Posts Tagged ‘shot-in-the-foot’

007 GoldenEye (1995)

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Bean, Sean | Scorupco, Izabella | Janssen, Famke | Baker, Joe Don | Dench, Judi | John, Gottfried | Coltrane, Robbie | Cumming, Alan | Karyo, Tchéky | Llewelyn, Desmond | Bond, Samantha | Kitchen, Michael | Gordon, Serena | Kunz, Simon
Directors: Campbell, Martin
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James Bond has a mission to recover the ‘Goldeneye’ access key. A Russian computer programmer called Natalya Siminova survives a murder spree by Xenia Onatopp and General Ourumov. Bond must work with Natalya to find this key and uncovers a sinister secret. His fellow agent, Alec Trevelyan who was believed to have been shot and killed 9 years ago re-surfaces. Bond soon realizes that Trevelyan is behind everything. Bond must now battle his former friend, in order to stop him from destroying London with the Goldeneye satellite.

Jackal, The (1997)

Friday, August 8th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Gere, Richard | Poitier, Sidney | Venora, Diane | May, Mathilda | J.K. Simmons | Lineback, Richard | Cunningham, John | Black, Jack | Harper, Tess | Phillips, Leslie | Spinella, Stephen | Okonedo, Sophie | Hayman, David | Bassett, Steve
Directors: Caton-Jones, Michael
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Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill the Director of the FBI. With nowhere else to turn (except a woman who used to work with the Basque separatists, who is now in the USA but whose exact whereabouts in unknown to all save Mulqueen), FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (who was present at the Moscow shooting) and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian milita (who pulled the trigger in that shooting) enlist the reluctant services of Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper, to track the Jackal down, for Declan is the only other person who can positively identify the Jackal.

Heist (2001)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Rockwell, Sam | Hackman, Gene | DeVito, Danny | Lindo, Delroy | Acker, Ricky | Pidgeon, Rebecca
Directors: Mamet, David
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David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don’t. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman’s youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVito). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and to use his nephew (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and every step is shaded with the unexpected.

Death and Life of Bobby Z, The (2007)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Walker, Paul | Fishburne, Laurence | Lewis, Jason | Bunch, Jarrod | Vargas, Jacob | Chaney, Rebecca | Walsh, A.J. | Bairos, Richard | Bowen, Michael | Brenna, Troy | Carradine, Keith | Cultraro, Adam P. | de Almeida, Joaquim | Dempsey, Christopher | Diaz, Paul
Directors: Herzfeld, John
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Tim Kearney is an incarcerated former Marine who is offered freedom by DEA agent Tad Gruzsa in exchange for impersonating recently-late drug lord Bobby Z. Things don’t go as planned, however, and Kearney ends up on the run with Bobby Z’s 12-year-old son.

Cell, The (2000)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Lopez, Jennifer | Vaughn, Vince | D'Onofrio, Vincent | Weber, Jake | Baker, Dylan | Jean-Baptiste, Marianne | Bauchau, Patrick | Becker, Gerry | Subkoff, Tara | Sutherland, Catherine | Thomas, Jake | James, Colton | Norris, Dean | Cothran Jr., John | Conley, Jack
Directors: Singh, Tarsem
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Catharine Deane is a psychotherapist who is part of a revolutionary new treatment which allows her mind to literally enter the mind of her patients. Her experience in this method takes an unexpected turn when an FBI agent comes to ask for a desperate favour. They had just tracked down a notorious serial killer, Carl Stargher, whose MO is to abduct women one at a time and place them in a secret area where they are kept for about 40 hours until they are slowly drowned. Unfortunately, the killer has fallen into an irreversible coma which means he cannot confess where he has taken his latest victim before she dies. Now, Catherine Deane must race against time to explore the twisted mind of the killer to get the information she needs, but Stargher’s damaged personality poses dangers that threaten to overwhelm her.

Shoot ‘Em Up (2007)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Owen, Clive | Giamatti, Paul | Bellucci, Monica | McHattie, Stephen | Bryk, Greg | Pilon, Daniel | Mende-Gibson, Sidney | Mende-Gibson, Lucas | Yellowlees, Kaylyn | Pringle, Ramona | Richings, Julian | Munch, Tony | McCord, Scott | Pickett, Wiley M. | Hart, Stephen R.
Directors: Davis, Michael
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Late at night, in an unnamed U.S. city, a solitary man sits at a bus stop. A pregnant woman runs by, pursued by a man with a gun. With reluctance, the man at the bus stop rescues her and assists with the baby’s delivery, while additional pursuers fire at them, including the gang’s particularly nasty leader, an intuitive man named Hertz. Our hero, known only as Smith, determines to save the child and find out why Hertz wants the baby dead. At a local bordello, he tries to employ a lactating hooker to watch the child, but things quickly escalate, and this makeshift family is soon on the run. Heavy metal music calms the baby. Why? A laboratory, a gun factory, and a presidential campaign all figure in Smith’s search for the child’s ultimate safety.

Man on Fire (2004)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Mexico | UK | USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Fanning, Dakota | Anthony, Marc | Mitchell, Radha | Walken, Christopher | Giannini, Giancarlo | Ticotin, Rachel | Ochoa, Jesús | Rourke, Mickey | Peláez, Angelina | Sánchez Parra, Gustavo | Camilo, Gero | Hernández, Rosa María | Del Castillo, Heriberto | Zaragoza, Mario
Directors: Scott, Tony
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A wave of kidnappings has swept through Mexico, feeding a growing sense of panic among its wealthier citizens, especially parents. In one six-day period, there were twenty-four abductions, leading many to hire bodyguards for their children. Into this world enters John Creasy, a burned-out ex-CIA operative/assassin, who has given up on life. Creasy’s friend Rayburn brings him to Mexico City to be a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos, daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos and his wife Lisa. Creasy is not interested in being a bodyguard, especially to a youngster, but for lack of something better to do, he accepts the assignment. Creasy barely tolerates the precocious child and her pestering questions about him and his life. But slowly, she chips away at his seemingly impenetrable exterior, his defenses drop, and he opens up to her. Creasy’s new-found purpose in life is shattered when Pita is kidnapped. Despite being seriously wounded during the kidnapping, he vows to kill anyone involved in or profiting from the kidnapping. And no one can stop him.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Banderas, Antonio | Hayek, Salma | Depp, Johnny | Rourke, Mickey | Mendes, Eva | Trejo, Danny | Iglesias, Enrique | Leonardi, Marco | Marin, Cheech | Blades, Rubén | Dafoe, Willem | Vigil, Gerardo | Armendáriz Jr., Pedro | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Larriva, Tito
Directors: Rodriguez, Robert
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A drug lord who pretends to overthrow the Mexican government. A corrupt CIA agent (Johnny Depp) who at that time, demands retribution from his worst enemy to carry out the drug lord’s uprising against the government.

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The (2007)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Parker, Mary-Louise | Proulx, Brooklynn | Bollinger, Dustin | Affleck, Casey | Rockwell, Sam | Renner, Jeremy | Shepard, Sam | Dillahunt, Garret | Schneider, Paul | McNichol, Joel | Defelice, James | Roberts, J.C. | Orydzuk, Darrell | Drachenberg, Jonathan Erich
Directors: Dominik, Andrew
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Robert Ford, who’s idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.

Rock, The (1996)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Connery, Sean | Cage, Nicolas | Harris, Ed | Spencer, John | Morse, David | Forsythe, William | Biehn, Michael | Marcil, Vanessa | McGinley, John C. | Sporleder, Gregory | Todd, Tony | Woodbine, Bokeem | Maniaci, Jim | Collins, Greg | Kelly, Brendan
Directors: Bay, Michael
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Stanley Goodspeed, who lives in Washington D.C., is a biochemist who works for the FBI. Soon after his fiancée Carla Pestalozzi announces that she is pregnant, Stanley gets a call from FBI director James Womack. Womack tells Stanley that San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island has been taken hostage, along with 81 tourists, by marine General Francis Xavier Hummel, who, for years, has been protesting the government’s refusal to pay benefits to families of war veterans who died during covert military operations. The death of his wife Barbara Hummel on March 9, 1995 drove General Hummel over the edge, and now he’s holding hostages in order to get his point across. Stanley is needed because General Himmel has stolen some VX gas warheads and has announced that he will launch them onto San Francisco unless his demands are met. Stanley knows how to disarm the bombs, but Stanley needs someone who knows Alcatraz well enough to get him inside. That man is former British intelligence agent John Patrick Mason, who has been in prison for the past 30 years without a trial because he was accused of stealing the private files of J. Edgar Hoover. In 1962, John became the only inmate ever to escape from Alcatraz, and he stayed out of Alcatraz long enough to father a daughter named Jade Angelou. Despite his extreme hatred of the FBI, John agrees to help Stanley. When John and Stanley are sent into Alcatraz with a Navy SEAL team, General Hummel’s men kill the entire SEAL team, leaving Stanley and John to work on their own to rescue the hostages.