At the site of a lavish celebratory party, thrown by a Japanese company wanting to celebrate their purchase of a US company, the mood turns decidedly unhappy when someone turns up dead on the boardroom table. The fact that it’s a young woman, who is most assuredly not Japanese, is probably not a good sign.
Detective Webster Smith (Wesley Snipes) is called in to investigate, and quickly teamed up with Captain John Connor (Sean Connery). This partner arrangement, where a younger. more inexperienced investigator, would be paired with a wiser, more seasoned man, is quite common for the Japanese. Apparently.
Unfortunately, Webb isn’t too happy about either his new partner or the fact that the Japanese don’t want their party to be disturbed. But life is about to get a lot more interesting for him.
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As Dr. Rae Crane (Lorraine Bracco) arrives in the Amazon jungle, she is met by a number of natives, and the focus of her trip – Dr. Robert Campbell (Sean Connery).
It seems that Dr. Campbell has for some time been operating on his own, without following typical company procedure, such as filing progress reports, and now that his contact has retired, the duty of figuring out just what he is up to down here has fallen to her. She isn’t exactly pleased. But then, neither is he.
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Drama on November 19th, 2006 by Chad Everett
When a renegade Russian submarine captain (Sean Connery) disappears into the North Atlantic with Russia’s latest technical marvel, it is at first assumed that he intends to start a war. That is, after all, what the Red Octoberwas designed to do. But at least one person, Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin), believes differently.
He has studied Marko Ramius, and he has even met him once before, and he doesn’t think that he would do something like that. In fact, Jack thinks that he’s trying to defect. There are just two problems with that. First, anyone with a multi-billion dollar war machine may do just about anything that they want. And second, this machine just happens to have a super-secret caterpillar drive that means they can’t be tracked in any traditional way, so finding him is another thing entirely.
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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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