Sentences with phrase «more of a reluctant hero»

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It's more playful and comic, with a reluctant hero who has a motley crew of buddies and a mentor with a sly sense of humor as well as justice, and while the stakes a big (stopping a tech giant from weaponizing experimental technology and it to the bad guys), it's not the world - shaking battleground of The Avengers or Thor or Iron Man movies.

Fassbinder and production designer Kurt Raab create a near future out of modern architecture (some of it still under construction), gangster - movie fashions, futuristic bric - a-brac, and more glass and mirrors than a carnival funhouse, and his camera is constantly reframing, moving around for a better look, or simply tracking through the increasingly alienated world of his reluctant hero.

Now recognized as a timeless classic with sales of more than 40 million copies worldwide, this introduction to Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the Wizard, and the spectacular world of Middle - earth tells of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent.