The tongue - in - cheek nature of the film helps immensely to keep the more outlandish concepts into perspective, as this is a movie meant purely for entertainment, and we are willing to accept every farfetched contrivance just to be rewarded by more in - jokes, asides, and
good bits of over-the-top action.
Not exact matches
Recipient
of a Golden Globes nomination for
Best Actress in a musical or comedy, Lily Tomlin («Grace and Frankie» TV series) may be a
bit over-the-top as the tough, outspoken, and cantankerous 70 - something Elle in Paul Weitz» («Little Fockers») Grandma, but she is also very funny and very real.
«Cold as Ike» is a typical
bit of Newman dramatic scoring which could easily come from American Beauty, with the usual array
of plucked instruments; and «Hurricane Herman» - with its
over-the-top melodrama - sounds a
bit like,
well, Herrmann!
(
well, maybe Malkovich — he's a
bit of a bad ass) could be kicking ass the way they do in this
over-the-top action flick about over-the-hill CIA retirees.
And there is no way Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich (
well, maybe Malkovich — he's a
bit of a bad ass) could be kicking ass the way they do in this
over-the-top action flick about over-the-hill CIA retirees.
Before it gets too Teorema on us, a mid-film reveal about military experiments will either tickle your fancy or slide you off into distraction, though it's presented with such poker faced seriousness that Lance Reddik's
over-the-top performance feels every
bit at home here as similar twists in blockbuster fanfare like something from the ongoing Bourne films (as
well as a distant echo
of The Manchurian Candidate).
The various
bits of dialogue in the game are
over-the-top with typical Japanese flair, and every weapon represented throughout the game has its own sound which manages to convey the action
of using it quite
well.