Sentences with phrase «octane action movies»

Watch high octane action movies in their full grandeur, or delight in an intimate jazz performance.

In many ways, aspects of Atomic Blonde will be really familiar to fans of high - octane action movies.

Not exact matches

Fortunately, these philosophical arguments play out in a pretty solid cop drama, executing well on the high octane car chases, shootouts and action sequences that keep the public coming back to cop movies for decades.

Maybe not a favourite of critics from the first time of seeing this movie and now to the 100th time I still enjoy and engage with this high octane movie that is action packed from start to finish!

After making four high - octane action films with Mark Neveldine (including Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance and both Crank movies), Brian Taylor goes solo with this high - concept thriller about kids in peril.

But I'm glad that they certainly made it NOT look like a typical action / racing «high octane» movie... but who knows if the actual film is like that or not.

Woo balances high octane action, hard edged violence, stylized editing that would make Peckinpah catch his breath, and operatic melodrama into an action movie classic.

The Cannes Film Festival has proven a fertile space for the release of the best the country has on offer to Western markets, and following the success of Yeon - Sang - ho's extraordinary zombie film Train to Busan in 2016, Cannes» Midnight Screenings this year featured Jung Byung - gil's high - octane female - centred action movie The Villainess.

A high - octane chase movie at its core, Mad Max: Fury Road drops you right into the middle of the action and expects you to keep up with this strange new world.

Starring Nicolas Cage at his absolute Cage - iest and under the leadership of «Crank» directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, working their high - octane, balls - to - the - wall action movie magic, this has become a movie that sits firmly in the «so bad it's good» camp.

A superstar - making movie for Bruce Willis (Hudson Hawk, Pulp Fiction), and a hell of an action flick on its own terms, Die Hard set a standard for high - concept, high - octane action blockbusters that few could touch on the silver screen — even its higher budgeted sequels.

Although the movie is continually punctuated with high - octane action, at least the snippets of included dialogue are important to the storyline, as opposed to the fluffy and frequent witticisms of previous Bond scripts.

The more movies he makes, the more Paul Greengrass's have - it - both - ways m.o. as a filmmaker becomes clearer, aiming to craft high - octane action spectacles that also thoughtfully address topical events and current sociopolitical realities without becoming overly didactic.

This week we have the directorial debut of world - renowned animation giant Hayao Miyazaki, a tour - de-force performance from Diane Kruger, a heartwarming documentary from French New Wave pioneer Agnes Varda, John Woo «s high - octane Netflix action movie packed to the brim with doves, and an intriguing Danish semi-zombie series.

Opening May 15, the AWFJ Movie of the Week is Mad Max: Fury Road, director George Miller's high octane reboot of his 1979 post apocalyptic action classic.

The movie tries to juggle Michael Mann-esque high - octane cop action with Network - like satire of media, but becomes a bit too pulpy and conservative to make it work.

While most of those movies relied on high - octane effects and a multitude of characters led by one or two big name stars, San Andreas amps up the levels of CGI action, though chooses to focus most of its attention on just the one troubled family, led by man - mountain Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson in perhaps his biggest, and indeed most important film role to date.

So the Gears of War movie is still happening under the direction of Len Wiseman, the dude who directed the first two Underworlds and the fourth Die Hard, who isn't too bad a choice for a high octane thrill ride kind of action movie.