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Directed with a terrific sense of style by longtime television show director D.J. Caruso (Taking Lives, Two for the Money), this is definitely a «walk on the wild side» that should appeal to those who like comic crime dramas like Pulp Fiction, The Boondock Saints, Fight Club, and other over-the-top funny but violent thrillers of this ilk.
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Route Irish is a fast - paced thriller, with some genuinely disturbing moments, but leaves the vaguely unpleasant feeling that Fergus» final violent rampages should ultimately be viewed as the fault of his victims.
ZOO, based on the 1 bestselling novel by James Patterson, is a global thriller about a wave of violent animal attacks against humans sweeping the planet.
Inspired by nocturnal thrillers such as The Warriors and John Carpenter's Escape from New York, with his»71 the dynamite first - time feature director Yann Demange gives us his take on the Troubles, a violent 30 - year struggle over the constitutional status of Northern Ireland.
As Anastasia and Christian argue back and forth with only minor variations over admittedly major points of contention — his possessive nature infringing on her charmed career, their disagreement over when to start a family, whether she should remove her bikini top on the beach or not — Leonard's lumpen script zeroes in on a tinny thriller subplot, centered on the violent, mysteriously vengeful stalking of Anastasia's smarmy ex-boss Hyde (Eric Johnson) as the main attraction.
Red Sparrow is a deliciously perverse, unflinchingly violent thriller — a modern - day espionage tale that breaks with the tradition of making the spy business the purview of suave and debonair characters.
Fernandez felt grateful for the opportunity, but reportedly hated the job itself so much that he hearkened off for the greener pastures of acting.Fernandez landed his first formal acting assignments as a guest star on episodes of the network series Cold Case and Jericho in 2006 and 2007, but truly came into his own as a star of low - medium budgeted independent films such as director Marc - Andre Samson's taut thriller Interstate (2006)(as a young man trying desperately to reach his girlfriend in Los Angeles, but waylaid by drugs and the trappings of an odd motel), and directors Lucky McKee and Trygve Diesen's violent psychological thriller Red (as a disturbed young man who plays the role of accomplice in killing a senior citizen's dog).
Such concerns become moot once the picture passes a certain point, however, as Death Wish transforms into just the sort of unapologetically ruthless and violent thriller that rarely gets made nowadays (ie its very existence is a delightful novelty)- with the movie's second half boasting a series of gleefully over-the-top instances of R - rated mayhem (including an awesomely cringeworthy torture sequence involving a scalpel and battery acid).
A noisy and violent thriller, a plot that becomes absurd with too many characters and none of them with much depth.
A tense political thriller directed by John Boorman, Beyond Rangoon sees an American tourist (played by Patricia Arquette) forced to go on the run in Burma after becoming separated from her tour group and then witnessing various acts of violent repression by the government.
Dutch defiler Paul Verhoeven has provided what will prove to be one of the most controversial and provocative films of the year with his dark and deadly comedic rape - revenge thriller ELLE, while Paul Schrader delivers his unique brand of pugilistic raw force with his hyper - violent, crime - at - all - costs thriller DOG EAT DOG.
Almost criminally entertaining, this preposterous thriller mixes buckets of humour and emotion into the violent, twisty action.
[notification type =» star»] 98/100 — Drive is a masterpiece of vividly realized contradictions — a brilliantly stylized character study, a brutally violent love story, a slow - burning noir thriller of bright, neon - lit beauty.
Den Of Thieves is an indulgent, overblown and unpleasantly violent thriller that pits hard - drinking LA cop Gerard Butler against a crack team of clever but seriously gun - toting bank robberOf Thieves is an indulgent, overblown and unpleasantly violent thriller that pits hard - drinking LA cop Gerard Butler against a crack team of clever but seriously gun - toting bank robberof clever but seriously gun - toting bank robbers.
The hard edged and unexpectedly violent thriller is one of the most impressive and understated British crime films.
For a thriller about cannibals, this Mexican film is more of an unsettlingly violent drama than an all - out horror movie.
Slick and pacey, this military thriller feels contrived as it ramps up the drama, but it has a terrific cast and a vivid sense of violent peril and political instability.
Loud and very violent (within the limits of a PG - 13 rating), this supposedly gritty thriller strains so hard to be sleek and cool that it completely forgets to create believable characters or situations.Cops Jack and...
«Child 44,» April 17 This dramatic thriller boasts an all - star cast of Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Joel Kinnaman, Vincent Cassel, Jason Clarke, and follows a disgraced member of the military pilice who investigates of string of violent child murders during the Stalin era.
Not for nothing did his breakthrough film Blue Ruin (13) turn a revenge thriller into something violent enough for the Fantastic Fest crowd yet critical enough of its bloodlust to attract Directors» Fortnight attention.
The other major release is «No Escape,» the xenophobic thriller featuring Owen Wilson and Lake Bell as American parents with two young children who have to escape Southeast Asia after they get caught in the middle of a violent political coup.
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.
Violent Saturday (1955)-- 9:15 PM Richard Fleischer's daylight heist thriller Violent Saturday (1955), is not technically a film noir, but it has a toughness, an edge of violence and a distinctively - drawn crew of criminal professionals that drops in a distinctive subgenre of criminal violence in rural settings.
This dark, grizzled thriller is a violent punch to the face of superhero movie convention - and a moving end to Hugh Jackman's run as Wolverine.
Person of Interest is a crime thriller about a presumed dead former CIA agent who teams up with a mysterious billionaire to prevent violent crimes.
The company's second release, Richard Fleischer's daylight heist thriller Violent Saturday (1955), is not technically a film noir, but it has a toughness, an edge of violence and a distinctively - drawn crew of criminal professionals that drops in a distinctive subgenre of criminal violence in rural settings.
It's an exceptionally strange film, somewhere between a yakuza thriller and a ponderous reflection on the violent childishness of the criminal mind — only finally getting its due when Quentin Tarantino stepped in to offer U.S. distribution and certain themes began to show up in weirdo crime flicks like Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog (which itself culled themes from Branded to Kill and Le Samouraï, the latter of which Beat cited as a particular influence).
The Wages of Fear immediately attracted massive international attention and was widely influential: Violent Road (aka Hell's Highway), directed by Howard W. Koch in 1958, and Sorcerer, directed by William Friedkin in 1977 (ironically, the year Clouzot died), were American sort - of remakes that utterly failed to reach the tense brilliance and visual muscle of the Clouzot original, a work that brought him international recognition, and immediately landed him the gig of directing his most successful thriller: Les Diaboliques (1955).
In the original Taken, a cheerfully violent Luc Besson / Pierre Morel thriller, Albanian human traffickers made the big mistake of kidnapping Mills» daughter Maggie, and were then chased around Paris by her large and irate father.
Scott Thomas plays the tough - as - nails crime boss mother of Gosling's character in Film District's violent thriller.
Sicario (Lionsgate, Blu - ray, DVD, VOD), a violent, chaotic, adrenaline - fueled thriller set in the brutal violence of the drug war on the American border with Mexico, is a film that constantly seems to be spinning out of control.
The Orchard has debuted an official trailer for the film Super Dark Times, an indie thriller about a group of teens whose friendships is tested by a violent tragedy involving a samurai sword.
Yahoo Movies has debuted four first look images for Eli Roth's upcoming remake of the 1974 revenge thriller Death Wish featuring Bruce Willis and Vincent D'Onofrio; check them out here... «A mild - mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.»
This, of course, has led to speculation that Winding Refn could finally be going ahead with The Avenging Silence, a film he's been quietly developing for several years and described a Tokyo - set thriller with a stoic but violent protagonist.
West seems to have re-energized the careers of its cast members, priming Bronson for his signature brand of violent revenge thrillers and Robards for the reliable, respectable work which brought him glory right up to his 2000 death.
Wild Horses (R for profanity and violent images) Crime thriller revolving around a Texas Ranger (Luciana Duvall) who reopens a Missing Persons case implicating a wealthy rancher (Robert Duvall) in the mysterious disappearance of a local boy.
The comedic thriller plays rough, and is replete with violent moments of eye - opening nastiness, including an edited - in - the - nick - of - time near - depiction of a toe amputation.
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.
This sense of Scorsese being far outside his usual realm was reinforced by the fact that his previous two films, the kinetic gangster epic GoodFellas (1990) and the relentless psycho - thriller Cape Fear (1991), were among his most violent and bloody films.
First Reformed (R for some disturbing violent images) Suspense thriller, set in upstate New York, revolving around a grieving pastor (Ethan Hawke) whose counseling the depressed husband (Philip Ettinger) of a pregnant parishioner (Amanda Seyfried) fails in tragic fashion.
Unfortunately, the guns seem ever present, as this mix of cute kids movie and very violent cop thriller doesn't quite mesh, making it too intense for most kids, while too scattershot in its approach for most adults.
Traffik (R for violence, sexuality, drug use, disturbing images and pervasive profanity) Suspense thriller about two couples (Paula Patton and Omar Epps, and Roselyn Sanchez and Laz Alonso) whose getaway weekend at a lair isolated in the mountains is rudely interrupted by the arrival of a violent biker gang.
With its shootouts, executions, and breathless chases, «Point Blank» is a gripping, violent, edge - of - your - seat thriller in the best French tradition.
It's as funny a violent thriller as Tarantino on a good day, with the gritty visceral pleasures of Training Day or The Terminator, that locks you in with a riveting intensity that often has you laughing out loud in nervous relief.
Last year's sleeper hit The Purge was an unusually intelligent thriller starring Ethan Hawke as a security expert whose work is challenged by villains who target him on the one night of the year when laws are suspended and people can express their violent impulses in whatever way they want.
They may be less enthralled by the strange cocktail offered up here by director David Leitch (the two John Wick movies), which plays at being be an ambitious espionage thriller — it's set in 1989 Berlin as the wall is about to fall — but is happy to drop everything to watch Theron indulge in the brutal black comedy of violent beat - downs.
Right now, he can be seen going way into the violent dark side of life with the rather remarkable thriller, «Drive.»
An examination of the darker side of fame filled with paparazzi, tabloids, and blogger clickbait, this taut low - budget thriller goes beyond the glamour in telling the story of a Hollywood starlet (Zoe Kravitz) whose personal assistant (Lola Kirke) is thrown into the middle of a violent crime as both a suspect and a key witness to the investigation.
Director Jeremy Saulnier follows the promise of his 2013 breakout thriller Blue Ruin, an engaging and original treatment of a mysterious revenge / man on the run fun, with Green Room, a hyper violent and at times gruesome standoff film between a group of skinheads and a band of hapless hipster musicians.
Back in the late 1990s, there were quite a number of Tarantino knockoffs to come out — hard - boiled and very violent thrillers that featured lots of quirky characters and attempts at amusing, anecdotal conversations between them that were meant to entertain above push the plot forward.