Sentences with phrase «covert schemes»

Instead, every entrance is followed by a sudden hush and accompanied by a Truman Show — like sensation that everyone is staring at you, discussing you and executing covert schemes to chronicle you without your knowledge.

The film follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) through a covert scheme of funneling cash to local gangsters - «money drops» - in the underworld of Brooklyn bars.

Based on a screenplay from Dennis Lehane (MYSTIC RIVER, GONE BABY GONE), THE DROP follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) through a covert scheme of funneling cash to local gangsters — «money drops» — in the underworld of Brooklyn bars.

On paper The Drop reads like your average crime drama - it follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski through a covert scheme of funneling cash to local gangster in Brooklin bars to the point where he finds himself at the centre of a botched robbery.

Lonely bartender Bob Saginowski (Hardy) and his hardened employer Cousin Marv (Gandolfini) run a bar that is used as a «drop» — a covert scheme that funnels cash to local gangsters.

Not exact matches

A whole narrative thread with Michael Stuhlbarg's Hoffstetler serving as a covert spy also serves little purpose in the grand scheme of the film, only really establishing the era's geopolitical stakes.

Charisma - challenged Patrick O'Neal is the ostensible leading man here, playing a career Navy officer coerced into joining a covert private team and go behind the Iron Curtain to retrieve a diplomatically dangerous letter, but in the scheme of things he's just another player in a big, messy, tangled ensemble piece.

Blending fast - paced first - person shooter (FPS) action with covert gameplay, GoldenEye 007 epitomizes the modern «thinking man's shooter» by offering varied ways to complete each mission, destructible environments, the use of cover and multiple control scheme options, including the Wii Remote ™, Nunchuk ™, Classic Controller Pro ™ and the Wii Zapper ™.