Sentences with phrase «setpiece on»

Guy then finds himself caught in one of the most tense webs Hitch ever weaved, climaxing in a memorable setpiece on a spinning carousel.

But really, everything that happens in the movie is just an excuse to pile one CGI setpiece on top of another.

He had a wobble against Paxman where he couldn't promise lower immigration under Labour, but it felt far from a defining moment and there was no repeat in the subsequent TV setpieces on the BBC.

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You blamed Giroud for our loss but you forgot he covers more than two position against Westham and saves our a ** on three diff setpiece and we conceded only in one setpiece he didn't get involved in.

Balls called on Osborne to continue the U-turns from March's Budget, the chancellor's last major setpiece event, by reversing the cut in the top rate of income tax from 45p back to 50p and scrapping tax rises for pensioners.

It doesn't rely on jump - scares to freak out the player but instead opts to make them uneasy and uncomfortable with its environment and brilliant setpieces.

There are some flourishes that nod to the genre Spy is satirizing, and the requisite action setpieces are staged capably enough, but usually with a clear focus on jokes over visual refinement.

Medal of Honor is so heavily dependent on canned war moments and setpieces that it starts to feel like the Theme Park tour of the war in Afghanistan, rather than a respectful trip through a day in the life of a soldier - and yeah, that weirded me out.

There are plenty of big, exciting setpieces in this movie, including the newly empowered Steve chasing a HYDRA agent through the streets of Brooklyn that includes Cap punching a submarine (every bit as awesome as it sounds), a deadly motorcycle chase through the forests of Europe, multiple daring raids onto HYDRA bases, and a final huge airborne fight which involves Cap being thrown out a plane and then finding a way back on board.

For every sequence involving Lino's parkour skills — usually followed by a shot of Damien looking on in disbelief (Walker, playing second fiddle in terms of physicality, displays a real sense of self - deprecating humor in these moments)-- or a neat gag involving two bricks, two cars, and two perfectly timed landings, there are at least two setpieces that are rather nondescript.

An inside source says that stunt coordinator Chris Struthers, who is best known for his work on The Dark Knight and Inception, is working on something that will supposedly be on par, or perhaps even bigger than what we've seen in Christopher Nolan's movies, which might tie into Matthew Vaughn's comments a while back that they had to reconfigure some action setpieces because they inadvertently ripped off Inception.

This collection of production - diary - style footage finds Brian De Palma on the set of his 2002 film Femme Fatale directing the shoot, a process that — as seen in these specific clips — includes rehearsals with actors Rebecca Romijn and Antonio Banderas, working through movement / blocking and fight choreography, and the management of the movie's bravura opening setpiece that takes place at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Though most of the action is set in and around a Los Angeles skyscraper, the film manages to wring many convincing sequences out of such a claustrophobic setting, from one - on - one fights to an explosive last - act rooftop setpiece.

But its surface - level riffs on fairy - tale setpieces suggest an inhibited cousin of recent genre films exploring young women's social repression, like Joachim Trier's Bergman - indebted Thelma, or Julia Ducournau's vet - school cannibal horror film Raw.

From the opening sequence of young Mowgli (Neel Sethi) racing through the jungle in the company of his adoptive wolf family and his feline guardian, the black panther Bagheera (Ben Kingsley), through its comic setpieces with the layabout Baloo the Bear (Bill Murray) and its sinister interludes with the python Kaa (Scarlett Johansson), the despot orangutan King Louie (Christopher Walken), and the scarred Bengal tiger Shere Khan (Idris Elba), the movie bears you along on a current of enchantment, climaxing in a thunderous extended action sequence that dazzles while tying off every lingering plot point, and gathering up all the bits of folklore, iconography, and Jungian dream symbols that have been strewn throughout the story like Hansel and Gretel's breadcrumbs.

Characters who initially seem poised to become significant supporting players — among them Army Rangers James Badge Dale and Matthew Fox and rogue CIA operative David Morse — prove expendable, either by becoming food for the encroaching zombie horde, or simply by virtue of the pic moving on to another locale: first a ghostly military base in South Korea that might be the source of the outbreak; then to Israel, where a senior Mossad agent (well played by Dutch filmmaker Ludi Boeken) may hold some additional clues; and finally a WHO research lab in Wales, where — in the pic's most elegantly crafted setpiece — Gerry and a handful of uninfected scientists enter into a careful cat - and - mouse game with the otherwise zombified staff.

Reed, whose previous directing credits are a little more than questionable, doesn't rely on groundbreaking storytelling techniques, epic action setpieces nor particularly memorable performances to effect a highly entertaining, mischievous little outing that completely ignores its once - disastrous potential.

Shin Megami Tensei is a polarizing franchise that attracts as many new fans as it repels, with bizarre tales and often macabre setpieces that go all - in on anime aesthetics.

The best setpiece in «Winter Soldier,» Cap taking out a bunch of would - be assassins in an elevator, had a frenzied smallness that was much more exciting than watching helicarriers crash and monuments crumble; it seems to have inspired the better action scenes here — not just a stairwell punch-fest that finds Bucky swinging from a torn - up stretch of railing like Tarzan on a vine, but in a bigger, louder, wilder clash between Avengers (including emergency ringers Spider - Man, Ant - Man and Black Panther) on an airport runway.

Employing sleight of hand, some fast talking, and a lot of tall tales, it exaggerates the legend until the illusion takes on a life of its own, turning into the promised «fever dream» that, while admittedly stuffed with some truly excellent musical setpieces, has something sinister at its core.

Its most intoxicating setpiece comes early on, when Zuri officially installs T'Challa as Wakanda's Black Panther / King.

Shot on location in Italy's snow - capped Dolomites, the band's daring raid takes place in midair, yet somehow feels more grounded than the vast majority of «Star Wars»» recent setpieces, the contours of the battle vivid and tangible.

On gameplay, epic setpieces and awesome destruction aside, this is Call of Duty through and through.

Sure, Tomb Raider «s setpieces were clearly inspired from Uncharted, but Lara's personality, and the focus on more exploration are the reasons why players should not accuse her of copying Nate, and just enjoy both franchises.

Star Wars Battlefront II looks set to deliver on the big setpiece - heavy space battles fans have been crying out for in Starfighter Assault mode.

Even the game's most memorable setpiece moments, like downing fleets of enemy gunships from atop a speeding train or soaring on a gunship through alien valleys, do little to spice up the boilerplate action and predictable level designs.

Reasonably fun melee fighting on top of cover - based fighting makes for a patient combat system, but is kept interesting by each mission essentially being setpiece upon setpiece.

The freekick and setpiece system has been fully rebuilt to make those placed shots all the more tactical, with improved AI to make runs at goal all the more fluid and the promise of a greater raft of animations when pressing on offence.

This works well enough, until the player catches on that every objective, every blip on your radar or compass, is just pointing to some unique setpiece in the game world.

There's pointless bloodshed, but it doesn't ask the player why they did it, why they wanted it; it just assumes that's what gamers want and moves on to the next setpiece.

: Selectbutton's Dessgeega has a post on a dojin PC game explaining that»... team folio's riah is an homage to castlevania, and not the metrovania style of castlevania that seems to have become the current template for the series, but the older model, where platforming is crucial and enemies are placed carefully to construct compelling setpieces.»