Sentences with phrase «elaborate action sequences»

Here Whedon and Goddard look like they're abandoning their convictions for what their film should be, and pandering to modern blockbuster viewers and their incessant craving for elaborate action sequences and expensive special effects.

There is a palpable lack of energy evinced by all concerned, even in the heat of the most elaborate action sequences.

Just about everyone in «Into the Badlands» is hiding some sort of secret — a pregnancy, a mistress, an agenda, a fatal illness — and Dobkin and fight director Stephen Fung intercut the tawdry, page - turning plot points with a steady stream of almost comically elaborate action sequences.

Populated with henchmen, heroes, and femme fatales, punctuated with elaborate action sequences, and set against a backdrop of Weimar - era European decadence, DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER had an unmistakable influence on all the espionage thrillers that followed in its wake.

With involving and elaborate action sequences in abundance and tugs on heartstrings that are direct but never too forceful, Tarzan has great success as a film.

It's mainly a set - up for some of the elaborate action sequences set to come.

Elaborate action sequences, cool gadgets, new characters, political allegory, social commentary, twists, turns, and a whole lot more.

At a time when every action - oriented film that comes along tries to pummel audiences into submission with frantically - told narratives and elaborate action sequences that begin by skirting the edge of plausibility before diving headlong into complete lunacy, there is something innately appealing about a film like «Survivor,» a smaller - scale international thriller that is not trying to blow viewers away with over-the-top pyrotechnics every five minutes.

A classic cocktail of mystery, suspense and paranoia, Guillaume Canet's Tell No One is a tense thriller with a knotty plot that harkens back to Hitch in its themes while satiating modern audiences with its brisk narrative momentum and elaborate action sequences.