Sentences with phrase «shot by an assassin»

Her suspicions are confirmed when her mother is shot by an assassin with poison arrows.

Another time he became the first president to be shot by an assassin (unsuccessfully), and then proceeded to beat down his attacker with a cane (and not kill him).

Not exact matches

On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was shot down by assassins as he started to speak to a crowd of 400 blacks at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.

Or was he shot by a would - be assassin standing in the midst of one of the vast throngs the Polish pope drew to St. Peter's Square for over twenty - five years?

The appeal of the film is manifold - its serenity as The American meticulously goes about his craft; the paucity of dialogue that heightens its few action sequences when they do occur; a superb ensemble of actors led by Clooney that also includes Violante Placido (Clara), Thekla Reuten (assassin), Johan Leysen (controller), and Paolo Bonacelli (as a local town priest); the artistic framing of the film by director Anton Corbijn both in its interiors and the long shots of the Italian settings; and simply the story's uncertainty that grips one from its very beginning.

The US President (William Hurt) is making an historic speech in Salamanca, Spain when he is shot by an unseen assassin.

Shot in the head and left for dead on her wedding day by her colleagues «The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad», a former assassin known as «The Bride» (Uma Thurman) wakes from a coma four years later, intent on revenge.

On the heels of the more audience - friendly shoot»em - up 3:10 to Yuma comes the ponderous but often pretentious epic The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford — an intriguing visual poem starring Brad Pitt as the Old West icon and Casey Affleck, Pitt's co-star in the Ocean's films, as James» assassin.

Daniel Craig (the next James Bond) plays an instinctive man, not plagued by conscience, a natural soldier; Ciaran Hinds, an intellectual doubter; Robert (Mathieu Kassovitz), a sensitive artist disguised as a bomb maker; and Hanns Zischler, a seemingly emotionless killer, whose facade cracks after a particularly pathetic episode involving the shooting of a frivolous female assassin.

She further delivers the shocking news that his Dad was shot to death the night before by Cross (Thomas Kretschmann), a renegade assassin.

While it's easy to complain about this being yet another yearly release, the trailer and shots show a very different looking Assassin's Creed game, and Edward gives the impression that he's going to be something of a charming rogue, not unlike a certain Italian by the name of Ezio.

This week, Bethesda will launch Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus for the PS4, and it'll be joined by Ubisoft's double - shot of Assassin's Creed Origins and Just Dance 2018.

At least 640 land and environmental activists have been killed since the 2009 climate negotiations in Copenhagen - some shot by police during protests, others gunned down by hired assassins.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R - La., himself shot last year by a would - be assassin who targeted Republican lawmakers practicing for a charity baseball game, also focused on the law enforcement failures.