Sentences with phrase «of underworld figures»

Inspired by a priest's sermon, they decide to rid the city of «evil men» and begin staging elaborate slaughters of underworld figures.

Johnny Truelove, drug dealer and son of a underworld figure, threatens Jake Mazursky, an explosive head case who owes Johnny money; Jake responds by breaking into Johnny's house.

Not exact matches

Fossae are long, narrow depressions in Pluto's landscape, and several sets of these were named after figures of the underworld from different cultures.

A powerful dark tale that is emotional and profound in its unsentimental characterization of lowly underworld figures.

In this wild comedy of errors, a group of London friends find themselves deep in debt to an unsavory underworld figure.

Entering the main flow of the story relatively late, Don Cheadle steals all his scenes as a live - wire, trigger - happy old buddy of Easy's from Texas, while Sizemore and Mel Winkler, as colorful underworld figures, make strong impressions.

Stallone stars as Jimmy Bonomo, an unapologetically direct hitman who, when his partner gets killed after a recent job, is thrown together by circumstance with Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang), a by - the - book visiting cop from Washington, D.C.. Each targets themselves, Jimmy and Taylor form an uneasy alliance, to try to bring down a shady figure of the criminal underworld (Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbaje) and the psychotic enforcer, Keegan (Jason Momoa), doing his bidding.

Thanks to a voluptuous Blu - ray presentation, the movie, which like the Underworld flicks uses iconic creatures as action figures, is at least watchable for a spell, then the CGI begins streaming across the screen like so many clouds of bats.

Drawn into the underworld, Victor must figure out a way to return to the land of the living before his fleshy betrothed marries an evil gold digging villain, Barkis Bittern (Richard E. Grant).

Set in prohibition - era Virginia, the film will depict the criminal nature of a family of bootleggers and their «business» dealings with major underworld figures that ultimately turn fatal.

His role is less to be a charismatic catalyst than to be perpetually schooled on the inveterate cruelty and viciousness of existence by a series of more interesting and colorful underworld figures.

Very loosely based on Russian arms deal Viktor Bout (aka «the Merchant of Death»), and composites of several other figures in the world of arms dealing, Lord of War tells the story of Yuri Orlov (Cage, National Treasure), a Ukrainian raised in the United States that finds a way to make a fast buck buying and selling weapons and ammunition to various factions involved in aspects of war, initially with underworld types in his neighborhood, then eventually expanding throughout the world.

Based on Matt Bondurant's period novel «The Wettest County In the World», the fact - based tale sees petty criminals, the Bondurant brothers (played by Shia LaBeouf, Jason Clarke and Tom Hardy), cross paths with ruthless underworld figures and corrupt law enforcers, each wanting their own piece of the prohibition pie.

Undoubtedly one of the new century's few effective comic - book adaptations, Deadpool follows Ryan Reynolds» Wade Wilson as he's forcefully transformed into the superpowered title character by a vicious underworld figure named Ajax (Ed Skrein)- with the movie, surprisingly enough, emphasizing Wade's efforts to reunite with his former girlfriend, Morena Baccarin's Vanessa.

Add into the mix a subplot involving Hans» cancer striken wife and a mysterious masked killer who is going around taking down underworld figures, and «Seven Psychopaths» has a lot of narrative balls to juggle, and doesn't always handle them satisfactorily.

Jackson joins multimedia journalist Meghan Yost with a preview of action sequel «Underworld: Blood Wars» and reviews of dramas «Hidden Figures» and «A Monster Calls».

The apparent leads are fresh creations: The striking and self - possessed Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) hangs with an older, distinguished - looking father figure named Sir Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton), and the two of them recruit New World sharpshooter Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett) as a hired gun to help them scour the English underworld for Malcolm's kidnapped daughter, Mina Murray.

In Final Fantasy VI, you'd sing in an opera, take a first - person ride through underground train tracks, steal clothing from merchants, catch a train that ushers dead souls to the underworld, talk your way into getting sweet rewards at a treacherous banquet, collect fish for a sick old man, fight off an imperial air force, and try to figure out how to piece together a group of people's lives in the wake of earth - shattering disaster.

However, he must have some power because he is able to deny just about any but the most persistent of mythological figures access to the Underworld.

I can not say what it is specifically about this release that got me back into spending nights when I should be getting rested for school, hunched over my PC trying to figure out how to progress to the next year in the shoes of Manny Calavera, whose job is to sell the recently dead the best (and most expensive, I mean exclusive...) ticket to the Ninth Underworld, the infamous Number Nine.

In 1999, Mr. Cohen would find himself in the middle of a Sunny Isles real estate deal involving a hockey player and a purported figure from the Russian underworld.