As with many action movies, Hard Target's strengths and weaknesses are fairly simple to analyse. It's a competent action thriller, notable for some stylish action scenes that have John Woo's touch; one particularly memorable example is when Chance Boudreaux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) quite litera...
1. A sense of realism (meaning: the hero is only human and can get hurt)2. Grit (messy, unpolished action, dirty people and LOTS of swearing)3. R-rated violence (showing the audience what real weapons do to the human body)Well, it took John McTiernan to bring those three key ...
the audience is not left to enjoy the sense of good triumphing over evil at the end without at least a little remorse about the meaning of it all (It reminded me of one of the great strengths of '24' in that regard.). As the credits roll, all may not be right with the world ...
The staff receives a threatening call from Barkawi to let them know that he is out for vengeance. They are informed that Wilson's autopsy report detected poison in his body, meaning he was intentionally murdered with the plan for all the world leaders to come together to be killed. With th...
It should come as no surprise that horrendous comes from the same root word as, horrible, horrid, horrific and horror. That word ishorrere, Latin meaning: ‘tremble, shudder, (of hair) stand on end.’ The contemporary definition is:‘extremely unpleasant, horrifying, or terrible.’ ...
The scenario finds cyber-terrorists executing hackers all over the U.S. to prevent anyone computer-savvy enough from stopping their leader’s master plan: a firesale—meaning all utilities, financial records, energy sources, and personal information will be corrupted or erased, sending America back...
Though a lone wolf in life, Rivette was in the 1960s and 1970s participating in a groundswell of experimentation that was looking to expand cinema in every direction, including pure runtime—think of the manic marginalia of the late Jonas Mekas’s sprawling diary movies, or the Michael Snow...
Both categories can be perplexing, so you must rely on the context to understand the intended meaning. Examples of homonyms: Bow (to bend forward) – bow (a curved weapon) – bow (a ribbon) The pretty singer took a graceful bow (bend forward) after her performance, revealing the bow ...
The "Exception code: 0xc0000005" is one of those mysterious errors which Microshaft constantly refuses to fully explain the meaning of... asking MS's own tech support will inevitably get you "have you turned your PC off and on again? Have you run SFC?" and other canned responses entirely...
Babs boasts that her "rug matches the drapes," meaning that her pubic hair is the same color as the hair on her head. Dancers' bare breasts are exposed at a strip club (GRAPHIC). Don and Brent are given lap dances, with the strippers grinding and simulating intercourse on each man'...