Sentences with phrase «as kung»

You play as a kung fu actor (of your choice) who is looking for his / her break into the movie business, and throughout the game it's your job to beat ninjas to make scenes for a movie.

Having a comrade hop - in for some local two - player co-op action lets them play as the kung - fu bunny dude from the game's tutorial.

Fearless — In supposedly his last major role as a kung fu star, Jet Li reprises just about every other kung fu hero he's ever played in this mildly interesting film directed flashily by Ronny Yu (The Bride With White Hair).

He did not just rely on looks and action poses to be convincing as a kung fu master because director Wong Kar - wai asked all actors to «get inside the characters» bones».

Casting a panda as a kung fu master is one of those contradictory images that just automatically provoke smiles and chuckles — if not hysterical laughter.

Wong Kar - wai said, «Film is the same as kung fu, it's about the word «believe».

Now, 60 years later (a 36 year quiet period, followed by 24 years of the New Era, the numbers mean... something) the world is divided into 72 clans at war, jockeying for position amongst each other as kung fu magic begins to reappear on the outskirts of society.

The film stars Jackie Chan as a kung fu master, alongside Dave Franco, who plays a ninja.

«Iron Fist,» releases 3 a.m. Friday, Netflix — Finn Jones stars as the kung - fu master possessing a mystical force in the streaming service's latest Marvel offering, following on the heels of «Daredevil,» «Jessica Jones» and «Luke Cage.»

Fight film fans will get a kick out of some of the vocal cameos (including Jean Claude Van Damme as a kung fu fighting Alligator).

Gisele credited meditation for keeping her healthy while she was pregnant with her newborn son, saying, «I kept myself in good shape, eating healthily, meditating and doing exercises such as kung fu and yoga.»

Not exact matches

The Frenchman having just been dismissed in a game against Crystal Palace then, as we all watched aghast, launched a wild, almost comical, kung - fu kick on a supposed football fan who was, I think we will agree, a thug who himself was jailed when he quite stupidly attempted a similar - style kick at the prosecution counsel during his own trial for using threatening behaviour.

Now the window is over, the two Davids have brought in Patrice Evra, a 36 - year - old who was excellent 10 years ago but now remembered as the man who kung - fu kicked a fan and received a seven - month ban.

Asian restaurants in the US are likely to take shortcuts and use a powdered base for sweet and sour soup or kung pau chicken but in Japan and China and Korea and Thailand, mom - and - pop businesses make broth in steamy back rooms and sell it as soup in store fronts and on street corners.

The media has certainly done it's part in portraying these negative stereotypes about Asian men as either geeks or kung fu masters with 10 words of English.

It's only a formality, though — she is the teacher, and he is the student — and that suits Lu Chan just fine, as the mutant horn on his head gives him incredible kung - fu power, but leaves him dumber each time, and closer to death.

And Badlands — a Mad Max - ian postapocalyptic kung fu western that costars Emily Beecham as a killer beauty — has some wonderfully wigged - out fight scenes.

He separates each sequence with a series of flashbacks, fully detailing the wedding chapel massacre that began it all, as well as the Bride's not - quite - tongue - in - cheek training with white - haired kung fu master Pei Mei (Gordon Liu).

Synopsis: Now known as the Dragon Warrior, Po (Jack Black) protects the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, the Furious Five.

As Po, Tigress (voice of Angelina Jolie), Mantis (voice of Seth Rogen), Monkey (voice of Jackie Chan), Crane (voice of David Cross), and Viper (voice of Lucy Liu) continue to use their kung fu abilities to uphold justice under the guidance of the mystical Master Shifu (voice of Dustin Hoffman), an old enemy returns from exile.

Po, living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, is busy protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and kung fu masters, The Furious Five.

When Stick shows up or when Madam Gao is suddenly a kung fu master it doesn't break the world, which is vital - Daredevil technically exists in the same world as Thor, after all.

The sequel picks up with Po in the ranks of the Furious Five as the legendary Dragon Warrior, the kung fu master who can bring peace to the rabbits, pigs, sheep, and goats of this fantasy version of ancient China, and Po, now a celebrity and skilled fighter, loses that sympathetic hook that made his first tale such an enjoyable one.

It's hard to complain about sequences as beautifully choreographed and rendered as these are, but it becomes a little overwhelming, especially when Nelson is tasked with balancing the twin storylines of the kung fu masters battling for supremacy, and the quieter subplot about Po searching for the parents that abandoned him.

In «Kung Fu Panda 2», Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five.

Po's teacher Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) considers this a revolting development; as he observes mournfully, «This could be the end of kung fu.»

Strong points are the voicework (particularly Oldman's petulant peacock), some daft stunts (the kung - fu five disguised as a Chinese dragon) and the scenic backdrop, projected in the inevitable 3D.

Stealing metal from all over the world, Shen forges the world's first cannons, which are described to Po and the Furious Five as having the power to «kill kung fu.»

However, for all lovers of Bruce Lee, kung fu flicks, and revivalists of Seventies cool, it's a quintessential film, indispensable in its genre and firmly implanted forever in film history as the one that set the mold, even if future endeavors would top it in terms of breathtaking action, daring stunts, and more substantial stories.

Kung Fu Panda 2 the video game begins where the movie leaves off, as Po and the Furious Five venture out to save kung fu from a new evil threat. Only with Kinect will Po teach players key kung fu moves and train them for impending battles against new, never - before - seen enemies, co-created by THQ and DreamWorks Animation. Utilizing Kinect, players will then seemingly transform into Po as they block, dodge, duck, punch and kick, no controller required. Onscreen, Po follows their every move as the game takes them into some new terrains and environments.

Giving a nod the film's wide - ranging influences as well as implying some badassery for the next John Wick outing, it's a triumph for the Keanu kung - fu caper.

Bruce Lee's (Return of the Dragon, The Chinese Connection) final completed film before his untimely death at the age of 33, Enter the Dragon, the first Hollywood martial arts film, is definitely is one of the most influential, establishing Bruce Lee as an iconic figure for future martial artists, starting a kung fu film craze that ran throughout the 1970s.

Known for its combinations of action and comedy as well as a varied cast, the titular hero is a musician and slacker extraordinaire who, in order to actually date Ramona Flowers, the girl of his dreams, he must engage her seven ex-boyfriends in kung - fu battle.

In the former, Chan plays Chien Fu, an orphan who works as a janitor in a kung fu school run by tyrannical teachers who literally and figuratively use him as a punching bag.

Balls of Fury may struggle to find a widespread audience, as it is, as its core, merely a farce on old Bruce Lee flicks (the title itself takes off of Lee's Fists of Fury) inserting ping pong in place of kung fu action.

1» (Miramax) Quentin Tarantino's long - awaited homage to»70s kung fu films stars Uma Thurman as the Bride, a professional killer who wakes from a coma to seek revenge against the assassins who ruined her wedding.

Obviously, it's not as if Kaufman did a complete overhaul, so don't expect Po to be kung fu fighting villains within his memories, only to realize that those memories are just part of an elaborate play being directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman (or maybe in this case Dustin Hoffman, since he voices a character in these films) which features himself directing a sequel to Kung Fu Panda.

As the legendary Dragon Warrior, Po (Jack Black), the kung fu panda, dutifully guards the Valley of Peace alongside his allies the Furious Five.

Action, Adventure - Play as Aang, Katara, Sokka and Haru as they grow into an unstoppable team utilizing the kung fu - inspired bending arts.

The influence on those later films is obvious, as Wong and his longtime cinematographer Christopher Doyle apply the techniques of Chinese art movies to a kung fu epic.

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

The Yuen is Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, one of two collaborations between Yuen, his father Yuen Siu - tien and Jackie Chan from 1978 (the other being the first Drunken Master, and yes, it sure would have made a lot more sense to play that one before Drunken Master II, as both of these Chan movies are playing on Friday) that revolutionized the kung fu film and rocketed Chan to superstardom.

Fong Sai Yuk (reworked as the Legend for the US release) ranks among my favorite kung - fu films of all time, and the sequel doesn't fall too close behind.

Rapper - turned - actor - turned - filmmaker RZA is clearly influenced by cohorts Quentin Tarantino and Eli Roth as he indulges in this crazed pastiche of 1970s kung fu action romps.

In «Sherlock Holmes,» Robert Downey Jr. plays the famous Sir Arthur Conan Doyle detective as a kind of kung fu Ratso Rizzo.

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In all honesty, the clothes didn't impress me that much aside the ability to make an afro kung - fu guy with a mustache and sun - glasses, but maybe that's because I played 75 % of the game dressed as a shark.

Of the four, Selfie and Guardians Of The Galaxy's Karen Gillan is the least well - known, but she holds her own admirably as a shy loner in the body of a kung - fu fighting Lara Croft type, particularly in the scene where she tries to distract two machine gun - toting guards with her awkward attempts at flirting.

It's still not enough to rescue the film as a whole, as it just shows how the often - tedious and disappointing Chandni Chowk to China could have easily been streamlined into a tighter, less overblown, yet still classically diverse and filling masala feast with a fresh, mainstream - accessible kung fu hook.

Some impressive Terminator - type special effects, various plot holes, kung - fu derring - do and action as well as some wooden acting by the muscles from Brussels make for Saturday matinee entertainment, but little else.