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.
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.
An old style political crime thriller in which Benicio del Toro investigates a crime, only to leed him deeper and deeper into a muddy mess of corruption.
Singer took well over two hours to tell his story of heavy crime, dirty cops and the personal struggles of Tom Nichols (Del Toro).
A descent Netflix thriller.
The latest Lanthimos. It took some time before I saw it. I was too late to see it on the big screen and then it was a ‘buy’ rather than ‘rent’ Prime Video.
Conspiracy theorist Teddy (Jesse Plemons) kidnaps the head of a big company (Emma Stone) whom he suspects of being an alien. Together with his nephew Don, he plans on visiting the mothership of the alien in order to prevent the alien race from whiping out humanity.
“Bugonia” is an alright psychological thriller, but is by and far not as weird as Lanthimos can get.
A rapidly chosen Netflix killing time movie turned out to be quite alright.
Produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, both took the leading parts in an action thriller in which policemen find a house where a gigantic amount of drug money is hidden. In a lengthy ‘who’s the bad guy’ it seems as if everybody is after the money, different police forces, cartels and the men on the floor. The suspect changes a couple of times, but this becomes a bit overdone towards the end where everybody in the film is shortly a subject for a few minutes.
The film has a nice, dense atmosphere of upcoming doom and a few violent outbursts.
Liam Neeson is Alex Lewis, an aging contract killer who wants to leave the business. This wish is not granted and he is sent an another mission. When that involves killing a child, Alex decides to work his way up, killing the people behind the assignment.
It is somewhat amusing that Guy Pierce has an (interesting) role in a film about memory loss. He is the police officer working the case.
All in all “Memory” is but an average thriller though.
We were looking for a short film and this ‘number one in the Netherlands’ is 95 minutes. But why is this ‘number one’?
Journalist Laura joins a luxury cruise of a wealthy businessman to report about a cancer fund for the businessman’s wife. Laura runs into a strange scheme which seems to imply that the money is not going to the fund of the wife with leukemia, but to her husband.
A not too interesting thriller.
In different times a naked, dead body is found at the same spot in Whitechapel. The different inspectors assigned to the case discover all kinds of strange details. The body is shot in the eye, but there is no bullet and later inspectors discover the earlier cases.
In a quite amusing story that reminds a bit of “Dark” the creators slowly explain the happenings. The story becomes rather complex, a bit too much so to satisfactorily wrap things up in the last episode perhaps.
Yet all in all “Bodies” is certainly one of the better (mini) series that I saw recently.
Sarah (Lilly James) took files from her former employer which prove a massive cover up. Seeing her life in danger she changes her mind and finds the help of Ash (Riz Ahmed) to return the documents with the assurance of being left alone.
“Relay” opens right in the middle of the tension. A very interesting cat and mouse game unfolds in which Ash is trying to turn things for the better for his client. Resourceful as he is, he keeps Sarah’s followers at bay.
“Relay” could have been an entertaining film, had Mackenzie not thought it a good idea to make an awful plot twist towards the end.