My reviews and views on the movies . . . new and old . . .

Posts tagged “Crime

Fast & Furious 6 (2013) Review

Hobbs has Dom and Brian reassemble their crew in order to take down a mastermind who commands an organization of mercenary drivers across 12 countries.

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Dangerous Minds (1995) Review

Louanne Johnson is an ex-Marine who is hired as a teacher at a High School is a poor area, having recently separated from her husband she really throws herself into the job. After an initial awful reception from the class she uses unconventional methods to teach them, including karate and Bob Dylan lyrics for poetry.

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A Few Good Men (1992) Review

Young lawyer Kaffee defends Marines of murder when they were claiming they just followed an order. One of the best court room dramas of all time.

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Parker (2013) Review

When Parker is double crossed by the crew he is working with and left for dead, his unusual working style causes him to get revenge and take everything from them.

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Side Effects (2013) Review

A young woman Emily Taylor suffers the side effects from drugs prescribed by her psychiatrist Jonathan Banks to help cope with her depression, which takes a different turn when her husband is released from prison after 4 years inside.

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The Sentinel (2006) Review

A secret agent Pete Garrison is framed as a mole in the assassination attempt on the President. Will former best friend David Breckinridge forgive him in time to actually help him?

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Sister Act (1992) Review

When Deloris Van Cartier a lounge singer witnesses a mob hit she must go into hiding and poses as a nun Sister Mary Clarence.

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A Clockwork Orange (1971) Review

A young man named Alex DeLarge is living a life filled with murder and rape, but his luck runs out when his “brothers” turn on him and he is arrested for his vicious crimes.

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My Cousin Vinny (1992) Review

Two New Yorkers are arrested and accused of murder in Alabama and one of their cousins comes in as their lawyer to defend them.

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Fracture (2007) Review

A young lawyer Willy Beachum who is very ambitious in climbing the career ladder seems to have met his match is Ted Crawford who is on trial for the attempted murder of his own wife.

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Jack Reacher (2012) Review

After what seems a very strange and random shooting, Jack Reacher appears to help with the investigation into the man charged with the shooting . . . they serviced together in the army where the accused was a sniper.

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End of Watch (2012) Review

A look into what it might be like to be a cop for the LAPD? Partly filmed in “real life” footage type with a video camera, which we get to see from Brian’s point of view.

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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) Review

The one after Sean Connery . . . It was always going to be difficult for another actor to step into the role George Lazenby attempted to in this film. He is regarded as the worst Bond and only made one film.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) Review

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Craig) is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander (Mara), a young computer hacker.

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Machine Gun Preacher (2011) Review

The story of Sam Childers who was a drug addict biker who found god and became a crusader for hundreds of children in Sudan.

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Green Lantern (2011) Review

Hal Jordan is a test pilot, who one night is chosen by an alien with a green ring to replace him. Along with a green lantern he gets superpowers and becomes part of a squadron who are to keep the galaxy at peace.

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Cassandra’s Dream (2007) Review

Two brothers Ian (McGregor) and Terry (Farrell) both end up having money problems. Ian wants to venture into the hotel business and Terry gambles it all away. An opportunity presents itself to get all the money they need from their rich uncle, but only if they do him a favour first. How far will they go to get the money?

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Hanna (2011) Review

16-year-old Hanna (Ronan) who was raised by her father Erik (Bana) to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent Marissa (Blanchett) and her operatives.

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The Next Three Days (2010) Review

John (Crowe) must deal with his wife Lara (Banks) spending her life in prison after she was convicted of murder.

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Holiday in Handcuffs (2007) Review

Trudie (Hart) is a struggling artist who was working as a waitress and heading to a log cabin to spend Christmas with her family. Until a big problem occurs as she is about to leave with her boyfriend Nick, he breaks up with her. In a panic Trudie then kidnaps stranger David (Lopez) and intends on passing him off as her boyfriend Nick.

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London Boulevard (2010) Review

Mitchell (Farrell) is released from prison and finds himself quickly in trouble again getting involved with gangster Gant (Winstone) even though he does not see himself as a gangster. While this is going on he ends up falling in love with a young actress Charlotte (Knightley), who he has a job protecting from the press. I was very much looking forward to seeing this film as British gangster films are usually good to watch, this one however is lacking something.

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4.3.2.1 (2010) Review

4.3.2.1 . . . set mainly in London (with a trip to New York included) is based on four friends who all have a very strange and action packed weekend. Which all begins from when they leave each other on a Friday afternoon. But this film wasn’t like any other film which kept jumping backwards and forwards to see what each friend was doing, know we had each girl’s full weekend then went back to when they left each other.

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Shutter Island (2010) Review

Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.

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The Hangover (2009) Review

 

Four guys go to Vegas for a stag party two days before the wedding. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas . . . but can any of them actually remember what happened in Vegas? Well thats partly the problem they have when they cannot find the groom. So they must backtrack and attempt to figure out what exactly they done the night before.

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