Sentences with phrase «tense action film»

John Carpenter's nod to Howard Hawks» Rio Bravo (in which John Wayne's sheriff relies on a drunk Dean Martin), Assault on Precinct 13 is a brilliantly tense action film, its most electrifying moment coming when Stoker and Joston join forces.

Not exact matches

CHICAGO — Ben Affleck has reached the apex of his already impressive directorial career with the stunning «Argo,» a tight, tense machine of a film, a masterwork that delivers as comedy, action, drama, and more.

A satisfyingly tense desert - island thriller — just without the desert island — the action this time around is set at a Norwegian outpost (the one referenced by the guys at the U.S. - run Antarctic outpost at the beginning of Carpenter's film).

It creates a poignant, romantic underscore throughout film as it bounces between political drama and a tense action - driven thriller.

The tense dogfight between hitman and spies in the third Bourne film, deftly handled by director Paul Greengrass, is powerful enough to restore your faith in action movies

Director Jonathan Liebesman background in horror films shines through in some genuinely tense moments, and one or two of the action sequences are well executed (a massive shoot - out on a freeway overpass is a particular highlight), but the potential of this movie is both wasted by a lack of general coherence, and then destroyed by dialogue that swings wildly from cheesy patriotic to unintentionally hilarious.

What You Need To Know: With director Paul Greengrass having made a name for himself in two relatively distinct areas — the tense conspiracy action thriller (the second and third «Bourne» films) and based - in - fact films about recent historical events («United 93,» «Bloody Sunday,») «Captain Phillips» seems like it could play to his strengths in both areas, as it's a gripping, tense, fight - for survival type tale that has added weight and heft for being lifted from a real - life incident.

A film with so little action should not be as tense as this film is, and it is a testament to the quality of all angles of the production that a predominantly real - time drive down a highway is as gripping as this film often is.

Buddy cop films that blend tense drama, wise - cracking partners and eye - widening action have long been popular, with the jewel of the genre being Lethal Weapon.

Schaffner came from TV, and while he has few of the obnoxious visual affectations of the TV - trained director, he tends to restrict the most significant actions and relationships in his films to spatial arenas that could be served very adequately by the tube rather than the Panavision screen: the real convention hustle in The Best Man takes place in hotel rooms, hallways, and basements; the tensest moments in his strange and (to me) very sympathetic medieval mini-epic The War Lord are confined to a small soundstage clearing or that besieged tower; the battle scenes in Patton are hardly clumsy, but the real show is George C. Scott; and Nicholas and Alexandra comes alive only after the royal family has been penned up under the watchful eyes of Ian Holm and then Alan Webb, far from the splendor of St. Petersburg or the shambles of the Great War.

He gives his film several tense action scenes (thrilling shootouts, car chases conducted in night vision) executed at a perfect clip, but forgets to invest it with a larger sense of wonder.

After a lengthy and tense build up, the film explodes into a series of chase and action sequences as our cab driver gets on the wrong side of the police and two rival gangs.

The rear channels are utilized all the time, and consist of ambient sounds, background music, and are perfectly timed for tense action moments in the film.

Besides its tense, edgy action, the film is notable for the way the son's image of his dad as a boring, staid materialist is progressively eroded as his past in the CIA gradually comes to light, as well as for the provocative way in which literal and metaphorical (the antagonistic entities who work against the protagonists) notions of family collide and contrast.

Though the film more than fulfills its genre requirements as a tense, diamond - sharp 90 - minute thriller, Saulnier never lets the action get cartoonish, or detached from the flawed characters perpetuating it.

As the streets fill with blood we slowly uncover, with Kate, more and more of the truth behind her new team's blatantly unethical methods of crime - fighting, the film develops into a tense, action - packed scramble that will leave you gasping for breath.

Neeson, who has established himself well enough as an action hero, kicks ass yet again in this tense, edge - of - your seat film.

Directed by Louie Psihoyos, the film is a tense action - film - like documentary on the brutal killing of dolphins in Taiji, Japan, one of many areas of the country where dolphins and whales are killed for their meat, though some of the traumatized animals are hand - chosen to be hauled off to theme parks and swim - with - the - dolphin programs across the globe.