Backtrace (2018)
5.3
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After suffering a brain injury from a bank heist gone wrong, MacDonald develops amnesia and is put...
Crazy Stone (2006)
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What do you get when you have a precious jewel, a group of bumbling thieves intent on getting their...
Blind (2011)
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Su-a loses her sight and kid brother in a car accident. No more police academy. 3 years later she...
Cold War II (2016)
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Picking up some time after the events in the first movie, Sean Lau is now the Commissioner of Police...
Tube (2003)
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This is a touching action epic about an all-out war between a subway terrorist who holds a city...
RəX Regent (349 KP) rated We Own the Night (2007) in Movies
Feb 25, 2019
As the trio become embroiled in an organised crime syndicate, they find themselves under a very personal attack and must take down the mob boss to save their lives. The problem with this film is that it plods its way through, lacking enough tension or high key performances to carry, what to me, should have been a taunt screenplay. Instead, it's a bit flat, with Phoenix's trademark sleepy performance. On the other hand, it's quite good, driven by real motivations and characters, is what saves this from 5/10 rating is a fantastically low-key car chase which looked and felt phenomenal, ending with tragedy which would drive the story in a more dubious direction.
Phoenix will end up being granted special dispensation to become a cop in order to track down the mobster, a plot point that I found to be a little far-fetched, though maybe this sort of thing has happened, I don't know but it just tipped the film over the edge of plausibility. I feel that We Own The Night, the motto of the now disbanded NYPD Street Crime Unit, which is headed up here by the fictional Captain Joseph Grusinsky (Wahlberg) thinks very highly of itself as a top quality crime drama, up there with the likes of The Godfather (1972) and Heat (1995), but it is not. It's good and better if you like the genre, but this is a film set in the late 80′s, made in the style of The Godfather light, which was a quintessential 1970′s movie. It needed to pack more of a punch or have some of the style which films such as those of Michael Mann or Martin Scorsese.
A decent story, good cinematography and noble effort but failed to blow me away.
Practice to Deceive
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#1 New York Times bestselling author and Queen of True Crime Ann Rule delivers another gripping...
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The Departed (2006)
8.6
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg star in Martin Scorsese's 2006 crime...
Nickg24 (492 KP) rated Stockholm (2019) in Movies
Aug 12, 2019
We start off with kaj (hawke) holding up a bank in Stockholm with the intention of getting his friend gunnar (strong) out of prison.Kaj turns out to be pretty rubbish at being a robber and the hostages (mainly rapace) end up having to help them out and with this we eventually find out how the phrase "stockholm syndrome" came about.