Sentences with phrase «sort of action film»

After seeing concept art and a couple of still shots from Patrick Lussier «s Drive Angry, I started to wonder if the film might be the sort of action film that few filmmakers seem to get right these days — a dirty, slightly weird, possibly quite violent revenge story.

Not exact matches

The filmmaker's attentive camera and inclination to inactivity without any sort of audience catharsis is a shrewd directorial decision; the film's action comes from extended dialogues that let the performances percolate until they're on the verge of exploding.

As for this film I can't quite understand why it has received such negative reviews, it has excellent action, stealth, espionage of sorts and has the 80's recreated very well.

More an action blockbuster than a horror squelcher, it contains spectacular crowd scenes that have an Hieronymus Bosch quality, but the film lacks strong meat — of the emotional and bloody zombie - cannibal sort.

The Movie: The idea of George Clooney playing a (mostly) silent assassin holed up in the Italian countryside with gorgeous European women sounds like recipe for a solid dramatic experience, so why Focus Features is marketing «The American» as some sort of action thriller when in fact it's an arty European film, will throw some moviegoers off and just outright anger others.

At its heart, Black Panther has a fairly standard comic book sort of story: baddie Ulysses Klaue (a rare live - action Andy Serkis: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, War for the Planet of the Apes), one of the few outsiders who knows the secrets of Wakanda, and who had stolen a small quantity of vibranium decades ago, is up to no good again, with a scary dude nicknamed Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan: Fantastic Four, and both of Coogler's previous films) at his side; they must be stopped by T'Challa, Nakia, and the absolute force of nature General Okoye (Danai Gurira), with an assist from CIA agent Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Sherlock).

With its diverse group of anti-heroes, believable action and absence of smart - ass self - reflexivity, it delivers the sort of engaging spectacle that characterises the action films of the 1980s.

Brad Bird was right in saying that animation is an art form and should be able to accommodate all sorts of genres, but what «Kung Fu Panda 2» should have kept in mind is that the action movie genre elements shouldn't overwhelm the film's core emotionality, no matter how cool those action elements might be.

In my review of the first film, I argued that Woodley seemed out - of - sorts in an action - adventure film, but a year and a different haircut really made a world of difference this time, with Woodley coming into her own here.

It's heavily action - packed in a good, comical sense and it's the sort of blockbuster film this summer has been lacking as of yet.

However, repetition sets in and the escalation of set pieces reaches some sort of a peak here: there are good - to - great action, chase and fight scenes (Bryan Singer's X-Men films still have an edge on depicting superpowers) but there's also a limit to the number of times people can be kicked through walls before the scraps start to feel samey.

Go into this movie knowing that it is an action film with Denzel Washington being awesome and do not over think the clichés and this will be an enjoyable movie for you to watch on a Friday night with your buds or you spouse... sort of.

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.

Yesterday in Hall H at the San Diego Comic Con, the new company FilmDistrict presented a panel featuring two films: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and Drive, the latter being the sort - of action movie that won Nicolas Winding Refn the Best Director award at Cannes this year.

All the copycat quirks do is pull the audience out of the action and remind them that we have all seen this sort of film done a lot better before.

It's a film about what is not said; filled with painfully reserved people unable to express their feelings about life, love, right and wrong until it's too late; the sort of movie where the most action - packed scene is a maid asking to borrow a book.

But the action scenes are fun, the characters are well - drawn and voiced, and I thought the film's visual look was sort of lovely.

Unfortunately, it's also at times these layers looked a bit fake as it sort felt obvious the cast was filming in front of a green screen, but to be honest, a lot of the action sequences would have been too dangerous to perform in real life or to realistically recreate solely with practical effects.

His latest takes us to the ocean in what, under the influence of some sort of controlled substance, might pass for an action film.

Disney's The Avengers and Guardians blend the nostalgic, fun sort of action that was prevalent in the mid -»90s with an unapologetic, wide - eyed sense of good and evil that we don't see on screen anymore, apart from high fantasy films and children's cinema.

It honestly just felt like a group of guys got together and threw all their favorite action movies into a pot and created an amazing looking incoherent film before coming back around and adding a story to it to try and make everything have some sort of meaning.

When: April 27th Why: In what can only be described as a half - hearted attempt at cashing in on the success of the «Sherlock Holmes» films, James McTeigue's «The Raven» re-imagines American poet Edgar Allen Poe as a sort of makeshift action hero who solves crimes.

Battle: Los Angeles, the alien invasion action flick that is about to begin shooting in Louisiana (not quite Los Angeles...) has added quite a few cast members, and on the eve of the shoot star Aaron Eckhart makes some promises about what sort of film we're likely to see when it's all said and done.

Then Twohy starts layering in flashbacks to fill in the back - stories, up to an extended black and white sequence that sorts out the loose ends and sets things up for the frantic, action - charged climax.The first half of the film builds the atmosphere perfectly, establishing the characters with economy thanks to a clever script and an especially strong cast.

Dixon is a thug and a dullard — he has comic books scattered about his desk like some sort of man - child — but he is a man of action, throwing the Flannery O'Connor - reading, billboard - owning Red Welby (Caleb Landry Jones) out of a window following Willoughby's suicide at the film's midway point.

The beautiful women from the James Bond films have intrigued us in many ways over the years, but seeing them join in on the action wielding all sorts of guns definitely added to the sex appeal.

There's no high concept here or need for a third act twist, it's just a gritty, balls to the wall action thriller very much in the vein of the sort of revenge themed films of the 70's.

The popular narrative around this picture is the casting of Matt Damon as some sort of «white savior» in a film about China's most notable architectural achievement — except that it's not really about the Wall and Damon doesn't really save anything, though he does put to rest any sort of debate about whether or not he's a credible action star... or even star star.

We do meet a group of mutants in the film, but with the exception of the pivotal role of Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), the rest of the mutants (good and bad) are mostly just there to fill out the action scenes — or in the case of Emma Frost (January Jones), fill out some ridiculous outfits (which the film does manage to justify... sort of).

Even if you have a film that is not taking itself seriously and knows it's not taking itself seriously, you still need to throw in some sort of realistic element so that the characters reasoning and actions don't become too foreign and ridiculous.

I'll take anything we can get from the maniacally creative Wright at this point, even if this romantic action musical looks like the sort of film that talented directors make when they have no idea what to make.

«But we will see Janet van Dyne in action in this film, and sort of what happened to her.»

in order to make the absurd amount of movement and action discernable points to the sort of psychotic genius behind that film.

Craig's Bond is rougher than Brosnan, much more adept at the sort of hand to hand combat that feels painful to watch on screen, the type of action that Paul Greengrass brought to the mainstream in the Bourne films.

The way George Miller and editor Margaret Sixel conspired to manipulate the frame rate of each shot of Mad Max: Fury Road in order to make the absurd amount of movement and action discernable points to the sort of psychotic genius behind that film.

Downey is charismatic and vulnerable beneath that cocky veneer; Duvall is in his element doing patented crusty character, but this is the sort of film that piles on catastrophic illness, thwarted pro sports careers, and a tornado into the action.

Your enjoyment of the film will primarily depend on what sort of entertainment you're looking for going in, as it delivers plenty for action junkies, and a decent amount of sex and violence, but somewhere along the line, Don Winslow's original book gets lost in place of the more sensational side of things.

, The Death and Life of Bobby Z isn't the sort of film that's going to let a little thing like logic get in the way of an action - packed good time.

Her finest and most structurally adventurous effort to date, Ramsay's latest film «You Were Never Really Here» is both new territory for the writer / director (it can be loosely seen as a violent, Park Chan - wook-esque action - thriller of sorts with a trauma - ridden, hammer - wielding antihero at the center) as well as her usual psychodrama terrain, filled with scarred human beings.

Tempting and not entirely inaccurate, but in truth The Tuxedo is more than just cheerfully misogynistic (and most of Chan's films are, in one way or another, woman - hating), cartoonish, and even racist in a Green Hornet / Kato sort of way — The Tuxedo is a symptom of a far deeper concern involving the inability of the West to ever make proper use of hijacked foreign commodities or construct an action film anymore that doesn't resort to slapstick childishness and / or grotesque violence.

Though the writers strike caused problems, the film had script problems that should have been sorted out long before (this is a Bond film where the plot revolves around a utilities contract), and Forster's handling of the action was fairly poor, despite the presence of «Bourne» action supremo Dan Bradley as second - unit director.

This film is a sort of return to form for the classic action - adventure genre.

This week's new Blu - ray releases include a rather epic martial arts / action sequel (featuring a cover quote by Collider's own Matt Goldberg), director Lars von Trier's epic of a different sort, a documentary about a film that doesn't exist, Jason Bateman's...

It does seem like they've got it together though, the story is a sort - of sequel to Aliens, the second and most action oriented of the films.

The sound design is also ridiculously detailed, with sound effects taken directly from popular action films, and enemies turned into a «choir» of sorts.

Music simulation, music creation games, rhythm / action music games, dance games, karaoke, exercise aids, meditation aids (a small genre admittedly), vehicle simulation, social network Second Life stuff, Tetris, videogames that mimic traditional board and card games, games where you only avoid danger but never hurt anyone, farming games, games where you manage a business, games where you create and manage a family or a hospital or even a civilisation, sex simulation, dating games, art creation, cooking guides, brain training, pet caring, extreme sports like skateboarding or biking or freerunning, all sorts of puzzle and collecting games, games where you navigate mazes and obstacles, pinball, nonviolent detective and adventure or rpg games, interactive films or books.