Sentences with phrase «generic action movie»

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

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.

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

No one's bothered to figure what this movie has to offer beyond terrifically tactile stone figures going through the motions of what might be called Generic Animated Action Rescue Plot...

But co-directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein place a misjudged emphasis on keeping the violence and the action «real,» so at its most routine and generic, the movie forgets it's supposed to be a comedy.

When the writers on The Simpsons needed a generic - sounding movie for Marge and Homer to see, sans kids, they came up with «The Stockholm Affair,» a spy thriller plotted enough to make Marge feel smart, but with enough action to entertain Homer.

We pick up the action in «Retaliation» with some generic buddy - movie bonding between Duke (Channing Tatum) and Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson).

Shot in nondescript Los Angeles locations, including a generic apartment where much of the action takes place, the movie has a flat, featureless look more suitable to one of the low - budget, semiprofessional productions that Mr. Affleck helps sponsor through the «Project Greenlight» contest.

The movie isn't overtly terrible in any way, but it's an incredibly safe and vanilla action comedy (and the term «action» is being used pretty loosely here) that's as generic as it is forgettable.

This movie only exists as a crass way for Hollywood to make money by updating a known story into a generic medieval setting with tons of meaningless action.

Frasier takes a role that on script was probably a generic American action movie stock figure and adds a slice of humour.

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.

This isn't the same as that sci - fi film Collider, instead it's a rather generic - looking action movie with a stellar cast.

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.

Though the film boasts some fantastic visuals and rousing action that's entertaining in the moment, it's a fairly generic monster movie (think «Starship Troopers» in Ancient China) that's hindered by its formulaic and underdeveloped story.

Sure, the Brothers Grimm fairy tale existed long before Walt Disney made the classic animated Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but this movie only exists as a crass way for Hollywood to make money by updating a known story into a generic medieval setting with tons of meaningless action.

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

The movie has its share of problems — from its assembly - by - committee script, to the generic action sequences — but the four actors who play the Turtles make up for some of those shortcomings by really capturing their spirit and brotherly camaraderie.

Some come up with overly generic names (Massive Action Game), some with unnecessarily long ones (Peter Jackson's King Kong The Official Game of the Movie), and some with ones that shouldn't be touched at all, as is the case with Under Siege.