Cloverfield is not about looking at images, but about feeling the motion, being immersed in relentless action.
Cruz's emphasis is on tough, withering, relentless action, but you can't bomb the Islamic State to smithereens without contemplating an enormous civilian death toll.
Ridley Scott provides us with a pure war movie, remarkable in some ways for the severity - even asceticism - of its utter concentration on deafening and relentless action.
From that point until 17 seconds were left -- a patch with relentless action and no stoppages -- FSNY never shifted live from the center-ice roost.
At the same time it outdid network series like "24" and the "Law & Order" shows in terms of relentless action and jackhammer pacing.
Joss Whedon's follow-up to his wildly successful movie of 2012, "Avengers Assemble", feels from its opening scenes laboriously like a sequel, lunging straight into relentless action sequences and depending heavily on the audience's familiarity with the characters.
The 57-year-old director, known for her relentless, action-driven plots and her visceral depictions of male violence, once climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in sub-zero temperatures because, she said: "I like to be strong".
To a genre in thrall to relentless action and thunderous explosions, Jones reintroduces a welcome sense of quiet, or disquiet, and a plot that prompts audiences to think rather than merely to react.
One reason for her alleged vulnerability may be the fact that she is not playing a great deal of tennis these days, having ended a four-year slog of relentless action.
Another top newspaper, The Herald Sun, said "King Kong" was "an eye-popping spectacle designed to appeal to 21st-century audiences that demand relentless action, color and movement in their entertainment," but found fault with "lackluster dialogue" and some stage action laden with special effects that were "overwrought, busy and dizzying".
The calling of public service and civic devotion that government officials can reasonably be expected to use as motivation for their work (or, at least, their speeches) is inseparable from the will to make things happen, the fierce and relentless action to put their principles into effect.
