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Brooklyn’s Finest
Cast: Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes
User Rating: 7.4/10
Duration: 1 hr 48 mins
Directors: Antoine Fuqua
Writer: Michael C. Martin
Producer : John Langley, John Thompson, Elie Cohn
Country: USA
Release Date: 5 March 2010 (USA)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Summary
Training Day director Antoine Fuqua takes viewers on a dark ride through the streets of Brooklyn, following three New York Police officers as they wrestle with temptation, loyalty, and duty while attempting to uphold the law and deal with the pressures of the job. Eddie Dugan (Richard Gere) is days away from retirement, but he’s been burnt-out for years. Unable to remember why he signed up for the job in the first place, all Eddie can think about is retreating to his fishing cabin in Connecticut, and forgetting the horrors that he’s seen during his decades on the job. At the same time, undercover narcotics cop Clarence “Tango” Butler (Don Cheadle) is right in the thick of it. As hard as he tries to quit, however, his superiors always find a way of keeping him on the job. Much like Dugan, he’s lost sight of his priorities, and these days Tango’s loyalties seem to lie more with notorious inner-city drug dealer Caz (Wesley Snipes) than with the boys in blue. And Tango isn’t the only cop who’s being drawn to the dark side of the law; narcotics officer Sal Procida’s (Ethan Hawke) wife is currently pregnant with twins, and he’s barely making enough to keep his family afloat. When Sal learns that his wife is at risk of losing their unborn children, desperation drives him to consider unethical means of ensuring financial stability. In seven days, the lives of all three officers will converge at one crime scene as the NYPD attempts to clean up the BK projects, the epicenter of lawlessness in the highest-crime precinct.
Cop Out
Cast: Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Seann William Scott, Adam Brody, Jason Lee, Michelle Trachtenberg
User Rating: 6.1/10
Duration: 1 hr. 50 min.
Directors: Kevin Smith
Writer: Robb Cullen, Mark Cullen
Producer : Adam Siegel, Marc Platt, Polly Cohen Johnsen
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 26 February 2010 (USA)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Summary
Two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia-obsessed gangster. Jimmy the veteran detective whose missing collectible is his only hope to pay for his daughter’s upcoming wedding, and Paul is his “partner-against-crime” whose preoccupation with his wife’s alleged infidelity makes it hard for him to keep his eye on the ball.
The Crazies
Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson, Brett Rickaby, Christie Lynn Smith, Preston Bailey, Joe Reegan, Justin Welborn
User Rating: 7.2/10
Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes
Directors: Breck Eisner
Writer: Scott Kosar, Ray Wright
Producer : Michael Aguilar, Rob Cowan, Dean Georgaris, George A. Romero
Music: Mark Isham
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Language: English
Release Date: 26 February 2010 (USA)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Summary
Imagine living in a small town where everything is safe and happy… until suddenly it isn’t. Imagine your friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane. In a terrifying tale of the “American Dream” gone horribly wrong, four friends find themselves trapped in their hometown in “The Crazies,” a reinvention of the George Romero classic directed by Breck Eisner from a screenplay by Ray Wright and Scott Kosar.
David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) is sheriff of Ogden Marsh, a picture-perfect American town with happy, law-abiding citizens. But one night, one of them comes to a school baseball game with a loaded shotgun, ready to kill. Another man burns down his own house…after locking his wife and young son in a closet inside. Within days, the town has transformed into a sickening asylum; people who days ago lived quiet, unremarkable lives have now become depraved, blood-thirsty killers, hiding in the darkness with guns and knives. Sheriff Dutton tries to make sense of what’s happening as the horrific, nonsensical violence escalates. Something is infecting the citizens of Ogden Marsh… with insanity. Now complete anarchy reigns as one by one the townsfolk succumb to an unknown toxin and turn sadistically violent. In an effort to keep the madness contained, the government uses deadly force to close off all access and won’t let anyone in or out – even those uninfected. The few still sane find themselves trapped: Sheriff Dutton; his pregnant wife, Judy (Radha Mitchell); Becca (Danielle Panabaker), an assistant at the medical center; and Russell (Joe Anderson), Dutton’s deputy and right-hand man. Forced to band together, an ordinary night becomes a horrifying struggle for survival as they do their best to get out of town alive.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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Cast:Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist
User Rating: 7.6/10
Duration: 152 minutes
Directors: Niels Arden Oplev
Writer: Nikolaj Arcel, Rasmus Heisterberg
Producer : Søren Stærmose
Music: Jacob Groth
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Language: Swedish
Release Date: 19 March 2010 (USA)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Summary
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her beloved uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and the tattooed and troubled but resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) to investigate. When the pair link Harriet’s disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vanger’s are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.
Author Stieg Larsson, who died suddenly in 2004, left behind three unpublished novels, known as the “Millennium” trilogy, which have become a global sensation, elevating Larsson to the world’s second best-selling author last year (behind “The Kite Runner”‘s Khaled Hosseini). “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is one of the decade’s major literary success stories, selling over 8,000,000 copies worldwide and the film adaptation is the highest grossing Swedish film in history.
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