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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216491/
http://www.focusfeatures.com/kill_the_messenger
An investigative reporter, most recently working on criminal drug stories, gets a lead that takes him down a rabbit hole few knew existed.
A fair movie at best, which I can only recommend for people of the mindset with interest in the United States' government's involvement in Bad Things.
Based on Kill the Messenger - (2006 book), by Gary Webb
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120784/
Betrayed by his partner-in-crime over syndicate buy-in money, and by his wife over his affair, a man returns from his assumed-murder to collect his cut from their last job.
An amazing movie that has a great tone throughout. It's straightforward and blunt. Although Mel Gibson is flat, it works for both the character and the movie.
A remake of Point Blank - (1967 movie), which is in turn based on The Hunter - (1962 book), by Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake)
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062229/
A hitman is witnessed just after a job, and becoming a suspect pushes his employers put a hit out on him.
While I can imagine this being really cool at the time, it certainly isn't any more. It has a slow moody atmosphere with a main character stiff enough to be a walking corpse. It's also just shy of being a silent film.
I only finished watching it because of the similarity Ghost Dog - (1999 movie) has with it, because I like that movie.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244244/
http://www2.warnerbros.com/operationswordfish/
A recently-ex-con world-renown hacker is swept into the well-planned efforts to fund long-term anti-terrorist terrorism.
I-like-hyphens.
Ignoring the Hollywood-hacker bullshit, it's a good movie, particularly because so few, at least at its release, would be so A-class and yet have this particular topic. It helps shape the understanding of the passion behind Lawful Evil.
Partially playing off of the Swordfish (password).
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3647498/
When his missing daughter turns up with a mark on her back, an ex-con fights to keep them both safe.
Dirty, dangerous and to-the-point. As always, Mel Gibson plays this stereotypical role of his quite well. If you like him in his other gritty movies, you'll like this one.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/
http://www.lordofwarthemovie.com/
A man runs guns.
Not bad, but forgettable.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4378456/
http://www.fox.com/second-chance
An old retired cop is reborn into a younger, stronger, version of himself, and fights crime.
Seems fairly good, though I'd bet it would be bland without the pretty girl.
Cancelled 2016-05-12
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399664/
http://www.amc.com/shows/the-night-manager
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03g13rt
A dude begins his career as a night manager for some place somewhere but gets used by British intelligence to act against an arms dealer.
Fairly decent, but I suspect it's only because this is another show with a British accent being thrown around carelessly.
Based on The Night Manager (1993 book), by John le Carré
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144117/
http://www.boondocksaints.com/
Tired of lax justice, two brothers become particularly effective vigilantes against the criminal element in their greater area.
I don't know what to say about this movie. It's fantastic. Good characters, a good story and with a good flow to it.
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https://youtu.be/5vnjheCqRIs
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3042408/
A young, broken, man, enters an underground community of computer crackers, trying desperately to prove himself but with consequences.
An extremely good movie. While not quite mandatory, it's definitely a proper advancement of the "hacker kid" movies that have sullied past movies. Highly recommended, even for people that "know their stuff", as it doesn't lay on the techno-babble which describes everything painfully wrong. Instead, it takes a reasonable middle ground, staying away from pop culture and fairly-firmly on the social side of storytelling.
See also Fight Club (1999)
