Sentences with phrase «for chase sequences»

There are pauses in the expository dialogue on occasion for chase sequences.

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Fortunately, these philosophical arguments play out in a pretty solid cop drama, executing well on the high octane car chases, shootouts and action sequences that keep the public coming back to cop movies for decades.

Crews who are in town to shoot a high - speed chase sequence for «Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2» plan to do prep work along the Kensington Expressway on Friday.

Rather than first replicating the DNA with the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) as is typical, the investigators cut to the chase and sequenced the ancient DNA directly, using computing technology developed for modern genome projects.

The second hour for the most part is breathtaking, an oxygen - sapping diving sequence is followed by an at times hilarious car chase — and that's just the beginning.

In the meantime, a deliciously nasty bad guy, a white South African gangster and arms dealer named Klaue (Andy Serkis, in a role he introduced three years ago in Avengers: Age of Ultron), is keen to get his hands on some vibranium himself, which involves an unexpected side trip to Busan, South Korea, for a prolonged sequence heavy on chases and tough - guy action but rather more conventional than the rest of the film.

It's an action movie, first and foremost, using a certain jig of political awareness to provide a fitting backdrop for breathless chase sequences and wrecking ball heroics.

But it might all be worth it for the car - chase / crash / exploding sequence featuring giant barbells getting scattered across a freeway and wreaking vehicular havoc that is a veritable orgy of destruction — it may well be the Michael Bay - iest thing Michael Bay has ever shot, so empty and so pointless and so hilariously excessive that it says more about Michael Bay than it does anything else... not that he ever appears to have anything else to talk about than his own obsession with luxuriating in cartoon violence.

That said, «Mary and the Witch's Flower» does diverge somewhat even from Yonebayashi's previous features, which were also adapted from British young - adult novels, in that it calls for a couple of thrilling chase sequences and several bombastic set pieces.

The story goes that when Alfred Hitchcock conceived the idea for «North by Northwest» he really just came up with three action set - pieces — Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint hanging from the faces on Mount Rushmore, the cropduster chasing Grant through a cornfield and the sequence that has bad guys pouring liquor down Grant's throat until he's too drunk to drive, then putting him behind the wheel of a car that is sent careening down a mountain.

Original director George Miller has recruited an all - new Max — British beefcake Tom Hardy — but retained the apocalyptic Australian setting, marauding mutant villains and thunderous dune - buggy chase sequences for this belated franchise reboot.

An Australian - Hong Kong co-production, with fight scenes choreographed by Sammo Hung, the minimal regard for safety concerns is readily apparent in the chase sequences.

Both showed off the intense action and «Dead Eye» laden gunplay — with Marston shooting bandits and sometimes their horses to stave off attacks — that should make for memorable chase sequences throughout the game.

Soderbergh inverts the typical action movie genre score by ratcheting up the score during the non-fight sequences, applying that retro - 1970s jazzy horn and percussion score by David Holmes (Code 46, Analyze That) during the dialogue and chases, while turning the music completely off when the film gets explosive for the highly brutal moments of close - quarter, melee combat.

Other similar concessions are made elsewhere: during the game's nightmare sequences, Harry throws off the creatures chasing him using the PSP's face buttons (corresponding to whether or not they're jumping on your from ahead, behind, or either side); climbing and crawling away are sped up by tapping X; various commands for Harry's cell phone, a touch - screen wonder that does everything from GPS and phone numbers to saving the game, are handled with D - pad hotkeys.

Fincher's excellent at whatever the film needs — Freeman sulking around because he's a lonely old cop and it's what lonely old cops do, Pitt doing a chase sequence, even John C. McGinley's glorified cameo as the SWAT commander has some good procedural sequences — but he doesn't actually have a real vision for it.

Anyway, the scientist starts to investigate and then all hell breaks loose and it's a pretty fast - paced series of chases, escapes, and kinetic action sequences for the next (appreciably well - paced) 90 - some minutes.

With many of the chase sequences between the detective and criminal occurring during the middle of the night, Wild routinely emphasized the dark blue and grey shades in many scenes to draw attention to the two characters» continued disdain for each other, as well as their own flaws.

EXTRAS: The two - disc set doesn't have much for a movie its size, but there are three production featurettes — on location shooting, filming the train chase sequence and cowboy boot camp — as well as a deleted scene and blooper reel.

The biggest problem in Taken isn't its join - the - dots plot, however, but once again the choice of using handheld cameras and rapid - fire editing for the fight and chase sequences detracts from the experience rather than enhancing it.

As for Phillips, there's something to be said for his spatial logic and compositional sense in the heist and chase sequences: the only moments that really work.

There had always been great action sequences in his earlier films, and Boyle's work continued to show a great feel for building up tension and then letting it erupt into a well - choreographed chase or fight.

A three - way freefall battle for a parachute goes on for several minutes, as does an airplane chase sequence that has Smart hanging on for dear life on the tail of a giant banner for a suicide prevention hotline.

That the film was allowed to blow out to a hefty 138 minutes is unnecessary, and trimming of chase sequence flab might have allowed for a tighter and more engrossing thriller.

Colors pop throughout, particularly in the opening chase sequence and Bob's Diner, a location for many of the film's pivotal moments.

If beating advance ticket sales for previous buzzed - about superhero films are like flipping over cars during a late - night road chase sequence in a movie trailer, then Black Panther is like... Black Panther, leaping ahead of those vehicles while a Run The Jewels track plays behind it.

The Edge Arm is a huge steady - cam - like contraption mounted to a truck, used for capturing big chase sequences.

Obviously, The Death Cure is no Mad Max: Fury Road, but seeing a car / train chase / heist sequence utilizing practical cars and real stunts is a worthwhile viewing experience for a film like this.

The climactic chase sequence is shot using unconvincing day - for - night techniques that appear to be accurately reproduced for video.

Theron has thrown herself into the action and this amazing sequences that starts on the stairwell of an abandoned building and works its way into various rooms and then outside for a car chase is pulse pounding.

So it goes for the rest of the film — how else to explain a brief chase sequence set to «Don't Stop Believin»»?

We happen to think that this maligned fourth installment of the Indiana Jones saga has a lot going for it, but Shia LaBeouf's «Mutt» Williams is a major misstep, and the infamous sequence in which he swings above a high - speed chase is downright indefensible.

Like Popeye Doyle's daredevil car chase in The French Connection, Chazelle has dreamt up frenzied, dizzying sequences where Andrew's pursuit of perfection, seated at the drum kit, either grabs the audience by the throat or throws them for a loop, addled and always in awe.

We get a lot of dog chase sequences and quite a few instances where they wrestle with whether or not to go back for a missing group member, and all the while you never get the sense that the group is making any progress.

At the film's recent press day, Shyamalan and Blum discussed their creative partnership and the most surprising aspect of working with each other, why the scares in this film are deceptively simple yet terrifying and original, how the mock documentary style format gave Shyamalan new cinematic tools for keeping the audience guessing, his directing style, what he was looking for in his young actors, why he cast experienced stage actors for the grandparents» roles, his collaboration with award - winning DP Maryse Alberti, how he recruited Oxenbould to shoot the chase sequence underneath the house, why he likes treating B genre movies like they're A dramas, and more.

The city's languid portrayal is at odds with the frenetic, pell - mell nature of the film's signature car chases, where POV shots and quick - cuts make for some of cinema's finest chase sequences.

Refn talks about the tedium he felt shooting the car chases in «Drive» and how Christina Hendricks saved an otherwise dull scene, while Noé reveals his problems trying to get Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel to shoot a sequence he wanted for «Irreversible.»

All 4 Bourne films are available together for the first time ever... Get ready for non-stop action, edge - of - your - seat suspense and spectacular chase sequences with everyone's favorite assassin in The Bourne Classified Collection!

Stylistically, Puss in Boots embraces some of Tex Avery's manic sensibilities (a character leaving a shadow cut - out of himself when crashing through a barrier, for instance), and is cheekily self - aware without being postmodern; various chase sequences are superlative examples of action animation, meanwhile, goosed up even further by the movie's stereoscopic 3 - D presentation.

Get ready for non-stop action, edge - of - your - seat suspense and spectacular chase sequences with everyone's favorite assassin in The Bourne Trilogy!

From there, Living Among Us loses whatever comic aims it might have had for a descent into paranoia, threats, and chase sequences, as well as a literal descent into the vampires» off - limits basement.

And there are a few sections that are transportingly lovely, in particular any sequence involving the pop star Gazelle (voiced by Shakira), and Hops» high - speed train ride towards and through Zootopia, which introduces the city's different terrains (including frozen tundra and misty rainforest) while leaving room for subsequent bits of spelunking (a foot chase through rodent town lets Hops know what it feels like to be a giant).

If anything, the surprising success of the original has resulted in more money and more insane sequences, like a chase sequence with a truck convoy and a bizarre scene when Deadpool's legs regrow after he is cut in half, giving him baby limbs for a time.

Directors: Phil Lord and Chris Miller Cast: Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Ice Cube, Peter Stormare, Jillian Bell Best for... inspired chase sequences

It's one long chase sequence that never lets up and you are quickly buckled in for one hell of a ride.

Wright already gave the trick a try in the music video for Mint Royale's «Blue Song,» but that was just a dry run to this ecstatic prologue — a sequence that shifts gears from Elgort's dorky - cool lip - sync routine to a hair - pin chase, featuring balletic 180 - degree drifts and a game of three car Monte, all precisely cut to the tempo of «Bellbottoms.»

For all the mayhem, music and dialogue are in perfect harmony with the effects, and even at home the soundstage is breathtakingly transparent, with many dazzling examples of sidewall imaging throughout the chase sequences.

Those who watched the film following its surprise Oscar win discovered a unique crime thriller more concerned with people's passions — be they watching sports, getting drunk, or tracking a murderer — than with gunplay or chase sequences (despite a one - take action scene that gives Children Of Men a run for its money).

The plans are agreeably complicated and the action sequences busy (if not actually exciting), but the film becomes a tease for the concluding mini-Cooper chase, which, if you've seen the original Michael Caine The Italian Job, is in the rarefied air of one of the best car chases in movie history.

Before the character and the plot device he represents become an excuse for, respectively, an antagonist and a series of chase sequences, the material involving Time and his lair is some potentially heady and involving stuff.