Sentences with phrase «pure action films»

While I can understand this point of view, I don't know if people are being altogether fair in tempering their reaction for what turns out to be one of the most exciting and engaging pure action films to come out in many years.

Even thought the film is light on character development, and strove to be more of a pure action film (one of the most influential and parodied in fact), it is still entertaining, even though it's really just ok, and not all that good (unbelievable and unrealistic action aside).

For this reason The Towering Inferno makes a better accounting of itself as a pure action film.

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.»

Not exact matches

I'm not saying I want just pure action but as said I would have loved to see more space beasties, the look of the film cries out for it.

While the first film focused on creating an atmosphere of pure tension, this sequel is much more action - oriented, even if its first hour is actually very slow - and instead of one alien, Cameron has now a horde of goo - spewing, acid - blood creatures to scare the audience to death.

The second half of the film is pretty much pure action as the remaining members of the group try to evade their hunters and, at the same time, take the hunt to them.

The films gives you exactly what you'd expect with a cast line up like this, pure slick action with extra man nipples.

It's the combination of character development, action and pure emotion that drives the film, where even secondary characters have motivations; a wonderful moment a lesser film would have cut for time finds the shapeshifting Mystique (Rebecca Romijn) propositioning Wolverine, at first disguising herself as Wolvie's crush, Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), then purring, «No one has left scars like you.»

Were the film as all - action, little - talk as Kubrick's 2001 — a milestone impossible not to think of when watching ships and humans dance balletically through the silence of space — one could take it as a pure sensory experience.

He's playing with so many interesting ideas when it comes to race that I wish the film felt a bit more satisfying in its payoff, even if that disappointment is amply offset by the pure intensity of the final scenes, during which Peele displays a skill with horror action that I didn't know he had.

But before anyone gets the idea that Black Panther is an «agenda» movie — yes, it has something to say, but it says it so perfectly, giving us pure entertainment, a rousing, thrilling action - adventure film that spans the globe, full of characters to cheer for, bad guys to hiss at, and action sequences galore.

A comedy and a labor of love, the movie is a takeoff on 1970s action films that's been stripped of filler to concentrate on pure visceral thrills.

It makes for a pleasing metaphysical subtext to a film with spectacular action sequences, pointed references to the political economics of the class struggle, and a character in Benicio Del Toro whose nihilism carries with it a whiff of Zen philosophy at its purest.

Pixar's keystone franchise takes on the tone of its more serious recent films (Wall - E and Up), mixing comedy, action and emotion in a way that's pure magic: we end up laughing, frightened and crying tears...

Russell, well, kills them all — just as he vowed to do in the trailers — and the film becomes a pure Rambo action film.

There isn't much to recommend Wasabi except for the offbeat mix of over-the-top humor and overly stylized action, and taken as a pure entertainment kind of film, it'll please most audiences who like French action - comedies.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening May 8, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Next Day Air (R for violence, drug use, pervasive profanity and brief sexuality) Action - oriented crime caper about the comedy of errors which ensue after a couple of hapless hoodlums (Mike Epps and Wood Harris) are mistakenly delivered a large package filled with bricks of pure cocaine.

For a film that is packed with action, there are also moments of pure poetry; the most memorable scene for me is the first, wordless encounter between Maurice and the young girl, Nova, played by Amiah Miller.

Børglum told Variety that Maniac Cop will not be a pure horror film but rather a contemporary and realistic action thriller.

There are so many directors who could take this film and make a goofy, guilty pleasure, but Miller displays impeccable control of all facets to create a modern day pure action masterpiece.

And what a film it is: a comedy, romance and action - infused period piece, equal parts history lesson and pure, giddy fiction.

Six years ago, I showed my dad a treatment and it led to my dad and I discussing and talking about films that are in that style: pure action thrillers that have many layers of meaning and talk about different themes.

by Walter Chaw Yoshiaki Kawajiri's name is probably not as familiar to anime's United States fanbase as Hayao Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Mamoru Oshii, Isao Takahata, or Shinichirô Watanabe, but amid those in the «know,» his Ninja Scroll is among the best pure action / fantasy films of the last fifty years in any medium.

Tony Scott was as populist as they come in Hollywood, a man of action films, pure and simple.

It is an action film, pure and simple, and if it's action you want, this delivers quite nicely and for that it gets a marginal recommendation.

As a fight - filled sci - fi action movie, there aren't many films I think I would rather watch than The Matrix if I'm looking for some background noise that's predominantly fights and pure visual awesomeness to look up at and be distracted by.