Sentences with phrase «as an action star»

I grew up during that period, so the fact that we get to have this ridiculously talented actor as an action star is crazy and completely amazing.

Liam Neeson is obviously enjoying his second career as an action star.

In Contention on an new animated contender from GKids, Boy vs. World Pajiba celebrates Emily Blunt's greatness as an action star in Edge of Tomorrow Guardian The director and his muse will try for more Oscars in 2016 with a biopic called Joy about the creator of the Miracle Mop.

The truly unfathomable aspect of this film is that it took three story creators and three screenplay writers to create one film that is essentially a vehicle to showcase Tom Cruise's viability as an action star at any age.

The trend of tooling up seasoned dramatic leads as action stars looks set to continue regardless, with the release of Sean Penn's The Gunman coming this Friday on both sides of the Atlantic.

Reveling in her rising status as action star, the actress talks with SPINOFF about going toe - to - toe with Keanu Reeves, Bobbi Morse's «little secret,» and the major drawback of that Wonder Woman costume.

The «Underworld» actress insists she has never had a plan in place for her future, and didn't set out to make her name in any particular film genre but thinks it's «cool» she's become known as an action star.

Reeves has little dialogue, but his facial expressions and a particularly angry monologue show that Reeves is best as an action star.

Top Gun 1985 established Cruise as an action star, but again he refused to be pigeonholed, and followed it up with a solid characterization of a fledgling pool shark in the Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money in 1986, for which co-star Paul Newman earned an Academy Award.

Theron has been flexing her bona fides as an action star with movies like «Mad Max: Fury Road» and «Atomic Blonde,» but «Tully» is a gentle reminder that she is one of our finest actresses working today.

Johnny Utah, in Kathryn Bigelow's cult classic Point Break, showed that he had credentials as an action star, while in addition to the box - office successes of Speed and The Matrix, he found his feet in Richard Linklater's visually - dazzling A Scanner Darkly.

Bottom Line: Atomic Blonde is an entertaining summer film that spotlights Charlize Theron's remarkable acting as an action star.

Taken 2 — $ 50 million [debut week] Liam Neeson's («The Grey «-RRB- newfound career direction as an action star gained

Bottom Line: Before «The Bourne Identity,» people snickered at the idea of Damon as an action star, and were lining up to see Ben Affleck in «Daredevil.»

Towards the beginning of her career, casting Blunt as an action star might have seemed an odd choice.

Schwarzenegger, in his prime as an action star, is mostly subdued, giving a few of his traditional one - liners («Stick around» punctuates a scene in which he impales someone standing, and his unintentionally funny line, «Get to da choppa!»

Theron's reinvention as an action star has been fascinating to watch and Atomic Blonde is great if you want an enjoyable spy movie with a strong female lead who can go toe to toe with anyone she comes up against.

she was great as an action star with Tom Cruise in «Edge of Tomorrow» pulling this off is harder.

Even if he's entering his 60s, Brosnan still has what it takes to deliver as an action star, though he does feel like old news, and the thrill is mostly gone in seeing him going through familiar motions.

Her work is marked by raw, familiar portraits of womanhood; whether posed as the action star, or trading in punches for punchlines.

The three brothers appear as action stars.

I had concerns about Rudd as an action star, not anymore.

Pierce Brosnan's Bond films were no great shakes (Goldeneye excluded), but I rather enjoyed his presence as an action star; the way he carries himself during fistfights and gun battles is always fun, and Brosnan has a ruggedly handsome charisma that is sometimes able to elevate the material he's given.

Although he made a name for himself in Hong Kong as an action star, the King is the first American role where he really shows the key to his appeal — it's not necessarily the gun (s) in his hand (s), but his suave charm and charisma.

Following his introductory turn last year as an action star in «Kingsman: The Secret Service», 26 - year - old Taron Egerton is making all the right career moves.

Although I don't think anything could quite measure up to Taken, Neeson proves that he is still able to hold his own as an action star despite his age.

For some reason, Arnold Schwarzenegger was of the opinion that, at this point in his phenomenal career as an action star, he needed to deflate his macho image by constantly making fun of it.

«WAKE is the perfect project for Bruce Willis to lead as the action star we know and love.

The French director has cemented Scarlett Johansson's status as a action star, but she's not the only one.

10 years ago, who could ever have imagined that awkward, weak - chinned weird boys John Cusack and Nicolas Cage would be able to reinvent themselves as action stars, casually wielding high - powered weapons and careening around the screen on stolen police motorcycles?

We're used to seeing him as the action star of big summer blockbusters.

After Liam Neeson launched himself as an action star at age 56 with «Taken» (2008), middle - aged actors are showing up in cinemas to prove that they can take it too.

Carano is playing Mewes» wife in a role that should showcase another side to the actress, who established herself as an action star with movies such as Haywire, Fast and Furious 6 and, more recently, Deadpool.

However, by ditching the high - concept, flimsy mystery premises of their previous films and instead providing old - school action / thriller gravitas, Serra and Neeson manage to deliver their best film yet - one that should more than suitably appease fans of the genre, and / or Neeson's career as an action star.

As an action star, LL Cool J does have charisma, and he's terribly funny in some roles.

Lautner's history of martial arts (the one thing that he actually had going for him as an action star in training) is never exploited to its full potential, while veteran actors like Jason Isaacs, Maria Bello and Sigourney Weaver are smart enough to jump ship before the first act is even over.