Sentences with phrase «more of a political thriller»

It's more of a political thriller than a straight - up action movie, but it still does a good job with an intriguing story and well - done action scenes.

Not exact matches

«World War Z» isn't your typical zombie movie, but rather a globe - trotting socio - political thriller that treats the zombies more like a viral disease than something out of a horror film.

Roman Polanski's recent film Death and the Maiden is a psychological thriller made all the more frightening by the knowledge that it is based upon the political tactic of terror employed by many dictatorships in South America.

The works of Max Brooks, who wrote 2003's satirical and subversively political, «The Zombie Survival Guide», and 2006's, «World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War», provided the kernels of inspiration for this mega-budgeted horror - action - thriller that mostly makes up its own narrative, independent of much of the book content (jettisoning the first - person account style and most of the events), to make it fit more with the ranks of current, eye - candy loaded popcorn movies than a thoughtful adaptation of the best - seller.

Undeserving of the critical savaging it suffered on its release, Killer Elite should satisfy action junkies and those looking for a more off - beat political thriller both.

Sydney Pollack's («Three Days of the Condor» / «Out of Africa») well - made but unimportant political thriller (more a character driven than a plot driven story) is set in New York City and frames its story around an assassination plot of an African leader set to speak at the United Nations.

The portrait of Lincoln that Spielberg presents — in a film that often plays like a tense, high - spirited political thriller as influence is peddled behind the scenes and votes come down to the wire — will no doubt surprise viewers raised on a more staid version of the Great Man.

It is less interested in, but doesn't abandon completely, the more conventional thriller hugger - mugger, following the mysterious - assassin pattern, also finding time to stalk various murderous ploys and counterploys in a riven emigre community even while the dangerous arrival of the political leader to the U.N. draws closer and closer.

The plot may be a bit preposterous, but it's an interesting theory nonetheless, and I love the idea of staging it as a political thriller instead of a more generic historical drama.

Fashioned more as a political thriller than a tale of doomed love, Mishra's film puts us in mind of his memorable Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi, which also had three youthful characters, stinging romance, and astute recreation of an India during the Emergency.

All too often in «7 Days in Entebbe,» primary characters on all sides of this 1970s period - piece political thriller state the obvious — and then state it again, and then have to stand around while someone else states the obvious one more time, just in case the folks in the seats have yet to grasp the stakes at hand and the dilemmas in play.

The action thriller, which is as gripping as it is political, sees a group of illegal immigrants (led by Gael García Bernal's Moises) stranded... Read More

The Manchurian Candidate (1962, John Frankenheimer): Much more than a paranoid thriller about brainwashing, it's a sharp satire of political extremism, a workout for Frankenheimer's kinetic gifts and a showcase for the best performances that Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and a devastating Angela Lansbury ever gave onscreen.

But from episode six, as the shape of the Russian conspiracy to sabotage the turbulent presidency of Elizabeth Keane (Elizabeth Marvel) started becoming clear, Homeland finally pulled clear of the amorphous plotting and vague red herrings that had bedevilled it, and began to look much more like a tough and pacy political thriller.

Villeneuve isn't returning, but new director Stefano Sollima has more than enough experience in gritty, political crime drama to deliver a taught, hard - nosed thriller worthy of the original.

SIFF spotlights a gritty jailhouse riot (Cell 211), a 4th - century love triangle with Rachel Weisz at its apex (Agora), the latest effort by the venerable and indefatigable Ventura Pons (Drifting), a political thriller in the era of Pinochet (The Dancer and the Thief), movies about obesity (Gordos), Down Syndrome (Me Too) and more.

Since The Last Detail, Ponicsan has written a dozen more novels, one of which he adapted into a screenplay (Cinderella Liberty); meanwhile, his screenwriting credits branch out from military dramas into coming - of - age stories (Vision Quest), high - school dramas (School Ties, co-written by Dick Wolf), and political thrillers (Sydney Pollack's Random Hearts).

With the political thriller theme comes more realistic types of action.

Johnny is also the bestselling author of the Fat Vampire series and the co-author of cult hit Unicorn Western, the political sci - fi thriller The Beam, and many more.

Johnny B. Truant is the bestselling author of the Invasion series, the political sci - fi thriller The Beam, Fat Vampire, Axis of Aaron, Unicorn Western, and many more fiction titles in addition to the nonfiction bestseller Write.

He says in an interview with one of his book reviewers that he has «an interest in trying to make the issues and themes of what is an esoteric, and often inaccessible subject matter, more accessible through putting it into a more generally acceptable form, namely the political thriller novel genre.»