Bryan Mills is a pussy. Director Kenji Tanigaki offers a tale of a mute handyman (Xie Miao) out to find his kidnapped daughter (Yang Enyou). At the same time we’re given a parallel story of a journalist (Joe Taslim) searching for his partner (Jeeja Yanin) who goes missing in the opening scene while investigating the human trafficking ring scooping up children from the poorer regions of the city.
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Eraser may not be one of Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s best, but it’s a solid 90s action flick casting Schwarzenegger as U.S. Marshal John Kruger going the extra length to keep his witness alive from a governmental conspiracy and a mole within WITSEC. Schwarzenegger gets his usual big action sequences, although I’m not sure I ever quite buy the actor in a role that requires both stealth and the ability to blend into a crowd.
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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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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 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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