Not exact matches
More traditional in
terms of atmosphere and plot, Drug War nevertheless features a tense, unstoppable momentum, a morally ambiguous protagonist and hugely involving
action scenes.
I think that the mix
of the really short shoot (miraculously, Prince Avalanche was filmed in 16 days), with what an
action - packed shoot it was, in
terms of the amount
of scenes we did every day, and the comedic dynamic
of the character was something that I never explored before.
Jonathan Liebesman (Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Darkness Falls) delivers when it comes to the
action amid the war - torn streets
of Los Angeles, and had there been more presented in
terms of what's at stake for the soldiers we're following individually, these
scenes could have had the technological gusto to be as gripping and harrowing as they are shot.
Although he does put his body on the line in
terms of stunts and fight choreography, it is in the
scenes where there is no
action that he truly delivers, as you can sense the pain and anguish
of the moment, providing the necessary punctuation to make every interchange among the characters very compelling.
Sometimes Hardwick falls into the trap
of simply summarizing the
action of a given
scene, but more often than not he rebounds with some comments about the deeper meanings
of the
scenes in
terms of the characters and the larger picture.