Sentences with phrase «few scenes of action»

«Mockingjay — Part 1» is rated PG - 13 for a few scenes of action / violence and mild disturbing images.

There are only a few scenes of action but that only adds to the tension that slowly builds up as the girls remain missing for days on end.

Not exact matches

But this week I caught a few glimpses of reconciliation - in - action that inspired me to envision more climactic scenes in my life.

This exciting epidemic thriller has quite a lot to offer: an outstanding cast of great names, great cinematography by Ballhaus and direction by Petersen and a thrilling plot that doesn't leave you much space to catch your breath, even has quite a few decent action scenes to offer.

Marvel's struggle to make fight scenes more than the cinematic equivalent of a child bashing their action figures together does tend to prevail, though a few sequences are well - choreographed enough to ensure boredom isn't ever a real threat.

Because the nerves have grown numb now, there are scenes of cruel torture in the picture — the kind that a troubled child would enact on his action figures after a few days of standard play: Dr. Strange at the mercy of glass needles, Nebula (Karen Gillan) bloodlessly segmented like a plasticine exhibit in a sadist's medical museum... The atrocity escalates because there's nothing at stake here.

Film editors Michael McCusker and Dirk Westervelt not only knit together the action scenes effectively, they also maintain a good sense of momentum during the dramatic sequences, and enable the few comic moments room to breathe.

Sometimes the perceived need for conflict in a scene acts against it and a few of the scenes and actions of the characters come off as contrived or overreaching.

Yet the good cheer of the performers is infectious, the script contains a few satisfying surprises, and the action scenes are crisply staged and cleanly shot.

There are a few cool action beats, and one particularly amazing death scene, but at times, it doesn't even feel like a Riddick movie, with the title character gone missing for most of the second act.

A five - minute featurette called «Greetings From Bull Mountain» is the standard five - minute B - roll / soft - sell interview errata that features a few additional male buttock shots; «King of the Mountain» is a two - minute music video that splices action sequences from the film together with bloopers and sets it to music (something resurrected in feature - length form by this year's ESPN's X-movie); and nine chapter - encoded deleted scenes (blissfully sans commentary and running between fifteen seconds and a minute, each) are essentially long «comedy» shticks that prove for as bad as Out Cold was, it could have been even worse.

Ultimately, Power says that Black Panther «spirals into a stodgy tale of internecine feuding,» and that T'Challa doesn't really get to be a superhero besides the few action scenes.

In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, some of the best action scenes — the rescue in the mental hospital, the truck - bike chase scene — were smaller affairs with fewer characters at risk but they were packed with suspense.

There are a few action sequences of shocking coherence in «Transformers: The Last Knight,» the fifth of Michael Bay's clang - clang - clang - went - the - robot adventures, but fear not, fans of the franchise: if you're here for the director's trademark chaos editing (where fights go from points A to D to Q), toxic masculinity (and female objectification), comedy scenes rendered tragic (and vice versa), and general full - volume confusion, you'll get all those things in abundance.

Unfortunately this film is not one of my favorites, it plays more like a slapstick comedy, which is not funny, with a few decent action scenes chucked in.

Schaffner came from TV, and while he has few of the obnoxious visual affectations of the TV - trained director, he tends to restrict the most significant actions and relationships in his films to spatial arenas that could be served very adequately by the tube rather than the Panavision screen: the real convention hustle in The Best Man takes place in hotel rooms, hallways, and basements; the tensest moments in his strange and (to me) very sympathetic medieval mini-epic The War Lord are confined to a small soundstage clearing or that besieged tower; the battle scenes in Patton are hardly clumsy, but the real show is George C. Scott; and Nicholas and Alexandra comes alive only after the royal family has been penned up under the watchful eyes of Ian Holm and then Alan Webb, far from the splendor of St. Petersburg or the shambles of the Great War.

HollywoodNews.com: Rachel McAdams may have suffered a few bumps and bruises on the set of «Morning Glory,» but it had nothing to do with action scenes.

Schwarzenegger, in his prime as an action star, is mostly subdued, giving a few of his traditional one - liners («Stick around» punctuates a scene in which he impales someone standing, and his unintentionally funny line, «Get to da choppa!»

There are only a few action scenes in this drama but the first two films were often too graphic in their depiction of children being killed (something that often grew tiresome) so this film feels like a nice departure.

Soderbergh shot the major dance sequences in long takes, using only a few camera setups, just as he did the fight scenes of his recent action movie Haywire.

In particular, Cheri Oteri - cast as one of Megan's gruff fellow soldiers - effortlessly steals her every scene and provides the movie with its few genuine laughs (and, of course, it's always a pleasure to see Steve Guttenberg back in action).

, Leitch does what so few directors of action movies do these days — he ends scenes when they should end, if not before.

The situations are realistic for the most part, and one gets the sense that even director Michael Caton - Jones (Memphis Belle, Basic Instinct 2) thought the film drags too much, as there are a few attempts at action that break the rhythm of the film, providing the worst scenes.

Sadly, what attempts there are at actual humor without vulgarity lay mostly dormant, and a few prolonged action scenes are so disgustingly full of blood and gore that they shift the tone further into the tasteless realm than even the barrage of sex and poop jokes can do.

Some CGI and a couple of action scenes aren't the best, and it does contradict itself a few times which bugged me a bit.

Whatever sense of time catching up with these retirees, which gave a few scenes in the first movie some unexpected heart, have been sidelined in favor of character spouting plot information and action sequences that feel more compulsory than exciting.

Our Kind of Traitor has a few simple action scenes in the final act, but John le Carré's novel comes to life thanks to suitable performances from everyone involved, especially Skarsgård (Thor: The Dark World, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo).

As one would expect from the filmmakers behind «The Matrix» and «Speed Racer,» the film is colorful and filled with top - notch special effects and action scenes; a chase through the skies of Chicago moves so fast that it's a wonder of construction, and it doesn't wear out its welcome like a few other set pieces, including a climactic showdown on Jupiter (the planet).

The best scenes are between various character pairings, especially one in particular between Willoughby and Hayes, where a small action makes her turn from angry to compassionate in the space of a few seconds.

In order to combat that feeling of repetitiveness, what they do here is add a few more fight scenes and a very interesting shoot out that's not exactly what we've come to expect from any action movie.

Succeeds in the top priority of creating a worthy opponent for its superheroes and giving the latter a few new things to do, but this time the action scenes don't always measure up.

The film features a traditional heroes» journey but it offers a few really fun action sequences that are reminiscent of scenes from National Treasure or Indiana Jones films.

A few good laughs, a yippee ki yay and some really great action scenes bring back enough nostalgia by the films end to make this mess of a movie still enjoyable.

Gigazine posted a few acceleration - testing videos of the EV in action to YouTube earlier this year that look like scenes straight out of «Buckaroo Banzai.»

I tend to write a woven story so when a lot of plot elements are happening and coming to one finish, I find it's good to insert a few little «wins» for the reader along the way, not leave all the good fun scenes and action right to the last chapter.

The Blanco has a wider beach area and is also a few steps closer to the action of Mango Deck and the «busier» beach scene (rentals of wave runners at Tio Sports, etc.).

There's good reason for the lack of any significant SoulCalibur play on the competitive scene; while the series might have provided its fair share of hugely entertaining showdowns, a few game - breaking flaws and an emphasis on style over substance has seen it left in a horrible middle ground between hardcore fighters and anything - can go, mash - friendly action gaming with a competitive twist.

The hallways here, the parking garage mentioned earlier, and a few action sequences later on will definitely leave you yearning for more of the creativity on display during the nightmare scenes.

The story is very minimalistic as you play through a few story scenes which lasts a few minutes in - between the action parts of the game.

These decisions also affect the lives of certain characters and the course of the game's story, the only drawback here is that while these decisions are also supposed to change the way the live action series play out, it only ends up changing few scenes and does not makes a solid impact.