Word: gunfighting
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Sure, the special effects are great, up until the ending. The mutants are really gross, but in good way. The automated taxicabs are terrific, as are a few other gadgets thrown in here and there. The gunfight inside the subway metal detector shows how computer-assisted animation has revolutionized the movie-making art. And the gunfight on the escalator (really part of the same sequence) proves that a director can be creative within the standard cinema forms...
...stutter of the machine guns and watched the plane belch smoke. The world was in color again; the G-forces had receded; my stomach was back where it belonged. Victory was mine. The radio link to the other plane came alive. "Yee-haw!" taunted the loser of this aerial gunfight, a trucking-company official from Tucson. "Now it's my turn...
...must seriously question both the accuracy of both Mr. Rea's observations and the conclusions he draws from them. It seems clear to me that Mandery and Beroutsos engaged in a shouting match about as much as John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald engaged in a gunfight. Being the one who is shouted at is not the same as being the one who is shouting. Being attacked is not the same as being an attacker. And stepping down off the chair and leaving the meeting room in order to resolve a personal dispute is also quite different from standing...
Quote of the Week: "Basically, we nixed them. It was a gunfight and we brought a cannon."--Harvard squash player Jim Masland, referring to Seth Handy's 3-2 comeback over his Franklin & Marshall counterpart which gave the racquetmen a 5-4 victory...
...this is the artistry that conceals artlessness. Sayles is reluctant to juice up the drama; maybe he's above such Hollywood devices. Though he can locate the dread gracelessness of real carnage in the film's climactic gunfight, the rest of the movie is lumbering as well. He pits a few good men against corporate Evil, then stereotypes their sanctity. Joe may be attracted to Elma, but the pacifist in him would never show lust: he doesn't do widows. And by the time the noble blacks start harmonizing with the noble Italians, you may be ready to cheer...