Sentences with phrase «between action scenes»

That carries us through the downtime between the action scenes, although it's much more tenable for purposes of comic relief than for drama (The film still continues the silly amnesia storyline for Letty).

Stupid dialogue between action scenes, but they are done well.

Given that the director is Andrew Davis, it is not surprising that the action scenes are well formulated and run at a brisk and interesting pace, though the screenplay by David and Peter Griffiths certainly lacks much information to fill in the blanks between the action scenes.

The mechanical feel of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider would have been easier to swallow if the filler between action scenes were the slightest bit tolerable.

In between action scenes, they extoll the virtues of communism, resist the temptation of corruption, and deal with shallow Americans who obsess over Jordache jeans and other symbols of capitalism.

Whilst the violence is fun, the downtime in between action scenes can get rather dull.

Not exact matches

While the sabre rattling and economic boycotts are very visible actions, behind the scenes discussions between cooler heads will likely be what leads to a politically palitable resolution, if that is even possible at this point.

Date: 9th September 2017 Venue: Etihad Stadium, Manchester Competition: Premier League Teams Manchester City lineup - Ederson, Danilo, Stones, Otamendi, Fernandinho, Walker, De Bruyne, David Silva, Mendy, Aguero, Gabriel Jesus Subs: Bravo, Gundogan, Mangala, Delph, Sané, Bernardo Silva, Foden Liverpool lineup - Mignolet, Alexander - Arnold, Matip, Klavan, Moreno, Henderson, Can, Wijnaldum, Salah, Firmino, Mané Subs: Karius, Lovren, Sturridge, Solanke, Oxlade - Chamberlain, Milner, Gomez The Action The Etihad Stadium was the scene for today's big game between Manchester City and Liverpool.

The court action grew out of a clash between sponsors of the nativity scenes and a group of atheist activists who competed with the churches for limited space in Santa Monica's biggest public park and managed to dominate last year's holiday displays with anti-religious messages.

Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, said the article «reveals the stark contradiction between the governor's public statements promising the independence of the commission and then the behind - the - scenes actions of his staff.»

The action scenes highlight Rodriguez's trademark ability to choreograph firefights and explosions, but they're doled out with uncharacteristic stinginess between long stretches of exposition that clear up much less than they should, as the film builds toward a climax featuring some strangely underpopulated riot action.

The chemistry between Winchester and Stapleton is a treat, the action scenes remain brutal and thrilling and fun, and the show transcends simple guilty pleasure status by paying enough attention to the emotional toll this kind of work takes on the people who do it.

For though «Insurgent» can't quite do without its pro forma personal moments between characters (the film even includes a sex scene so chaste it wouldn't have disturbed Doris Day in her prime), its heart is not there but in its action sequences.

Despite a monotonously fashionable mise - en - scene, Lyne generates some genuine erotic tension between his two stars; you believe in their obsessive relationship, even as most of the action and staging registers as ridiculous.

Semiotics aside, the movie has some action scenes you can follow and some you can't, lots of talking scenes in between, and everywhere you look, some of our finest actors are doing their best to bring human emotion into this universe.

Paul's exposition on Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, an elaborately constructed scene where Ian Baker's restless camera cuts repeatedly between the four characters» constantly changing positions, exemplifies the way in which an intradiegetic audience is constructed and the overtly performative nature of the action foregrounded.

Young kids will likely overlook this storyline flaw and focus on the action scenes and the big battle between the super heroes does deliver.

Though we only see a handful of them in action, each one is so unique (from their voices to their mannerisms) that it's amazing to watch as McAvoy jumps back and forth between them, sometimes in the same scene.

The action - packed trailer also gives Divergent fans another look at Tris» efforts to save her mother, as well as an intense fight scene between Tris and a simulated version of herself.

The shootouts and chase - scenes are also not super enjoyable, but they do inject a bit of much - needed action in between the quieter moments of the game.

David Holmes «score pulses and blatts with style — it's half Lalo Schifrin, half John Barry — and the film is full of long - take action and pursuit scenes where you only realize how superbly and meticulously choreographed they are after the fact when your pulse has cooled enough to let you count the long moments between edits.

Yet what's on view is rousing material, with not only the action scenes delivering the goods but also the numerous sequences focusing on Roman politicizing as well as the love story between Spartacus and the strong - willed servant Varinia (Jean Simmons).

Dylan suffers at the hands of funny fat - kid bully Kevin (Julian Dennison), whose actions seem particularly callous given the recent tragic past; Grandpa (Terry Norris) is a randy old codger (wink - wink scenes with Dylan as he skips between bedrooms at the local nursing home are off - putting), who encourages his grandkid's imagination but seems ignorant of the financial strife his grief - stricken family is in.

«There are no dramatic new features,» admitted, Ebihara, «but there's a reliable sort of fun here, like there always is, between the new action scenes and the charming story.

Winging between deadly serious starts (this is a film that opens with an incinerated baby, for chrissakes), heartbreaking lost loves, kingdom - destroying action scenes and Blunt and Theron yelling at each other to the point of camp, the film never even comes close to striking a balance.

It's in the scenes between the action that the movie shows its wear.

A five - minute featurette called «Greetings From Bull Mountain» is the standard five - minute B - roll / soft - sell interview errata that features a few additional male buttock shots; «King of the Mountain» is a two - minute music video that splices action sequences from the film together with bloopers and sets it to music (something resurrected in feature - length form by this year's ESPN's X-movie); and nine chapter - encoded deleted scenes (blissfully sans commentary and running between fifteen seconds and a minute, each) are essentially long «comedy» shticks that prove for as bad as Out Cold was, it could have been even worse.

Having made the more conventionally action packed «Scott Pilgrim vs. the World» between «Hot Fuzz» and «The World's End» taught Wright a thing or two about action choreography, making the fight scenes between our drunken protagonists and the alien robots immensely satisfying and viscerally exciting; the bathroom fight is a highlight, but an outright pub brawl is terrific.

He's even opted to intercut urban «rap video» style bookmarks of the city in between scenes to avoid the typical formulaic ruts so many action films experience.

Another style over substance Hong Kong action film that has some pretty exciting fight scenes, but also some very flimsy and annoyingly romanticized back story to fill in between them.

As expected from a Ridley Scott - directed sword / sandals epic based on the story of Moses leading 600,000 slaves out of Egypt, the trailer and footage teased killer action sequences and battle scenes, a cast of thousands which includes Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingley, Joel Edgerton, Aaron Paul, John Turturro and some of history's earliest family drama between Moses and Rhamses (Edgerton).

Tarsem Singh, a director known for his astonishing visuals more than his deep storytelling or compelling characters, continues his usual style by making an undoubtedly nice - looking flick but one which has only intermittent fun action sequences with mind - numbingly boring scenes in between.

Critics have noted that director Zack Snyder has used a lighter tone than the morose clash between «Batman v Superman,» but criticized the film's plot and overuse of CGI in action scenes.

It's all very standard - order, and the stuff in between the action often lacks energy, so it is relieving to report that the film at least comes alive during the action scenes.

It's daring of McQuarrie, in a big - budget internationally financed action picture such as this, to turn over a fair amount of narrative acreage to a lengthy, methodical scene cutting between a performance of Puccini's «Turandot» and not one, not two, but three assassins lurking in the opera house wings.

The stranger and more corrosive subtexts it locates in the Kennedy circle's actions in the aftermath of the crash are undermined by its classy restraint, which saps the most conceptually outrageous moments — like a scene that cuts between Kopechne's dying breaths and Ted Kennedy bathing at his hotel after the accident — of any sense of shock.

These tasks are put on hold, however, by screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, who take a long inhale between Rogers's first big post-upgrade action scene and Captain America's bombastic first encounter with Red Skull.

See 2 Guns for the chemistry between Washington and Wahlberg and comedic prowess of Mr. Wahlberg, see it for the action scenes but don't be surprised when it doesn't all mesh together perfectly.

However, at 2 hours and 24 minutes, it still feels long considering this finale is packed with action scene upon action scene with very little breathing room in between.

The opening scene, in which all the mecha - aliens transform back and forth between giant robots and various makes of automobiles and heavy trucks, becomes so abstract it looks like a Jackson Pollock canvas in motion screeching through the middle of a Hollywood action movie.

The action unfolds in the cramped quarters of a dingy, dark bedroom where they're shooting a steamy love scene between Juliette (Josephine Decker) and Eric (Kent Osborne), the attractive stars of a low - budget movie.

For a film that is packed with action, there are also moments of pure poetry; the most memorable scene for me is the first, wordless encounter between Maurice and the young girl, Nova, played by Amiah Miller.

This little gem features American treasure and all - around genre cinema maestro John Carpenter discussing his 1988 sci - fi / action / horror cult classic They Live, going into detail about such things as the conceptual ideas behind the movie's premise, his casting of professional wrestler «Rowdy» Roddy Piper as the protagonist, and the rebellious inspiration for the film's infamous fight scene between Piper and the great Keith David.

To prevent a split between himself, they opted for his work in Mann's action - drama worthy of a supporting push, despite being in nearly every scene of the film.

Violence: Frequent scenes of action violence include explosions, weapon use and combat between characters.

Similarly, the cartoon action and colourful tone compete with slower, talky scenes between Gamora and Thanos.

The best setpiece in «Winter Soldier,» Cap taking out a bunch of would - be assassins in an elevator, had a frenzied smallness that was much more exciting than watching helicarriers crash and monuments crumble; it seems to have inspired the better action scenes here — not just a stairwell punch-fest that finds Bucky swinging from a torn - up stretch of railing like Tarzan on a vine, but in a bigger, louder, wilder clash between Avengers (including emergency ringers Spider - Man, Ant - Man and Black Panther) on an airport runway.

It also would have helped if this blend of reference and reverence could have come and gone once whatever comedic value had been achieved, but no, it goes on for a good twenty minutes longer, without much of the clever humor, snarky entertainment, or consistency of tone between action and comedy that marked the earlier scenes.

Now, the action packed trailer has teased one almighty dust - up between the pair, with brief snippets of the incendiary fight scenes that we've come to expect from the MCU.

After Avengers: Age of Ultron, which allowed too much bloat to get in the way of some socko individual scenes, this one establishes a beautiful balance between quieter character - driven sequences and splashy action set - pieces.