June 19, 2010

Thrillers mean murder, mayhem etc-----

---three I watched recently:

Enemy Of The State (1998) Will Smith, Regina King, Lisa Bonet, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight. Thriller of an innocent guy who gets left with a secret tape of incriminating evidence of a murder. Set in Washington, D.C., powerful people try to erase him from records and his life. Good chase film that goes overboard once or twice, but is fun nonetheless. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/

Nowhere To Hide (1994) Rossana Arquette, Scott Bakula. Made for TV. A very hysterical woman and her son are put in Witness Protection so she can testify against her mobster former husband. Naturally she falls for the agent assigned to keep her safe and does just as he tells her. The twist comes about 2/3rds of the way through and wasn't very surprising. Her eventual revenge is sweet. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110695/

Assassination Tango (2002) Robert Duvall, Kathy Baker, Rube'n Blades, Luciana Pedraza. Hit man is delayed in his latest job in Argentina, so goes to watch the tango dancers and ends up taking lessons and becomes more and more involved with his beautiful teacher. The dancing is fine. And that is most of the story. The hit is almost an afterthought. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283897/

More June films I have watched coming up.

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