Sentences with phrase «heavy action scenes»

I don't want to harsh anyone's buzz; there are plenty of laugh - out - loud moments and extremely satisfying character beats, but it also feels like a stock Fox X-Men film with an overblown budget and needless CGI - heavy action scenes that add little to the story.

It's a total bore from start to finish, and no amount of CGI - heavy action scenes can change that.

Not exact matches

But I usually do not love director Guy Ritchie's signature filmmaking style — one infamous for quick cuts, stylized slo - mo scenes, and brutal, fast action sequences heavy on hand - to - hand combat.

Its action sequences are quite CGI heavy but the fact that most of them — besides a stunningly lit shipwreck scene — take place in the daytime is a relief.

This is a wordy film — the characters often have long melodramatic lines, with many of the scenes heavy in text and thin in action.

Don't expect anything approaching heavy drama or realism though, or gritty action for that matter, White House Down's fight scenes merely serviceable (playing it safe with the ratings board) as are its thrills and levels of tension.

Alongside the action - packed attack scenes are these dialogue - heavy scenes where Lane — and by extension, the audience — learns more about the virus.

Sucker Punch is a man's action movie fantasy — rolling everything a guy would enjoy in a film like hot women, heavy gunfire, a mother dragon who basically makes explosions come to her, and enough insanity injected into its most adrenaline racing scenes to keep you talking around the water cooler for hours.

The plot here is entirely predictable but as with Ozu's family dramas the real meat is in the film's visual aesthetic and cultural context, at once captured most intensely during a scene where Teresa witnesses a financial crisis - related suicide with all the suddenness of an Alfonso Cuaron action sequence and Chen captures her jaded shock by shooting her from low angles through light - heavy filters.

Director Sam Mendes maintains a light touch in the character scenes, leaving the heavy - duty action to his second - unit director Alexander Witt and stunt coordinator Gary Powell.

The opening scene, in which all the mecha - aliens transform back and forth between giant robots and various makes of automobiles and heavy trucks, becomes so abstract it looks like a Jackson Pollock canvas in motion screeching through the middle of a Hollywood action movie.

In addition, even during the heavy, and high - speed, action scenes, there was no excessive blurring or haloing.

His action scenes recall not just comic - book splash panels, but also heavy - metal album covers: beefy viking - like warriors leaping into slow - motion battle, dragons tearing across skies, a towering fire demon laying siege to a city.

Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume Three collects six features by the enormously prolific director from that era (and two documentaries) on a four - disc set, and they are something else, films strewn with wild melodrama, romantic triangles, brawny action and some of the sexiest scenes of heavy petting and passionate smooching you've seen out of old Hollywood, with more frank sexuality more suggested than shown but there is no mistaking the suggestions.

According to the article, «Aficionados likely will be able to pick out the clever, dialogue - heavy scenes shot by Mr. Whedon and the more stylish action scenes shot by Mr. Snyder, but the creative team has endeavored to meld the two.»

«Child caps his steadily building narrative with a gonzo action scene that seems a little heavy for Indiana.»

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Hey, remember that cut scene - heavy stealth action game that came out over a year ago?

There's always action and reaction in New York's contemporary art scene, with moving vans and heavy - duty construction equipment intercepting pedestrians and looking entirely like transient installations themselves.

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What's more, we occasionally had trouble with dialogue clarity when surround sound was engaged, especially in the most complex action scenes, forcing us to raise the volume at times to get the whole picture, and then lower it in heavier scenes.