Tag Archives: assassination

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

IMDB Rating: 7.40
20952 votes

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In Jersey City, an African American hit man follows "Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai." He lives alone, in simplicity with homing pigeons for company, calling himself Ghost Dog. His master, who saved his life eight years ago, is part of the local mob. When the boss' daughter witnesses one of Ghost Dog's hits, he becomes expendable. The first victims are his birds, and in response, Ghost Dog goes right at his attackers but does not want to harm his master or the young woman. On occasion, he talks with his best friend, a French-speaking Haitian who sells ice cream in the park, and with a child with whom he discusses books. Can he stay true to his code? And if he does, what is his fate?
Actors
Ghost DogForest Whitaker
LouieJohn Tormey
Sonny ValerioCliff Gorman
Also posted in 1999, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (6)

Sat sau ji wong

IMDB Rating: 5.90
955 votes

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Financially troubled, a newbie hitman reluctantly takes the job of finding the plotted killer of a Japanese tycoon, but things complicate when the tycoon is killed and he is forced to ally with a misfortunate hitman to find the "King of the Hitman."
Actors
FuJet Li
Ngok LoEric Tsang
KwanSimon Yam
Also posted in 1998, Action, Comedy | Comments (0)

The Negotiator

IMDB Rating: 7.20
27763 votes

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In the midst of an elaborate conspiracy, an expert negotiator is driven to the edge when he's framed for the murder of his partner, as well as embezzling money from his department's pension fund. His only chance to prove his innocence is to take hostages himself, acquire the services of another expert negotiator, and find out who's running the conspiracy before it's too late.
Actors
Lt. Danny RomanSamuel L. Jackson
Lt. Chris SabianKevin Spacey
Cmdr. Adam BeckDavid Morse
Also posted in 1998, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Ronin

IMDB Rating: 7.00
25418 votes

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Ronin is the Japanese word used for Samurai without a master. In this case, the Ronin are outcast specialists of every kind, whose services are available to everyone - for money. Dierdre (undoubtedly from Ireland) hires several Ronin to form a team in order to retrieve an important suitcase from a man who is about to sell it to the Russians. After the mission has been completed successfully, the suitcase immediately gets switched by a member of the team who seems to work into his own pocket. The complex net of everyone tricking everyone begins to surface slowly, and deadly...
Actors
SamRobert De Niro
VincentJean Reno
DeirdreNatascha McElhone
Also posted in 1998, Action, Crime, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Nick of Time

IMDB Rating: 6.20
6271 votes

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Gene Watson (Johnny Depp) is an ordinary public accountant returning home from his ex-wife's funeral and is met by Mr Smith (Christopher Walken) and Ms. Jones (Roma Maffia) who kidnap his daughter (Courtney Chase) and give him a gun, six bullets, a name-tag that will give him access to anywhere in a specific hotel, and the itinerary of Governor Grant (Marsha Mason) and is informed that he must kill the Governor in 1 hour and 15 minutes or his daughter will die. The rest of the movie follows Mr. Watson as he desperately attempts to warn the Governor without the knowledge of the two and finds out that the conspiracy against her reaches all the way to those she trusts most.
Actors
Gene WatsonJohnny Depp
Lynn WatsonCourtney Chase
Mr. SmithChristopher Walken
Also posted in 1995, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Usual Suspects

IMDB Rating: 8.70
119607 votes

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After a waterfront explosion, Verbal (Kevin Spacey), an eye-witness and participant tells the story of events leading up to the conflagration. The story begins when five men are rounded up for a line-up, and grilled about a truck hijacking (the usual suspects). Least pleased is Keaton (Gabriel Byrne) a crooked cop - exposed, indicted, but now desperately trying to go straight. The cops won't leave him alone, however, and as they wait for their lawyers to post bail, he is talked into doing one more job with the other four. All goes tolerably well until the influence of the legendary, seemingly omnipotent "Keyser Soze" is felt. Although set in the modern day, it has much of the texture of the forties, plus suspense, intrigue (a fairly high body count), and lots of twists in the plot.
Actors
Michael McManusStephen Baldwin
Dean KeatonGabriel Byrne
Fred FensterBenicio Del Toro
Also posted in 1995, Crime, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Léon

IMDB Rating: 8.50
92850 votes

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Mathilda, a twelve-year old New York girl, is living an undesirable life among her half-family. Her father stores drugs for two-faced cop Norman Stansfield. Only her little brother keeps Mathilda from breaking apart. One day, Stansfield and his team take cruel revenge on her father for stretching the drugs a little, thus killing the whole family. Only Mathilda, who was out shopping, survives by finding shelter in Léon's apartment in the moment of highest need. Soon, she finds out about the strange neighbour's unusual profession - killing - and desperately seeks his help in taking revenge for her little brother. Léon, who is completely unexperienced in fatherly tasks, and in friendships, does his best to keep Mathilda out of trouble - unsuccessfully. Now, the conflict between a killer, who slowly discovers his abilities to live, to feel, to love and a corrupt police officer, who does anything in his might to get rid of an eye witness, arises to unmeasurable proportions - all for the sake of a little twelve-year old girl, who has nearly nothing to lose.
Actors
LeonJean Reno
StansfieldGary Oldman
MathildaNatalie Portman
Also posted in 1994, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Clear and Present Danger

IMDB Rating: 6.70
18485 votes

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Based upon the Tom Clancy novel of the same name, Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst, is thrust right in the middle of a power struggle within the Colombian drug cartel after one of the President's "life long" friends is murdered, apparently in retaliation for stealing money as part of a money laundering scheme for the cartel. Jack is then appointed acting Deputy Director of Intelligence, CIA, upon the terminal illness of Admiral James Greer, former DDI, and quickly gets in over his head due to his political naivete. The situation rapidly deteriorates when some of the presidents men convince the President to conduct covert actions against the cartel, in direct violation of congress. Felix Cortez, the security chief of Ernesto Escobeda, the "victim" of the missing money, is one of the cartel boss's. Cortez tries to play both sides, appearing to inform Escobeda about the CIA's involvement in the covert operations against him, while trying to orchestrate a coup to take over the cartel, with Cortez as it's sole boss. James Cutter, the President's National Security Advisor, makes his own deal with Cortez, with the Presidents knowledge, and halts communications to the covert troops still in Colombia, through the Deputy Director of Operations, CIA, Robert Ritter. Ryan ends up going to Colombia to rescue the covet ops troops with the help of field agent John Clark, but not before some fence mending between the two, being that Ritter blamed Ryan for the comm outage, with Clark's men subsequently being captured by Cortez's mercenaries.
Actors
Jack RyanHarrison Ford
John ClarkWillem Dafoe
Cathy Muller RyanAnne Archer
Also posted in 1994, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Forrest Gump

IMDB Rating: 8.20
106111 votes

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The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he's too stupid to realize the significance of his actions. Forrest becomes representative of the baby boomer generation having walked through life blindly.
Actors
Forrest GumpTom Hanks
Jenny CurranRobin Wright Penn
Lt. Dan TaylorGary Sinise
Also posted in 1994, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

In the Line of Fire

IMDB Rating: 7.20
14505 votes

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Frank Horrigan is a Secret Service Agent. He currently does mostly undercover work. He goes to check on a report about a person who is threatening the life of the President. When he goes to the man's apartment, he finds clippings and photos of various assassinations throughout history. When he does a background check, he discovers that the man's identity is false. So he goes back to the apartment to get him, but when he goes in there, he finds the apartment cleaned out except for a photo of him when he was in Dallas, November 1963, protecting Kennedy. Later he gets a phone call from the man and tells him that he plans to kill the President and is daring Frank to stop him. When Frank reports to his superiors, he finds that there are some people like the agent in charge of protecting the President and the Chief of Staff, who think that Frank is letting his failure to protect Kennedy cloud his judgement. But as Frank chases him down, he discovers that he is not dealing with a nut but with a well organized individual.
Actors
Secret Service Agent Frank HorriganClint Eastwood
Mitch LearyJohn Malkovich
Secret Service Agent Lilly RainesRene Russo
Also posted in 1993, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)