Sentences with phrase «violent action movie»
He set out to make a brutally violent action movie, and he succeeds.
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The murder of 28 people in the 2012 shooting at a Newton, Conn. elementary school also prompted multiple movie studios to cancel premiere screenings of violent action films.
But that newborn's crying is as aurally violent as anything you'll hear in a disaster flick or an action movie.)
With it's dark humour, violent action scenes, great acting and interesting story, Kill Me Three Times is an original movie that deserves to be well known.Sure, the movie is not perfect and has it's flaws like the fact that the scenario is not all that clever, there was some annoying plot holes and overall the movie is silly but it's still a great entertaining movie.
A relentless onslaught of violent action, this movie is notable mainly because there's a woman at the centre of it, which means that it's entertaining even if it's rather pointless.
Although it contains some memorably outrageous comedy moments, this movie (retitled The Brothers Grimsby for North America) is such an awkward combination of gross - out humour, violent action and sappy sentimentality that it never becomes a...
Sentimental and violent, the usual gangster movie combo, «Live by Night» may look first - rate (though Affleck's direction, whether it's action or simply two people, seething, is routine) but it feels second - hand.
Make no mistake: This movie is as violent as it is funny, and its action sequences are as inventive and unexpected as the comedy beats.
Shankar and Silna's 1984 Private Defense Contractors has made a name for itself by producing a string of violent, filmmaker - driven action movies and crime thrillers.
The film is another piece of horror - tinged, genre filmmaking — this time the main inspirations are hyper violent»80s action films like Big Trouble in Little China and The Terminator (again)-- but like the duo's preceding film, it knows what it is, recognizes the flaws of its ancestors, and tries to improve upon them while holding onto that sense of reckless abandon that makes those movies so fun.
No matter the quality of Gibson's performance therein, the film's dissection of a fractured soul can only reinforce audience reservations about a screen icon now better known for obscene and violent telephone calls than manic action movie roles and Oscar - winning epics.
Is this a thinly veiled propaganda piece, a violent (and gory) Civil War battlefield action movie, a heartfelt family drama or a tragic exploration of American history?
As for the CGI animals, Peyton gives them plenty of opportunities to wreak havoc, although at least one or two of those sequences feels better in conception than execution: though the large - scale destruction is all masterfully rendered — and it must be noted, brutally violent for a PG - 13 movie — he like many other modern filmmakers gets too close to the action, mistaking incomprehensibility for claustrophobia, and seems either unaware of or uninterested in even the basic physics of gravity, falling objects, and so on.
As a result, the movie plays more like a screwball comedy than a violent action thriller, though it contains many pieces of the latter and hardly any of the former.
The new action - heavy Jackie Chan movie is more somber and violent than his earlier pictures.
Action movies grew more violent and intense, making them less palatable to general adult audiences and of greater interest to young males, a demographic being simultaneously courted by graphic shooter video games.
It's exactly the kind of action movie that the genre's opponents think of when they disparage them - dumb, awkward and gratuitously violent.
These are the violent, wisecracking guys that would have populated our 80s action movie, though here they crank it up to 11.
While the running thread of the mismatched black and white partners forced to work together has been a staple since 1958's «The Defiant Ones,» this movie can not seem to decide if it wants to be a cleverly - bantered buddy flick in that vein, a serious crime drama, a fast - paced tale of worldwide illegal drug operations or a violent action adventure (although there is certainly enough of that latter element to go around).
The eventual sonic tone of this particular sequence, which takes place in a kitchen late in the movie, is sparse, with the music building to a cacophonic climax alongside the violent action.
Many people are going to be quick to compare «Kingsman» to «Kick - Ass,» but while the former boasts the same punk - rock attitude, dark plot twists, and kinetic, no - holds - barred action sequences (including an extremely violent set piece inside of a church that rivals Hit - Girl's blood - soaked exploits), «Kingsman» feels less like a satire of an entire genre than the product of a filmmaker who grew up loving spy movies.
Unlike many other science fiction movies, the action scenes are never gratuitously violent (see: The Colony) or lapse into uninvolving videogame - style action (see that unnecessary 300 sequel and about 80 % of all Hollywood action movies made nowadays).
Violent end - of - the - millennium action movie with unlikely hero Ralph Fiennes.
The only other significant character to complicate the mix is a sour old busybody (Camryn Manheim) who passes the stolen car on the road and has the bad luck to intervene just as the fun turns violent — as the carefree lark evolves into a more high - stakes action movie.
I should say that due to the style of action here, it is actually a little more violent than previous Marvel movies.
Adam Sternbergh's excellent New York Times Magazine piece this month on the decline of the American action movie details many of these failings, contrasting them with the violent elegance of the Indonesia's The Raid: Redemption.
This is a great movie with some violent action scenes, tied with some good performances, this is worth seeing.
November 20, 2012 The Expendables 2 Rated R for strong bloody violence throughout Available on DVD and Blu - ray The first Expendables had a good concept of taking a host of old and new action stars and blending them up into a big violent movie.
The game's skimpy plot (rescue the hostages) is more than enough to justify a 100 - minute military bloodbath, and there are enough violent bits in its levels to inspire the movie version's action scenes.
Where this game thrives is its perfect mix of fast - paced violent action and movie - like cut scenes that are as much fun to watch as the game is to play.