I think I saw this old Marvel film before, but apparently I did not review it.
Anyway, Elektra is a one girl contract killing machine. She disobeys during an assignment and is hunted down by both the employer of her victims as by her own employer.
Needless to say that she fights to victory.
A descent, old, crime thriller by Ridley Scott.
Michael Douglas plays Nick Conklin, a tough undercover cop working with/on Japanese and Italian maffia.
Something is brewing between the two most powerful maffias and the situation is rapidly running out of hand.
In this not too great Netflix thriller we follow two rebels who break into rich people’s houses and mark their presence with graffiti. While one of the two starts ‘normal life’, the other makes a terrible discovery in one of the houses that he brakes into.
The film shows how Faisal tries to get the ‘wrong’ out in the open, but people close to him get dragged into the mess.
Looking for something lighter, we got this movie by, with and produced by Eddie Murphy.
Sugar Ray (Richard Pryor) has a succesful club, not quite legal. There is music, gambling and prostitution. The competition is unhappy about the succes and tries to scare it away.
In America of a century ago, there is a big divide between the black and white communities which is made some fun of.
Somewhat amusing.
A Peaky film? Would that be any fun? Well: no. “The Immortal Man” is no fun.
The movie plays two World Wars after the series. Tommy Shelby fought in WWI, got PTSS, withdrew from the world to write his memoires.
In the meantime one of his sons, violently took over the Peaky Blinders, being so blind in his ambition that he is working for the Nazis (the events take place during WWII). Of course Tommy is the only one who can try to talk some sense into his son and he is convinced to try that.
Tommy Shelby wants rest and the whole movie it is clear what his intention is. The film is slow, gloomy and gritty. Good, but heavy.
A violent, Korean thriller in which we follow a police investigation into human travicking between North and South Korea and Russia.
An undercover cop, an informant that needs to be protected, things that do not go entirely as planned. At the end it leads to a lengthy shout-out.
A star cast with the worst haircuts ever.
Sylvester Stallone is the sheriff of a small town just outside New York where New York police officers tend to go to live. As to be expected, Garrison is a town with little crime, or so you would think.
it appears that the influential Ray Donlan (Harvey Keitel) runs things in the background. He makes sure his friends’ mistakes are covered and that other people are kept at bay.
A mistake of a police officer needs covering up, but in the ends starts to lead to a cesspool of corruption in which different kinds of law officers fight for their own ideas of justice.
“Cop Land” is a good police crime thriller.
I was somewhat exited running into a Rodriguez that I had missed. I expected a female fronted action spectacle, but that is not entirely what “Alita” is.
In some dystopian future there is one “sky city” left and a piece of earth below. The rest of earth was destroyed. The rich live in the sky, the poor at the surface. We follow Dr. Dyson Ido (Christoph Waltz) who repairs robots (cyborgs) in his repair shop. He finds the ‘living’ head of a female-looking cyborg and fixes her to a new body.
Trying to raise “Alita” as his lost daughter, the annoyingly animation-looking adolescent Alita fiends a friend, a game, a purpose and her origin.
Drama, here and there action. The movie is not boring, but not exactly great.
Holy schmoley, I only wanted to watch an action thriller or something, but I happened to pick this very heavy court thriller instead.
A black girl is raped by two whites in an America where the Ku Klux Klan was active and seggregation ruled supreme. Lawyer Brigance (Matthew McConaughly) defends the black Carl Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) and gets unexpected help from law student Ellen Roark (Sandra Bullock).
A sad story of violence and intimidation develops and McConaughly and Bullock developn an interesting relationship.
When I saw Patrick McGoohan as judge Omar Noose, I remembered that I saw this film, but apparently didn’t review it. The rest of the cast is stellar and the film is good, but a heavy watch.
Chuck Norris (RIP) is Eddie Cusack, a good cop in a crooked police force. In a star crew, Davis tells the story of how Cusack tries to navigate curruption among his colleagues and solve a case.
The result is a decent police thriller.