Sentences with phrase «generic action»

Oh, and saving the world from generic action movie villains, as usual.

He was finally putting in performances that were award worthy, but his very next film is a mostly generic action flick.

The new series just has generic action music inserted.

These recreational movies generally hit generic action, comedic and emotional beats.

The original Expendables film was pretty much the perfect movie to base a cheap videogame off of to make some cash: it featured a load of generic action heroes blowing a shitload of stuff up in various locations and in various cool ways.

There are flashes of inspiration in Morgan that ultimately just make its somewhat generic action thriller finale more disappointing.

But any intrigue and atmosphere is swiftly lost, as Nick's plane crashes back in the UK and things descend into generic action.

that ultimately just make its somewhat generic action thriller finale more disappointing.

It doesn't help that the three plots aren't any fun or frightening either, with generic actions scenes and the like (save for one Clock Tower - inspired section).

Generic action sequences, atrocious acting,...

These third - level sequences take on the guise of various sorts of generic action set pieces — always introduced by the Wise Man, always following a go - here - shoot - them - grab - that goal.

Battles are very similar to those in Secret of Mana in that you attack foes that wander around directly in a very generic Action RPG fashion, but with some added tweaks.

Heist is as generic an action movie as you can find these days.

One of the highlights of the original film was the Trevor Rabin (of Yes) score, which sadly has been replaced by an unimpressive and generic action score here.

And when all is said and done, the Bourne Identity could almost be placed as a very generic action thriller.

Had this Taken on a Train redux a good shake more intelligence and a portion less generic action hero fisticuffs, casting Neeson as down - on - his - luck ex-cop turned insurance - hawking family man Michael MacCauley would make perfect sense.

This Mission unfolds at a near dead - sprint — frenetic editing, whiplash camera pans, all hiding an intentionally under - explained plot and generic action beats that will be familiar to anyone who has ever seen a ticking - clock thriller.

The bad news is that the film is explicitly in «don't screw it up» mode, going through the motions and offering somewhat generic action heroics and run - of - the - mill perils.

A hopelessly generic action movie that fully deserves the direct - to - DVD treatment, it's the kind of film that Cage has been making a little too frequently these days.

If you're desperately waiting for Liam Neeson to move away from generic action thrillers, 2014 looks like it could be off to a promising...

After that, he mostly returned to generic action roles («G.I. Joe: Retaliation»...

Directed by David Ayer, who's pretty much become Hollywood's go - to guy for gritty cop movies, «Sabotage» boasts one hell of an ensemble cast for a seemingly generic action thriller.

The latest cinematic attempt at the HITMAN video game is even more inept than its predecessor, a lazy and generic action vehicle with little value.

There's some sad math happening when Hollywood tries to equalize one of its most distinctive leading men with generic action parts that even Liam Neeson would scowl at.

That's when Ghostbusters becomes a painfully generic action comedy.

Lundgren has been a durable fixture in generic action fare since the 1980s, and with Skin Trade, he continues a recent trend of taking more of a creative hand behind the scenes.

In some ways Crystal Dynamics Tomb Raider is a fairly generic action game.

But don't get me wrong, if you are a fan like I am there is enough Deadpool in here to at least wet your beak, I just wish there was more Deadpool and not as much generic action - shooter.

And, rather than buck this trend and do something new as other indie game developers have tried, I find that Intoxicate Studios have created a game with a lot of atmosphere... that unfortunately plays like any other generic action - adventure game on the market.

The Bionic Arm concept was fresh in the day where generic action games came by the barrelful, and it's still mildly fun to play the game today.

generic action game??

The main menu screen is a simple montage of film clips set to the film's generic action score.

If we got more Reynolds / Jackson interaction, and less generic action, I could recommend The Hitman's Bodyguard.

When: January 13th Why: It's pretty funny that a movie about counterfeiting should turn out to be an imitation itself (the Icelandic film on which its based featured the U.S. version's director, Baltasar Kormákur, in the lead role), but despite the fact that its clichéd plot seems to have been ripped off from a number of generic action thrillers just like it, «Contraband» has one thing that a lot of those films didn't — a killer ensemble cast.

Right off the bat the viewer is placed in the exact same situation the police and hostages were at the time, setting the precedence for an immersive, if somewhat generic action thriller.

It would be painfully ironic if it was turned into another generic action flick.

The generic action — including a falling building that unfortunately summons memories of 9/11 — is presented in headache - inducing 3 - D, and the comedy isn't particularly sharp.

On the surface, «Act of Valor» sounds like yet another generic action movie destined for the Wal - Mart bargain bin, but what sets it apart from its military - themed brethren is that it stars active duty U.S. Navy SEALs in the lead roles.

That the movie is a generic action flick with lots of fine actors doing the best with what they have to work with.

squanders an interesting opening on a generic action finale there's nothing offensively terrible about it.This is a low - budget (8 million dollars) original sci - fi concept starring two women and multiple people of color, there's credit to be given to Scott Free Productions, 20th Century Fox, and Scott for producing a movie that seemed to approach film - making exactly the way it should be done with diversity.

Although Morgan squanders an interesting opening on a generic action finale there's nothing offensively terrible about it.This is a low - budget (8 million dollars) original sci - fi concept starring two women and multiple people of color, there's credit to be given to Scott Free Productions, 20th Century Fox, and Scott for producing a movie that seemed to approach film - making exactly the way it should be done with diversity.

Over the course of the past three installments, Craig's Bond has gone from a charisma - free brute to a generic action hero to a vulnerable spy whose time in the world seems to have expired (The last descriptor belongs to the character in Skyfall, the best of the Craig entries and one of the best of all the Bond films, which used the indecisiveness about the character to its advantage).

I expected another generic action movie, and while it is not without its cliches I say this looks nothing short of BADASS

Courtney still has that generic action hero feel about him and often fades into the background.

At some point, the movie itself crosses the line, from a modestly thoughtful attempt to extrapolate a drama from real and urgent events to a generic action piece with predictable good and bad guys and pat, civics - book morals.

Developed by the same team behind survival horror series Siren, PS Vita launch title Gravity stars a female protagonist who - according to the official press materials - must % 26ldquo; uncover her past to protect her future % 26hellip; % 26rdquo; While that cut - and - paste tagline seems to have fallen right off the generic action - adventure assembly line, Gravity is unlike anything we % 26rsquo; ve seen.

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the generic action movie lead, poking fun at himself and the genre he ruled, while Die Hard's John McTiernan delivers the action fans would expect.