working so wonderfully on all levels that you almost forget the underlying social commentary on the evil motivations of corporate greed and the continuation of the female as action hero that Cameron (True Lies) would perfect in the Terminator films.
Sam Fisher was pretty much portrayed as an action hero with cover mechanics, in - motion lethal accuracy and Max Payne slow - mo.
After all, rounding up some of the biggest action stars from the 80's, 90's and the WWE had potential, especially since older farts returning as action heroes has become en vogue.
Most of us know Steven for his roles as an action hero, Call it an obsession or a calling but Steven mastered Martial Arts at an early age, becoming a 7th - degree black belt and Aikido master.
And, as long as William Scott's sticking to this sort of stuff and not trying to pass himself off as an action hero as he did less than impressively in «Bulletproof Monk», then I for one don't have any problem with him.
Will Statham make it as an action hero?
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