Sentences with phrase «of tense action»

It combines a balance of tense action, puzzle solving, story, and fun that has yet to be equaled on in the FPS arena.

Nightwar is full of tense action, but you have to be patient to make it to the end»

Of course, there is plenty of tense action all throughout, from warding off a German patrol boat to the final effort to take out the guns before a fleet of Allied ships are destroyed.

And while William Friedkin's incredible Sorcerer isn't a proper action movie — the only real villain is nature — I'd be remiss if I didn't mention one of the tensest action scenes I've ever seen: The one where the two trucks full of unstable nitroglycerin have to cross a rickety, falling - apart jungle rope bridge in the middle of a storm.

Not exact matches

The lone police officer who faced a tense stand - off with the man suspected of driving a van into pedestrians in Toronto is being hailed a hero for his actions.

On the plus side, this course of action presents a lower risk of elevating the tense situation into a full - blown crisis or warfare.

Things may be more tense in South Korea, where President Moon Jae - in has opposed in principle the idea of unilateral action against North Korea by the U.S. President Trump will also skip a visit to the demilitarized zone (DMZ) there.

Other impacts of depression in the workplace include absenteeism (missing work), tense work relationships or conflicts, and receiving verbal or written disciplinary action as a result of depression.

The potential trade action is further straining already - tense relations between the United States and Canada, two of the world's most integrated economies.

Also, the original post was a cartoon envisioning the words / concepts represented by the Jesus figure, against the background of the Syrian refugees ---- what are your thoughts on the irony, applicability, and / or actions advocated by the Followers of Jesus (past tense) with the Followers of Jesus (present tense).

A quick survey of present tense verbs in the Bible reveals that there are countless actions in the present tense which are clearly one time events with ongoing consequences.

There was also a return to action for Fran Kirby after five months out through injury and the striker looked lively in her half - hour on the pitch, although a couple of missed chances almost came back to haunt us when Melissa Fletcher netted late on to set up a tense finale.

Bob sat down with my past list of «action - rich past - tense verbs» and recast his grad school experience in terms of these words and specific past accomplishments.

Propranolol blocks the action of adrenaline, so it prevented her from tensing up and getting anxious.

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.

Each location features its own site - specific action sequence — a tense chase through the Underground, a stealthy assassination lit only by changing neon signs, a primal fist fight involving Komodo dragons — that shows off a different aspect of Bond's impressive new aesthetic universe.

A tense build up of emotions, carefully considered in its exposure of diametrically opposed concerns over militar, political and moral action in the current technological war against fundamentalism.

Working from Burke's screenplay, the Brazilian director Jose Padilha («Narcos») cuts between the increasingly tense passengers, confined to a sweaty corner of the Entebbe airport terminal; the infighting among the terrorists; and the high - level political and military planning put into action by Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres (Eddie Marsan), a no - negotiation hard - liner, and Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin (Lior Ashkenazi), depicted here as the conflicted pragmatist.

More traditional in terms of atmosphere and plot, Drug War nevertheless features a tense, unstoppable momentum, a morally ambiguous protagonist and hugely involving action scenes.

Another good impression maker is the excellent action stunts, most noteably a great car and tram chase with multiple wrecks which all look realistic, some good tense stand offs and none of it being watered down, a good step for Murphy although at times he doesn't quite nail the gritty realistic acting thing.

Game Night, directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, wastes not a single second of dialogue, gives killer lines to every member of its all - star ensemble, delivers genuinely tense action sequences, and even goes for broke with style.

«Minimalist gaming at its finest, with graphics and presentation out of the Stone Age but evocative sci - fi action that's tense, tactical and instantly addictive.»

Featuring Carlos Gallardo, star of Robert Rodriguez's cult - classic debut El Mariachi, Bravo is a tense action thriller about a musician struggling to stop a criminal rebellion.

When a keen - eyed scientist discovers that a large asteroid is currently on a deadly collision course with the planet Earth, she must seek the help of a military outcast to jump into action and save humanity from annihilation in a tense, end - of - the - world thriller starring Rae Dawn Chong, Antonio Sabato, Jr., and Michael Moriarty.

He's also added bed - based brooding and Tommy Lee Jones - talking to his considerable repetoire of skills; meanwhile, it looks like returning director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum) has finally mastered the art of shooting a tense action scene without shaking his camera like he's tap dancing on the San Andreas fault.

MXGP3 fits into a niche group of racing game fans, but it still provides some tense motocross action for those willing to overlook its flaws.

His masterful composition of muted colors and tense but understated score, his visual focus on the characters rather than their actions, and his subtle but powerful use of camera elevate this story above its exploitative trappings.

A satisfyingly tense desert - island thriller — just without the desert island — the action this time around is set at a Norwegian outpost (the one referenced by the guys at the U.S. - run Antarctic outpost at the beginning of Carpenter's film).

Starts out pretty well with some good tense action and a solid revenge plot building in the same type of vain as your average Seagal or JCVD flick.

This keeps matches pretty much always to 15 minutes or less, and keeps the action flowing at the kind of tense pace that'll keep your sphincter clenched shut between rounds.

Unsettling moments — Throughout my journey in Outlast 2 I witnessed a wide variety of actions and moments that left me uneasy or tense.

Director Jonathan Liebesman background in horror films shines through in some genuinely tense moments, and one or two of the action sequences are well executed (a massive shoot - out on a freeway overpass is a particular highlight), but the potential of this movie is both wasted by a lack of general coherence, and then destroyed by dialogue that swings wildly from cheesy patriotic to unintentionally hilarious.

For young audience members the lesson contains some portrayals of reckless behavior that are short on consequences, rude actions and tense moments when the farmyard critters and the wild coyotes face off on a dark night in an old junkyard.

A film with so little action should not be as tense as this film is, and it is a testament to the quality of all angles of the production that a predominantly real - time drive down a highway is as gripping as this film often is.

It's really a fusion of that very one - on - one high tense battle with the Devil May Cry or God Eater very fast paced action.

The trailer for Sicario (Spanish for hitman) from director Denis Villeneuve (Enemy, Prisoners) is here and it's a tense two minutes of action and drama with Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt (Into the Woods, The Young Victoria) and Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro (Traffic, 21 Grams) fighting the war on drugs through a backdoor loophole that allows for a clandestine mission to apprehend a Mexican drug lord.

It becomes a combination of the Dark Souls style high tense battle with a very high pace action — that's what sets us apart.

It's an tense, action - packed scene that assured us the return of the Rogers would definitely be worth seeing.

Buddy cop films that blend tense drama, wise - cracking partners and eye - widening action have long been popular, with the jewel of the genre being Lethal Weapon.

Schaffner came from TV, and while he has few of the obnoxious visual affectations of the TV - trained director, he tends to restrict the most significant actions and relationships in his films to spatial arenas that could be served very adequately by the tube rather than the Panavision screen: the real convention hustle in The Best Man takes place in hotel rooms, hallways, and basements; the tensest moments in his strange and (to me) very sympathetic medieval mini-epic The War Lord are confined to a small soundstage clearing or that besieged tower; the battle scenes in Patton are hardly clumsy, but the real show is George C. Scott; and Nicholas and Alexandra comes alive only after the royal family has been penned up under the watchful eyes of Ian Holm and then Alan Webb, far from the splendor of St. Petersburg or the shambles of the Great War.

The Lovely Bones and little Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) certainly tell us what she's learning while watching her family and murderer shuffle around on the mortal coil in a near - constant voice - over, but those words of denial and anger growing into acceptance don't reveal themselves in her limited actions in her stop on the way to Heaven (This might also be attributed to the fact that the story is told in the past tense, which lessens its overall impact as she has already seen and discovered these things; she's telling her story as opposed to living it, if you pardon the metaphysical contradiction in the wording).

He gives his film several tense action scenes (thrilling shootouts, car chases conducted in night vision) executed at a perfect clip, but forgets to invest it with a larger sense of wonder.

With only four credited parts including Samantha Morton as the maid of the household, the action seems to be incredibly tense.

S. Craig Zahler follows up Bone Tomahawk with an equally brutal tense action piece, this time starring Vince Vaughn (of all people) as a man trying to provide for his family who falls back into the drug world and ends up in prison, forced to carry out hits to ensure his wife isn't killed by his former employer.

Even up and comers like the incredibly versatile Tom Hardy, who plays rogue MI6 member Ricki Tarr, and the strangely appealing Benedict Cumberbatch, who tackles the role of Smiley's newly appointed sidekick Peter Guillam, get in the action bringing to life this tense political thriller.

Lots of action and explosions unfold at the pace of old people shuffling through a buffet line, split up by really idiotic and mostly identical sequences in which wordy riddles lead our heroes on yet another series of lever - pullings and allegedly tense standoffs in cobwebbed corridors.

Like «Avengers: The Age of Ultron,» «Captain America: The Winter Soldier» and «Iron Man 3,» «Civil War» is simultaneously about the ramifications of US intervention in a post-9 / 11 world; the responsibility of private military contractors (which is basically what the Avengers are here) to defer to their government and the United Nations; the question of whether civilian casualties negate the righteousness of a noble mission; the allure and price of vengeance; and individuals» ongoing, never - finished struggles to understand how their pasts drive their present - tense actions.

The frequently electrifying atmosphere proves instrumental in compensating for a plot that admittedly doesn't hold up to close scrutiny, as Cavayé, working from a script cowritten with Guillaume Lemans, peppers the narrative with a number of strikingly conceived and executed action set pieces - including an impressively tense foot chase through a busy subway station.

The ensuing multitude of subplots does prevent the viewer from wholeheartedly embracing the central protagonist's plight, and yet there does reach a point at which the various threads begin to converge and the plot appreciatively streamlines - which paves the way for an impressively propulsive midsection that's rife with tense, action - packed sequences.

After a lengthy and tense build up, the film explodes into a series of chase and action sequences as our cab driver gets on the wrong side of the police and two rival gangs.