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Contraband was
your typical action film, if you feel like getting away for a while and watching an action film this movie will not disappoint.
Director Brad Peyton (this is his follow - up to «Journey 2: The Mysterious Island», which also starred Johnson) even takes a risk with a subplot that's quite heavy for
a typical action film.
All in all, it's
your typical action film but because of its predecessor it will be a solid hit, so get ready for Taken 3.
Not exact matches
But then the
action is muddled by some unnecessary and meaningless CGI pyrotechnics, a holdover character from a previous MCU
film (a white dude, naturally) is shoved into the spotlight, and we all brace ourselves for the
typical post-credits stinger.
In the first
film's
typical style, along with the
action comes the humour, as the cab driver cries: «I shit my pants!»
Soderbergh inverts the
typical action movie genre score by ratcheting up the score during the non-fight sequences, applying that retro - 1970s jazzy horn and percussion score by David Holmes (Code 46, Analyze That) during the dialogue and chases, while turning the music completely off when the
film gets explosive for the highly brutal moments of close - quarter, melee combat.
It's surprisingly fleet - footed, with the Edinburgh sequence somewhat
typical of the
film's early
action set - pieces.
The marketing material puts Jackson as a
typical action figure, but the
film presents otherwise.
Director Tsui Hark and fight director Sammo Hung provide some great wire - fu
action sequences among the convoluted plot that is
typical of these kinds of Chinese epic modern
films.
It is more than an
action film and Blunt's performance is more than a
typical hero.
He's even opted to intercut urban «rap video» style bookmarks of the city in between scenes to avoid the
typical formulaic ruts so many
action films experience.
This parody of gung ho
action films lets you take control of characters who are obviously based on your
typical line - up of stereotypes such as Rambo, Schwarzi and others who all have their special weapons and traits.
But I'm glad that they certainly made it NOT look like a
typical action / racing «high octane» movie... but who knows if the actual
film is like that or not.
Chiefly, it is a big - scale (admittedly overscaled)
action spectacle,
typical of the era where such
films ruled the box office.
Despite the more refreshing scenes (it has its share) it still falters from
typical action plot points that seem to infest every
film he's in.
This
film is loaded with all the
typical cliched
action sequences and at times is so stupid that as an audience member you just shake your head and ask yourself, «they didn't just do that, did they?»
Though I understand what the director was trying to accomplish with his satirical deconstruction of the
typical spring break mindset (a heightened reality where there are no consequences for your
actions), it doesn't change the fact that it's essentially a badly executed experimental
film disguised as a mainstream crime drama.
Typical for modern
films of this nature, the
action scenes are filled with shaky handheld cinematography and rapid cuts that mean there often isn't a single well - framed shot in the whole sequence (and if there is it lasts about a nanosecond before being replaced by one that isn't).
SOUNDS: Placing Gangster Squad in a contemporary mindset, the score of the
film is run - of - the - mill
typical action accompaniment seen in any modern day movie.
Better than your
typical «family»
film, Kung Fu Panda has all the laughs, love, and
action you could hope for in any movie, let alone one about a noodle - selling panda doing Kung Fu.
The
film debut of Comedy Central comedians Keegan - Michael Key and Jordan Peele is not your
typical action comedy, says CBC's Eli Glasner.
If these actors can elevate the
typical boringness of a world disaster
action film, maybe this can rise above the rest.
The first part of the
film is actually
typical of early Arnie, full of the usual 80s suspects such as Bill Duke, Sonny Landham and fellow Governor Jesse Ventura who were all stalwarts of the bone headed
action movies of the time.
It's not your
typical Soderbergh
film, when described in outline form — an
action thriller, with Gina Carano as a «covert operative» who gets more than she bargained for when sent to Barcelona to retrieve a hostage.
Most Americans will go see a movie with their families over the holidays and I seriously doubt that audiences will choose a
film about sexual violence over
typical holiday fare like
action and comedy.
The beginning of the
film is much like a
typical teenage sex comedy — albeit one with a lot more graphic detail than anything Hollywood has put out — as two teenage boys spend a bored summer away from their girlfriends and look for whatever
action may come their way, whether it be sex, drugs, alcohol, or swimming in the country club pool when no one's around.
Developers from the DONTNOD studio managed to combine
typical action RPG mechanics with the distinctive character of the dark times of a pandemic and the unique atmosphere of classic vampire
films.
Instead of the intimate interiors that are
typical of his work, the
film focuses on a series of surreal
actions performed in darkness in a snow - bound landscape.