Sentences with phrase «in a gunfight of»

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I was in the Somali capital two years ago and every night, just before the call to prayer signaled the breaking of the fast, we'd hear a cacophony of mortar rounds and gunfights.

Military forces engaged in a gunfight with the militants and said four of the attackers have been killed.

Thursday morning and the talk of the tea room is the Gunfight at the OK Corral (otherwise known as the rumble in Strangers Bar).

We've been down this road before and it's a road we go down often,» said Adam Winkler, professor at the University of California at Los Angeles and author of «Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America.»

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Thompson said the gunfight was the result of ongoing beef between the Folk Nation gang, which has members in the Crown Heights complex on Bedford Avenue, and a faction of the Crips gang known as the «8 - Trey Crips,» based in Brownsville.

Military sources disclosed that the figure could be higher given the superior fire power of the troops of Operation Lafiya Dole in the about three - hour exchange of gunfight in the Rann area of Borno State.

Bellevue The nation's oldest public hospital — and the premier emergency institution in New York City — is the go - to place in the aftermath of a plane or train wreck, an all - out gunfight or a commercial airliner slicing through a skyscraper.

We've uncovered the best nine bars in El Paso where singles will find plenty of opportunities to meet that special someone (and hopefully avoid a gunfight).

The Universal City backlot gets a good workout in the blood - spattered finale of Gunfight in Abilene, which barely made the theatrical rounds before entrenching itself on late night television.

There is footage in the film — of gunfights, of meth cooks, of night expeditions into the hills along the U.S. - Mexico border — that would not be possible with the cumbersome cameras and crews of the past, with Heineman essentially going on ride - alongs as heavily armed vigilantes go about their business.

In the first half, Jodorowsky plays a violent, black - clad gunfighter who, accompanied by his naked son, sets off on a murderous mission to challenge four Zen masters of gunfighting, and learns from each of them a Great Lesson before they die.

Barry (Bill Hader), having already murdered his Marine friend Chris (Chris Marquette) to keep him from turning himself into the police over their roles in the gunfight with the Bolivian cartel members, got even further away from his self - justified delusion of only killing «bad guys.»

There are a few good things about it, the gunfights were gritty and non exaggerated proving that Mann can still do decent gun play that is more accurate opposed to the infinite clip that we are used to seeing in many other movies, the cinematography is also very good and it was really nice to just look at the beautiful landscapes and backgrounds of the locations they filmed in Hong Kong and Jakarta.

There are gunfights (one of my favorites in any movie ever is when Treat Williams and a security guard are shooting at each other for a good couple of minutes).

Whatever tenuous grasp on our attention it still manages to hold falls completely apart in a ridiculous gunfight sequence, and a final summation to the mystery, featuring over-the-top acting that sinks the entire film into the realm of the absurd.

There's little action in between a surprisingly violent gunfight at the beginning and the climactic battle - at - high - seas between Sparrow and Jones» crews, and while the special effects are quite effective, these sequences just don't have the inventive thrills of the last films.

Oh sure, I can enjoy the occasional Love Actually or Jerry Maguire, but for the most part I pass the chick flicks by in favor of, you know, gunfights and fart jokes.

A generic crime thriller in just about every way, «Welcome to the Punch» looks great and features a couple of nifty gunfights, but it's ultimately a case of style over substance, and one that its top - notch British ensemble is unable to rescue.

Most importantly, without Cuarón, it's hard to imagine Yates would have the freedom to make the Potter movies his own: to make the Ministry of Magic an automated nightmare straight out of Brazil; to shoot action sequences as loud and surprising as gunfights; to let Harry and Hermione dance to Nick Cave, even though it's not in the books, because it turns out that's just what the audience needs to see.

Most fights or gunfights really only last a minute or so, and these follow that template most of the time — though in this case, short means brutal.

Henry Fonda plays Wyatt Earp and Victor Mature plays Doc Holliday in My Darling Clementine, John Ford's 1946 film depicting the build - up of events in Tombstone, Arizona that eventually led to the infamous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

At least the 5.1 DTS - HD MA remix of the original Cantonese audio offers a genuine upgrade (that mono track is on board as well in DD 2.0), although it mostly just broadens the front channels during the gunfights — sporadically and randomly at that.

Aside from the aforementioned instances of blatant depth manipulation, Walsh keenly seizes the more pragmatic uses of the illusory optics, in the form of interior staging, with tables and bottles and barrels serving as prominent parts of a scene's foreground design, and in a wonderfully mounted gunfight, shooting through doors, windows, and fences.

Reluctantly, Albert must now put his newfound courage to the test in a one - man - left - standing gunfight that will earn him Anna's hand and long - denied respect in the Wild West... or another unmarked grave forgotten in the annals of history.

Between Pacino shooting it out in a gunfight with no bullets, owning the lamest disco - tech of all time, to him ballroom dancing, Sean Penn overacting and Miller not being Michelle Pfeiffer; this movie has zero re-watchable equity.

(I think particularly of Lamont Johnson, who has built a reputation for taut direction of two - character confrontations in films like The McKenzie Break, A Gunfight, and You'll Like My Mother and such TV movies as My Sweet Charlie and Deadlock.)

Deathly Hallows earns its PG - 13 rating with a swell of actual dramatic stakes, as characters are killed off unexpectedly to sustain the surprise and the triangle of pubescent wizardly valor engages in furious wand shoot - outs with assassins, including a spectacular gunfight inside a London café where Harry first learns there are no safe havens in which he can hide.

Its sequel, directed by John Woo, featured all of the filmmaker's trademark visual style (balletic slo - mo gunfights, pigeons flapping their wings also in slo - mo before all hell broke loose) without any of the poignancy or dramatic heft of his best Hong Kong - set films.

After a huge gunfight in which at least five cops are killed, the squad gets back to work that afternoon without registering the faintest tremor of loss.)

It's the camera - in - a blender - school of action filmmaking: There's so little understanding of spatial relationships that the whole thing plays like that Naked Gun gag where the gunfight is taking place between two people within arm's reach of one another.

Most of the slow - mo effects and shaky cam stuff (used to great effect to match the frenetic pace in the fridge gunfight scene) were gone by the time the martial arts happened.

When they failed to agree on how to tell the true story of Wyatt Earp and those involved in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the two split.

Blu - ray Highlight: As you might expect from a movie like «Safe,» the coolest piece of bonus material is a 10 - minute featurette called «The Art of the Gunfight» that takes a look at the action choreography in the film, focusing on three sequences in particular.

Car chases, gunfights (including a major battle that has to have resulted in dozens of casualties), and hand - to - hand combat occur frequently throughout this action film.

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In a whirlwind of gunfights, horseback chases, and utter lawlessness, Captain Ken sparks a time of change.

Unless HTC plans on bringing a knife to a gunfight, expect one of two things to happen when the Flyer is finally announced — either these specs are off base, or this device will be on the budget end of several tablets (possibly including the HTC Scribe) announced in succession by the popular Taiwan - based cell phone maker.

Set largely in Stockholm, this one finds single mom Sophie caught in the middle of an international turf war, culminating in a cinematic gunfight in Spain.

The tip of the baby finger on his left hand was missing, shot off in a gunfight that almost got us both killed, and he had the slightest limp from a knife wound he'd received saving my life in San Francisco many years before.

«In addition to a steady stream of gunfights with zombie - like mutants, roadway bandits, and opportunistic warlords, the books teach dozens of useful survival tricks.

At once an epic account of an improbable romance and a retelling of an iconic American tale, The Last Woman Standing recalls the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral through the eyes of a spunky heroine who sought her happy ending in a lawless outpost — with a fierce will and an unflagging spirit.

The O.K. Corral Gunfight Site is home to what is regarded as the most famous gunfight in the history of the American Old West, which took place between the Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, the Clantons, and the McLaurays Gunfight Site is home to what is regarded as the most famous gunfight in the history of the American Old West, which took place between the Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, the Clantons, and the McLaurays gunfight in the history of the American Old West, which took place between the Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, the Clantons, and the McLaurays in 1881.

Gameplay sequences are mostly visually beautiful gusts of time warping gunfights, with particles, bullets, people and all manner of furniture floating in a zero - state playground.

No matter what your loadout is looking like, getting into a gunfight with another player is one of the most intense situations in video games right now.

A vicious tale of survival and the ignorance of youth tempered into adulthood, Lara's reimagined origins build a captivating synergy between environmental puzzles and gunfights that more than stand their ground in a post-Uncharted world.

The developers get the mix of stealth, all - action gunfights, explosive set - pieces, vehicle sections, gadget usage and planning are almost perfect for a game such as this, although once again the long - time Ghost Recon fans might be upset that gun - fights get almost as much attention as stealth in Future Soldier, which is a justified complaint.

It's vitally important in Breach that you use cover as it will give you the tactical edge over anybody not using it and allow you to come out of 1 v 3 gunfights alive when used well.

Sneak, choke and shoot through the violent criminal underbelly of Milan on the hunt for the man who framed you, surviving breathtaking vehicle chases and gunfights while taking out anyone who stands in your way.

A pixellated game, you can sneak, choke and shoot through the violent criminal underbelly of Milan on the hunt for the man who framed you, surviving vehicle chases and gunfights while taking out anyone who stands in your way.