Sentences with phrase «great espionage thriller»

The Russo Brothers proved their ability to make great espionage thrillers featuring superheroes with 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Not exact matches

With Pierce Brosnan returning to espionage in this moderately budgeted thriller, you can expect great performances from the cast; mayhem controlled and uncontrolled; a damsel in distress who is more than she seems to be, and, of course, monumental betrayal — not necessarily in that order.

This is a competent enough, if plodding, espionage thriller with mostly compelling actors (except for the lead, Jessica Chastain, a lightweight who is mysteriously being called great in this film, and who just received a Best Actress nomination) that tells the story of the painstaking intelligence gathering that led to the ultimate revenge killing, when U.S. Navy Seals exacted retribution for the murder of 3000 people on September 11, 2001, on U.S. soil.

In some ways it plays like a sardonic post-script to their great success, The Third Man, in others a transition film between the gritty but heroic espionage thrillers of the forties and fifties and the far more ambivalent and skeptical work of John Le Carre, as seen in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold just a few years later.

Well, on the evidence of A Most Wanted Man, one of his final films, our loss is all the greater as he's simply magnificent in a gripping espionage thriller.

Other than one brief moment of co-star Michael Keaton in all his crazed, lunatic, wide - eyes glory, American Assassin turns out to be as unrelentingly second - rate a spy - versus - spy espionage thriller as any this side of the direct - to - DVD market, wasting great source material from author Vince Flynn in the process.

Besides being a great thriller, Hunter brings together aspects from romance, mystery, police procedurals and espionage.