Sentences with phrase «chase movie»

It's a fitting homage to what is arguably the best car chase movie of all time.

I have more in common with a 70s car chase movie that literature.

From here, «Looper» becomes a bizarre chase movie in that Johnson never quite underlines where our loyalties should lie.

What follows is a fairly standard chase movie as the girls party - hop and the parents hopelessly scramble through set pieces including, yes, a scene in which John Cena butt - chugs beer out of love for his daughter.

The second movie was more efficient and effective than the first one, offering a generic chase movie with a few more insights into the backdrop of the overall story that was previously, lengthily introduced in its predecessor.

I left the theater vaguely annoyed - as if the filmmakers had thrown away some promising ideas and elements in weaving together a thoroughly generic chase movie and pretending it's something special by employing ineffective stylistic choices.

He's called it an ode to 1980s chase movies such as «E.T.,» «Close Encounters of the Third Kind» but there's also plenty of «80s comic book sensibility (not for nothing do we see Reagan - era issues of «Superman» and «New Teen Titans») and call - backs to the 1970s meta - human - kid craze (see also the Witch Mountain books and movies).

He's called it an ode to 1980s chase movies such as «E.T.» and «Close Encounters of the Third Kind,» but there's also plenty of 1980s comic - book sensibility.

His revelations verge on going too far but by the end you realise that you've witnessed a film that crosses all sorts of genres; it's an introspective drama, a restrained chase movie and an imaginative Sci - Fi and it tackles all the tropes with a deftness and skill.

Just as the two emerging talents were developing a rapport, Creevy cuts to a car - chase movie nobody wanted.

«Good Time,» Josh and Benny Safdie's look at a desperate New York man's attempt to break his brother out of jail, is a propulsive chase movie taking place mostly over one night.

Plus, the consistent reference to the film as being a car chase movie musical has me the most excited.

The movie makes a sudden jump from grim shadows to sun - baked flats, souped - up cars and crossbows; in other words, it swaps vampire - noir for a violent, urban chase movie.

Instead, it's a simple chase movie.

The bad news seems that it is «Gattaca, but with guns» and looks to be in danger of descending into straightforward chase movie action clichés — a sort of Marxist power fantasy version of Logan's Run in which one man single - handedly brings down The System TM.

Final Verdict: Sure, Centurion is little more than a glorified chase movie, but is there really anything wrong with that?

Edgar Wright's entertaining car - chase movie roars into town, while Harry Michell stars in a comedy about two aspiring actors.

A high - octane chase movie at its core, Mad Max: Fury Road drops you right into the middle of the action and expects you to keep up with this strange new world.

A suitably tense and unrelenting chase movie, the film is memorable for an early pre-Terminator turn from Linda Hamilton as well as some genuinely unnerving child performances.

Both look to be straddling that fine line between being chasing movie stardom and doing good work in smaller films, carefully selecting projects and roles that won't pigeonhole them or reduce them to a type.

The great bonus of the Pixar chase movies is that the action is always so clean and well conceived.

Desierto review: An edge - of - your - seat chase movie.

The Last Jedi is an adrenaline rush of a movie, a taut, tense chase movie where motivations are as complex as life and nothing, no scoundrel with a heart of maybe - gold or seemingly cowardly leader, is as it initially seems.

Perhaps chase movies are your thing, or maybe you just want to see McConaughey with his shirt off?

A crime chase movie ends up evolving into a three - pronged character drama in the middle of the desert and just when the movie taunts the idea of a final shoot - out, it once again goes for an ending that isn't what you expect.

I regretted going to the movie to see baby driver...... After the opening car chase the movie went down hill and filled with plot holes

Neither a standard biopic nor a conventional chase movie, it fuses both into a grand narrative experiment that imagines the battle of wits between a poet, Chilean great Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco), and policeman (Gael García Bernal)-- artist versus repressor — as a noirish travelogue where nothing is quite as it seems.

In the evening, Summer of Darkness deepens the shadows with Jules Dassin's «Brute Force» (a definitive prison picture), Robert Siodmak's «Criss Cross» and John Huston's «The Asphalt Jungle «(two definitive heist thrillers), Anthony Mann's «Desperate «(a definitive B chase movie) and Hitchcock's «The Wrong Man.»

This dusty new post-apocalyptic chase movie introduces a new Max, played by Tom Hardy, as well as another hero - Furiosa, played by Charlize Theron.

It's an uber - chase movie on which many others were modelled.

Apparently borrowing its title from the Creedence Clearwater Revival song of the same name, Midnight Special sets out its stall as an atmospheric chase movie before revealing itself to be an ambitious supernatural thriller in the spirit of a Close Encounters - era Steven Spielberg sci - fi.

Payback is shifting the focus from finishing first in races to playing out your driving fantasies that you may have seen in your favourite car chase movies over the years.

If you want to be famous, all you have to see is a 10 second video of the paparazzi chasing movie stars.

I liked Drive, a vigorous 2011 take on Hollywood car - chase movies with noirish undertones starring Ryan Gosling, but its 2013 successor, Only God Forgives, a muddled romp (also starring Gosling) about a mama's boy adrift in the Bangkok underworld at the mercy of a gangster who performed musical numbers between bloodbaths, was parboiled by critics and avoided by audiences like an airborne virus.

The La La Land of car chase movies.

All the lead's do well in this character study that becomes a chase movie, the actors given space to not explain every character nuance to us, the photography's decent, wide vistas of rugged Western canyons.

Despite this, Public Enemies doesn't quite have the pace you might imagine for what's essentially a chase movie.

For fans of car - chase movies, Baby Driver is aces, slamming into Walter Hill greatness territory with an energetic variety of top - notch action and invention.

Ostensibly a chase movie through a neo noir future, Looper keeps its story energised by keeping the time travel repercussions as simple as possible.

While that may be enough, it also works as a chase movie, a buddy movie, a family drama, and a look at small town dynamics... all seen through the eyes of 14 year old Ellis (Tye Sheridan from The Tree of Life).

This seems to be essentially a chase movie, with the chasers being various ancient creatures, including mammoths, a sabretooth tiger and some giant birds that we don't know the name for.

There's an absence of fun here, and for what is ultimately a chase movie, a severe lack of pace.

In the press notes, Nichols explains, «I wanted to make a chase movie, a movie about guys moving on back roads through the American South in a fast car, driving at night with their lights off.

If you love car chase movies, Fury Road is more ludicrous and insane than Smokey and the Bandit, Deathproof, Vanishing Point, The Blue Brothers, and the original Gone in 60 Seconds combined.

Violent from the off, and unrelenting in terms on the tension that runs through its core, Desierto is essentially a chase movie, with Jeffrey Dean Morgan's excellent turn as the alcoholic, totally racist Sam taking the law into his own hands and brutally taking out each of the Mexican immigrants with absolutely no remorse.

Desierto review: A brutal, tense action movie; essentially a chase movie that grips from the start.

But Midnight Special is a chase movie, and like all chase movies it runs the risk of losing all narrative momentum once it arrives at a destination.