Posts Tagged ‘thriller’

note: this is a repost of one my Reviews from Aug 9th, 2008.

Detective David Mills (Brad Pitt) is a youngster that has just transferred into the New York City’s homicide division. Detective Lt. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) is the experienced homicide detective that has been partnered with Mills for his final week before he retires. As Mills enters the city and starts work at the same time a new serial killer starts his work using the seven deadly sins as the overall theme for his murders. (more…)

Emma Craven [Bojana Novakovic] decides to come home and spend some time with her father, Thomas Craven [Mel Gibson], when she is suddenly murdered in her father’s arms.  As Thomas, being a Boston Detective, works his way to the truth as to who killed his daughter and why he finds out about multiple conspiracies occurring with his daughter’s employers and the US Government. (more…)

Ty Hackett [Columbus Short] has just been made a guard at his new job.  He and his brother are living together after their parents have recently passed and are under a lot of financial pressure by the banks.  Ty’s godfather, Mike [Matt Dillon], approaches him with a plan for them and a few other guards to rob the money they are planning to transport the following day.  Eventually Ty agrees and they begin what seems will be the easiest heist in the world, until it all goes wrong of course. (more…)

In the year 2009 a scientist, Adrian Helmsley [Chiwetel Ejiofor], discovers that something odd is happening with the earth and figures out that the world as we know it is going to end in the year 2012.  As the day of reckoning comes a regular everyday guy, Jackson Curtis [John Cusack], takes it upon himself to save him and his family from this end of days event. (more…)

After Clyde Shelton’s [Gerard Butler] wife and child are both murdered the prosecuting lawyer, Nick Rice [Jamie Foxx], decides to cut a deal with one of the two murderers so as to get a reduced sentence and send the other on death row.  Clyde is not satisfied with this course of action and decides to take revenge on not only the pair of criminals who murdered his family but also the entire justice system that failed him. (more…)

This week I plan on completing a Steven Soderbergh Marathon, which I will call The Soderbergh Series, of watching and reviewing six of his films that I’ve always wanted to see but never have.  This is an effort for me to increase my already lacking knowledge of film and also to possibly introduce others to some films that Soderbergh may have done that does start with the word Ocean in the title.  Today’s Soderbergh Series has me watch me watching The Limey. (more…)

Addicted to the Tube has returned. I know it has been a long while since I blogged but since the people in charge of gmanReviews are having problems sending my paycheck I had to find myself a job, which kept me very busy. It is the time of year when we get ready for season returns. I plan to do as many reviews as possible. The first on my list is the Showtime hit, Dexter. Season 4 of Dexter is scheduled to air September 27^th. (more…)

Here is Tony Scott’s remake of the 1974 film of the same name, except that one had words instead of numbers in the title, and I must say that Mr. Scott had a tough job to update this movie without making it completely ridiculous. The film is about Ryder [John Travolta] who decides to take a group of individuals and take a train hostage in the New York subway system and demand ten million dollars from the city. Walter Garber [Denzel Washington] is the guy who is on the dispatch line at the Metro Control Centre and gets mixed up in this hostage situation. (more…)

Ray Koval [Clive Owen] and Claire Stenwick [Julia Roberts] are former intelligence operatives who are now working for corporate businesses. They plan to take two rival corporations, owned by Howard Tully [Tom Wilkinson] and Richard Garsik [Paul Giamatti], for a ride and try to swindle some 40 million dollars out of the deal. (more…)

John Koestler [Nicolas Cage] happens upon this paper that has spent five decades below the surface of the earth in a time capsule at his son’s school. After staring at the paper long enough he realizes a familiar number and begins to form a theory about the page filled with what would seem to be a random string of integers to the layman. A full night later without sleep and lots of research he proves that the entire page has predicted every disaster/incident that has happened for the last fifty years where a mass number of people are killed perfectly with the date and amount of people that will die. He also notices that there are three more predictions left on the page. (more…)