Sentences with phrase «film given the situation»

Not exact matches

Cambridge Analytica boss Alexander Nix was apparently filmed giving examples of how his firm could discredit political rivals by arranging various smear campaigns, including setting up encounters with prostitutes and staging situations in which apparent bribery could be caught on camera.

There's a situation involving an old man, for example, that Hollywood would have used to give the film a conventional uplift.

But as in his previous film, Crazy Heart, for which Jeff Bridges won an Oscar playing an alcoholic country and western singer, the writer - director Scott Cooper is able to rely on his actors to give life to characters and situations which might otherwise seem tired.

Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes, Green Lantern) plays one of the drug dealers, and his approach in this really breaks down the way you look at drug deals in other films, giving you a much more realistic look into those kind of situations.

And while the storyline, characters and sets could only come from the quirky imaginations of the Coen brothers, the film remains critical and engaged with the world we live in — a world where the little guy struggles to change their own tough situation, let alone the world at large, and the big ones who don't give a damn.

As was the case with the first film, Deadpool 2 doesn't try overly hard narrative wise, this new jaunt sees Wilson in a state of depression and in a situation where he finds himself trying to protect Hunt for the Wilderpeople star Julian Dennisen's mutant teenager from time travelling super-soldier Cable but it's all an excuse to give audiences more of what they came to love in the first outing.

Rating: 5/10 — a man (Lowery) drives across country after the death of his brother and gives a lift to a woman (Lane) who tricks him into being the getaway driver in a bank robbery, a situation that sees him on the run from the police but determined to prove his innocence; a gritty, hard - boiled film noir, They Made Me a Killer adds enough incident to its basic plot to keep viewers entertained from start to finish without really adding anything new or overly impressive to the mix, but it does have a brash performance from Lowery, and Thomas's direction ensures it's another solid effort from Paramount's B - movie unit, Pine - Thomas.

Her MacGyver - like skills are somewhat questionable in their believability, given that she is an aspiring fashion designer who apparently doubles as some kind of warrior who has secretly been training her entire life for this exact situation, but it's best not to question too much of the mechanics of this story and to just have fun with what we're given, which the film certainly knows how to deliver.

Not only is this film captivating from beginning to end, it is also very informative and gave me a great deal of knowledge about the situation.

The film opens strong as two bloodied passengers rush to a desolate gas station to clean up and take stock of their situation — a situation we're given very few clues about.

Thankfully, what we were given is a solid horror film that acknowledges the complexities of families, knows when to keep pushing the creepiness of the situation, and still brings out a few good jumps.

As with most comedies these days, the trailer gives away much more than it should; but, unlike most, it leaves plenty of laughs and situations for the film.

In setting up the rudiments of this situation, the film can't be faulted, at least on the level of its script (Rafael Yglesias adapting his own novel), direction (Peter Weir returning to a relatively serious mode after the claptrap of Dead Poets Society and Green Card), and performances (Bridges and Perez give uncharacteristic, highly arresting portraits of people in a sustained state of shock).

Meanwhile, Wilkinson's Carl — easily the most fascinating character in the film — randomly becomes excessively unhinged and is then conveniently sidelined by the story in one of the screenplay's more WTF developments, all while Malcolm is never given a real chance to truly consider the options he has, all of which leave him with a no - win situation.

While the film ultimately may not be inspiring or uplifting, it's an eye - opening and profound experience that not only gives us insight into the situation in Mexico, but a first - hand account of an endless cycle that has repeated over and over in the course of ours species» history.

While MI: 3 is, of course, a continuation of situations and characters introduced in the first two films and, to a more tangential extent, the original television series, Abrams» style is much more reminiscent of James Cameron in his approach to giving us early moments of character development, channeling that into the unfolding upturn of tension, and then finally, letting things rip in the action scenes with relentless intensity.

The screenplay by Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier puts the opponents in the same situations we already know, and for his part, director Alan Taylor gives us recreated shots and beats from the first film.

Although I'm giving Syriana a solid recommendation for those that are interested in the subject matter, I do wish that the film could have been presented in a way (like Traffic) that would make those that don't already know the global situation understand just what's going on in this part of the world, and how it does indeed affect all of us in very significant ways.

Some of the picture - perfect situations border on precious and the film runs largely on charm, but Engel's eye for people and landscape and social activity gives it a vibrancy that is still compelling.

Blanchett's character, though initially well - meaning, is just as flawed, and it's wonderful to see a film that doesn't give us any «nice» characters with which to side — instead revelling in a glorious and bleakly grey situation where there are no easy solutions.

Poitier gives two very different performances in both films, no mean feat considering both Homer Smith and Mark Thackeray find themselves in similar situations.

Cambridge Analytica boss Alexander Nix was apparently filmed giving examples of how his firm could discredit political rivals by arranging various smear campaigns, including setting up encounters with prostitutes and staging situations in which apparent bribery could be caught on camera.