Word: villainizing
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...unrivalled, leading him to become—you guessed it—the Transporter. His job is simple: move precious cargo from one place to another. As such, he has three rules: never change the deal, no names, and never open the package. Inevitably, these principles attract a villain who uses the Transporter for a deal leading to lots of cool car chases. This provides the premise for a stilted kind of inner conflict as Martin must decide whether to follow his rules or his heart. Like the Bond series—and any action movie, for that matter?...
...managed to compose a compelling and thrilling documentary using just old game footage and one-on-one interviews with former Harvard and Yale players. Despite his film’s simplicity, Rafferty weaves a rich narrative with conflict, suspense, a thrilling and climactic end, and even a villain in Yale’s Mike Bouscaren...
...Bouscaren’s ineptness as a villain and his frank honesty regarding his unethical play and general status as a jerk almost make him endearing...
...interested in their own petty feuds than they are in rescuing her. That's especially true of Elizabeth (Anne Consigny), a glum playwright who, several years before, got involved in a lawsuit with her brother Henri (Mathieu Amalric, star of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and the lead villain in the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace). She has effectively banished him from the family circle, which makes him the wild card - and plot fulcrum - when he turns up for the holidays...
...woman of unassuming complexity—one whose flaws and idiosyncrasies are taken for granted, not announced in a flashy Freudian face-off like the one that introduces Vesper. Camille too seeks revenge, and admits to Bond with wry satisfaction that she slept with the film’s villain, Dominic Greene (a wonderful Mathieu Amalric), to get closer to the Bolivian general who killed her family. Lest the two spies seem like a dour pair, Haggis and Forster let them off the leash every now and then. Despite Vesper’s painfully felt absence, Bond still lets himself...