Sentences with phrase «budget action movie»

Sadly, despite the game having a couple of terrific set - pieces that are exciting and play out like a high - budget action movie, the game is a mess.

If your book is a heartfelt tale of tragedy and love, don't have an explosive cover that looks the poster for a big budget action movie (unless it's a heartfelt tale of tragedy and love with a lot of explosions).

Fitting neatly into the limited expectations I had for the movie, Avenger: Age of Ultron is nothing more and nothing less than a big - budget action movie that takes no risks and delivers no surprises.

James McAvoy, on the other hand, proves he has the mainstream appeal required to carry a big - budget action movie, and should he continue to mix roles like these with Oscar bait like «Atonement,» the actor will be well on his way to becoming the next Christian Bale.

Though it actually starts out as a pretty decent, low - budget action movie, wasting no time throwing its heroine into the fire, «Everly» gets progressively worse with each passing minute.

(You might also recall that she co-starred in the 1996 low budget action movie Breakaway, but let's be honest, you probably don't.)

The penultimate climax — in the series of climaxes expected of a big - budget action movie — takes us to a cartoony height reminiscent of True Lies or the end of Mission: Impossible: eye - popping but entirely off the grid of credibility.

All are more than competently demonstrated in Rampage, a big - budget action movie about the Rock's race to stop three giant, mutant animals running riot on the streets of Chicago.

A cheesy low budget action movie, yes.

Ehhh... Big budget action movies are tired, overdone, headache inducing crapfests these days.

Really, the only appeal will lie with those with a taste for low - budget action movies that have to be scouted out and discovered.

Looking ahead, Hollywood is counting on a packed lineup of big - budget action movies and sequels to bring crowds back in 2012.

The impressive special effects, exceptional fight choreography, and explosions of the Korean casino scene would be at home in most big - budget action movies.

So it goes without saying that directors are probably lining up to cast him in their big - budget action movies.

With so many big - budget action movies flopping at the box office this past summer, it's crazy to think that a quaint genre film like «A History of Violence» would handle its action sequences with the most panache.

Not exact matches

Since the «Star Wars» prequels, in which George Lucas was heavily criticized for using too much CGI to create the worlds and characters, many big - budget movies have tried to find that happy medium of practical and visual effects to give the action on screen a more grounded feel.

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles...

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles in favor of award - season prestige films.

And so he has, for $ 30 million — still a relatively modest budget, as action movies go.

Writer / director Blomkamp follows his politically charged 2009 sci - fi film District 9 81 with another socially aware sci - fi action movie, albeit one with a much larger budget.

In my opinion, this was the movie of the summer, and a bright spot in a summer of high - budget, low quality action movies.

But what continues to surprise and impress me (beyond the exciting action, the fantastic costumes, and the impressive special effects) is that unlike other big budget blockbusters and fantasy series, The Hunger Games movies, so far, always manage to make me cry.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening June 11, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The A-Team (PG - 13 for profanity, smoking, and pervasive action violence) Screen adaptation of the pyrotechnics - driven TV series from the Eighties chronicling the exploits of a squad of former Special Service soldiers determined to clear their names after unfairly being branded war criminals.

Samuel L. Jackson also returns for the third movie in the series as NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons, and Jet Li, Tony Jaa, UFC Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor, Indian star Deepika Padukone, Nina Dobrev, Ruby Rose, and Toni Collette also star in the big - budget action - adventure.

Godzilla is an entertaining, big budget popcorn action movie in the way that Michael Bay's Transformers sequels tried to be and failed.

Its aesthetic is cut - rate anonymity of the kind sometimes associated with direct - to - video movies (it was partly shot in Sofia, which is the capital of both Bulgaria and the low - budget action industry) and crappy TV.

With Haywire — his 23rd full length feature — he takes another stylistic left turn this being an independently financed, relatively low budget B - movie style action film of which a large portion was filmed in Dublin back in 2010.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 10, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (PG for frightening images and action fantasy sequences) Third installment in the film franchise based on the C.S. Lewis series of fantasy novels finds Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy Pensie (Georgie Henley), along with their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter), returning to the magical land of Narnia to embark on a dangerous, seafaring mission taking them to the edge of the world.

As comic book fans demand bigger action (and budgets) for superhero movies, some incredible mistakes have gone completely unnoticed.

Shot in nondescript Los Angeles locations, including a generic apartment where much of the action takes place, the movie has a flat, featureless look more suitable to one of the low - budget, semiprofessional productions that Mr. Affleck helps sponsor through the «Project Greenlight» contest.

Mr. Golin says that while he wants to step back a little as his company grows, he wants it to diversify, going into genres where modest - budget projects can still pop, including comedies, young - adult movies and action films like «Triple 9,» a police - heist movie with Casey Affleck and Chiwetel Ejiofor opening Feb. 26.

Strike two comes from the on the field action which looks too much like a low - budgeted baseball movie.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening April 10, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Dragonball Evolution (PG for intense action and brief adult language) Sci - fi martial arts adventure, based on the Akira Toriyama novel about a young warrior (Justin Chatwin) who, with a handful of friends, sets out on a quest to save the planet from an evil king (James Marsters) bent on world domination.

Her upcoming film A Wrinkle in Time made her the first black woman to direct a live - action movie with a budget that surpassed $ 100 million.

made her the first black woman to direct a live - action movie with a budget that surpassed $ 100 million.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 30, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS Mirror Mirror (PG for action and mild crude humor) Overhaul of beloved classic fairytale has exiled Snow White (Lily Collins) returning to the kingdom to wrest both the throne and a handsome prince (Armie Hammer) from the clutches of the evil queen (Julia Roberts) with the help of seven dwarfs.

It's a mix of action and comedy, plus b - movie exploitation with a much higher budget.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening February 24, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS Act of Valor (R for torture, profanity and graphic violence) Action adventure about an elite team of Navy SEALS who embark on a top secret mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA Agent only to uncover an imminent terrorist plot against America.

If critics would just drink a six - pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon before every movie they review, this low - budget action film would get better reviews than «My Dinner With Andre.»

Working unobtrusively but consistently in a decadent Hollywood that's doubled down on sci - fi / fantasy / superhero franchise tentpoles as the end - all - be-all of action movies, Jaume Collet - Serra has been diligently and often ingeniously pursuing another filmmaking model, that of the mid-range budget standalone genre picture.

But for fans of the Gundam series, this is the live - action, big - budget movie spotlight they've been waiting for.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 18, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS Limitless (PG - 13 for profanity, mature themes, violence, sexuality and disturbing images) Bradley Cooper stars in this action thriller about a frustrated writer whose life is transformed after he is introduced to a top - secret, smart drug which enables him to use 100 % of his brain.

Unfortunately Batman Begins developed as most Hollywood action movies do: it was budgeted at $ 180 million — Burton's first movie cost $ 40 million — yet the script, by Nolan and Blade screenwriter David S. Goyer, is a hack job.

squanders an interesting opening on a generic action finale there's nothing offensively terrible about it.This is a low - budget (8 million dollars) original sci - fi concept starring two women and multiple people of color, there's credit to be given to Scott Free Productions, 20th Century Fox, and Scott for producing a movie that seemed to approach film - making exactly the way it should be done with diversity.

Although Morgan squanders an interesting opening on a generic action finale there's nothing offensively terrible about it.This is a low - budget (8 million dollars) original sci - fi concept starring two women and multiple people of color, there's credit to be given to Scott Free Productions, 20th Century Fox, and Scott for producing a movie that seemed to approach film - making exactly the way it should be done with diversity.

In fact, I'd argue that Iron Man 2, despite its huge budget, is really what Manny Farber used to call an «underground movie,» or a pure action movie with no ulterior motives.

Not only will «Whale Rider» helmer Niki Caro direct the live - action remake of the Mouse House's 1998 animated adventure «Mulan,» but in the process, she also will become just the fourth woman to solo direct a movie with a budget north of $ 100 million.

One day, we will get a big budget disaster movie that successfully molds great action and a compelling story with the carnage and the horror, and that will be a great day.

Splitting the difference between Michael Mann and Brian De Palma, it's a sequence that could teach any number of big - budget Hollywood movies a thing or four about action filmmaking.

As I recall, I said the exact same thing about the last movie directed by Louis Leterrier, Unleashed, so I think he has found a niche job in case directing big budget action flicks doesn't pan out.