Sentences with phrase «by shady figures»

In return, the prosecution said, for large sums of money provided by shady figures known as «John the Englishman» and «Adel the Egyptian,» the medical workers had systematically injected the man - made virus into the children's veins.

Not exact matches

The thin storyline follows ace reporter Rowena Price (Halle Berry) as she goes undercover to prove that her childhood friend was murdered by Bruce Willis» Harrison Hill, with complications ensuing as Rowena finds herself surrounded by suspects and shady figures - including her off - kilter assistant at the paper (Giovanni Ribisi's Miles Haley) and her on - again - off - again boyfriend (Gary Dourdan's Cameron).

Stallone stars as Jimmy Bonomo, an unapologetically direct hitman who, when his partner gets killed after a recent job, is thrown together by circumstance with Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang), a by - the - book visiting cop from Washington, D.C.. Each targets themselves, Jimmy and Taylor form an uneasy alliance, to try to bring down a shady figure of the criminal underworld (Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbaje) and the psychotic enforcer, Keegan (Jason Momoa), doing his bidding.

It is difficult not to admire Leigh's boldness in giving the Christian virtues of selfless generosity, charitable goodwill and quiet passivity to a backstreet abortionist, but by presenting Vera with an almost cartoonlike saintliness from start to finish, Leigh misses an opportunity to engage seriously with the moral complexity of the abortion issue — and some viewers will be left longing for Vera to be a shadier, more difficult figure, like the protagonist of Leigh's far more confronting «Naked» (1993).

All the while, a shady, oddball figure played by Giovanni Ribisi is ALWAYS around.

Free with hugs for his mother (Octavia Spencer) and an attentive father to his own child (Ariana Neal), Jordan's Oscar nonetheless erupts with a snarling fury when challenged by figures from his shady past.

When a shady agent pops by his local street revealing information that one of Ethan's most devoted apprentices (Ethan semi-retired into a trainer figure since we last saw him, it seems), has been kidnapped, trying to retrieve a mysterious weapon, called the Rabbit's Foot, Ethan is forced back into the fold.

By the time he figures it out, he's fender - deep in a 007 - inspired plot involving an alternative fuel and a shady car cartel.