Sentences with phrase «of action cinema»

Forty years of action cinema grammar, all set to a beat.

Korean cinema has always been an original source of action cinema.

While the game did pretty blatantly rip off that landmark of action cinema, the gaming world is all the better for it.

Boasting aliens, state - of - the - art special effects, a marquee star, and the greatest director of action the cinema has produced, War of the Worlds superficially fits the mold of the cinematic thrill ride.

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.

A fairly generic offering of action cinema, never developing conflicts to satisfaction, preferring gunfire to suspense, but it does periodically distract.

A box office smash and a critical step in the career of Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1987's «Predator» is widely considered these days to be a classic of action cinema.

The story really only acts as an excuse to plop Butler and company in front of more dudes with guns, with character interactions that feel more ripped out of a Team America: World Police style parody of action cinema than a real film.

The heist - movie hit brought Black (and Black queer) women into the liberating space of action cinema

In Jean - Claude Van Johnson, Van Damme champions a bygone era of action cinema, and joins in on the jokes of the present.

Fans of action cinema will be in heaven.

That sentiment, so rife in the»70s, seems to be present in much of action cinema today, typified by the Bourne franchise or even the blockbusting Hunger Games; Watergate and Vietnam have been replaced by the Iraq War in a post-9 / 11 era of whistleblowing and WikiLeaks.

Both of the most recent Tsui films that I've seen, the kung fu whodunnit Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame and Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, his second remake of the 1967 King Hu film Dragon Gate Inn, which remains after 45 years one of great masterpieces of action cinema from anywhere in the world, feature extensive use of CGI, though both are significantly more grounded in reality than Zu Warriors.

For one, there's his casting of action cinema's favorite intense sadsack, Jean - Claude Van Damme, as Hong's seen - only - in - flashback mentor (Hyams, by the way, is the son of Timecop and Sudden Death director Peter Hyams, making him a second - generation Van Damme wrangler).

It's like all the boring bits about this school of action cinema have been pulped and the...

Seeing the Academy properly award Mad Max and Margaret Sixel for Best Film Editing bodes well for the future of action cinema.

The clip features Deadpool director Tim Miller talking about what it means to have his movie play in the biggest version of action cinema imaginable across the country, and Miller even took a few passive aggressive jabs at the venerated Marvel Cinematic Universe.

This is, from first frame to last, a fully realized work of action cinema, a movie as visually arresting as it is emotionally stirring, one that could only be appreciated, in terms of its visual accomplishment, on a big screen.

The sight of a swooping, fire - breathing lizard laying waste to the settlement is a joy to behold, reminding us that Jackson can be a master of action cinema when he puts his mind to it.

But then there are those unforgettable set pieces, like an early foot chase in London's Waterloo train station where Bourne has to remote - control a nervous newspaper reporter played by Paddy Considine, not to mention the climactic car chase in New York City, a dazzling bit of action cinema made all the more compelling by the tactile nature of Greengrass» cinematography and editing (you practically want to brush the broken glass off of your face when it's over).

For years now, there's been a particular genre of action cinema that has consistently lured moviegoers to the box office — films in which Liam Neeson has «a very particular set of skills.»

When all this is done, the story of John Wick will be one of action cinema's greatest achievements; I truly believe that.