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Warfare

  • Title: Warfare
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Crafted from the memories of the soldiers who lived through events, Warfare documents a Navy SEAL platoon deployed at night into a two-story home in the Anbar Province. Narratively weak, the film doesn’t attempt to put events of the film into any historical context, nor does it offer any explanation as to why this location is of any strategic importance. Instead we’re thrown into the situation with the (mostly interchangeable and underdeveloped) soldiers who live through the lulls and extreme action that make up modern warfare as they attempt to survive and escape a situation that quickly grows untenable.

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MacGyver – The Gauntlet

  • Title: MacGyver – The Gauntlet
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With “The Gauntlet,” MacGyver Monday sends our intrepid science-adventurer MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) to Central America to extract a photojournalist (Robin Curtis) obsessed with taking down the corrupt regime. Curtis is your typical guest-star, at first fighting Mac until the danger of the situation, which also involves an old adversary (John Vernon) of MacGyver hellbent on revenge, becomes much too real. Although initially captured, the pair escape, but to get to freedom they’ll need to travel 100 kilometers to the Mexican border with the country’s army standing in their way.

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Thunderball

  • Title: Thunderball
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Released 60 years ago, Thunderball was the fourth movie starring Sean Connery as James Bond and remains one of the most successful films of the entire Bond franchise earning back more than 15 times its budget at the box office. Featuring large underwater sequences, the film is notable for the deaths of several key members of SPECTRE (including one at his own funeral in the opening sequence).

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The Hunt for Red October

  • Title: The Hunt for Red October
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Easily the best adaptation of any Tom Clancy novel, 1990’s The Hunt for Red October starred Sean Connery as defecting Russian submarine captain Marko Ramius and Alec Baldwin as CIA analyst Jack Ryan who sniffs out the truth and finds himself thrown into the field to bring Ramius in before the United States or the Russians (claiming Ramius plans to fire his missiles on U.S.) can sink the stealth prototype submarine the Red October.

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MacGyver – Thief of Budapest

  • Title: MacGyver – Thief of Budapest
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MacGyver Monday takes us back to another adventure featuring science-adventurer Angus MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) finds himself working with a young gypsy pickpocket (Kelly McClain) who chose the wrong person to steal from putting her family in danger leading to MacGyver working to free her brother Bruno from prison, and later track down the fence (Sue Kiel) he sold the pocket watch to (unaware of the hidden information inside). However, after finally retrieving the watch, MacGyver finds himself pulled in to getting Jana and all of her family out of Budapest.

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