Category Archives: Action
Kick-Ass 2
Release 2013
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Director: Jeff Wadlow
Writers: Jeff Wadlow, Mark Millar, John Romita Jr.
Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Morris Chestnut, Claudia Lee, Amy Anzel
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1650554/
The costumed high-school hero Kick-Ass joins with a group of normal citizens who have been inspired to fight crime in costume. Meanwhile, the Red Mist plots an act of revenge that will affect everyone Kick-Ass knows.
Battleship
Release 2012
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Peter Berg
Writers: Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber
Stars: Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna, Brooklyn Decker, Tadanobu Asano
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440129/
A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals.
Taken 2
Release 2012
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Director: Olivier Megaton
Writers: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Stars: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Leland Orser, Jon Gries
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1397280/
In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
Taken
Release 2008
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Director: Pierre Morel
Writers: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Stars: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Holly Valance
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0936501/
A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.
Contraband
Release 2012
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Writers: Aaron Guzikowski, Arnaldur Indriðason, Óskar Jónasson
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Giovanni Ribisi, Lukas Haas
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1524137/
To protect his brother-in-law from a drug lord, a former smuggler heads to Panama to score millions of dollars in counterfeit bills.
The Bourne Legacy
Release 2012
Genre Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Tony Gilroy
Writers: Tony Gilroy, Dan Gilroy
Stars: Jeremy Renner, Scott Glenn, Stacy Keach, Edward Norton, Donna Murphy
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194173/
An expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum's novels, centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films.
Men in Black 3
Release 2012
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Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Writers: Etan Cohen, Lowell Cunningham
Stars: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, Emma Thompson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1409024/
Agent J travels in time to M.I.B.'s early days in 1969 to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history.
Men in Black II
Release 2002
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Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Writers: Lowell Cunningham, Robert Gordon, Barry Fanaro
Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Rip Torn, Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120912/
Agent J needs help so he is sent to find Agent K and restore his memory.
The Matrix Reloaded
Release 2003
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Director: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Stars: Ray Anthony, Christine Anu, Andy Arness, Alima Ashton-Sheibu, Helmut Bakaitis
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0234215/
Neo and the rebel leaders estimate that they have 72 hours until 250,000 probes discover Zion and destroy it and its inhabitants. During this, Neo must decide how he can save Trinity from a dark fate in his dreams.
Transporter 2
Release 2005
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Director: Louis Leterrier
Writers: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Stars: Jason Statham, Alessandro Gassman, Amber Valletta, Kate Nauta, Matthew Modine
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388482/
Mercenary Frank Martin, who specializes moving goods of all kinds, surfaces again this time in Miami, Florida when he's implicated in the kidnapping of the young son of a powerful USA official.