Sentences with phrase «by martial arts movie»

Not exact matches

Updated at 8:12 p.m. ET on Tuesday 6/4 (CNN)-- Access to top Russian officials by U.S. lawmakers was helped along by action movie star Steven Seagal — and more specifically the actor's martial arts skills - the leader of a congressional delegation said Tuesday.

For every movie featuring an Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor, Alice or Katniss Everdeen, Asian film industries managed to produce several dozen more entertaining, hard - hitting action flicks featuring strong female characters portrayed by butt - kicking heroines, many of them real - life martial arts champions or physically gifted dancers or performers.

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.

Brother Joel responded to one Taiwanese journalist unhappy that the critically favored Hou Hsiao - Hsien martial arts picture «The Assassin» didn't win the Palme by saying he thought it was «a great movie, beautifully directed movie.»

Film Review by Kam Williams Jackie Chan Teams with Johnny Knoxville for Familiar Unlikely - Buddies Flick Jackie Chan made dozens of martial arts movies in his native Hong Kong prior to finding phenomenal success stateside in 1998 co-starring with Chris Tucker in the buddy - comedy Rush Hour.

by Bryant Frazer If Prachya Pinkaew's 2003 Ong - bak became a worldwide hit partly on novelty value — star Tony Jaa was a new face, and Muay Thai was sufficiently under - represented in martial - arts movies to come across as a fresh new fighting style — then Chocolate is a logical next career move for the director.

Daggers, however, is director Zhang Yimou's follow - up to the callowly beautiful Hero and, like that movie and a number of others (Ashes of Time, Bride with the White Hair, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Kill Bill, Zatoichi, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, and, in a way, Goodbye Dragon Inn), it belongs to a martial arts / art - house genre of films by hip young directors upgrading genres they loved as teenagers - «martial arts plus.»

In an exclusive interview, the multi-talented RZA talked about the genesis of the project, what appealed to him about his character, how he prepared for the role, his collaboration with Delamarre on his feature directorial debut, working with Belle and the late Walker and what they brought to the film, his bold line of dialogue, what he learned about himself while making the movie, how Walker inspired him, his role in the upcoming martial arts sequel «The Protector 2» with Tony Jaa directed by Prachya Pinkaew, and his new Fox Network TV series, «Gang Related,» that premieres May 22nd.

Certainly tears are part of the grieving / healing / accepting process, but tear - jerking by filmmakers is not enough to make up for deficiencies elsewhere, any more than an abundance of terrific action choreography makes up for a lack of character development in a martial arts movie.

I think everybody once has thought about learning martial arts as a kid by watching his movies.

it is a shame that it is rare to find a martial arts movie that is made by someone who understands the subject.

Song Hye - kyo is currently in China working on her next role in «The Grand Master», the martial arts movie directed by renowned Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar - wai, and will apparently be displaying some «real action» skills in the film.

In some bizarre casting, RZA shows up as blind martial arts master Blind Master (the G.I. Joe series was never very subtle with its character names), bringing the rapper's charisma-less movie career to a new low by drudgingly rattling off exposition like a screen between video game levels.

By American action movie standards it's downright restrained, and it lets us see the grace and integrity of the martial arts spectacle.

The film plays like a tribute to classic Hong Kong martial arts movies and adventure odysseys by an appreciative American fan and Disney veteran Rob Minkoff has the right attitude, if not the chops for action spectacle.

Beyond the fact that the evil Asian crime lord does martial arts (an element unfortunately missing in the movie's climax), the plane is crewed by an older, experienced pilot, a middle - aged sexist co-pilot, and not one but two stewardesses who are approaching retirement.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 3, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Warrior's Way (R for graphic violence) Western action fantasy, set in the Badlands, about a martial arts master (Jang Dong Ton) who emigrates from Asia to America to retire in peace, only to have to pick up his sword again to defend his adopted hometown and a beautiful local gal (Kate Bosworth) from the returning gang of marauders who had made her an orphan many moons ago.

Mortal Kombat channels the cheesy 80's martial arts movies that the game was inspired by and it manages to make an entertaining movie in the process.

Either as a white man mouthing the words to the underground soul classic» Is it because I'm black» «hollow bones» (2001), or being taught how to make art by the deceased martial arts star Bruce Lee in «emotional content» (2003), as The White and Black Minstrel (2007), or seeking enlightenment in kung fu movies and anime as The Barefoot Lone Pilgrim (2004 - 08).

He once purchased a copy of the kung - fu movie Survival of a Dragon only to find that the VHS contained in the packaging was, in fact, the «z - grade» «martial arts» «movie» Ninja Empire directed by the notorious Godfrey Ho.