Sentences with phrase «contemporary action cinema»

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All of this is a shame, because the seeds of a conceptually daring project are present here: a mainstream Hollywood special - effects action extravaganza retelling a classic Japanese legend with a cast made up mostly of Japanese actors, many of them mainstays in the country's contemporary cinema, and all of whom are allowed to occasionally take the spotlight away from its more widely known marquee star.

Although the title suggests the possibility of an exercise in the pre-digested, pre-fab cynicism which seems to be a staple of contemporary American cinema, this action film focuses on its people as much as its action, and a good deal of its power comes from the way its sharply etched characters develop in various convincingly observed milieux.

The film is a kind of variation on Chan's Police Story, also released in 1985 and another key film in the shift of HK action cinema from period epics to contemporary crime dramas.

Contemporary cinema may be deep into a phase of emphasising western - like aspects in everything from horror to action movies, and fashioning revisionist takes as well; however, at the heart of this fascination sits the timelessness of the genre's core elements.

Director Scott Derrickson, best known for the derivative yet chilling Sinister, works in a robust old - school style that owes more to American swashbuckler films, Asian action cinema, and the Indiana Jones series than to the frenetic, cut - and - paste aesthetic of contemporary blockbusters such as Captain America: Civil War.