Sentences with phrase «choreographed action»

Four black females will perform a choreographed action piece, derived from dismissive gestures often characterized as «ghetto.»

As players and fans of previous titles in the series may expect, there's a couple of beautifully choreographed action sequences, however, these sequences — as adrenaline - inducing as they are — feel a step below to some much grander ones in the past (i.e. the train sequence in U2, and both the boat and plane sequence in U3), it almost feels like we've seen pretty much anything possible.

CyberConnect2 makes QTEs worth participating in, as the feedback you get from the result is made up of wonderfully choreographed action sequences.

The term «open world» has become shorthand for «GTA - like»; the game's control schemes, mission structures and re-branded products (iFruit smartphones, Jugular cars) are gaming tropes in themselves, while the slickly choreographed action has inspired as many films as have influenced it.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is essentially a series of dumb jokes about how dumb Swanson, er, Buffy is, alternated with badly - choreographed action sequences intended, I suppose, as camp.

Reese manages to spirit Sarah 14 years into the future, where well - choreographed action sequences offer little that feels fresh and new.

Still, there are more than enough laughs and clever surprises in this broad and sometimes violent farce to warrant a recommendation, thanks to a solidly funny script by Mark Perez, some pretty neat camera moves and choreographed action / comedic sequences from directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein — and a likable and talented ensemble cast, led by two of my favorites.

Through astonishing visuals effects, well choreographed action, impeccable sound design and just sheer commitment to its central idea, del Toro has made a ridiculously enjoyable movie for anyone who ever smashed two toys together as a kid.

From its opening scene, The Golden Circle throws us immediately into a meticulously choreographed action setpiece, with Eggsy (Taron Egerton), now an established Kingsman agent, fighting his former Kingsman colleague Charlie (Edward Holcroft) in a speeding taxi through the streets of London.

Even for a master cinematographer like Roger Deakins, Sicario was a tricky project to pull off — a logistical puzzle with many moving pieces, including aerial and night - vision footage and highly choreographed action sequences.

Whether it's the bright primaries of the color palette, the insightfully choreographed action, or the brazenly feminist characterizations, a film industry that takes its cues from Fury Road is an industry that will continue to fight to remain vital for filmmakers with vision.

Though Michelle Yeoh is an excellent addition as the season's main villain, it's the chemistry between stars Sullivan Stapleton and Philip Winchester, along with the well - choreographed action sequences, that make it worth sticking around through the end.

And on Sicario, the iconic Roger Deakins took on highly choreographed action sequences and New Mexico's monsoon season.

is a solid drama about actual adults, featuring some excellently choreographed action sequences and is a big leap forward for Affleck's directing aspirations.

Expertly choreographed action set pieces alternate with surprisingly heartfelt reflections on friendship and aging in this satisfying conclusion to Wright's «Three Flavours Cornetto» trilogy.

Adapted from the novel Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan, a much better title than the bland one Affleck and co-writers Peter Craig and Aaron Stockard chose, The Town is a solid drama about actual adults, featuring some excellently choreographed action sequences and is a big leap forward for Affleck's directing aspirations.

«Atomic Blonde» debuted at SXSW in March to rave reviews, with many praising the well - choreographed action sequences, and citing Theron's similarities to Reeves.

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The Russos, with assistance from people such as Winter Soldier cinematographer Trent Opaloch as well as second unit directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski (the longtime stunt coordinators - turned directors of John Wick), serve up several precisely - choreographed action sequences, varying from quick - cutting fisticuffs to exhilarating foot chases and combat situations that make great use of individual superhero's unique abilities.

Atomic Blonde, in other words, is a grenade of half - cooked ideas and politics wrapped in this veneer of «awesome» by intricately - choreographed action sequences and fairly realistic depictions of exhaustion and violence.

In the original many of the bigger showdowns occurred at night which, coupled with some messily choreographed action, meant that they were often a muddle, but DeKnight has wisely shifted the action to daytime and, as a result, it's easier to engage with the mayhem.

Rather than simply filming the beautifully - designed, choreographed action, they feel the need to throw their cameras into the fight, whipping them around and tumbling them every which way.

Frankly, I found The Nice Guys to be the funniest film of the year and was a perfect blend of sharp humor and meticulously choreographed action scenes.

As the five get drunker, the five fight the alien invaders in remarkably choreographed action sequences.

Where Tarantino relies on cinematic devices to do a lot of the heavy lifting, with choreographed action sequences and well - timed gore, McDonagh lets his pen do all the work.

The cleanly - choreographed action sequences are a definite bonus.

Gone are the ludicrous but gorgeously choreographed set pieces Fuqua is known for, replaced by generically brown villains, incompetently choreographed action, and jarringly stock footage stitched together with badly mismatched sound stage shots.

But it has well - choreographed action and an amusingly campy feel.

And, with The Grandmaster given the opening slot at the Berlin International Film Festival and good early reviews praising the film's beautifully choreographed action scenes, fans can rest easy.

Along with Woo's usual elaborately choreographed action scenes, Face / Off features a number of notable supporting performances, including Joan Allen as Archer's wife, Colm Feore and C.C.H. Pounder as FBI scientists, and Gina Gershon as Troy's loyal but long - suffering girlfriend.

Nolan shot this sequence, and three others, for the IMAX screen and with a finesse for choreographing action that rivals Michael Mann's Heat.

«Baby Driver,» from Edgar Wright, upended heist - movie tropes, choreographing action to match the tunes in the earbuds of its music - obsessed wheelman (Ansel Elgort).

Shot in the urban wasteland of downtown New York, Jonas directs the participants in a variety of choreographed actions that add up to a masterpiece of early performance film and video.

In this most recent version of This Situation at IMMA, the gallery is occupied by a group of six «participants» or «interpreters» whose choreographed actions generate a discussion of cultural, economic and philosophical issues.

Celebrated for its unconventional museum atmosphere of exhilaration and social interaction, the Turbine Hall is here inhabited by an assembly of participants whose choreographed actions draw on the behaviour of groups and collectives.

These choreographed actions give form to narratives in which reality and fiction are subjective, and where man and materiality are hopelessly entangled.

Fourth, this team of hackers creates designer dreams, defining elaborate settings and choreographing action so that the «players» end up doing things according to plan — well, at least most of the time.

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The discovery of the mode of action of YabA unveiled a novel mechanism by which bacteria choreograph the copying of their genome.

Many of the films that propelled these actors to the top were of the action genre, so aspiring thespians, take note — if you want to be in a movie that pulls in top dollar, you might want to brush up on your Lara Croft moves and choreographed hand - to - hand combat.

The camera work is solid and the action bits well - choreographed.

The action scenes highlight Rodriguez's trademark ability to choreograph firefights and explosions, but they're doled out with uncharacteristic stinginess between long stretches of exposition that clear up much less than they should, as the film builds toward a climax featuring some strangely underpopulated riot action.

The action sequences, especially the climactic one, are choreographed with flair, with a few Matrix influences to be found (slow motion, a camera circling the action).

His surprisingly fun action - comedy Date Night was filled was well choreographed and photographed action sequences.

Their first big punchup, at a secret casino nightclub in Busan, South Korea, is, well, a marvel of thrillingly dynamic action, a stunningly choreographed, seemingly uncut sequence that ranges all over a big space on multiple physical levels.

The action scenes are better choreographed, with none of the dreaded shaky — cam, and there are some spectacular visual effects.

For his elaborately choreographed fight scenes, Canutt developed a new, more realistic method of throwing punches, positioning the action so that the camera filmed over the shoulder of the actor receiving the blow, with the punch itself coming directly toward the lens.

There are interesting ideas here, but they are swallowed up in dull, poorly choreographed shootouts and other action nonsense.

The Grandmasters stars the director's frequent collaborator Tony Leung as the legendary martial arts master who instructed Bruce Lee, and features action sequences choreographed by Yeun Woo - ping (the man behind The Matrix, Kill Bill, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and countless other films).

For all its high - spirited action scenes, the film's most impressive sequence involves a single water droplet, which is later echoed in an artfully choreographed battle involving cannonballs.

Justin Lin, who's now directed three movies in the Fast series, knows how to choreograph and edit an action sequence so that it's more than an onslaught of chopped - up images and grating noise.