Sentences with phrase «made underworld»

Keanu Reeves plays the title character, an ex-hitman on an adrenaline - fueled path to revenge and redemption when he is forced back into action by a sadistic young thug and must hunt down his adversaries with the skill and ruthlessness that made him an underworld legend.

The cold colors, the exposition and close ups in cars, and even the use of focus, all made Underworld intriguing to watch, and the he uses many of the same tricks here.

The mine he chose toexplore is part of a sprawling man - made underworld started on a Sundaymorning in 1886 when an Australian prospector found a gold - rich outcropon the present site of Johannesburg.

Not exact matches

The PRI's somewhat sordid history, both recent and historical, of patronage and links to the criminal underworld makes it possible for critics to raise uncomfortable questions about its fulmination against the Venezuelan government.

I remember the story of Hercules: he is the Son of god (Zeus), he must complete 12 tasks to atone his sin, one of the task: he must go to underworld (to steal Carberos) and then made his way back.

She slept beneath a counterpane Of rose leaves, till a thieving toad Abducted the unknowing child To make her the unwilling bride Of darkness in an underworld Of labyrinthine tunnels where A blind mole made his fetid den.

It has Hades, the Greek god of the underworld in it and it makes me feel like Greek mythology that I enjoy to date.

A debate in which the thoughts are not expressed in the way in which they existed in the mind but in the speaking are so pointed that they may strike home in the sharpest way, and moreover without the men that are spoken to being regarded in any way present as persons; a conversation characterized by the need neither to communicate something, nor to learn something, nor to innuence someone, nor to come into connexion with someone, but solely by the desire to have one's own self - reliance confirmed by making the impression that is made, or if it has become unsteady to have it strengthened; a friendly chat in which each regards himself as absolute and legitimate and the other as relativized and questionable; a lovers» talk in which both partners alike enjoy their own glorious soul and their precious experience — what an underworld of faceless spectres of dialogue!

If the myths, for example, had explicitly stated that Osiris returned from the underworld in person, that Adonis has accompanied Aphrodite back to the land of the living, that Dumuzi (Tammuz) had returned with Inanna (Ishtar), that Baal had made a triumphant tour from the underworld, then it would have to become a question of whether this would not have been more appropriately named a resuscitation.

«It will come to us like a shower, like spring rains that water the earth» is an affirmation which could equally well have been made about Baal, for he was the god of rain, and when he ascended from the underworld in the spring, rain accompanied his return.

In Babylonia it was Tammuz, in Syria Adonis, in Egypt Osiris, in Canaan Baal, in Greece Persephone, whose death was marked by the falling leaves of autumn, whose imprisonment in the underworld of death explained the winter, and whose release by the gods of the underworld for one reason or another made possible the spring revival.

The power of the human Orpheus to coerce nature and the gods of the underworld was an extraordinary message in traditional Greek religion.11 This image of human triumph helped make Orpheus founder and hero of the Orphic mysteries, a cultic practice noted for personal asceticism and accomplishment, 12 that demonstrated the immortality of the human soul.

The source who disclosed to us what transpired on that faithful monday, also asked us to come to the church on Sunday (25th September) to hear his confession as he would be made to tell the story of how he got his money from the underworld.

What made Moyes curious was the conflicted nature of the Maya's relationship to the underworld.

With the help of underworld kingpin Don Osa (Tom Bower), Sam sets out to get justice for Joon and make up for the pain caused to his friends and associates by his absence.

Samuel Peters once an ordinary man, dabbles within the laws of voodoo to bring his wife back from the grave, he soon encounters the God of malevolence «Kalfu», where he makes a pact with him to destroy the underworld and bring chaos to earth;

The film is subsumed by the unshakable sense that Jared Leto is intended to make Martin Zandvliet's take on the yakuza underworld more palatable for American audiences.

Like Higgins» other novel that made it to the theaters (The Friends of Eddie Coyle), Cogan's Trade should provide an unflinching look at the Boston underworld.

The boy's only recourse is to cross a bridge made of a magical marigold petals and slip into the underworld on Día de Muertos, beg forgiveness and maybe meet the late, great troubadour himself before being permitted to return to the land of the living.

Entering the main flow of the story relatively late, Don Cheadle steals all his scenes as a live - wire, trigger - happy old buddy of Easy's from Texas, while Sizemore and Mel Winkler, as colorful underworld figures, make strong impressions.

The Jolie Tomb Raider movies made a lot of money ($ 350 million adjusted for inflation for the first movie), and we have had «chosen one» white women - led franchises time and time again from Underworld, Resident Evil, The Hunger Games, Atomic Blonde, etc..

Druggie underworld informant Huggy Bear (a permanently typecast Snoop Dogg) makes a couple of unfunny appearances that serve mainly to mock the rapper's marijuana - smoking, convicted - murdering persona, and the truism that the best parts are in the trailers proves astonishingly prescient.

Also returning from the first movie this time around are Lance Reddick, Ian McShane and John Leguizamo, who help make up this universe of hired hit man living in an underworld of crime bosses and assassins.

Tehran Taboo This handsomely animated film, much of it set in the libertine underworld of Tehran, makes an unassailable point about the hardships of life in today's Iran, mostly involving sexual morality and the status of women.

Semyon isn't the endearing character that he makes out, however, and the closer Anna gets to the girls story, the closer she gets to the enigmatic «driver» Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen) and the bloody underworld of the Russian Mafia.

Lucy Lui is Japanese underworld Queen O - Ren Oshii, Vivica A. Fox is the retired cohort Vernita Green, Daryl Hannah the feral Elle Driver, and David Carradine hovers over it all, heard but not seen, as Bill, with Sonny Chiba, Chiaki Kuriyama, and Tarantino fave Michael Parks making appearances.

It's easy to make comparisons to The Town, as it appears Affleck's Coughlin is someone involved in the criminal underworld, but has a heart of gold under a tough exterior.

However, for some unknown reason, something about Underworld makes it hard to write off as a bad movie.

This is certainly an enticing start: a dive into Stockholm's seamy underworld with three lead characters and no heroes, it follows an escaped con, a sparky finance student and a Serbian mafioso as they variously pursue a king - making coke deal.

Complete with the director's trademark visceral intensity, it draws the viewer in to the depraved masculine underworld of the London Russian mob, which makes the Sopranos look almost saintly by comparison.

Triple 9 is an overfilled sandwich of cop vs criminal underworld thrillers - it is about four films in one, and is never a boring watch though at times it can make for a confusing one.

And though he does inhabit the same filthy underworld as Quentin Tarantino, what Ritchie may lack in originality, he makes up for with boldness and manic energy.

The creativity well also seems to be running dry in making the mystic world seem more entrancing; non-magical beings are called «the mundane» and underworld creatures are named «underworlders».

His slangy eloquence, his brilliance at scene making, and his nose for the zeitgeist fostered a slew of smash movie classics, including the seminal silent gangster film Underworld (1927), which won the first Oscar for best original screen story, and its sound - film successor, Scarface (1932); the screwball satire Nothing Sacred (1937); and the seductive romantic thriller, Notorious (1946).

Kate Beckinsale does her best, and certainly achieves more as the sidekick than she did as the lead in the awful Underworld; Richard Roxburgh is very over the top in a boring kinda way; and David Wenham is the only person that manages to make the most out of the very limited script they had.

With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes.

Either that, or pretend this review wasn't written by me, but by some evil twin / clone (complete with evil facial hair) who exists only to make my opinion worth less than my Underworld collectors edition plastic jumbo Pepsi cup in 20 years time.

The 44 - year - old Underworld: Blood Wars actress was spotted picking up her luggage and making her way to her ride on Sunday (February 25) in London, England.

The franchise's fourth installment opened on top with $ 25.4 million, putting it just behind Evolution's $ 26.9 million start, making it the second highest Underworld opening.

If the premise is familiar (the nice - guy innocent forced to become ruthless lawbreaker to survive) the execution and evocation of the gritty nocturnal Paris underworld makes is zing.

Harnessing a West London underworld scuzzier than the greasy mop on its antihero's head, writer - director Johnson delves into a milieu where cops and crooks all wear black hats, and moral distinctions are made over who is the least corrupt.

Coming in ninth is Underworld: Blood Wars, which took a 57.5 percent hit from its debut and made $ 5.8 million during its second weekend.

Underworld: Blood Wars is directed by filmmaker Anna Foerster, a cinematographer turned director making her feature debut after work on «Outlander» and «Criminal Minds».

Set in the 15th Century, it's a stodgy, visually drab, instantly forgettable reworking of Bram Stoker's novel in the action - centred Underworld / I, Frankenstein vein, with Fast and Furious 6 villain Luke Evans starring as Drac, a Transylvanian prince who makes a pact with a cave - dwelling demon (Charles Dance) for some handy dark magic to protect his family and people against the evil clutches of Turk Sultan Mehmed II (Dominic Cooper)....

Very loosely based on Russian arms deal Viktor Bout (aka «the Merchant of Death»), and composites of several other figures in the world of arms dealing, Lord of War tells the story of Yuri Orlov (Cage, National Treasure), a Ukrainian raised in the United States that finds a way to make a fast buck buying and selling weapons and ammunition to various factions involved in aspects of war, initially with underworld types in his neighborhood, then eventually expanding throughout the world.

According to Deadline, director Len Wiseman (Underworld) and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers) are making a deal with Fox to reinvent the action series with -LSB-...]

This makes it all the more embarrassing that such a great work of fiction is swooped upon and torn to pieces by the producers of «Underworld», who were looking for another Gothic action flick to make them some money.

Unfortunately for John the underworld does not respect his wishes and he finds himself drawn back out to make good on a long overdue debt.

Hastening his retreat to the mole underworld, Johnny Depp joked yesterday about killing Donald Trump, the sort of irreverent jest made by a Hollywood celebrity that is, along with Kathy Griffin and Shakespeare In The Park, currently the source of all the hate in the world.

In too deep in an underworld of corruption and violence in the real estate world, Dennis must navigate his way through his new life of making money and supporting his family, and his guilty conscience.