Sentences with phrase «many other action films»

I find this poorly made and putted on the back of the line from many other action films I had fun watching.

Another spoof starring Leslie Nielsen sending up Die Hard, Jame Bond and plenty of other action films.

Ball has acquitted himself well with this series and will hopefully find himself on a shortlist when it comes to other action films in need of a particular directorial eye (The Flash almost makes too much sense, but that spot is apparently taken... for now).

While other action film directors rely on vertiginous stunts, CGI and / or gore to stun audiences, Greengrass manages to make incredibly simple violent encounters thrilling.

Other action films don't have characters like this, don't have scenes like this.

Not exact matches

While the studio did not name the troubled film, Variety and other outlets reported that the culprit was believed to be the live - action, computer - animated hybrid Monster Trucks, which cost more than $ 100 million to make.

According to Variety and others, that makes it the highest - grossing live action film ever directed by a woman.

Contrast the alleged actions of this alleged Coptic Christian with that of Muslims killing and maiming Coptic Christians and blowing up their places of worship... INSULTING Coptic Christians in far worse ways (literally «insulting» them TO DEATH) than is done (or ever could be) in this or any other film.

This film reminds us that we are called upon to love those who are hurting even when they threaten to hurt themselves or others, and we are asked to offer support to the beleaguered parents who often become isolated from others through the actions of their children.

And while some are tastefully filmed, with no action «down below», others leave nothing to the imagination.

During his film career, Adkins has been cast in mostly direct - to - DVD movies like the two Undisputed sequels, Assassination Games, Ninja, however he finally got to get a bigger role in Stallone's ensemble cast testosterone - packed movie «The Expendables 2» and star along other great action stars like Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, the all - powerful Chuck Norris, Jean - Claude Van Damme and many others.

The other is that this is the last live - action film in which Walt Disney was personally involved; he died two years before the film's release, but supervised the scripting process and some of pre-production.

The killer has no motivations for his actions other than the cliched «He's just crazy,» and the establishment's actions, personified by the mayor and police chief's conservative dealings with the killer, wreak of a contrived set - up to make Harry appear «heroic» - what the film considers «heroic» - by contrast.

The film lacks any kind of real «action», which makes it a departure from Mann's other work like Heat or Last of the Mohicans, but it still feels like an action movie because of the aggressive way in which Mann directs it.

As in «Infernal Affairs,» the Andrew Lau film upon which «The Departed» is based, the action centers on the two cops» attempts to uncover each other's identities while protecting their own secrets.

You have the option to play as Marlin, Dory, or Nemo and, as you live the action of the film's storyline, you'll meet all the other memorable characters.

Compared to other silent films of the 1920s, with the undercranked action, overly emotive acting, fantastic plots and theatrical make - up and costumes, «Napoleon» is years ahead of its time.

Difficult story with Elektra, other amazing character, but the film is terrible, the only good parts are the action scenes, but this film have much mistakes.

Other than a budget boost which means better CGI and more muscular action set - pieces, you'd be hard pressed to spot any major differences in the craft behind the two films, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Good sci - fi has all these things, of course, but «bigger» isn't better, and most of the «big» idea movies use «the future» as a setting for action and adventure, whereas true sci - fi films (and books) use that setting to tell human stories in new ways; human relationships (with others, with self, with the environment, etc...) are are the core of the best sci - fi movies we've seen.

The Movie: The idea of George Clooney playing a (mostly) silent assassin holed up in the Italian countryside with gorgeous European women sounds like recipe for a solid dramatic experience, so why Focus Features is marketing «The American» as some sort of action thriller when in fact it's an arty European film, will throw some moviegoers off and just outright anger others.

The film shifts to an action / adventure tale of friends working together to save each other and defeating evil.

Visceral action (including an opening sequence that masterfully sets the tone for the rest of the film); a sharply written and directed script; rich, dynamic characters; and, as promised, the world's cutest cat (other than yours if you have one) combine to create a gut - busting, endearing, salty - sweet, and highly re-watchable comedy.

Marvel's Black Panther features a killer soundtrack and reliable performances all - around, but its story lacks surprises and the action struggles when compared to other Marvel films.

The Grandmasters stars the director's frequent collaborator Tony Leung as the legendary martial arts master who instructed Bruce Lee, and features action sequences choreographed by Yeun Woo - ping (the man behind The Matrix, Kill Bill, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and countless other films).

For those of us who prefer to judge Gibson solely in terms of his art, the movie is a virtuosic piece of action cinema — particularly in its second half... And while there has been no shortage of recent films that decry the horrors of war and man's inhumanity to his fellow man, I know of none other quite this sickeningly powerful.

While Harlin's big action sets in other films like Die Hard 2 suffered from an unfortunately dated sampling of CGI, everything you see in CutThroat Island has been constructed — and destroyed in grand fashion.

Overall, this one is a very good action film that entertains in spades and thanks to Hoffman's spectacular turn as the antagonist here, it is elevated above the other installments in the series.

Cameron «s superb action direction and stunning visual effects — plus Schwarzenegger «s ultimately endearing (yes, endearing) performance — will blast every other summer film to kingdom come.

Written and directed by Karen Leigh Hopkins, the film's tone looks to be all over the place, but it's good to see James Badge Dale as something other than a supporting character in an action blockbuster.

The bigger cameras have forced Bay to step back and steady his shots more and that was basically the only complaints I ever had with the other two films as far as the action went.

The film set itself apart from others as it used a combination of live action filming and animation.

The action is a horrible muddle of skating, blood, fighting and stupid bike stunts all crammed within this tiny arena, at the same time you have other players skating down from higher levels or platforms for no apparent reason other than to look cool in the film.

The action sequences were done great and I loved how well this film tied in with the others in the universe.

Instead we are presented with an absolute turd of a film with shockingly bad «action» set pieces (despite not actually requiring major action set pieces for the plot), dreadful visuals that might as well be that «Gladiators» TV show complete with glitter and sparkles, a god awful thrash / heavy metal soundtrack just in case you forgot this film was suppose to be tough and your obligatory dire big name cast hot of the heels of other poor major blockbusters (yeah stick him / her in it, big name, can't go wrong, doesn't matter if they actually fit the role or not pfft!).

Seeing as how «G.I. Joe: Retaliation» is a live - action cartoon, I wish we could have seen thought balloons above the heads of Channing Tatum, Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson and Bruce Willis, among others, as they filmed this ridiculous and overblown debacle.

The film is at its best when it drops its focus from action beats, superb though they may be, and redirects itself towards quieter moments of clandestine favors and conversations between old contacts: of Zharkov and Cross drinking together and discussing the merits of Communism; of Zharkov's heart - felt talk with an Austrian contact whom he rescued decades ago from a Nazi concentration camp; of Cross and Scorpio confronting each other first in a midnight botanical gardens and then in a shadowy parking garage.

Comedy, sci - fi, horror, romance, adventure, action, drama, and thriller, it covers quite a lot of territory in a short amount of time, and does so with its own sense of style that makes it different from any other film, even if it is an homage film at its core.

i only wish those thousands went to work on movies of more substance than fighting robots... and you don't have to apologize to me, i can in fact compare «Real Steel» to «The Fast and the Frivolous» films because in essence they are one - in - the - same, simply just the flavor of the week kind of flicks that have no real pull behind them other than big name actors, CGI and a promise of action.

It should be obvious by now that the Hong Kong film industry is one of frequent cross-pollination by its writers, directors, actors, action choreographers and others, and if the many names dropped in this article are confusing, one more title is available to stream which might clarify things.

On top of this, the action is superb and the train sequence has never been surpassed in any other superhero film.

What separates this movie from other action / spy films is the visual style employed.

On the other hand, you can point out that not only was the unstoppable action hero of «Mad Max» played by Charlize Theron, but also that the Oscar nominators went out of their way to include more thoughtful and even sensitive films that depended on subtler emotions and more nuanced relationships for their impact.

I'm sure others are assuming the release date is for Deadpool 2, but Ryan Reynolds has a couple of films lined - up first which include the action flick Hitman's Bodyguard (currently about to shoot), voice work on Croods 2 and the Mars thriller Life.

While the film does not offer easy solutions, it allows us to discover the power to face our own demons, knowing that redemption does not lay in revenge, but only in acknowledging and taking responsibility for actions that may have caused harm to others.

Often shooting the action with sweeping pans a la «Afterschool» (a film more transparently indebted to the clinical approach of Michael Haneke), he tends to keep shots at the consistent level of heads bobbing along back alleys, hands as they hold onto one another, hips as they thrust together, until the routine is unsettled by bodies falling where they ought not to be, with hands grasping at feet and other indications of unease quietly coming to the forefront.

It should be said that this film, unlike all the other Potter movies, doesn't contain that last forty minutes of action packed sequences.

With adaptations of superhero comics to film, it seems that the only thing of interest to the film maker (s) is getting the shiniest and biggest effects on screen along with «kick - ass» action sequences and one - upping each other on the adrenaline level.

For all the 12 certificate - troubling action, though, the other reason The Hunger Games series has been unsuitable for younger viewers is far more commendable: the films have never shied away from examining the notions of corruption and control via the media.

But this is a film with four - quadrant appeal that deserves to be seen by as many people who have attended other hit live - action family films, most of which aren't nearly this good.