Sentences with phrase «into generic action»

But any intrigue and atmosphere is swiftly lost, as Nick's plane crashes back in the UK and things descend into generic action.

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The point is, Wikus is a man, not an action hero, and unlike some recent examples, he earns his badass moments because we know how fucking angry and afraid he is, and how much he just wants to get away... it turns an otherwise generic action moment into a display of singular courage.

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.

Courtney still has that generic action hero feel about him and often fades into the background.

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.

It injects some quicktime action into the script by having powerful characters briefly bash on generic Kree mooks, but there's not much in the way of meaningful stakes, so it falls flat.

Based on true events in the resistance against the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, the film is so effective at its generic thrills, the suspense and action sequences and quiet moments of melancholy patriotism and laments for lost comrades that form the core of the resistance / war film, everything from For Whom the Bell Tolls to Army of Shadows, that one almost doesn't notice that she's radically revised one of the most masculine of genres into a story about the unbreakability of women.

Streamlining the combat and narrative into an Uncharted clone changed it from an action / platformer into a generic shooter, and...

Rupert Friend certainly looks the part of the titular assassin, and the action sequences appear to make good use of the R - rating, but with so many better video game properties begging to be made into films, did we really need another generic action flick based on one that didn't work the first time?

Transistor belies its generic name by being anything but run - of - the - mill; it's an action game with turn - based combat: a combination that, before you get into it, will cause you to take a step back and ask of developer SuperGiant games, «Will they get away with it??».

At the same time, the physical actions of winding, hanging and braiding the yarn transformed the generic, public material into intimate, personal space (narrative).

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