Director Jacques Audiard offers up a much different
story than his previous film, the powerful A Prophet.
Not exact matches
The
story is a little weaker
than the
previous Shrek
films.
The
film take a more blatantly serious turn in the third act
than most of Anderson's
previous stories have done, hinting at the emotions that are at the surface for the characters but that still feel deeply buried to us.
Marvel's next
film is destined to be a more serious
story than most of its
previous releases, and the marketing has reflected that.
The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia
film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police
Story from the
previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of
films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier
films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better
than anything before it.
The recent final trailer for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom revealed the
film is going to be much different
than the
previous Jurassic
stories.
Grander in scope
than any
previous film in the series, the
story spends most of its first 45 minutes globetrotting to catch us with all the key characters, and introducing us to the new ones, including the young Jean, Scott and Kurt, played winningly by Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan and Kodi Smit - McPhee, respectively.
The DVD includes the 14 - minute featurette «Sherlock Holmes: Reinvented,» where the producers insist that this
film is «truer to the original
stories»
than previous screen versions.
It is more a variation on existing themes
than a remake of the
previous films and updates the
story to a 1990s setting.
A more personal
film than his
previous offerings, this is a kind of semi-autobiographical
story, charting young Alejandro's relationship with his domineering communist father and free spirited mother.
Child abuse is a theme not unfamiliar to the Potterverse, but this
film takes things much further
than Harry's neglectful foster parents in the
previous Potter
stories.
It tells the origins
story of Kal - El / Clark Kent / Superman with a darker and more emotional touch
than previous Superman
films had.