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Naked Weapon

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  • Title: Naked Weapon
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Nearly a decade before she was Nikita, Maggie Q was basically Nikita. Siu-Tung Ching‘s 2002 thriller stars Maggie Q, Anya Wu, and Jewel Lee as the three survivors from dozens of young girls abducted over the world, trained to be assassins, and pitted against each other by the elusive Madam M (Almen Wong). The movie offers flashbacks to the the girls’ training and graduation while in the present our protagonists are offered one last job to earn their freedom only to fall into a trap laid by a Yakuza boss (Andrew Lien) out for revenge against the women for one of their previous missions.

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Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War

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  • Title: Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War
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A follow-up to Amazon’s Jack Ryan series, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War pulls retired CIA analyst Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) back into action. While doing a favor for his old friend, Ryan will discover disturbing truths while hunting down a ghost from James Greer’s (Wendell Pierce) past obsessed with returning to the morally reprehensible enhanced anti-terrorism measures post-9/11 which he believes were all that saved the world from destruction (and are still needed to keep the world safe today).

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MacGyver – The Heist

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  • Title: MacGyver – The Heist
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MacGyver Monday takes us back to another adventure featuring science-adventurer Angus MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) who heads down to the Virgin Islands to steal back $60 million in diamonds earmarked for African relief funds. Working with the daughter (Doran Clark) of the senator (John Carter) who sent him on the mission, Mac first locates the diamonds and then stages the heist while his partner-in-crime works to create mass chaos in our villain’s casino to, ultimately unsuccessfully, hide the theft.

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Blue Thunder

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  • Title: Blue Thunder
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I was always more of a Blue Thunder guy than an Airwolf guy. Released in 1983, Blue Thunder starred Roy Scheider as a police helicopter pilot who uncovers a murderous conspiracy when he’s given the chance to test pilot a high-tech chopper, designed for surveillance and legally-questionable (and quite murderous) use against civic disobedience, which is planned to be released during the 1984 Olympics.

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Mortal Kombat (Part) II

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  • Title: Mortal Kombat II (2026)
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At least this one has a tournament in it. A continuation of 2021’s Mortal Kombat, the characters introduced in that film finally get around to fighting for the fate of Earth. However, all are relegated to supporting status as new characters dominate the story both inside the tournament and beyond. Johnny Cage (Karl Urban), a reluctant washed-up action star needing to put his atrophied martial arts skills to work, and Outworld‘s Princess Kitana (Adeline Rudolph) of the conquered realm of Edenia carry most of the film.

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