Sentences with phrase «offering of action cinema»

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

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In a year when Gareth Evans's next - to - plotless The Raid: Redemption offered a vision of a kind of pure action cinema, and Christopher Nolan capped off his largely entertaining, stiflingly serious...

The early 1970s to the late 1980s was a unique moment in Australian cinema history; a time when censorship was reigned in and home - grown production flourished, resulting in a flurry of exploitation films — sex comedies, horror movies and action thrillers — that pushed buttons and boundaries, trampled over taste and decency, but also offered artistry within their escapism, giving audiences sights and sounds unlike anything they had seen in Australia before.

Coming two years after Kim Jee - woon's 2008 Korean spaghetti western The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Daniel Lee's historical action epic 14 Blades offers another instance of mainstream Asian cinema attempting to give Western genre tropes a distinctly Eastern flavor.

The Hurt Locker (# 1) This Iraqi war drama about a company of bomb disposal technicians recalls the best of classical Hollywood action cinema (i.e., Ford and Hawks), in spite of the near - constant use of handheld cameras, and offers an intriguing critique of masculinity besides.

With bold and lovable new characters, sharp and creative action, and a killer sense of humor, Guardians of the Galaxy easily qualifies as some of the most fun cinema has to offer this year.