Sentences with phrase «with evil villains»

When another scientist father gets roped in with evil villains, it's up to his teenaged son to save the day in the action film, Clockstoppers.

After Hit Girl is busted and forced to retire, Kick - Ass joins a team of amateur superheroes led by a reformed mobster and tangles with the evil villain formerly known as Red Mist.

Classic Noir script with evil villain, check.

As the game begins, Skyland is having issues with the evil villain Kaos and with something called «The Darkness.»

Not exact matches

On the other hand, there is a plethora of villains, or victims: the cheating ballplayers, the disillusioned owner, some unpleasant journalists, an evil gambler (played with malevolent charm by David Thornton).

The picture of Brown with a smirk reminiscent of the evil villain The Joker in Batman films should be stuck on Tory election posters at the next GE.

Meanwhile, the evil Prince Charming has enlisted the help of all the fairy - tale villains and has overthrown the kingdom and imprisoned Fiona (Cameron Diaz) along with all the other Disney princesses.

With Marvel's latest, the Russos take the trope of every superhero film — an evil villain intent on destroying the world — and fashion a crafty antagonist.

Although the boys think that they are the only ones with enough comic book knowledge to thwart the evil villains, they soon realize that they know nothing about these characters!

It makes me chuckle that one reviewer said the characters were unrealistic, this is obviously written by an American whom through terrible movie portrayals of evil - villains and posh butlers believes every Brit to be on first name terms with the queen, dine on crumpets with rotten teeth and glug tea down with our pinkies raised.

Just sayin, it's all the same: Guys in tight leggings with skills of heroic «destiny» saving the general population from ruthless villains who use their «divine» powers for evil.

The last time he had a brush with super-heroics was on the other side of the good / evil divide, as villain The Riddler in Joel Schumacher «s marginal «Batman Forever.»

He won the MTV Movie Award for «Best Villain» two years in a row and followed it up with another wonderfully evil performance in Fox's monster hit RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (directed by Rupert Wyatt) alongside James Franco, Freida Pinto, and John Lithgow.

Here's a supplementary list of ten performances: Betty Buckley, articulate as a psychotherapist, and the protean James McAvoy playing against her in Split; Harris Dickinson, implosive with self - loathing in Beach Rats; two turns by Michael Fassbender, as the smarmy villains of Song to Song and Alien: Covenant; Milla Jovovich's valedictory sprint through Resident Evil: The Final Chapter; Barry Keoghan as a teenage sprite barely veiling his hostility in The Killing of a Sacred Deer; Keanu Reeves, put through his paces again in John Wick: Chapter 2; Lady Bird's callous, precocious, and heartbreaking Saoirse Ronan; newcomer Millicent Simmonds and her silent movie acting in Wonderstruck; octagenarian Lois Smith playing her age as Marjorie of Marjorie Prime; and Adrian Titieni, slouching and gloomy as a bad dad in Graduation.

The villain has no evil master plan other than «fucking up Bond's life», there are logic holes you can drive an Aston Martin through — and the drawn - out final act ends with a whimper, not a flourish.

Not the fault of the actors but when you have the excellent Danny Huston (30 Days of Night) playing an evil German officer then there is the potential to create a proper villain, a mad genius with grand plans for world domination during a time of great sorrow for the rest of the world, and instead his General Ludendorff is resorted to cracking open gas tablets that give him Hulk - like strength for no real reason and never really pays off in any way; in one scene he locks a group of people in a room with a deadly nerve gas and then decides to snort on his magic capsule before cackling and running off - camera like Jack Nicholson's Joker.

Beneath the makeup Elba can deliver an ugly, broken, adversary that is evil personified; not a terrifying or particularly complex character — it's a Star Trek blockbuster, we had a convoluted villain last time — but one with a simple plan for power i.e. to retrieve an ancient alien artifact.

That's the best Whedon and the writers could come - up with for this evil villain — to destroy the world?

The introduction of a pair of villains in evil Professor Cropper (Trevor Eve) and his henchman, the duplicitous Fergus Wolff (Toby Stephens), is so wretched and fatigued that the whole of the project is suffused with this nameless inward gazing dread.

From then on, it appears obvious that Siri is going to stay with his neo-horror vibe, making his villains the epitome of evil incarnate, instead of the two - bit novices they are supposed to be.

The concept of a secret war against evil is interesting and the origins of the Shadow Hunters feels legendary enough to prop up the story, but it's all wasted on ridiculous romantic triangle sub-plotting that becomes super creepy, and a Shadow Hunter gone bad with the least scary villain name: Valentine.

Synopsis: The battle between good and evil is even more intense and dangerous than ever as Gingka and his friends face a villain with a plot to unleash a long forbidden Beyblade in his quest to take over the world.

Fuqua has a lot of fun playing with the clichés / tropes of westerns and succeeds in producing a fun movie that is most notable for having a uniquely integrated Seven — and least notable for having a villain who is an unmodulated black hole of evil that sucks the energy out of almost every scene he's in.

Not only do several villains not live up to expectations, but they're also typically evil carbon copies of the leading hero — with Marvel casting well opposite of their leads.

Playing with Batman's vanity he manages to amass an army of other evil villains and attack the city.

dominates the proceedings with its equally simple - minded guardians, leading to a never - in - question showdown with «The Moose» -209 — remote - piloted by evil villain Jackman — that Blomkamp assembles in his progressively more grating staccato style.

As might be expected, it is the villains who get to have the most fun with the parts, with Lang and McGowan clearly relishing the evil their characters do.

Set in the 15th Century, it's a stodgy, visually drab, instantly forgettable reworking of Bram Stoker's novel in the action - centred Underworld / I, Frankenstein vein, with Fast and Furious 6 villain Luke Evans starring as Drac, a Transylvanian prince who makes a pact with a cave - dwelling demon (Charles Dance) for some handy dark magic to protect his family and people against the evil clutches of Turk Sultan Mehmed II (Dominic Cooper)....

Take one plucky underdog of a hero, add in a disapproving relative / friend / acquaintance who pooh - poohs his dreams, throw in a preliminary test of his mettle that proves our hero's limitations, sprinkle a dash of «deus ex machina» to give him the edge he needs to succeed, hook him up with a weird and diverse support crew, toss in a villain drawn with broadly evil strokes, and bring it all to a boiling climax that begets the predictable happy ending.

Fantasies about Western democracies fighting back against their murderous Middle Eastern enemies don't come much more blunt - force than this, with its eye - for - an - eye ethos summed up by its evil villain's belief that «vengeance must always be profound and absolute.»

Assuming the date goes without a hitch, then there is the complication that comes with actually latching on to that special person, because the life of the superhero's significant other will be in constant jeopardy should the evil villains discover that the superhero has an Achilles» heel — a helpless person that they care about.

This is the decade that spawned more horror franchises and iconic villains than any other — Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Evil Dead and Hellraiser to begin with.

Megamind (PG for action and mild epithets) Animated adventure in 3 - D about a hapless, evil villain (Will Ferrell) who decides to align himself with the forces of good after the demise of his longtime superhero adversary (Brad Pitt) when he unwittingly creates a diabolical scoundrel (Jonah Hill) bent on world domination.

That question lies at the heart of «Avengers: Infinity War,» the at - once dark, maddeningly open - ended yet fiercely entertaining new chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), which pits the titular global do - gooders - still scattered hither and yon after their 2016 falling - out with one another in «Captain America: Civil War» - against a cosmic villain who has been coyly signaling his evil intentions ever since the very first «Avengers» movie, in 2012.

Should you choose to side with Eggman and his villains, you will be doomed (or lucky enough) to live a formatted life of logic and servitude as robots in his evil empire, as shown in Eggman's propaganda - filled video here.

With Bryan Cranston voicing Zordon and Elizabeth Banks physically present as villain Rita Repulsa, the movie will find the Rangers battling Rita's evil schemes and defending the Earth while figuring out their own teenage issues.

Russell Crowe as villain Pearly is more a pantomime dame than evil demon, and those who disliked his performance in LES MISERABLES will have a field day with Pearly's scarred face and thug accent.

Essentially, this means that Punch walks off with the film in what turns out to be the villain role: a seemingly nice woman with an insane evil streak.

A villain is proffered in childhood boyfriend Bobby Sharp (Jeremy Renner), who, as he's pushed to spill some rancid beans with the classic attack of «you're a homo» (backed with a string of sports analogies from Harrelson's jock character, woefully underutilized in a film taking place in hockey - mad Minnesota), to pass time until it's crystal clear that even though Josie is crying rape on the stand as explanation of her first child's conception, the evil defense team is incapable of making the leap that this is the perfect opportunity to impeach this witness for maybe always crying rape.

The villain is a paper doll, his mother, the real villain, is no better, having no real reason to be evil other than the fact that she CAN be and dammit, why does the hero always have to get with the generically pretty girl.

That question lies at the heart of «Avengers: Infinity War,» the at - once dark, maddeningly open - ended yet fiercely entertaining new chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), which pits the titular global do - gooders — still scattered hither and yon after their 2016 falling - out with one another in «Captain America: Civil War» — against a cosmic villain who has been coyly signaling his evil intentions since the very first «Avengers» movie, in 2012.

The villains are all boringly evil, the goody - goodies all boringly heroic... the movie is really just a rehash of the previous one, with the exact same scenes.

Because he's frustrated with being only the second most evil villain around, right behind the diabolical Vector (Jason Segel) who has just stolen the Great Pyramid at Giza and replaced it with an inflatable replica.

To explain further would only serve as a spoiler, but what Jordan's standout performance does is remind viewers of the disparity in the diaspora; Killmonger's rage and lust for revenge can quickly be empathized with because as an outsider to Wakanda he isn't simply just an evil villain, he is a hero of a different but valid story.

Hope for averting the disaster rests with three orphans (Dana Gaier, Miranda Cosgrove and Elsie Fisher) in need of a father who see some potential for redemption in the evil villain.

Killmonger's rage and lust for revenge can quickly be empathized with because as an outsider to Wakanda he isn't simply just an evil villain, he is a hero of a different but valid story.

It starred Steve Carell as Gru, a bumbling supervillain who tries to further his evil plans by adopting three girls (Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, and Elsie Kate Fisher), but finds himself growing fond of his new children despite his efforts to stay focused on his competition with fellow villain Vector (Jason Segel).

Michael Shannon is the villain who balances wonderfully a character that is equal parts evil king reigning over his kingdom with an iron fist and a man stuck in the past of no acceptance when it comes to that which is nothing more than different.

Reviews also praised Jordan's portrayal as the villain, with some saying his evil performance is among the best the Marvel universe has ever seen.

Written by first - time scribes Duncan Brantley and sports columnist Rick Reilly, «Leatherheads» is littered with just about every 1920s movie cliché short of an evil villain that twists his mustache when he laughs.