Sentences with phrase «at vigilante justice»

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It becomes an examination of whether vigilante justice — no matter how well - intentioned at the start — is doomed, ultimately, to become just another example of would - be good guys falling prey to the lure of egotism and / or big money.

Moving at a relentless, compelling pace, «Vengeance: A Love Story» reveals how an act of unbelievable and raw brutality twists the lives of three generations of women, and sets Detective Dromoor on his own course of police vigilante justice.

The film offers some hope that she may eventually come to terms with other people and relinquish her yearning for vigilante justice, as must Jason who comes at revenge from a different perspective.

Just two weeks after an assailant took the lives of 17 victims at the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the Bruce Willis - starring, gun - toting revenge fantasy — a remake of the 1974 Charles Bronson film of the same name — champions vigilante justice and romanticizes gun violence in gleefully tone - deaf manner, one that only works in a deluded Trumpian analysis of America and opportunist justice.

He's drawn to the frazzled, the hapless, the mistake - prone, and if Green Room, like Blue Ruin before it, can't ultimately resist the visceral thrill of vigilante justice, at least it isn't afraid to make its characters look scared and weak and powerless and recognizably human.

Where the first Pirates film had at its heart a real love story between Orlando Bloom's Will Turner and Kiera Knightley's Elizabeth Swann, The Lone Ranger never really nails down what all this vigilante justice business is really all about.

With tommy guns, hot cars, speakeasies, cops and robbers, and a former lawman who believes in vigilante justice, all played out against the flapper period of gun molls and Prohibition, The Hot Kid is Elmore Leonard — a true master — at his best.

Now installed at MUAC, the piece is centred around a silent, black - and - white film that narrates the story of a migrant family who is lynched by the community to which they've migrated — a timeless scenario which, according to the artist, metaphorically points to the breakdown of the state, and the rise of vigilante justice.