Just as Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) comes home to visit his wife, he is met by a few less-than-upstanding citizens who want to cause trouble. Unfortunately for them, Poe is an Army Ranger, which means that they probably aren’t in the best position when it comes to a fight.
So when they decide to ambush him outside the bar, Poe gets the best of them. But when all is said and done, and one of them ends up dead on the ground, it is Poe who gets the short end of the stick. All he was doing was protecting his wife, but since he is trained as a deadly weapon, he ends up in prison.
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Action on January 21st, 2007 by Chad Everett
When Randall “Memphis” Raines (Nicolas Cage) decided that he was no longer going to steal cars, the reported car theft in the area dropped. Precipitously. But he’s back. Not because he wants to be back, but because he has to be back. It seems that his little brother, Kip (Giovanni Ribisi), has decided to join the family business vacated by his brother.
This is a problem for two reasons. One, because it’s the reason that Memphis left in the first place. Two because Kip isn’t nearly as good as his older brother, and now he’s in big to bloodthirsty Raymond Vincent Calitri (Christopher Eccleston). If Calitri doesn’t get the fifty cars that Kip owes him, he plans on killing Kip. So Memphis decides to come out of retirement for one last boost.
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Action on April 3rd, 2006 by Chad Everett
I don’t know why, but I always seem to like productions from Jerry Bruckheimer. Cat People was probably the first film of his that I saw, but I think that it was Days of Thunder that was the first film that really had his “feel” to it. I’m not sure what it is, exactly, either – I think it is likely the score, usually quite powerful, but not enough to overpower the video. In any case, this one was square in his busy period.
Starring Sean Connery and Ed Harris, the film is set almost entirely on Alcatraz island, currently taken over by Harris’ band of Marines, intent on securing honor for their fallen comrades who have managed to miss out on military recognition because of the circumstances surrounding their deaths. Oh yeah, and they’d like $100 million too.
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