Sentences with phrase «see in an action film»

The fighting (the main thing to see in an action film), is also quite disappointing.

There is some good character development which is nice to see in an action film these days.

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It's closer to an immersive film than a fully interactive simulation, but as Fortune reported when we first checked in on StriVR in 2015, research shows that seeing real humans in action helps the brain refine its timing and stay focused.

Many in Hollywood say they see the spiritual - memoir - turned - movie as the next hot genre, suggesting there are ongoing talks about turning Lauren Winner's «Girl Meets God» into a romantic comedy, Ian Cron's «Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me» into an action flick, Anne Lamott's «Traveling Mercies» into an indie road trip film, Kathleen Norris» «The Cloister Walk» into something really creepy involving monks.»

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The importance of a surface's roughness can be seen in car engines, where if the walls of the engine's cylinders are too smooth they will seize, meaning that the surface needs to be just rough enough to carry a film of lubricant to maintain a smooth piston action.

Visit to get the The new film sees good old Captain Jack back in swashbuckling action and on the hunt for another bit of mythical gubbins, the legendary Trident of Poseidon

All in all, «X-Men» pulls its weight as an action film worth seeing, while faithfully delivering to the fans all they could expect and hope.

I've seen that happen in far too many films - good premise + good first act degenerates into standard action cliches.

Good sci - fi has all these things, of course, but «bigger» isn't better, and most of the «big» idea movies use «the future» as a setting for action and adventure, whereas true sci - fi films (and books) use that setting to tell human stories in new ways; human relationships (with others, with self, with the environment, etc...) are are the core of the best sci - fi movies we've seen.

While strict and unbending, the matriarchy of the Rivera household is a family system rarely seen in films live - action and otherwise.

It's mostly a «get what you see» type film, with the trailers really ruining the film's short third act action that brings about the conclusion in a deflating manner.

In 2000 alone, she could be seen in no less than four films, including the action comedy The Crew, Red Planet, and as a bartender with questionable motives in director Christopher Nolan's unconventional breakthrough, MementIn 2000 alone, she could be seen in no less than four films, including the action comedy The Crew, Red Planet, and as a bartender with questionable motives in director Christopher Nolan's unconventional breakthrough, Mementin no less than four films, including the action comedy The Crew, Red Planet, and as a bartender with questionable motives in director Christopher Nolan's unconventional breakthrough, Mementin director Christopher Nolan's unconventional breakthrough, Memento.

Unlike series co-star Biel, Mitchell remained with the program throughout its run, and through many character changes that found Lucy marrying Kevin Kinkirk, working as an associate pastor, giving birth, and surviving both a miscarriage to twins and clinical depression.Although Mitchell branched out from television into cinematic work as early as 1996, with a turn in the fantasy - action thriller The Crow: City of Angels, and continued intermittent film appearances (such as a supporting role in 2005's slasher movie Saw II), she made no secret of her real passion: performing country music as a guitarist and vocalist.

While Harlin's big action sets in other films like Die Hard 2 suffered from an unfortunately dated sampling of CGI, everything you see in CutThroat Island has been constructed — and destroyed in grand fashion.

Written and directed by Karen Leigh Hopkins, the film's tone looks to be all over the place, but it's good to see James Badge Dale as something other than a supporting character in an action blockbuster.

After lambasting him for his disaster of an action film 12 Rounds, I now see that as a director he was hideously robbed of the fame CutThroat Island should have brought him when the box office of its time failed to recognize the greatness inherent in pirate epics.

Even if it may feel a bit overlong, this fantastic sequel is perhaps even more thrilling than the first film, this time investing more in the action and first - rate special effects with a bigger budget to create something epic - and it is always awesome to see Schwarzenegger as the big hero.

Time Warner's slumping Filmed Networks division sees bright spot to 49 percent income drop in Traveller's Tales» family - friendly action game.

It's the type of circular insanity you don't see in your average action film.

Carrey looks to be wearing a bit of prosthetics to get the character's look just right, and it should be fun to see him in action when the film hits theaters.

Alas, my heart sank when I realized that the film I was about to see was not a remake of the 1995 forgotten Cindy Crawford - William Baldwin classic but a in fact change of pace low - key political drama from the go to high concept action film - maker of the past decade, Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr & Mrs Smith) focusing on the Plame Affair, one of the key scandals in recent American political history.

The Peter principle was born in»60s corporate America, but it's not relegated to stuffy old workplaces — we basically see it in action every time a new series or film turns out to be a hit.

The action is surprisingly clear, with the focus rarely faltering; with so many animations opting for a much denser, clustered style, its good to see this film do much better in that regard, making it more eye friendly.

Thus far we've only heard an incredibly brief snippet of the actor singing, so everyone's eager to see Crowe in action once the film hits theaters.

Instead of using his newfound clout to take a starring role in another prestige picture, an action vehicle, or a superhero movie, his next gig will see him play a supporting role in a twisted comedy from the mind of Taika Waititi, the director of films like Thor: Ragnarok and Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

Once the set up is there, it's easy to see where it's all going, and consequently, the tempo never comes close to the fever pitch required to make this the thrilling action film it needs to be in order to truly entertain.

And there's hope that Jeffrey Dean Morgan will reprise his role as Thomas Wayne in the film and portray the Flashpoint Batman in live - action - but we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

No critic, no bad review, nothing could take away the feeling of seeing our first real action role model in film.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

In 2003, he could be seen in feature films from the action moneymaker 2 Fast 2 Furious to the light comedy DupleIn 2003, he could be seen in feature films from the action moneymaker 2 Fast 2 Furious to the light comedy Duplein feature films from the action moneymaker 2 Fast 2 Furious to the light comedy Duplex.

Olivia Munn is an actor, author and activist and will next be seen on film, as the lead in the action - thriller Hummingbird and starring in Shane Black's The Predator opposite Keegan - Michael Key and Sterling K. Brown.

Characters and their actions in Haneke's films are often seen coldly with a clinical eye.

by Walter Chaw Arriving right smack dab in the latter half of a decade in American cinema that saw digital «reality» supplant filmic «reality» (and appearing the same year as James Cameron's Forrest Gump: Titanic), Hong Kong legend John Woo's high - camp Face / Off directly (and presciently) addresses issues of identity theft, terrorism, and the digital corruption of reality and indirectly addresses Woo's émigré influence on the modern action film.

Universal City, California, February 15, 2016 — Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained, White House Down) stars as an undercover homicide detective seeking revenge on his son's kidnappers in the must - see action film Sleepless, available on Digital HD on April 4, 2017 and on Blu - ray ™, DVD and On Demand on April 18, 2017 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

The film starts off with some awkward, painfully lame flashback scenes of Kyle's childhood and transitions into an opening act that is loaded with full - on patriotism that sees him go to war to get back at the people who brought suffering to our doorstep in the events of 9/11 (he was already enlisted, but if we believe the film that decision was also motivated by seeing news footage of American lives being taken), but one of the most interesting surprises is how balanced it eventually becomes and how we see the way that Kyle's actions negatively impact others and how even he begins to question his commitment to the cause, despite the fact that he would never vocalize it.

I really wanted to start calling him Armie Hammy since most of what he's been given in this film are lines that would fit more into children's books than in an action movie that has more violence within the story than most young Disney fans might be accustomed to seeing.

On one level, the film, written and directed by Leigh Whannell (Saw, Insidious), trots out a very familiar sort of action - hero origin story: Victimized by violent crime in a cyberpunk future, main character Grey Trace (Logan Marshall - Green) vows to hunt down the men who killed his wife.

Sure, the action in this movie is arguably better than the first film (partly because we actually get to see the climactic battle rather than just hear about it in the background), but is it possible to have too much of a good thing?

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.

As announced in the end credits for the first film, the sequel will see Cable make his first live - action appearance.

Directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud excel in pleasing the fans of Despicable Me with much of the same spy action and slapstick minion comedy seen in the first film, only amped up to greater heights for this highly anticipated sequel.

However, if you want sizzle and action that's even more violent than what we've seen in previous films, you've come to the right place, as «Smaug» is more aggressive with its fight sequences and battles.

The bus sequence seen in the trailer is one of the big action pieces in the film but comes before the biggest final action sequence.

In the hours surrounding teaser trailer, Trank and screenwriter Simon Kinberg talked with Collider, Empire Online and Yahoo! Movies about their frame of mind for the film and setting it apart from what they see as the commodified superhero action genre.

Of the more than 40 films he's directed this century, I've only seen a handful, but Yakuza Apocalypse is firmly in the tradition of earlier films like Sukiyaki Western Django, 13 Assassins and his remake of the Maskai Kobayashi classic Harakiri in their critique of the psychotic masculinity that underlies the ideology of Japanese action narratives.

Being in the middle of an action - packed level only to see Groot start dancing like he did at the beginning of the GoTG 2 film was pretty funny.

In the end, what the film doesn't have in heart it makes up for in action and creative animation (I still get a kick out of seeing some of my son's more unique Lego pieces make an appearance, like Lego flames or the Lego shark), and you will certainly leave the theater with a smile on your facIn the end, what the film doesn't have in heart it makes up for in action and creative animation (I still get a kick out of seeing some of my son's more unique Lego pieces make an appearance, like Lego flames or the Lego shark), and you will certainly leave the theater with a smile on your facin heart it makes up for in action and creative animation (I still get a kick out of seeing some of my son's more unique Lego pieces make an appearance, like Lego flames or the Lego shark), and you will certainly leave the theater with a smile on your facin action and creative animation (I still get a kick out of seeing some of my son's more unique Lego pieces make an appearance, like Lego flames or the Lego shark), and you will certainly leave the theater with a smile on your face.

While not as good as the best live - action shot in 3D films, it might be the best full - length conversion I've seen (the 20 minutes converted for Harry Potter 5 in Imax looked incredible but I hear it is much harder to do full - length films), and if you are gonna see it you should probably go in 3D, which is not always the case with 2D conversions or animated films.

Dawn Page: It's fascinating to see a Tarantino - style action film set in the least likely location imaginable.