Sentences with phrase «more of an action film»

This entry is more of an action film than others he's done, which makes it at least somewhat different, but at its heart, it's the same old Adam Sandler you've either come to love or loathe since Billy Madison.

Not exact matches

The studio has two more big Marvel releases (Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Thor: Ragnarok) as well as a live - action version of Beauty and the Beast, two new movies from Pixar Animation Studios (including Cars 3), and a fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (two of the first PotC films grossed more than $ 1 billion apiece).

One of the biggest surprises in «Avengers: Age of Ultron» occurs about halfway through the film when our heroes break away from the action for a more light - hearted family - centric scene on a farm.

It is more about human characters doing whatever it takes under extreme circumstances to stay alive in terms of «action film» techniques.

Tonight sees a gathering of 150 influencers at the House of Lords, organised by Malaria No More UK to mark UK action and global progress on malaria, shortly after the UK premier of «Mary & Martha», the new film written by Richard Curtis about two mothers who unite to save lives after losing their own sons to malaria.

The researchers also found that collective narcissists in Poland are more likely to support hostile actions against the makers of a film that portrayed their country in a bad light.

A novel study shows the best way to hone your technique is not just to watch films of pro players, but that videos that spotlight key actions improve performance more and faster.

«Bringing a very high - field superconducting magnet to UCSB to create the MRX facility would provide a unique opportunity to fulfill a national need and enable many experiments that can not be done at the NHMFL,» said chemistry professor Songi Han, a member of the «Big Mag @ UCSB» program committee who has been working with Sherwin for more than a decade on filming proteins in action.

Things feel more like a cartoon than a live action film, Freddy is about as scary as a mime, and the lack of tension that dominated the last film is back with a vengeance.

I just wish the action, in some of his films, were more rapid.

The tension and claustrophobia of the setting is used to make things more intense and scary, but this is an action film through and through.

CHICAGO — Ben Affleck has reached the apex of his already impressive directorial career with the stunning «Argo,» a tight, tense machine of a film, a masterwork that delivers as comedy, action, drama, and more.

Obviously this is to give the film a much bigger impact and attract more of an audience with the action man vibe.

Far more problematic is Demange's decision to suffuse the film's action sequences with jittery, shaky camerawork, with this technique draining such moments of their effectiveness and, worse still, ensuring that they're almost uniformly incoherent.

The chief problem with any post-apocalyptic film is that last act - mostly because all the interesting parts tend to stem from the events leading up to the destruction of civilization, humanity's efforts to cope with the few vestiges of once plentiful technology, and the small dramas and action sequences which reduce a group of irritable survivors to a select and more compelling few.

This mix doesn't quite have the oomph of more recent surround tracks for action films, but again it's entirely appropriate to THIS particular film, and fans should be plenty happy with it.

What's the Deal: More character study than action movie, this adaptation of Martin Booth's 1990 novel «A Very Private Gentleman» is instead concerned with the inner workings of its amoral antihero, whom we witness do very bad things at film's start that haunt him until the very end.

I'm not saying I want just pure action but as said I would have loved to see more space beasties, the look of the film cries out for it.

Even thought the film is light on character development, and strove to be more of a pure action film (one of the most influential and parodied in fact), it is still entertaining, even though it's really just ok, and not all that good (unbelievable and unrealistic action aside).

While the first film focused on creating an atmosphere of pure tension, this sequel is much more action - oriented, even if its first hour is actually very slow - and instead of one alien, Cameron has now a horde of goo - spewing, acid - blood creatures to scare the audience to death.

Director Ron Howard brings his usual light touch to the proceedings and manages to hold the viewer's interest even through the narrative's oddly action - packed final third (ie once the truth about Hannah's character is revealed, the film becomes more of a thriller than a cute little romantic comedy and there's even a chase sequence as the army attempts to capture the mermaid / woman).

Thus the Robert Rodriguez production of Nimrod Antal's Predators, one of the more [or, rather, few] enjoyable action films of the summer.

More an action blockbuster than a horror squelcher, it contains spectacular crowd scenes that have an Hieronymus Bosch quality, but the film lacks strong meat — of the emotional and bloody zombie - cannibal sort.

In the meantime, a deliciously nasty bad guy, a white South African gangster and arms dealer named Klaue (Andy Serkis, in a role he introduced three years ago in Avengers: Age of Ultron), is keen to get his hands on some vibranium himself, which involves an unexpected side trip to Busan, South Korea, for a prolonged sequence heavy on chases and tough - guy action but rather more conventional than the rest of the film.

Synopsis: Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, «Rashomon» is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of ju... [MORE]

Though lacking in some aspects of the picture, the film more than makes up for it with it's action.

I didn't expect much from it because this kind of film doesn't really lend itself to spectacular audio mixes; those seem more the domain of action flicks.

Knaggs» character, a mute seaman, narrates the film's key sections with an internal voice - over monologue that is more hissed than spoken, leading the audience down all manner of strange psychological paths around the script's action; Knaggs» seaman ultimately rescues the hero from near - certain death.

The production design is fantastic and the action sequences extremely well done, particularly the brilliantly handled climactic battle and the film has a great deal of momentum that meant I enjoyed it more and more as it went on.

On the one hand, the film can repeat all the basic rhythms of the first film, either with the main character being replaced (so that the journey appears to be new) or by the stakes being raised (so that it feels like the action is more significant).

But Garland's film more closely resembles Denis Villeneuve's recent science fiction hit Arrival, another slow, airless, fascinating film pocked with moments of sudden explosive action.

Fortunately the action is handled in a much more controlled way than the second film with the viewer actually being able to walk out of the cinema without a coma.

The trick for a movie of this type, at least one that is aspiring to be more than just a simple - minded exploitation film (such as the original Charles Bronson «Death Wish,» a far more complicated work than usually given credit for, especially in comparison to its tacky sequels), is to create a narrative that somehow justifies such actions without completely overdoing it.

With Lawrence (the director) and Lawrence (the actor) so professionally in tune over the course of three Hunger Games films, you might have hoped that the pair would deliver an off - the - rails, more mature action film with a nuanced female protagonist.

For his elaborately choreographed fight scenes, Canutt developed a new, more realistic method of throwing punches, positioning the action so that the camera filmed over the shoulder of the actor receiving the blow, with the punch itself coming directly toward the lens.

Apart from its racialist theme, the film is nothing more than a conventional Hollywood «blockbuster,» chock full of action sequences, explosions and the rest.

What begins looking like Blade Runner soon becomes more of a Neil Blomkamp kinda film, without taking the action or violence very far.

Mediocre action film, Sanctum is a film that had potential of being a great film; unfortunately it falls flat, and relies more on clichés than anything.

I think it would be a great idea to have more diversity of content in this site (an early review of Beloved was a pleasant surprise some weeks ago) but right now the balance is definitely in favor of sci - fi, fantasy, horror, action, and some crime films created for a demographic probably best described as «geek».

So anybody and everybody in this film only knocks twice, this is more of a Directorial thing as it allows him to mould tensity out of the action... who can be at the door?

Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun - Fat is so charismatic in his second Hollywood outing, The Corruptor, that he almost makes us forget that the movie itself is one of the more pretentious, muddled and incompetent action films to come along in some time.

This gruesome French horror flick (2016) functions more as a mystery than as an action film, with an endless drip drip drip of revelation that gradually exposes a terrifying world behind the everyday.

Lemkin's semantic - based search for the right word to galvanize an effort — the actual creation of the word «genocide» — is an ideal example of the film's realization that this fight for justice is more of a battle of words than actions.

The original sci - fi, horror, macho action bonanza PREDATOR is one of my top films of all time, its gory as f*ck sequel PREDATOR 2 has grown on me with age (maybe because today's movies are more often than none sub par and castrated hence it glows in comparison).

«Persepolis» pulls off something that's not easy for any film, even a live - action one, to do: It gives us a sense of how a kids» - eye view of the world — particularly the way kids are capable of grasping the idea of injustice, even when more delicate political arguments are beyond their reach — can emerge and grow into an adult sensibility.

Still, fans of the first one will probably like this too, and at least the oodles of exposition that plagued the first film are replaced by a slightly more action - centric plot, even though the film frequently lapses into long stretches without much going on.

The Lost City of Z - I was expecting more of a straightforward action film (why, I have no idea - I should've known better based on the director) but once I got on the film's groove it became really enjoyable.

You quickly get the sense that Williams is trying to do more of a zombie action film, rather than a straight - up loveletter to the videogames.

This film also gave hints of the director's interest in human connections and the ripple effects of one's actions, which he would explore more abstractly in his following projects.

It's an action, comedy, sci - fi adventure that tries and that's more than a lot of films these days.