Sentences with phrase «vigilante film»

The controversial vigilante film «Death Wish» (1974) was set in New York City.

I don't think it's a vigilante film.

That's why the 1974 vigilante film Death Wish, starring Bronson as widower who seeks vengeance on his wife's killers, is the perfect choice...

One studio decides to release a vigilante film and two others follow with their own takes on the same theme.

Those looking for something they haven't seen before in any of the previous dozen costumed vigilante films will not find much worth recommending here.

There's better action and better vigilante films this year, but it's not a bad film nor is it the best, the most I can say is «good job».

Not exact matches

There is footage in the film — of gunfights, of meth cooks, of night expeditions into the hills along the U.S. - Mexico border — that would not be possible with the cumbersome cameras and crews of the past, with Heineman essentially going on ride - alongs as heavily armed vigilantes go about their business.

Since «Law Abiding Citizen» turns out to be «Clyde: Portrait of a Serial Killer (or «Clean Shaven Death Wish), in which the daddy - turned - vigilante (played by Gerald Butler) starts killing, not NYC lowlifes like a Scottish Charles Bronson, but innocent people, ala Henry (Michael Rooker) in the 1989 John McNaughton film, brutality needs to match brutality, because the cause and effect of the carnage needs to be better proportioned.

For those of you who were distressed to hear that the remake of «Death Wish» was having its original Thanksgiving release date bumped and despaired that you might have to go through the entire holiday season without seeing a single film in which an ordinary person turns vigilante when the police and the courts fail to provide any sense of justice, «In the Fade» may come as a relief.

... the film was a sensation, becoming a big hit and spawning a whole industry of southern - fried vigilante lawman action pictures.

Blair also adds a thin veneer of feminism to the film by making Tony a sexually neutered platonic — romantic partner for Ruth, because any sexual chemistry between the two would presumably undermine her vigilante credibility.

Perhaps you're idly wondering how this remake of a 1974 vigilante - justice Charles Bronson flick engages with its subject, and interrogates the original film's assumptions and, perhaps, recontextualizes its central ethos of «we white straight men are under attack and thus are so completely justified in slaughtering — ah, defending ourselves — with extreme (and literal) prejudice»?

A remake of the 1974 film of the same name, Death Wish pairs aging action icon Bruce Willis with director Eli Roth (Hostel, The Green Inferno) to bring the classic tale of vigilante justice to modern audiences.

The film doesn't shy away from the horrors of slavery, yet the grim material is balanced with a deliciously dark sense of humour - just check out the scene with a band of white - sheeted vigilantes, acting as a precursor to the KKK, which is one of the funniest scenes Tarantino has ever written.

In execution, given the film's impatience for Willis» vigilante to get his vigil on already, it comes off as a coy invitation, brimming with breathless delight.

But we shouldn't rush to assume that any films featuring landscapes, horses, and vigilante justice are «really» Westerns as such — that's too ready a way of Americanizing whole swaths of world cinema.

Batman, Green Lantern, Superman and Wonder Woman all make appearances in the animated film squaring off against a mysterious vigilante.

His 2015 documentary, Cartel Land, about American and Mexican vigilante groups fighting drug cartels along the US - Mexican border, features stomach - churning examples of Heineman putting himself in danger to film extreme close - ups of shootouts and other menacing encounters.

The film also links Mexico's vigilante movement with that of a few Arizona minutemen.

The film, directed by Matthew Heinemen, focuses on the leaders of both vigilante groups, including a Mexican doctor who has lost faith in his government's ability to fight the drug lords.

If anything, the film about an urban vigilante is too refined.

The action - packed film stars Bruce Willis, who plays a family man - turned - vigilante killing machine.

The film was initially inspired by an article Heineman read about an American vigilante group in Arizona that militantly patrols the border with Mexico, which its members believe is far too penetrable, but as he prepared to investigate this story, he encountered another article — this one about the massive power of the Mexican drug cartel Knights Templar, and a local citizens vigilante group calling itself Autodefensas.

From Oscar - winning producer Kathryn Bigelow comes «Cartel Land,» director Matthew Heineman's documentary film about the Mexican drug war and vigilantes on both sides of the US - Mexican border.

With unprecedented access, this film brings forward deep questions about the breakdown of order and entanglement of modern - day vigilante movements at a time when the government can not provide basic security for its people.

A sprawling look at life on the front lines of the war against drug cartels in Mexico, this gripping film by Matthew Heineman explores the dangerous and messy moral dilemmas that arise when vigilante groups on both sides of the border take action.

But according to Eli Roth's film, our vigilante hero (Bruce Willis) pretty much runs into thugs every time he turns a corner.

In this Sundance award - winning film, Director Matthew Heineman and Executive Producer Kathryn Bigelow («The Hurt Locker», «Zero Dark Thirty») gain unprecedented, on - the - ground access to the riveting stories of two modern - day vigilante groups and their shared enemy — the murderous Mexican drug cartels.

Nine months of filming took him on patrols with American vigilantes on this side of the border and into cartel - run meth labs and hideouts of the Autodefensas in Mexico.

Also included are a series of video diaries that you can hop over to while watching the film, as well as a second disc packed with featurettes on the graphic novel, the psychology of vigilantes, and the science of «Watchmen.»

In this film by the makers of You're Next, a practically unrecognizable Stevens stars as David, a man who seduces the family of a deceased fellow soldier with insane shows of vigilante justice and front - row views of his abdominal musculature.

Following the events of the first film, Dave Lizewski (Aaron Taylor Johnson) has retired from being the vigilante, Kick Ass, and has returned to life as a high - school student while Mindy Macready (Chloe Grace Moretz) is struggling being a student pining to return to life as Hit Girl.

Batman fans have to check out this wild short film called Being Batman, about a «real life» Batman vigilante who defends the streets of Brampton, Ontario, Canada.

The film's brilliance shines through in both versions - the complex pop culture references, the dizzying storyline, the celebrated clash of four - color heroics and messy real - world politics - topped by a performance from Jackie Earle Haley (playing the damaged vigilante Rorschach) as memorable as Heath Ledger's Joker.

«Cartel Land,» Matthew Heineman's film about violence and vigilantes on both sides of the US - Mexico border, received five nominations for this year's Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking, Cinema Eye announced Wednesday.

Further, the new Knight Rider discards the vigilante Western mood of the Reagan - era original in favor of fashionably careering through the world of surveillance as presented by Alias, 24, and the Bourne films.

Billed as the first Iranian vampire Western, writer - director Armipour's film certainly borrows heavily from the tropes of that genre, featuring as it does a lone stranger dolling out bloody vigilante justice to those deemed deserving.

Parodying famous World War II propaganda posters is a nice approach for a film that's about regular folks joining the ranks of costumed vigilantes.

What do you expect the music for a film about a trumpet - playing, drug - crazed vigilante determined to avenge the death of his wife?

The film is about a deadly vigilante, Dr. Paul Kersey (Willis), who is out to seek revenge after his wife and daughter were viciously attacked by criminals in a home invasion.

Cage is set to headline the legendary William Friedkin's forthcoming film I AM WRATH, a vigilante / revenge - themed thriller that will see the Oscar - winner dishing out his own brand of justice after the murder of his wife and subsequent botched police investigation.

The film paints a pretty horrid picture and I suppose this is a prerequisite of the genre, because we all need to be behind Harry when he goes vigilante.

Quentin Tarantino's favourite film of 2013, Big Bad Wolves is an Israeli comedy - thriller about a series of brutal murders and the three men whose lives are on a collision course as a result: the father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings - a religious studies teacher who was arrested and then released due to a police blunder....

The film — about a vigilante searching for his missing brother — earned one Oscar voter's seal of approval: Jeff Bridges.

THE PUNISHER (Grade: C --RRB-: This low - budget film version of the aptly named Marvel Comic — about a vigilante hero with no super powers out to avenge the murder of his entire extended family by a gangster — has some terrific non-digital stunts and an intense lead performance from first - time star Tom Jane.

Most of the violence is bloodless, however this is a film about vengeance and no regard is given to asking questions before enacting vigilante force.

The Death Wish remake moves the vigilante action from New York to Chicago, in what we hope is just a nod to the ending of the first film, and not some Trump fan service.

There's the same common denominator no matter what film you are making whether it's with vigilantes in Mexico, or an emergency room in the United States — in the case of my last film — people take part in documentaries because they want their story to be told and they want other people in the world to understand what they are going through.

The film offers some hope that she may eventually come to terms with other people and relinquish her yearning for vigilante justice, as must Jason who comes at revenge from a different perspective.

The film also brilliantly portrays the vigilante movements in the U.S. and Mexico as two sides of the same coin.