Category: Thriller

Drama, Movies, Thriller

Cleanskin – What a load of crap

Cleanskin by Hadi Hajaig on Cine+ Premier (CanalSat) My rating: 2 out of 10 stars While working undercover as a bodyguard to arms dealer Harry, former-soldier-turned-secret-service-agent Ewan survives a bloody shootout with balaclava-clad Ash, a member of an Islamic terrorist cell who steals Harry’s briefcase full of Semtex explosives and escapes with a minor injury. Ewan’s spymasters, Charlotte McQueen and her boss, Scott Catesby, inform … Continue reading Cleanskin – What a load of crap

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Horror, Movies, Science Fiction, Thriller

Hollow Man – Nothing fantastic but a quite okay Sci-Fi thriller

Hollow Man by Paul Verhoeven on SyFy (CanalSat) My rating: 6 out of 10 stars Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. He’s so confident he’s found the right formula that he tests it on himself and soon begins to vanish. The only problem is, no one can figure out how to make him visible again. This predicament … Continue reading Hollow Man – Nothing fantastic but a quite okay Sci-Fi thriller

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Action, Movies, Thriller

The Rock – A Great Action/Thriller Movie

The Rock by Michael Bay on W9 HD (CanalSat) My rating: 9 out of 10 stars A group of renegade marine commandos seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as hostages. Their leader demands $100 million to be paid, as restitution to families of Marines who died in covert ops. Otherwise, he will launch 15 rockets carrying deadly VX … Continue reading The Rock – A Great Action/Thriller Movie

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Taken 2 – Fully acceptable if you are in the mood for a no-brainer action flick

Taken 2 by Olivier Megaton on Blu-ray My rating: 6 out of 10 stars Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, the retired CIA agent with a “particular set of skills” who stopped at nothing to save his daughter Kim from kidnappers. When the father of one of the villains Bryan killed swears revenge, and takes Bryan and his wife hostage in Istanbul, Bryan enlists Kim … Continue reading Taken 2 – Fully acceptable if you are in the mood for a no-brainer action flick

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Looper – Proves that time-travel movies are difficult to make

Looper by Rian Johnson on Blu-ray My rating: 6 out of 10 stars In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting … Continue reading Looper – Proves that time-travel movies are difficult to make

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Taken – A very good action/thriller flick

Taken by Pierre Morel on Blu-ray My rating: 8 out of 10 stars 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. This is a very good action/thriller flick. It currently holds a 7.9 rating at IMDb which it certainly deserves. The few people giving this … Continue reading Taken – A very good action/thriller flick

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Double Jeopardy – Okay movie

Double Jeopardy by Bruce Beresford on DVD My rating: 6 out of 10 stars A woman framed for her husband’s murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can’t be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him. This is a movie that we got a very long time ago when we still purchased a paper TV-magazine to … Continue reading Double Jeopardy – Okay movie

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Disaster, Movies, Thriller

The Andromeda Strain – A movie that time has not been kind to

The Andromeda Strain by Robert Wise on CineFX (CanalSat) My rating: 5 out of 10 stars A mysterious government project scrambles a team of scientists to investigate the cause of a spaceborne disease that kills nearly everyone in a small desert town. They find an extraterrestrial form of life that causes rapid, fatal clotting of the blood, and make some disturbing discoveries about the project as well. … Continue reading The Andromeda Strain – A movie that time has not been kind to

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Drama, Movies, Thriller

Hindenburg (TV 2011) – Not bad for a TV-movie

Hindenburg by Philipp Kadelbach on DVD My rating: 6 out of 10 stars Discover the shocking secret behind one of the greatest disasters of the 20th century in this powerful, exhilarating, world war two thriller. When a chance encounter throws a young engineer into the depths of a deadly plot he begins a race against time to uncover a secret that could throw the world … Continue reading Hindenburg (TV 2011) – Not bad for a TV-movie

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Curdled – Okay but somewhat bizarre

Curdled by Reb Braddock on Blu-rayMy rating: 5 of 10 stars Gabriella, a Columbian immigrant, is obsessed with understanding violent crime. The current string of murders by “The Blue Blood Killer” of affluent Miami socialites provides her with fodder for her scrapbook of death. She lands a job with a post-murder cleaning service and during a Blue-Blood clean-up job, discovers evidence that police have overlooked. … Continue reading Curdled – Okay but somewhat bizarre

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