Sentences with phrase «best finale of any film»

Finally, it closes with the best finale of any film this year, the most heart - wrenching ending I've seen in a studio film in years, that for once shows us the emotional toll that a taut thrill - ride would have on a person in real life.

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I got a chance to visit one of the set locations, a lovely, small stone church where the finale is being filmed, and interview Roger Bobb, whose company - World's Best Casual Personals for casual dating, search millions of casual personals from singles, couples, and swingers looking for fun

The whole finale is white - knuckled, some of the best aciton and suspense film - making I've ever seen.

But director Chris Miller and the credited writers (there are four) are determined that if these films are to be a collection of riffs and gags, with a sweet afterthought for a finale, then they ought to be very good.

I liked some aspects of the film, but the finale was bizarre, well I suppose that's to be expected; the whole film is based in a Strange parallel world and so one has to expect the bizarre and the unexplained but the way the villain was dispatched with was forced and his eye make - up was, well eye make - up when in fact it was meant to be the partial disintegration of his body... If there is a sequel it will be interesting to see where they go.

A lot of the action takes place in the bowels of an industrial nightmare — at least until the film's glorious finale, which finds a late - Victorian Death Star destroying the greater part of London in a cloud of frost and smashing stuff up real good.

But Farrell is still pretty good, at least until the finale when the wheels come irrevocably off, and his portrayal of the alcoholic, opportunistic screenwriter proxy is definitely worth checking out, especially in the film's genuinely funny first half.

With a wry sense of humor firmly in place, Lanthimos» film subtly takes your breath away, casually ratcheting up the intensity until the film's jaw - dropping finale that could very well leave you more shaken than you could possibly imagine.

Tarantino's «Death Proof» is up next, and while the first half of the film is so boring it might cause some people to walk out early, it's well worth it to stick around for the adrenaline - pumping finale.

by Walter Chaw Set on the rural highways and dirt byways of Anywhere, America during a long, hot summer, Victor Salva's Jeepers Creepers is a film of two distinct halves — the first astonishingly good, the second derivative — drawn together by a finale that is both fair and surprising.

Buscemi comes from starring on HBO's series «Boardwalk Empire,» which aired its season three finale in December, as well as appearing in the 2012 film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's book «On the Road.»

It's a dark echo in there, side - by - side with Jimmy's grim dedication to buying up lakefront property and turning this prelapsarian wonderland into an exclusive, members - only club, but the film explores neither beyond their mention and contents itself to wrap up with a few scenes of mayhem, three insipid montages set to horrible music, and the same finale involving the birth of a child it seems like Martin has done now in a good half of his films.

It adheres quite well to the formula of the first film, giving us many scenes of character development, putting Rocky in the role of the extreme underdog, followed by scenes of intense training, and a finale in the ring with everything on the line.

Much of the second half of the film involves some kind of fantasy of Abe's so much so that you lose your investment in what's happening: if you're never quite clear if what's happening is, well, actually happening, it becomes hard to care, and despite some moments that could have been moving towards the finale, the film never gets out of the muddy waters.

Well, Avengers: Infinity War actually adopts part of this ending into the finale of the film.

Blu - ray owners also get an exclusive interactive tour of the big finale, including a six - minute time lapse of the building and filming of the sequence, as well as over 40 minutes of additional behind - the - scenes footage.

Personal Shopper goes in many directions before its (admittedly a little flat) finale, but Kristen Stewart is so good (her second excellent performance in an Assayas film following Clouds of Sils Maria) that the film is undeniably enchanting in its own strange way.

The big finale in Civil War, however, involves only a couple of characters — again, the movie goes refreshingly small — and the life - and - death stakes are grave, because the film has done such a good job of stressing these (mostly) ordinary people instead of their suits.

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?

While it most comes to life in the crowd roars of the finale, Michael Brook's fitting score and a handful of well - chosen tunes enliven the film without overpowering.

It's a disappointing blow that only highlights how formulaic superhero films can be: the flawed guy trying to come good; the female love interest; the bad guy whose evil plan often involves an inversion of the good guy's powers; the CGI - figure - versus - CGI - figure finale.

However, any hopes for Mallrats to be passably good are dashed with a messy, slapdash game show finale that drives the hit - and - miss film down into realm of embarrassingly bad filmmaking.

Where the first film got bogged down in a rambling mess of CGI, this sequel establishes that things are at stake, and although some of the backstory feels contrived, it is done well enough that the quest feels meaningful, and the finale can muster up some suspense.

Good enough that the entire season finale of the hit show House was filmed entirely using Canon DSLRs with HD video.