Tag Archives: professional hit

Bound by Honor (aka “Blood in, blood out”)

IMDB Rating: 7.60
5774 votes

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Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.
Actors
MikloDamian Chapa
CruzJesse Borrego
PacoBenjamin Bratt
Also posted in 1993, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Intolerable Cruelty

IMDB Rating: 6.50
19416 votes

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Miles Massey, a prominent Los Angeles divorce attorney has everything—and in some cases, two of everything. Despite his impressive client list, a formidable win record, the respect of his peers and an ironclad contract (the Massey pre-nup) named after him, he's reached a crossroads in his life. Sated on success, boredom has set in and he's looking for new challenges. All that changes when Miles meets his match in the devastating Marylin Rexroth. Marylin is the soon-to-be ex-wife of his client Rex Rexroth, a wealthy real estate developer and habitual philanderer. With the help of hard charging private investigator Gus Petch, she has Rex nailed and is looking forward to the financial independence a successful divorce will bring. But thanks to Miles' considerable skills, she ends up with nothing. Not to be outdone, Marylin schemes to get even and as part of her plan, quickly marries oil tycoon Howard Doyle. Miles and his unflappable associate, Wrigley, unwittingly dig themselves in deeper and deeper as they go head-to-head with Marylin. Underhanded tactics, deceptions and an undeniable attraction escalate as Marylin and Miles square off in this classic battle of the sexes.
Actors
Miles MasseyGeorge Clooney
Marylin RexrothCatherine Zeta-Jones
Donovan DonalyGeoffrey Rush
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (4)

The Poet

IMDB Rating: 3.70
125 votes

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A contract killer sees a chance to free himself from a tragic past.
Actors
AndreiDougray Scott
PaulaLaura Harring
VashonJürgen Prochnow
Also posted in 2003, Drama, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

Shaft

IMDB Rating: 5.90
19356 votes

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Cool and deadly NYPD detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade, Jr. in a racially-motivated slaying. The eye witness disappears, Wade jumps bail for Switzerland, and Shaft is livid. Two years later, Wade returns to face trial, confident his father's money and influence (and racial politics) guarantee an innocent verdict. Shaft looks hard for the witness, so Wade wants someone to kill her. He turns to a ghetto drug king, Peoples Hernandez, who's willing to kill for money, use Wade as a route to rich drug customers, and shaft Shaft. Can Shaft find the witness, convince her to testify, and shepherd her through the hail of bullets that Peoples is sure to let fly?
Actors
John ShaftSamuel L. Jackson
Carmen VasquezVanessa L. Williams
Peoples HernandezJeffrey Wright
Also posted in 2000, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (9)

The Whole Nine Yards

IMDB Rating: 6.50
25584 votes

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Oz is a Montréal dentist, paying off debts so he can divorce his wife: the dislike is mutual. When she learns their new neighbor is hit man Jimmy the Tulip, with a price on his head, she sends Oz to Chicago to earn a finder's fee telling Mob boss Yanni where to find Jimmy. To get his wife off his back, Oz goes, his assistant Jill urging him to get laid while there. One of Yanni's men awaits Oz at the hotel; Oz's now in too deep to avoid telling Yanni what he knows. Meanwhile, Oz's wife rats on Oz to Jimmy, hoping Jimmy will kill Oz and she can cash in on life insurance. Oz meets Jimmy's wife (Yanni's captive), flips for her, and the double-crosses mount. Even Jill isn't whom she seems.
Actors
Jimmy 'The Tulip' TudeskiBruce Willis
Nicholas 'Oz' OseranskyMatthew Perry
Sophie OseranskyRosanna Arquette
Also posted in 2000, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating | Comments (23)

Gone in Sixty Seconds

IMDB Rating: 5.80
39399 votes

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Car theft in Long Beach went down 47% when Randall "Memphis" Raines walked away from the life. He gets dragged back into it by assuming the job his brother Kip screwed up for stolen-car broker Raymond Calitri: steal 50 exotic cars and have them on a container ship by 8 AM Friday morning, and he got this news on a Monday. With Calitri threatening to kill him and Kip, and the police GRAB unit breathing down his neck, Memphis reassembles his old crew and attempts to pull off the logistically impossible.
Actors
Frances Fisher
Randall 'Memphis' RainesNicolas Cage
Kip RainesGiovanni Ribisi
Also posted in 2000, Action, Crime, Thriller | Comments (0)

Rapid Fire

IMDB Rating: 5.70
1329 votes

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When student Jake Lo witnesses a killing, he finds himself caught between two feuding drug lords. Betrayed and set up by the federal agents protecting him, the only one he can trust is Ryan, a single-minded Chicago cop who reminds Jake of his deceased father. To clear his name, Jake agrees to help Ryan bring down the drug lords.
Actors
Jake LoBrandon Lee
Mace RyanPowers Boothe
Antonio SerranoNick Mancuso
Also posted in 1992, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Last Boy Scout

IMDB Rating: 6.40
11800 votes

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When the girl that detective Joe Hallenback is protecting gets murdered, the boyfriend of the murdered girl (ex-football player Jimmy Dix) attempts to investigate and solve the case. What they discover is that there is deep seated corruption going on between a crooked politician and the owner of a pro football team.
Actors
Joseph Cornelius 'Joe' HallenbeckBruce Willis
James Alexander 'Jimmy/Jim' DixDamon Wayans
Sarah HallenbeckChelsea Field
Also posted in 1991, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Godfather: Part III

IMDB Rating: 7.40
27629 votes

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In the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he attempts to link the Corleone's finances with the Vatican, Michael must deal with the machinations of a hungrier gangster seeking to upset the existing Mafioso order and a young protoge's love affair with his daughter.
Actors
Don Michael CorleoneAl Pacino
Kay Adams MichelsonDiane Keaton
Connie Corleone-RizziTalia Shire
Also posted in 1990, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Godfather

IMDB Rating: 9.10
148964 votes

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The story begins as "Don" Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia "family", oversees his daughter's wedding. His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Through Michael's life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don't want to follow the old ways and look out for community and "family". An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don's influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don's fading old world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family.
Actors
Don Vito CorleoneMarlon Brando
Michael CorleoneAl Pacino
Santino 'Sonny' CorleoneJames Caan
Also posted in 1972, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)