Sentences with phrase «tense action piece»

S. Craig Zahler follows up Bone Tomahawk with an equally brutal tense action piece, this time starring Vince Vaughn (of all people) as a man trying to provide for his family who falls back into the drug world and ends up in prison, forced to carry out hits to ensure his wife isn't killed by his former employer.

Not exact matches

For his part, though he doesn't exactly top the gritty, straightahead car chase that anchors the otherwise routine Bullitt, director Peter Yates revs up a few action set - pieces, such as a tense moment early on when scooter - riding Berke and Sanders are driven off the road by a big truck, a lengthy shark attack, and an explosive finale.

At its core, the JJ - verse is still a dumb, loud vehicle for big - budget action set pieces and nonstop explosions, so it's unlikely we'll ever get a tense sci - fi drama with more talking than punching.

The frequently electrifying atmosphere proves instrumental in compensating for a plot that admittedly doesn't hold up to close scrutiny, as Cavayé, working from a script cowritten with Guillaume Lemans, peppers the narrative with a number of strikingly conceived and executed action set pieces - including an impressively tense foot chase through a busy subway station.

There's some tense action set pieces, and Alicia Vikander's take on Lara Croft is pretty good.