Sentences with phrase «pure action cinema»

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...

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The whole sequence is action cinema at its purest, with almost no dialogue, and an inevitable outcome set up and executed in a way that still inspires chuckles of delight.

To load this tommy gun full of lead, I think Gangster Squad was a hell of a lot of fun, pure gangster cinema, worth it for the action scenes and shootouts alone.

It may not boast Gary Oldman doing a Russian accent, Nic Cage in a wife beater or Jack Lemmon at the controls but, with king of the disyllabic action movie skies, Liam Neeson, as its plucky hero, this is pure guilty pleasure cinema.

At its best, the film from screenwriter Anthony Jaswinski and director Jaume Collet - Serra («Non-Stop,» «Run All Night») is as close to a pure action film that mainstream cinema has seen since «Mad Max: Fury Road.»