Under Siege Starring Steven Seagal, Gary Busey and Tommy Lee Jones

This is one of my favorite Steven Seagal Movies and I actually played the video so much over the years it broke---so I replaced it with a DVD---because this movie is good----movie lovers. 

Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal) is a cook on the US battleship Missouri. No one aboard the ship knows that Casey is also a Navy Seal but Captain Adams (Patrick O’Neal). Casey is his personal cook. Captain Adams and Casey trust each other as they have history together in the Navy.

Casey is well liked and trusted by all who worked closely with him in the kitchen. He only has one person who does not like him and that is ships XO Commander Krill (Gary Busey). 

Commander Krill is actually jealous of Casey’s relationship with the Captain; and cannot get the Captain to reprimand Casey about any issue he has with Casey.

Commander Krill was in trouble with the Captain when he found out that Commander Krill

approved a helicopter landing on the Missouri without clearing it with him. 

Krill told the Captain that it was a surprise for his birthday. So the Captain gave in and Krill told the Captain to stay in his cabin until they came to get him.

In the meantime Krill visits Casey’s kitchen just as Casey put pies in the oven--- and tells him about the Birthday surprise and Casey tells him---I am the only one who cooks for the Captain. 

Krill tells him to stand down that food is being sent for the Captain’s Surprise Birthday party-- and then spits in a pot of food Casey was cooking.
Casey did not take it with a fight. Then Krill had Casey locked up in one of the freezers.

The Helicopter has landed and on board was Miss July—Jordan Tate (Erika Eleniak), who was given a gig to pop out of a cake for the Captain’s Birthday Party. 


And, also getting off the Helicopter was William Stranix (Tommy Lee Jones) posing a leader of a rock band, but is really a mercenary and all the members of the rock band are mercenaries.

When the music stopped the shooting started with the highest Naval Officer in charge shot first then all the others at his table.

Then Commander Krill dressed like a woman with a wig goes to the Captain’s quarters and killed the Captain and the service man that was guarding the door.

William Stranix was a CIA operative who has or orchestrated the plan to unload all the Missouri’s nuclear warheads onto a submarine.

Stranix also has a vendetta with a CIA agent who sent assassins to kill him after he completed a job for them. Sealing the USA’s nuclear warheads is a way of making them pay for trying to kill him.

Krill tells Stranix about Casey being locked up a freezer---so he sends two men to kill him. And this is when the action begins. Casey uses his Deal training and hit them with everything he has and so begins the war on the Missouri. Hell has no fury like Casey when he fights back.

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Pain and Gain Starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie

This is a tue story that begins in Miami Florida with Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) . Whose main goal in life was to become a body builder. And I would say from seeing his body he has made it. But Daniel is like most people after one aspiration is accomplished---then one becomes bored and looks around for the next adventure.

He worked with his friend Adrian Doorbal (Anthony Mackie) at Sun Gym in Miami Florida--- for a while now; and he has become embittered with his living from paycheck to paycheck. He does not want to be a body builder for the next 40 years. He wants something better--- a richer life.

So he comes up with a plan---choosing the criminal way out. He seeks the help of an ex-con just out of prison now a member of the gym. The ex-con’s name is Paul Doyle (Dwayne Johnson)--- his body has seen a lot of weight building attention—WOW!

Another person who frequents the gym is a wealthy, pampered business man Victor Kershaw (Tony Shalhoub). So the plan is to abduct Victor---to torment and force him to turn over---his assets.

Paul told Daniel he was not a killer and Daniel advised him they would not kill him---and somewhere in the back of Daniel’s mind---one can almost see his most famous words to himself and others “No Pain and No Gain.” Anyone belonging to a health club or gym has this phrase branded in their memory banks.

So the three of them Daniel, Adrian and Paul accomplished their mission to get Victor to turn over all his assets--- but what they did not count on---Victor survived the attempted murder and helped the police all he could with details---- about the gang who robbed and tried to murder him.  However, not even the awesome Miami Police could locate the “Sun Gym Gang.”

So Victor hires his own man to get the criminals who left him scarred and broke. He hired Det. Ed Di Bois(Ed Harris) to catch the criminals. And now the chase is on---because this man does not stop until his assignemnt is completed.

So the action, fire power, pandemonium and the race is on---Det. Ed De Bois is after his prey---however the gang will fight back.

I cannot wait to buy this DVD-the movie opens in theatres on April 26^th 2013---watch your movie schedules and enjoy this action-packed adventure.

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Dead Man Down Starring Colin Farrell, Noomi Repace and Terrence Howard

                                     

Everything in Victor’s (Colin Farrel) life was going great. His job as an enforcer to a New York City crime boss Alphonse Hoyt (Terrance Howard) paid well.

Victor is a family man with a wife and a daughter and life was as normal as life can be in his business---he could take care of his family and give them a better life than most families--- during these troubled times.

Until Beatrice (Noomi Rapace) witnessed a murder and Victor was the one who did it. He did not know someone was recording his criminal act. But Beatrice was and for her own benefit.

She stalked Victor until she found out what she needed to know. Then and only then did she plan what she would do next. And that was to meet him in a public location where she would be safe when she told him.

Beatrice met Victor and told him she saw what he did and then showed him the video. Victor wondered in those short second what did this woman want---experience told him---it would not be good---when he found out.

She told him that his boss Alphonse Hoyt was the one responsible for the scars on her face and she wanted Victor to kill him---she was after revenge.

This is where the action begins--- but does not ever seem to end---ever. It only gets worse as Alfonse learns it is Victors who is trying to kill him. Then he kills the ones Victor loved the most---his family.

Then the Gates of Hell opened with flames and smoke---- revenge rode a horse of fire leading the  Devil's posse--- as Victor now is after his own retaliation---this city has never seen the likes of what this man will do for payback. Will Alphonse pay with his life? Will Victor be killed before he get revenge for his family?

What will Beatrice be doing when all the rages of Hell happened? Will the movie end with our cheers? We will have to wait and see when it comes out in March 8, 2013.

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-G.I. Joe Retaliation- Starring Dwayne Johnson, Channing Tatum and Adrianne Palicki

He wanted to make a difference for a better world so he was trained to be the best enforcer, with martial arts, warlike fierce fighter of all time, aggressive and lethal to the enemy. One who never loses and rarely trusts anyone with valuable information that protects him and his unit.

The man described above could only fit the description of one man called “Roadblock” (Dwayne Johnson) and he has the finest unit in the world of trained fighters.

The other good guys in the unit are Captain Duke Hauser (Channing Tatum), Snake Eyes (Ray Park), Lady Jaye (Adrianne Palicki) and of course G.I. Joe himself General Joseph Colton (Bruce Willis).

This unit works for the President of the United States of America (Jonathan Pryce) who is a good and trustworthy man. And Roadblock trusted the President---until he didn’t and he suspects something is wrong at the White House and it is.

The evil Zartan (Arnold Vosloo) is impersonating the President who is now his prisoner. And his evil followers Storm Shadow(Byung-hun Lee) and Firefly (Ray Stevenson) and all these men are serving under the wicked Cobra Commander (Faran Thir).

The Cobra Commander is the deadly enemy of Roadblock and his unit. Zartan framed all G.I. Joe Special Ops. And acting as the President---Zartan eliminates all most all of the G.I. Joe Unit.

When bad comes to worse Roadblock knows he can trust only one man and that is G.I. Joe. So, he sends for him and the fight begins good over evil and we know the action will bounce off the screen into our world of adventure.

                                                              

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A Bullet to the Head Movie Starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Momoa and Christian Slater

James Bonomo (Sylvester Stallone) a New Orleans hitman’s partner was killed by Keegan (Jason Momoa) a skilled ex-mercenary. Keegan also killed a New York City Detective Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang)’s partner.

So it only made sense for them to team up and go after the bad guy. And Hell has not fury like James Bonomo when he is avenging the death of a good friend and partner. He has no rules to play by but his own and he reacts to the moment. However Detective Taylor Kwon does have rules to go by and executes them in the beginning and as close to the law as possible.

But James takes out the trash and solves problems and this is one issue that will be bloody and messy. No one will hide from this man who is a sphere of fury rolling over the top of his enemies like a 5 ton ball of fiery steel.

When he tells his daughter Lisa Bonomo (Sarah Shahi) about his partner being killed she reminded him he promised her he would get out of this business. With revenge on his mind he goes after his prey and does not care who tries to stop him---he will not be deterred.

But when Keegan takes Lisa---James’ daughter to use as bait to lure in James ---the fireworks begins--- and I am afraid the bad guy Keegan has bitten off more than he can handle. James would walk over hot coals to get to his daughter.

James does not trust anyone and he said that is how he stays in the game of life over death. One could almost feel sorry for the bad guy because I know he has met his match.

I cannot wait to get the DVD of this movie and I hope everyone enjoys Sly in this one---he just keeps on getting better and better.

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Pearl Harbor Starring Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale and Josh Hartnett

 This is a magnificent movie---it has history, action, romance and a fantastic love story. But let’s start at the beginning of our story in 1923 in the beautiful state of Tennessee. 

Rafe McCawley (Ben Affleck) and his best friend Danny Walker (Josh Hartnett) are young boys playing in an old stripped airplane. Probably an old discarded crop duster left in an old shed a perfect gift for little boys to let their imagination soar among the clouds with their heroes.

The boys were best friends living near each other. Rafe always protected Danny because he was younger ---like any older brother would do for their younger brother. All they dreamed about was flying together one day.

In 1940 Adolph Halter draws all of Europe into war and even though France has fallen to Hilter America still refuses to join the ranks of war.

n Long Island January 1941 Rafe and Danny are officially pilots after two years of training and now they know how to handle an airplane for real. So much so they get in trouble doing maneuvers with their airplanes showing how good they are in the sky.

Their last stunt got them both called into Lt. Col. James Doolittle’s (Alex Baldwin) office. First called into his office for a reprimand was Danny and he listened a while and then told the Lt. Col. That he was only trying to inspire the men like he the Lt. Col. Inspired him.

So, this took the wind out of the Lt. Col. Sails for a moment and the Lt. Col. Doolittle said that is BS McCawley, but very,

 very good BS. He said McCawley you remind me of myself 15 years ago.

Lt. Col. Doolittle told McCawley the British have accepted you into the Eagle Squadron and you will be on your way to England if you want to go.

What would you go Major?

I would go even though we will probably be in war soon because of Hitler and I will need you here with me.

Yes Sir---I am on my way.

Then Rafe tells his best friend Danny about his assignment and he is upset.

Danny said--- Guess what it is not combat training over there---it is war. There are no winners the losers die and the ones who come home are wrecks like my dad.

Rafe said--- I will be 25 years old---I will be an old man and they will want me to be a flight instructor, and I don’t want to do loops I want to be a combat fighter.

A group of nurses are on a train going to their assignment---Nurse Lt. Evelyn Johnson (Kate Breckinsale), Nurse Barbara (Catherine Kellner), nurse Betty ( Jaime King), Nurse Sandra (Jennifer Garner) and Nurse Lt. Evelyn Johnson is asked to tell a story about her experience of four weeks ago.

After Rafe leaves the office of the Lt. Col. Doolittle a bus is waiting to take all the pilots to be examined and inoculated. Evelyn tells about meeting Rafe as she gave him is eye examination.

Rafe was afraid that he would fail because he had trouble reading letters. And he explained this all to Lt. Evelyn Johnson---and since she knew how important flying was because her father was a pilot she passed him.

And so the love story begins and I will stop here as not to spoil the movie for you when you see it. It is one of my favorite Ben Affleck Movies. Ben’s wife Jennifer Garner was in this film also as Nurse Sandra. She is easily recognized by her deep dimples---a beautiful lady. They were not dating at this time---that came later.

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The Marine 2 Starring Ted DiBiase Jr., Temuera Morrison, & Lara Cox

Joe Linwood (Ted DeBiase Jr.) who is a Maine Sniper was finally going home from Southeast Asia for two weeks to spend a vacation with his beautiful wife Robin Linwood (Lara Cox).  All Joe wanted was to stay home and enjoy his hometown. Joe contacted Robin by Skype to let her know he was coming home for two weeks.

Robin told Joe he could be with her in Paradise as her super rich client Darren Conner (Robert Coleby) is opening a resort on an Island and she is in charge. What about Joe she asked it will be five days of sun and beach---it will be wonderful?

Joe told her I was looking forward to getting back home to Michigan and Robin told him she was sorry it was her job and she knew it was bad timing but she needed him to come home. And Joe said anywhere you are--- is my home.

So they are now on their way to the new resort and all Joe can do is look at his beautiful wife and Robin is so happy Joe is with her.

Finally they landed on the Island and it is as beautiful as Robin thought it would be and more---she is so happy to be there with Joe---her handsome and much loved husband.

They are met by Cynthia (Kelly B. Jones) she and Robin have talked over the phone and Skype a lot and this is their first meeting. Cynthia shows them around Paradise it is so lovely and Joe points out a tower and says you have security. Cynthia said yes we have 24 hour guard security tower---the top of the line. Cynthia showed Robin where they were having the party tomorrow night for the Resort's Grand Opening.

Later and before Robin has to begin work she and Joe are on the beach relaxing when Darren Conner walks up and says---it is so nice to see someone having a good time. Robin said I was waiting for you to arrive. Darren Conner this is my husband---Joe shook his hand and Darren said soldier right. Robin said actually he is a Marine. Darren said right---then put his arm around Robin to take her aside and tell her he is getting 24 calls an hour because some rep. has a reporter trying to interview him and some peace order trying to hit him with injunctions. Will you please do you job.

Robin says to Joe and you thought your job was hard---she smiles and walks away to catch up with Darren Conner.

After her meeting they have a few hours they can enjoy themselves so they wanted to go scuba diving and this is when they met Church (Michael Rucker) who has a business on the Island. He and Joe talk for a bit and they loaded up the boat with their gear to scuba dive and swim to the Island which is back of the resort.

That night all Hell broke out as they were attached and the Resort was taken with many hostages---one of them was Robin. This is when being married to a Marine really pays off. Action is the keyword here and saving Robin is what Joe will do as he risks his life for his beautiful wife.

I liked this movie because I love action and romance together in a great story of what can really

happen at anytime in the world of ours.

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The Marine Starring John Cena, Kelly Clarkson and Robert Patrick

When John Triton (John Cena) a marine saved the lives of other marines by ignoring a command to stand down and wait for backup was wrong as far as the Marine’s rules. So the hero who saved others was given an honorable

discharge---he had to leave what he loved the most next to his beautiful wife Kate (Kelly Clarkson)---the marines.

After John returned home he was lost---andhurt at the outcome of his career in the Marines---and he did not know what to do with himself. He was so happy to be home with his wife---yet a gloomy halo of sadness surrounded him. Kate recognized it and was trying to come up with something John could do for excitement.

Kate suggested they go to the beach, but John said he had seen enough sand in the Marine’s. So they packed up and start to the mountains. Life was great they were so in love and enjoying being together.

Earlier a team of diamond thieves robbed a jewelry store killing people had stopped to get gas. The leader Rome (Robert Patrick) was driving a stolen Cadillac. 

The gun-crazed killer on the team was Morgan (Anthony Ray Parker). And while a deputy was talking to Rome about a sticker on his bumper Morgan walks out of the station and shoot the deputy in the head.

Then all bedlam started--- because one of the guys takes Kate as hostage while John is in the store knocked out. They shot the other deputy as he tried to get away and then they exploded everything up around them.

John makes it out of the store alive and uses the deputy’s car to chase after them because they took Kate and his vehicle. 

This is one of the most action-packed movies I have seen in a long time---compete pandemonium from the beginning to the end. There is also a surprise ending with who turn out to in on the diamond heist.

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The Firm Starring Tom Cruise

The Firm is a show that centers on the McDeere Family after they surface from the witness protection program after ten years to begin a new life in the Washington Metro Area. Mitchell McDeere known as Mitch (Josh Lucas) is a graduate of Harvard Law College. 

Mitch’s wife Abby McDeere (Molly Parker) and their daughter Claire McDeere (Natasha Calis) with his brother Raymond known as Ray McDeere (Callum Keith Rennie) is the older brother who served time in prison and is now working with Mitch as an investigator for his law office. 

Ray’s girlfriend Tammy Hemphill (Juliette Lewis) all four went into the witness protection because they helped Mitch who was a whistle blower for the FBI take down a dishonest Memphis Law Firm with ties to the Chicago mob connections.

Claire was born while they were in the witness protection program---so she is familiar with the reason they had to move so often--- to stay ahead of the mob finding them.

And since the Chicago mob boss died in prison the McDeere family is starting their life over---although they are still dealing with the past and its little issue---they are looking brightly towards the future.

Abby is teaching elementary school again and her daughter is in her classroom. Abby freedom is blissfully rewarding now as she can have the career she loves.

Mitch has opened a new law office in a building which was a tiny travel agency, and with him Ray and Tammy. Ray is his investigator for the law practice and Tammy is his secretary and they are working under a strict budget to begin the business. But they are all positive and plan a bright future as the ten years in witness protection.

The first episode beings with Mitch being chased by three men across a park and Mitch got away by running through a huge water fountain and then jumping into the back of a truck.

When he get to a phone he calls Abby telling her she needs to get out of there and she asked why---and Mitch said for her to follow the emergency plan. Mitch tells her he will be there soon---he hangs up.

Mitch met with a man in a hotel room---thinking he had lost the tail of the three men chasing him and they would be safe. But before they can really begin to talk someone is banging on the door saying they are with the hotel security. But Mitch and the man know it is not security because they would have a key.

The small bits of the conversation consist of Mitch telling the man a woman is dead and you know something about it. And the man replied---I am a dead man if I talk, you do not know these people.

Mitch replied---I know people in the FBI they will protect you.

The man said---no one can protect me---I am a dead man already. Then he runs out on the balcony and dives off to the concrete below. He commits suicide jumping to his death eight (8) stories.

Mitch cannot believe his eyes---but has to run out on the balcony himself to escape the men who have now crashed through the locked door. Mitch escapes just in time by sliding down two floors below and running out a second floor window; jumps and landed onto a luggage cart below.

Then the scene takes us back to the McDeere home where they are talking about what happened. This is a great action movie and I wished it was going for a second season but it is not. So enjoy what we do have and it will give us all something to ponder on what might happen after we see all 22 episodes of The Firm.

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The Losers (2010) Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Idris Elba & Zoe Saldana

It is never a smart move to double-cross an elite United States Special Forces Unit. These guys were sent to the Bolivian Jungle on a mission to find and eliminate the enemy.

After the target was marked the unit became aware there were a large group of children they had to save and since their contact in the USA would not call off the attack. The unit of five guys, Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) who was the leader, Jensen ( Chris Evans), Roque (Idris Elba), Pooch (Columbus Short) and Cougar (Oscar Jaenada).

When the team realized the children would be killed if they did not go in and save them---and they had only eight (8) minutes to do before the missile hit its target.

The five men rush down to the jungle compound killing many of enemy before reaching the children. Finally they manage to rescue the children using an old school bus to save them.

 After walking through the jungle with the group of children---they meet their contact helicopter and while helping the children on board they were informed---only enough room for the children. Clay said we will stay---so the helicopter rose in the air while the children waved bye to their heroes.

As the five men watched the helicopter rise over the trees to leave they heard a funny noise in the sky and looked up just in time to see a missile blow the helicopter up with all the children aboard.

The men ran to the wreckage knowing in their hearts what they would find---only burnt metal and fire still burning. Clays saw the little Teddy Bear one of the children was holding---burning on the ground.

As their eyes could not leave the burning twisted metal---Clay said that was supposed to be us---and they all knew at that moment they were dead to the USA that sent them to complete the mission and to their families.

Clay threw his dog tags into the burning wreck and each man followed suit. They were no longer Special Forces---now they were just men living in jungle looking for a way to revenge their own betrayal. And they knew the name of the name who did it---Max. But they did not know what he looked like.

Clay was approached by a beautiful woman with her own agenda named Aisha (Zoe Saldana) she told them she would get them home if they helped her to eliminate the heavily guarded Max. So the action begins after they reach Miami and plans are made.

This is a very good action movie with a good plot carried out with extra good actors as you will find out for yourselves.

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Bella Mafia Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Dennis Farina & Nastassja Kinski

The Movie starts as a love story with Sophia (Nastassja Kinski) and Michael Luciano (Michael Hayden) as two young lovers who had to say their goodbyes because Michael is going to the Harvard in the USA ---which will be a long ways from Palermo, Italy.

Michael hated to leave Sophia but he had to return home for his going away party to be with his parents and three brothers. Michael father is Don Roberto Luciano (Dennis Farina) and mother is Graziella Luciano (Vanessa Redgraves).

Don Roberto Luciano had a visitor that afternoon mob boss Pietro Carolla (Tony Lo Bianco) from the U.S. who wanted permission to traffic drugs.

But Don Luciano rejected his request. During the conversation Don Roberto Luciano introduces his sons to Carolla. This was the wrong thing to do, because later that night Michael goes to see Sophia to say goodbye with a kiss. Sophia was wearing the heart locket Michael had given her that afternoon at the beach; she was so proud of it.

When Michael started walking home a car pulls up beside him---and it is Pietro Carolla who offers Michael a ride home. But Michael never makes it home. He is beaten, killed and left at the gate of his home, Pietro has his revenge.

In the meantime, Sophia finds out she is pregnant so she goes to the convent to the sisters where she works and lives there to have her baby boy. One day she decides to go to Don Roberto Luciano; after finding out that Michael is dead---to tell them she had Michael’s son and she needed money to help raise him, leaving the baby at the convent to be taken care of until she returns that same day. Sophia puts the locket around her son’s neck to keep him safe while she went to the Luciano’s home.

Sophia is turned away from the gate of the Luciano home and is almost thrown in the path of a car driven by Constantino Luciano (Richard Joseph Paul). Constantino takes Sophia into their home and his mother Graziella and he takes care of her until she is on her feet once again. She called the convent and one of the sisters told her that her baby was adopted by a wonderful family, and this news almost killed her. Sophia never had the chance to tell them about Michael’s baby---so they never knew about him.

A few years later a wild little boy is taken in by the monks who stated his name was Luka and was having a fit because one monk had taken a heart locket he always wore around his neck. The monk in charge gave the locket back to Luka.

Constantino and Sophia fall in love and later they have twin boys. This is a great movie that was three hours long----and I could have watched another three hours it was that good.

I hope everyone will get this DVD because it is well worth owning and viewing whenever ---each time I watch it---I see something new.

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Expendables 2

This movie is packed with action, adventure, firepower, fighting, it looks like a small war behind these guys wherever they go. The leader of the team is Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) a rough exterior of a man who takes no prisoners kind of guy, whose appearance is strong, fierce and relentless when it comes to his enemies or any enemy who has sinned against humane living; but one can tell he does have a kind heart under all the hardness. The beautiful scenery in the movie adds to the viewer’s pleasure as the guys travel overland and in their plane.

The movie begins with Barney Ross and his team Lee Christmas (Jason Statham) who seems to be Barney’s right hand man---is equally just as fierce with his expertise with a knife or sword. Yin Yang (Jet Li) probably knows all the martial arts including judo, jiu jitsa, and aikide and is so fast he spins like a top. Gunner Jensen (Dolph Lundgren) is a Swedish skilled genius who is on a mission to get the job done and is the scariest looking of them all. Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) is a walking tall wall of a muscular giant---this is one man who is a team on his own. Toll Road ( Randy Couture) evens out the team with his strength and professional quietness---looking at him---one can refer to the saying, “Still Waters Run Deep” and the enemy should never hesitate when he  is confronted by him.

These are the main five who are from a disbanded old-school “Mercenaries” that has formed a team of Expendables men living on the edge as they take high risk missions for big money. And each one knows in advance they are expendable and might at any time be killed, even though they have each other’s back.

Joined for a short time is Bill the Kid they call him (Liam Hemsworth) who is skilled as a sniper---and he is one of the best long ranger sniper known. He is a handsome young man that the guys are in awe of because of his skills and youth. They have forgotten how it was to be that young again---because they are reasoned older men with the skills of a small army, rough, tough and rode hard.

In finishing up a mission they not only rescued the target but found Trench (Arnold Schwarzenegger) tied to a chair by the enemy Japanese Terrorist  Group and they saved them both.

Then finally after a long mission they are flying home for a long deserved rest---in Barney’s plane that he uses as his home---when Church (Bruce Willis) calls him to remind him he took his 5 million dollars and now he owned him a mission.

In this mission Maggie (Nan Yu) joins the Expendables---because Church insisted she go with them because she has the skill needed to rescue an item--- he needs from a wrecked plane.

This is where they met Vilian (Jean-Claude Van Damme) the meanest inhumane psychotic man on the planet and the mayhem begins. Vilian leads a band of Terrorist-for-Hire cutthroats.

This is a volatile movie and the screen lights-up like the 4^th of July  fireworks all going at once when Barney’s team and the Terrorist-for-Hire butt heads over 5 tons of weapon-grade Plutonium.

Any action fan can get their thrill with this movie and I am one of them. I rate this movie---WOW!

     Expendables 3---Premiere's August 15, 2014

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Takers

The movie begins with five expert bank robbers that creates a skillful team which includes GordonJennings (Idris Elba), John Rahway (Paul Walker), A.J. (Hayden Christensen), and Jake (Michael Ealy), and Jess (Chris Brown) these men are very professional in their attire and manner

They all lead the good life, any luxury that want is theirs, women and more women. The team has just finished a bank job and has money to invest in whatever venture their little robbing heart’s desire.

After each job they always started to plan another one---however one of their former team members is released from prison--- known by the name of Ghost (Tip T.I. Harris). Ghost has his own agenda; one is getting even with Jake because he feels he stole his girlfriend away from him.

Ghost comes to them with a plan to rob two armored cars that will be carrying 20 million. But Jake does not feel comfortable about this plan because he feels he is being rushed. The team does not trust Ghost because being careful is their second nature after all these years.

Even though this team of men proved very professional in their area of expertise and never left any clues  behind that would lead the law to them---which is all well and good. But they did not count on a stubborn Los Angeles Detective Jack Welles (Matt Dillon). His job is very important to him and he is like a Bulldog with a bone---he never gives up.

This is an action packed movie with great actors and storylines.

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State of Play

Intrigue, murder, cover-up makes this movie an attention keeper. It has one’s mind going around in a labyrinth. Just when you believe you know the answer---of who did what to whom---it blows up in your face.

The first scene---we see what appears to be a common thief as he burst from an alleyway nearly collided with an elderly couple. And slides over the front of a moving car; then he ran and hid in an alley behind large garbage cans. He waits awhile trying to catch his breath---then starts looking around to see if it is safe to leave his haven. It was a bad move because his pursuer shot him twice---and few second later a guy delivering Pizza on a bike rode by---and the killer shot him also.

The first guy shot was dead, but the second guy was in critical condition in a comma.  The Pizza man had a family he was trying to support with his low wage job, and now the family might have no one.

Next we see Cal McAffrey (Russell Crowe) who looks like a reject from the 60’s with his long hair and unshaven face; driving his car singing, dialing his cell phone, eating and spilling food all over the car and then he throws his trash on the back seat; which by now looks like a refuse can. When he arrived he greeted Det. Bell who is investigating the crime scene.

Cal McAffrey is a brilliant reporter for the Globe in Washington DC and is known by many of the law enforcement employees. Cal smells a story behind the story of what just happened, and he goes to work on solving it. He is unflappable but works for a tough Editor Cameron Lynne (Helen Mirren) whose bottom line is whatever is good for the paper. She is a fan of Cal’s but she does not give him sweet words of praise very often---because she knows it is sales that will keep her bread and butter.

Then a beautiful young redhead leaves her home to walk to the subway station as it is her mode of travel to her job. Upon arriving there she stands close to the edge waiting for the subway---one just knows something bad is going to happen.

The police called Congressmen Stephen Collins’ (Ben Affleck) office before he arrived . When he arrives his secretary tells him Soni Baker (Maria Thayer) who worked for the Congressman as his aide was killed in an accident at Metro this morning she was identified by her badge.

Congressman Collins is stunned---he stands with a look of disbelief. One of his staff members reminds him that it is time for the meeting this morning.

The meeting begins with Stephen Collins saying—Welcome to our hearing of Private Security Contractor Winkle into the Defense Answers and Practices—before we begin I have received some terrible news.

This is only the beginning of the story---now the News Media is speculating that Congressman Collins had an affair with his aide Soni Baker. The Domino effect begins as Cal McAffery

Congressmen Collins is a young tall dark and handsome man who is married. Will he remain the darling of his political party? Will his wife forgive him? Will he turn to his college room-mate Cal McAffrey for help? Is he innocent of being involved in the murders?

This is a great movie---and I am watching it again tonight, as one always misses something the first time. Enjoy the State of Play Movie.

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