Whatever the case, somehow Spielberg managed to make an adventure film replete with pirates, airplane crashes, and a number of shooting scenes really dull.

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To be able to see a building collapse as if one is watching an adventure film is far more tolerable than immediately grasping that the victims are mothers, father, sisters, brothers, neighbors, friends, fellow citizens.

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The film is an adventure story in the truest sense: the filmmakers lead us into unknown territory, and keep pushing us farther and farther on, until, by the end, we find ourselves deep in the wilderness of the seventeenth-century consciousness.

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"Uncharted 3" is an outstanding adventure game that gives you a feature-film feeling.

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He is slated to film at least three other movies - including an action adventure, Operation Condor 3 - before work on Art of War is set to begin.

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Three things of note: First of all, the scale does seem far larger this time around, going from a narrative where most of the film was set in a small New Mexico city to an adventure seemingly set mostly on Asgard.

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