Sentences with phrase «characters on both sides of the law»

The Bridge depicts characters on both sides of the law as well as both sides of the US / Mexico border (in El Paso and Juarez).

Not exact matches

Taylor's film does not just have the law on its side, but extraordinary, human elements of character and compassion.

His bald head and hangdog features seemed to register well with audiences no matter which side of the law his characters were on, and his Brooklyn accent (which he could hide effectively) even worked well in Westerns.

Its central characters are shysters; they live on the wrong side of the law, fleece the innocent and, like addicts, remain locked in a cycle of risk and repeat, trapped by the thrill of the grift.

They're these types of grizzled characters who had one foot on the side of law and order and the other foot in the bad guy's camp.

Live by Night is no exception; to this reviewer the film almost reads as a clumsy marriage between Michael Mann's Public Enemies, in overall style and milieu, and Miami Vice, if Colin Farrell's character was on the other side of the law.

At the very beginning these two characters do not seem to have much in common — having spent a great deal of time on opposite sides of the law — but by the end we see just how similar they really are.

The end of the film features a «battle royale» between the motley array of mostly no - name costumed good guys and costumed bad guys, which begs the question as to how most of these characters who are seeing each other for the first time can draw the distinction between them to make sure they are only fighting nemeses on the other side of the law.