In
a less violent movie, this would be difficult.
Not exact matches
Less flashy,
violent, and beloved as Quentin Tarantino's other
movies, Jackie Brown is of his most gripping, substantial, and enjoyable works, perhaps second only to Inglourious Basterds.
In the end, A Most
Violent Year is not the next great mob
movie it's been advertised as; it's a thoughtful character drama with a solid cast - no more, no
less.
Action
movies grew more
violent and intense, making them
less palatable to general adult audiences and of greater interest to young males, a demographic being simultaneously courted by graphic shooter video games.
They may be
less enthralled by the strange cocktail offered up here by director David Leitch (the two John Wick
movies), which plays at being be an ambitious espionage thriller — it's set in 1989 Berlin as the wall is about to fall — but is happy to drop everything to watch Theron indulge in the brutal black comedy of
violent beat - downs.
The always - working Chastain, who is having another busy
movie season («The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,» «Interstellar,» «A Most
Violent Year»), is rigid and spooky - eyed as a noblewoman with a
less - than - noble spirit.
Many people are going to be quick to compare «Kingsman» to «Kick - Ass,» but while the former boasts the same punk - rock attitude, dark plot twists, and kinetic, no - holds - barred action sequences (including an extremely
violent set piece inside of a church that rivals Hit - Girl's blood - soaked exploits), «Kingsman» feels
less like a satire of an entire genre than the product of a filmmaker who grew up loving spy
movies.
Footage seen by our own Sean O'Connell shows us that the trailer has been digitally altered to make it a bit
less violent than the actual
movie will be.
The fact A Most
Violent Year can have those timely connections now is why saying
less and showing more about «what your
movie means» can be so valuable for a film of this kind.