Sentences with phrase «film as the antagonist»

The natives are quickly identified by the settlers and the film as antagonists, perhaps the hostiles of the title, and before long they've destroyed the family, their home, and stolen their horses, all seemingly out of primal greed.

Meanwhile, as Frieza wins over Bardock, the scene plays out just the same in the film as the antagonist destroys both the latter and Planet Vegeta in a single attack.

Not exact matches

But even this character, who is as close to an antagonist as the film gets, is allowed nuance.

Sure it doesn't make much sense that the teenagers of this small town that has outlawed dancing for five years could all dance so well, yet this is an enjoyable film with a great soundtrack and John Lithgow as a character who is more complex than your typical zealot antagonist.

Where plenty of more serious - minded modern films would try to build a relevant message into this plot about the dangers of unchecked corporate power, lax regulations, or genetic experiments, Rampage seems to consciously make the antagonists as shrill and unrealistic as possible, to avoid any unfortunate associations with reality.

It is also The Void that creates Michael B. Jordan's Erik Killmonger, the antagonist of Black Panther, cousin to Chadwick Boseman's protagonist King T'Challa and a comic - book villain so transcendent that he is almost out of place in a film about a superhero who dresses as a cat.

Overall, this one is a very good action film that entertains in spades and thanks to Hoffman's spectacular turn as the antagonist here, it is elevated above the other installments in the series.

While Brown is the most talented actor in the cast, acclaimed veteran actor James Cromwell («The Artist») gives him a run - for - his - money with a solid supporting performance as one of the film's antagonists, Judge Foster.

A fan edit of the Suicide Squad trailer imagines the film with the Joker as the main antagonist rather than the Enchantress.

He is best known for his roles as Deputy White House Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama The West Wing, as Danny Tripp on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, as Dan Stark in the Fox police buddy - comedy The Good Guys, as Red John in the CBS series The Mentalist, and as antagonist Eric Gordon in the film Billy Madison.

With some of T'Challa's greatest villains already wiped off the board after the hero's first solo outing, Black Panther 2 may just be the perfect film to bring Namor into the MCU as a new antagonist.

It's actually a pretty straightforward film, albeit one filled with eccentric choices: quirky Tarantino-esque monologues delivered in formal period speech; slow, rambling scenes punctuated with extreme gore; antagonists that could be read as racist caricatures, except the movie bends over backward to assure you they're not; and, to cap it all off, an operatic theme song that lays out the plot, Gilligan's Island - style.

Jake Gyllenhaal is set to play villain Mysterio in the next «Spider - Man» movie.The 37 - year - old actor has reportedly won the race to portray the antagonist opposite Tom Holland who is returning as the webslinger in his second standalone film in the...

It's not the most promising way to kick things off (Brewer uses it to illustrate the deadly, post-party car crash that incites the no - song - and - dance law in the film's setting of Bomont, Tennessee), but its poor impression doesn't last long, as Brewer makes quick work of establishing a liberal and plausible adolescent atmosphere in which Big & Rich can be listened to just after Wiz Khalifa, an antagonist is offhandedly chewed out for using the word «fag,» and the black students nearly outnumber the white students in the high school hallways.

What makes the film's antagonist — Michael Myers, also known as The Shape — so frightening is the mystery surrounding him.

Indeed, as an action - adventure film it does offer enough thrills to keep audiences interested, and in Edward Norton it has an antagonist with the potential to become a real threat to Cross / Bourne in future films, much like Brian Cox in Supremacy.

The children's rendition of Rambo is actually much easier to take and enjoy than its bloody source film, as daring stunts and goofy ideas (a scarecrow antagonist, a flying dog) stand in for post-Vietnam sadism.

Also, one thing that can make a mediocre film great is an evil villain and Pearce as the antagonist is more annoying than evil.

Nolan decided to use Bane as the main antagonist in the film because he wanted Batman's body to get the heavy workout his mind usually does when competing against these villains.

Few major story details are confirmed about Gambit, although it's rumored to be a crime / heist film, with supervillain Candra as the primary antagonist.

Once Dinesen begins his search, the desert that «devours everything» becomes the film's antagonist as it eats up time itself.

Yes, many horror films do depict the mentally ill as crazy, broken madmen, and though Split «s antagonist is indeed a villain who does some awful things, there's something way more going on just beneath the surface.

Walton Goggins, an immensely talented star who can be seen next in Marvel's Ant - Man and The Wasp, is also largely wasted as the films central antagonist.

The character served as the main antagonist of the film, and his thirst for cosmic power led him down a dangerous path that saw him attempt to weaponize the Tesseract.

Mila Kunis (best known for being Jackie in That»70s Show) is quite obviously the sympathetic sweetheart of the film while Kristen Bell (known for her role as Veronica in Veronica Mars) is clearly the unknowing antagonist.

Hannah John - Kamen then stars as the film's antagonist, portraying Ghost, while Michael Peña is back, and Michelle Pfeiffer joins the cast as Hank's presumed - dead wife, Janet Van Dyne.

«Charles Lee Ray (also known as «The Lakeshore Strangler», and nicknamed «Chucky») is a character and the titular antagonist of the Child's Play horror film series.

Having dealt with Kidman's dominatrix in the first film, the lovable little marmalade - eating bear from Peru has a new antagonist trying to steal his scenes - Hugh Grant, typecast yet again as a vain and smarmy narcissist.

While Vince and Willa do an okay job as the American antagonists (with Kevin Kline doing double duty as both Vince and Rod), it's really the wacky British spirit (and slapstick comedy) that keeps this film alive.

This bloated first act results in less time with Miss Peregrine (Eva Green) and the Peculiar Children, and Samuel L. Jackson as the film's antagonist, Barron.

We're still awaiting official word on who will be cast as Dani Moonstar, a Native American mutant which has close ties to one of the film's antagonists, the Demon Bear, and Warlock, who's a bio-mecha alien.

Dornan will portray an IRA member who begins to discover weaknesses in the prison's security, while Brosnan is starring as the film's antagonist, the warden of Maze Prison who finds himself pitted against the escapees.

Hans Zimmer's all electronic score is also something quite beautiful, enhancing the endearing quality of a film peppered with a series of grueling sequences, such as Chappie's being abused by a group of callous youth before he's physically butchered by Jackman's cruel antagonist.

Though the film suffers from a bloated runtime and is a tad one - sided in its depiction of the antagonists, «Captain Phillips» is nonetheless a gripping hostage thriller that boasts some of the year's finest performances, not only by Hanks, but his amateur co-stars as well.

Oh, and because it's an X-Men film and those can never stray too far from the same plot, Magneto (Fassbender) is once again involved as an antagonist for the team of scrappy mutants.

One can say that Wright does exceedingly well in displaying bureaucracy and interior governmental issues as Halifax basically turns into the antagonist of the film, undermining each progression of advance that Churchill makes.

Khan had been rumored as the film's likely villain as early as 2010, a notion dismissed time and again, only to be given weight by reports in late 2011 director J.J. Abrams wanted first Benicio del Toro and then Edgar Ramirez to play the antagonist.

Arguably the more interesting performance came from Tom Hiddleston as the villain of the piece, Loki, looking as though he borrowed a lot from Brad Dourif's slimy performance as Grima Wormtongue in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films, albeit with much more command and presence that such an antagonist requires.

Of all the major horror franchises, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has been pretty poorly served despite being eight films in, and still filmmakers and studios can not move away from trying to give a definitive background on main antagonist Leatherface, a fact given credence by the eponymous title which, in any other franchise, would be seen as being definitive but this being the schizophrenic series that it is, this is the second movie in it to bear this title, the other being 1990s Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.

The wolves in the film basically act as the antagonist of a slasher film the way they are portrayed in the film and there are some really incredible shots of peril - the plane crash being the standout.

The character of Leslie's father, Jack (Frank Langella) who initially appears to be the film's antagonist, a wealthy, upper class fat - cat hell bent on sinking his claws into Ben's family, but we soon come to hear him as a voice of reason.

The film is expected to introduce new characters as well, with the main antagonist rumored to be a head of a Japanese crime syndicate; this villain role will reportedly be filled by Hiroyuki Sanada, who previously worked with Keanu Reeves on 47 Ronin.

The fanatically by - the - book and fascistic - girl - scout - type Squirrel acts as the film's unlikely antagonist against Cameron Diaz's hilariously and unapologetically inappropriate very bad teacher, Elizabeth Halsey.

Domhnall Gleeson is a pleasure as ever but is underused and the film's lead antagonist played by Takamassa Ishihara is lost due to motivational (and at times sexual) ambiguity.

According to TheWrap, the film will feature Black Mantra as the chief antagonist opposite Jason Momoa's titular hero.

However as usually is the case in these types of films, it's the antagonist that truly stands out.

However, the comic book character Thanos will serve as the main antagonist of the film, with the plot revolving around the Infinity Gauntlet and the six Infinity Stones.

I feel the same way, the first film gave us a better look into the minds of replicants by having them as antagonists.

Angus Macfadyen as the colorful zoo maintenance man, and John Michael Higgins as the snooty zoo inspector who knowingly holds their future in his smarmy hands, round it out, and all are very good at filling the film's requisite antagonist, comic relief and support system needs.

A Fantastic Woman is, above all, very careful: Marina's antagonists seldom come off as sheer monsters, while Marina herself is treated with such reverence that she winds up remaining something of a cypher for the film's duration.