The Movies That Moved Me: Anton Fuqua’s THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS
Today we look at Chow Yun-Fat’s Hollywood debut role as another humble entry in this series!
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The New Trailer For COLT 45 Fires At Close Range!
French director Fabrice Du Welz‘s third directorial offering is on the way this summer in the form of the new action thriller, Colt 45. The film also marks a debut for writer Fathi Beddiar whose screenplay sets the stage for intense drama, toxic friendships and explosive gun battles, with epic sequences overseen by the likes of technical weapons expert Mick Gould and action auteur Olivier Schneider, whose work credits are respectively attributed to hits like The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), The Replacement Killers (1998), Taken (2008) and Fast And Furious 6 (2013). SYNOPSIS: Weapon supervisor and shooting instructor for National Police, Vincent Milès is an expert in combat shooting. He’s only 25 and the elites from all around the globe are courting him. Against all odds, he refuses to join the prestigious field squads. His life takes a crucial turn when he meets Milo Cardena, a mysterious field agent, who […]
Film Of The Week: OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (2013)
SYNOPSIS: When the White House (Secret Service Code: “Olympus”) is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As our national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning’s inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster. REVIEW: Actor Gerard Butler stars as Mike Banning, a former secret service agent who saves the President’s life from a freak car accident that kills the first lady, leading up to his removal and demotion to a desk job. Over a year later since then, the South Korean prime minister visits the President, when all of a sudden, Washington is taken in a hail airborne gunfire, with ground forces turning the White House front lawn into a war zone. Unbeknownst to the prime minister however, North […]
FILM OF THE WEEK-5/27/13: THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS (1998)
SYNOPSIS: John Lee is a hired gun who must pay a debt to Asian crime boss Terence Wei. His final mission is to travel to Manhattan to kill the 7-year-old son of the cop responsible for the death of Wei’s son during a drug buy. However, Lee develops a conscious and cannot pull the trigger on the child. He knows this will make him a target and that his mother and sister in Shanghai are living on borrowed time. Trying to return to China, Lee enlists the aid of master forger Meg Coburn to construct a phony passport. But before the job is done, Wei’s trigger men attack and Lee and Coburn begin their long flight, pursued through New York City. A little over a week ago, actor Chow Yun-Fat celebrated his 58th birthday. And looking back on his career, like many American film fans at the time as other […]