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Gemini Man - (2019 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1025100/

A government assassin learns he has been cloned by a rogue lab bent on raising an army of perfect soldiers.

A fair movie. It brings nothing new or interesting, and has generally uninspired writing and action. Thinking back on it, it does seem derivative of so many other movies.



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The Transporter - (2002 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293662/
https://www.thetransportermovie.net/

A criminal-Uber breaks one of his own rules and discovers that a package has a story attached.

A good new franchise that’s worth getting into if you’re into the various cars-and-girls-and-guns movies.



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Get Shorty - (1995 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113161/

After meeting people trying to make it big in Hollywood movies, a criminal weans himself off of his old life to try it for himself.

Maybe it’s because I saw it “back in the day”, but even after re-watching it I still really like it.



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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - (1997 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119668/

A reporter goes to a small odd town for one story, but a local murder changes his interests.

Though adequate, I didn’t finish it; this isn’t my sort of movie.



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Net Force - (1998 book), by Tom Clancy image

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(on Wikipedia)

In a world where everyday people use the internet through total-sensory virtual reality, a specialist intelligence agency tracks down murderers and terrorists.

Slow and confusing, this book isn’t just a challenge to read, it’s a challenge to read with a straight face. One of the risks of speculative science fiction is that they can get very, very, wrong in their predictions. This book hand-waives people being transported into a magical world with no explanation as to how it’s possible or what it’s like. It is vague in everything it demands the reader suspend their disbelief in. It is awed at 900 Mhz computers. This is definitely a 1998 book that had way too much hope for its future.

This poster is more exciting than its movie
This poster is more exciting than its movie

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310775/

A stupid and deaf guy does stupid things while being deaf.

This was listed as a thriller and isn’t even remotely thrilling. It is slow and depressing throughout. I got well past an hour without being thrilled.



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Upstream Color - (2013 movie) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084989/
https://web.archive.org/web/20190726043905/http://erbpfilm.com/film/upstreamcolor

A woman is abducted for a mind-control experiment. Hilarity ensues.

This is not “experimental science fiction”. This is outright horror.

I think I’ve seen this before, but blocked it out of my memory.



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Momentum - (2015 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3181776/

A woman is pulled back into a life of crime, only to learn that what she helped steal has other interested parties.

A mediocre movie which just feels off and awkward. Definitely not recommended.

Olga Kurylenko is either an absolutely awful actor, or playing an absolutely awful character, or maybe both. Probably both.



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A Time to Kill - (1996 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117913/

Something about a crime and lawyers and a court and stuff, but with racism.

Not my thing.



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