Sentences with phrase «escapist action»

It will be pure escapist action / adventure featuring an ex-Mossad operative who faked her death to get out of the game, but whose past has come back to haunt her.

Pure escapist action adventure with a female protag battling for survival.

There was a heft to his presence that merited more serious consideration alongside his escapist action pictures.

RECOMMENDATION: Ultimately Hunter Prey is acceptable straight - to - DVD fare for genre fans looking for some undemanding escapist action.

Part escapist action - adventure, part would - be exhilarating quest of self - discovery, «The Secret Life of Walter Mitty» isn't so much a mess because it wants to be everything at once, but because it employs hackneyed and mawkish methods to achieve a false sense of joyfulness.

Although I've played the first «Resident Evil» game back when they ported it to the PC, way back when, I never got much into its story, merely looking for some escapist action and a few nasty scenes causing me to keep on edge.

The original Red (2010) was a fun escapist action comedy featuring an A-list cast willing to act silly to earn a few good laughs.

Police movies so often depend on sheer escapist action that it's fun to find a good one.

After Dreamworks SKG was launched to great fanfare, its first movie release was an escapist action thriller, 1997's The Peacemaker, starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman trying to save the world from some rogue Russian army officers who steal some nuclear bombs.

The good guy's descent into darkness, the cat - and - mouse thriller, the escapist action series, the on - location porn.

Not exact matches

«The Equalizer» is hardly groundbreaking stuff compared to Fuqua and Washington's last collaboration, but it's a slick crowd - pleaser that provides the escapist entertainment of any good action flick.

Those who enjoyed that movie thought it an amiable time - killer full of enough escapist laughs and action to sate their yearning for low - overhead entertainment, but they didn't exactly think that two more hours of the same is what is called for.

There are new Switch games on the horizon, too: Dragon Quest Builders will be coming to the Switch in the coming months, as will the prison - breaking action of The Escapists 2, which got a release and pre-order date reveal earlier this week.

If you like escapist espionage thrillers with lots of action, perhaps there's enough quality actors, superb stunt work, and nice location shoots to give The November Man a passable grade, especially because the R - rated action can be quite brutal compared to a James Bond flick.

The story here is fairly basic, and ultimately it's all built to bolster the film's pervasive action sequences, but director Paul W.S.Anderson still managed to craft a solid piece of escapist sci - fi around it all, and in the end, the film entirely held my interest.

This will probably be the best escapist entertainment of the winter season, and I can wholeheartedly recommend it for those looking for a journey back to old school B - action film glory.

While not offering much in the way of engrossing and emotionally involving human drama, Twister does deliver all the exciting, exhilarating popcorn thrills one would expect from an action blockbuster, making it ideal summer escapist entertainment that should cause a storm of business at the box office.

This high - budget (supposedly $ 135 million) summer - blockbuster escapist film is dull formulaic fare that has a questionable history premise, a star who does not light up the screen with charisma (Matthew McConaughey), a foreign - born female lead (Penélope Cruz) as eye candy who struggles with the English language to a point where it's an unwelcome distraction, and a tiresome and silly plot line to fill in the gaps while the adventurers are involved in their all too familiar set action pieces.

Historically Bollywood's appeal has been based around family - friendly entertainment, with songs, elaborate dance sequences and heroic action scenes sprinkled across 180 minutes of escapist, tear - jerking melodrama.

It's an escapist dream come true, another world brought to life so fully that it makes you dearly want to jump through the screen to join the action.

There are new Switch games on the horizon, too: Dragon Quest Builders will be coming to the Switch in the coming months, as will the prison - breaking action of The Escapists 2, which got a release and pre-order date reveal earlier this week.