Sentences with phrase «setpieces with»

Soft piano themes are accompanied with explosive setpieces with ease, and combined they make for an eclectic and varied tracklist for an equally eclectic game.

Park keeps the twists coming and handles the kick - ass setpieces with droll flair (notably, a bravura continuous shot as his hero fights his way through a corridor gauntlet), steadily building to a denouement whose perversity is worthy of Jacobean tragedy.

Coogler stages the film's obligatory globe - trotting action setpieces with vigor; an extended, multi-pronged battle through Busan fuses the great movie car chases of yore with a handful of tech - fueled treats, sending old and new modes of action careening through the neon - lit sreets at a breathless clip.

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.

Not exact matches

Seen the rare situation that a manager walks away just before the season starts i don't really know what will happen but still rate a 90 % chance that the Gunners will easily beat them 4 - 1 with a conceded goal from a setpiece.

Also, I have no problem with mertesacker defensively, but with his height you would expect he would be a threat at setpieces, but the guy is just useless when attacking corners it's ridiculous

awful, played bad and with 1 man up and 2 extra defenders (coq - monreal) and still we concede in setpieces

Our defense still lacks something especially when it confronts anyone near the box, handling the pacy attack and defending with setpieces.

As he first learned with the treaty veto, the Cameron setpiece process looks something like this:

And although TV dominated through the debates, the big setpiece televised interview with a Brown, Cameron or Clegg became a thing of the past.

He breaks away with massive setpieces.

The remake faithfully recreates most of the familiar setpieces from the 1949 version, including the Christmas - dinner sequence with Timmy's grandparents and a climactic confrontation in a courtroom over a case of mistaken identity.

While the book was a character sketch overlaid with a cheeky anti-ranching analogy / critique (related to what happens to the men Isserley catches), the movie is overtly cinematic, using the book's rough outline for a series of setpieces: some bizarrely visionary, some creepily mundane.

jumps from plotline to plotline, stringing them together with a series of action setpieces that fulfill their obligations, but little more

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.

That aspect of the film is clearly in a fight with all the «why did you come here» Syd Field motivational padding between its troubling setpieces, and it's a very studio - suit move to assume that the only way to give «meaning» to a film is to have people talk about it.

This story gives us exactly what we'd expect from it, with bone - breaking fights, lots of action setpieces, and a plethora of new characters tagging along for the ride.

All In was an hour of Homeland that felt capital - B BIG, with setpiece after setpiece and tête - à - têtes that... felt like verbal warfare...»

And that's about all the «story» there is; the rest of the picture is jam - packed with round - robin comic misunderstandings and wild slapstick setpieces.

The film is laugh - out - loud funny at times, with stunning action setpieces, and extremely likeable and charismatic stars.

But the movie's cartoonish setpieces clash loudly with its darker narrative tendencies and the screenplay is neither a satisfying continuation of Captain America's story nor that of his counterparts.

The cracking script - a veritable treasure trove of smart one - liners - and beautifully - worked setpieces (the boys» run - in with the Vegas police is a classic)- make this one of the most enjoyable comedies of the year.

It's a shame that his first solo film falls victim to the same kind of slipshod storytelling, overloaded with characters and setpieces at the price of screen time for its lead.

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.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is loaded with exciting, well - choreographed setpieces from the word go, keeping a spring in its step all the way to the finish line.

For me the most brutal moments are in the film's last half hour when our nation's «triumph» is depicted as a mercilessly precise mechanical setpiece filled with casually quick killings of men and women alike in Osama's compound.

Revisiting the movie's second assassination setpiece — the one at the regatta — I was surprised to see Woo execute a move that I now associate with Spike Lee, of all people.

Captain America: Winter Soldier artfully dodges nearly every typical superhero movie problem (as well as general sequel problems) with a stunning grasp of mood, total commitment to a «square» character, a smart choice of villain, and thrilling action scenes that feel authentically dangerous (a complete rarity in blockbusters) rather than like stop - and - gawk «setpieces» with no actual stakes.

by Walter Chaw Something to do with hybrid werewolves and full - breed werewolves and how one hybrid biker werewolf is interested in mating with the last full - bred matriarch bitch in order to preserve the line of the pure - blood werewolves, the direct - to - video DarkWolf at least has the decency to open in a strip club and continue into a fairly decent gore setpiece before launching into its incomprehensible lore.

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.

Most of it, though, is that Gary Dauberman's screenplay merely goes through the motions, with scene after scene of redundant exposition as the tedious means to get from one setpiece to the next.

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.

Its motion - capture CGI renders the characters in rubbery, apple - cheeked versions that sometimes slide queasily into the uncanny valley; its script (written by the dream team of Doctor Who show - runner Steven Moffat, Hot Fuzz writer - director Edgar Wright, and Attack The Block writer - director Joe Cornish) is an of - the - moment action movie, little more than a lengthy series of big setpieces, crammed with fights and chases.

The freewheeling, playfully nose - tweaking ode to Hollywood has never seemed so fluid in its movement through wildly different setpieces, and even Gene Kelly's indulgent Broadway Melody works better with the added visual flair.

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.

With directorial competence in action cinema currently at its lowest ebb at the multiplex, his elaborate setpieces are a breath of fresh air.

From its opening scene, The Golden Circle throws us immediately into a meticulously choreographed action setpiece, with Eggsy (Taron Egerton), now an established Kingsman agent, fighting his former Kingsman colleague Charlie (Edward Holcroft) in a speeding taxi through the streets of London.

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.

The first setpiece is an extended sightseeing tour through the city's bazaar, with a dead body hanging from a construction crane, angry protestors blocking the entrance, and a crowded market full of people who would not take kindly to Americans.

In the meantime, Villeneuve stages one extraordinary suspense setpiece after another, starting with an epic traffic jam at the border that ensnares the Americans just as they are heading back home with a piece of very precious cargo in tow.

Iron Man takes its sweet time getting Downey into the Iron Man suit, and it doles out big action setpieces sparingly once man has fused triumphantly with machine.

It's a straightforward spy yarn with a couple action setpieces that are VERY well done, and because it doesn't overdo it with the twists, Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard's characters are able to build up to some strong moments.

There are no Overtime or Nightmare modes included, just a bunch of action setpieces that can be burned through quickly, especially during New Game + with a maxed - out Frank.

The plot meanders somewhat aimlessly from setpiece to setpiece, with little in the way of connective tissue to the actual scheme.

It is selling you an enjoyable time, spinning your head with breathless setpieces, color, glamour, surprise, happiness.

It's easy to feel cowed into submission by the sheer bigness of Paul Thomas Anderson's three most recent features: dense, crowded, immaculately shot and composed, incident - heavy movies in which setpieces often seem to be competing with one another for attention and space.

Along with a quite moving faith in the commonweal and in the indomitability of the noble human spirit — a throughline in the cinema of Collet - Serra, who always puts his protagonists through the wringer — The Commuter is blessed with some of the deftest setpieces in recent pop cinema memory, including one brisk, brutal close - quarters dust - up that recalls Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin.

Those who look hard will come across special locations that allow them to craft setpiece items, like special armor with unique bonuses.

This a watchably stylised period film, with interesting visual setpieces and faces looming up at us out of intricately contrived backgrounds.

It's admirable that Helander wants to make the kind of over-the-top action picture that was popular in the era of Con Air and Air Force One — rather than merely spoofing it, or «paying homage» — but the bulk of Big Game is too safe and square, with very few memorable setpieces, wild twists, or killer catchphrases.