[Mashiro]

War Dogs / 2016 / USA / 7.1 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

Loosely based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a three hundred million dollar contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan. In 2005, David Packouz lives in Miami, Florida, working as a massage therapist and living with his girlfriend Iz. Desiring an additional source of income, David spends his life savings on high-quality Egyptian cotton sheets, planning to sell them to Miami retirement homes, but this venture fails to produce results. At a funeral for a friend, David runs into his high school best friend Efraim Diveroli, who had moved to Los Angeles some years prior to work with his uncle selling guns. Efraim has left his uncle and formed his own company, AEY, which fills orders for arms placed by the US government due to the ongoing war in Iraq. David's life takes another turn when his girlfriend informs him that she is pregnant. Efraim offers him a job at AEY, and even though David and Iz both vehemently oppose the war, David eventually agrees, telling his girlfriend that he has begun selling his cotton sheets to the US government through Efraim's contacts.

A great crime comedy movie about two weapon dealers. One of the movies that was recommended very often to me on several sites.

Enjoyed watching it .

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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead / 2007 / USA / 7.3 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends them, their father and one brother's wife hurtling towards a shattering climax. Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed.

I don't really know what to say. I watched it but I didn't really watch it at the same time. I couldn't get into it. It wasn't that interesting for me. Story wasn't that good.

I do not agree with the rating. Maybe I don't understand something but it's just not for me.

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Vivarium / 2019 / USA / 5.8 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses. A young couple is thinking about buying their starter home. And to this end, they visit a real estate agency where they are received by a strange sales agent, who accompanies them to a new, mysterious, peculiar housing development to show them a single-family home. There they get trapped in a surreal, maze-like nightmare.

A wild ride into a surreal world.

Hard to believe the rating dropped so hard. When I initially got the movie to watch it at some point it had a rating in the 7.x.

Honestly I think it deserves better than 5.8 but it's a movie that belongs to the WTF genre and one of those mindf***k things. Those movies tend to be misunderstood by many people and thus get bad ratings and reviews.

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The Prestige / 2006 / USA / 8.5 out of 10 Rating on IMDB

After a tragic accident, two stage magicians engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other. In the end of the nineteenth century, in London, Robert Angier, his beloved wife Julia McCullough, and Alfred Borden are friends and assistants of a magician. When Julia accidentally dies during a performance, Robert blames Alfred for her death, and they become enemies. Both become famous and rival magicians, sabotaging the performance of the other on the stage. When Alfred performs a successful trick, Robert becomes obsessed trying to disclose the secret of his competitor with tragic consequences.

A really awesome movie about two magician friends who parted ways after an accident and become enemies. Both fight each other while developing brand new and great magic tricks and shows.

Cherry on top is the awesome cast with Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson and others.

You need to watch this movie along with The Illusionist.

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Traffic / 2000 / USA / 7.6 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business. An intertwined drama about the United States' war on drugs, seen through the eyes of a once conservative judge, now newly-appointed drug czar, his heroin-addicted daughter, two DEA agents, a jailed drug kingpin's wife, and a Mexican cop who begins to question his boss's motives.

A very interesting movie about the drug war between US and Mexico.

Great cast with Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones and others.

A lot of Spanish. Sadly I couldn't find properly working subtitles for the Spanish scenes. The subtitles I had found worked for the beginning and after that there was nothing although the subtitles had over 23k of lines. That kind did make it a bit hard to watch the movie.

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The Salvation / 2014 / USA / 6.7 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

In 1870s America, the fury of a notorious gang leader is unleashed when a peaceful American settler avenges the death of his family. Then as his cowardly fellow townspeople betray him, he is forced to hunt down the outlaws alone. The American West in the 1870s. A European settler, Jon Jensen (Mads Mikkelsen), has just welcomed his wife and son to the country when they are kidnapped and murdered. He takes revenge on the murderers, only to discover that one was the brother of a local land baron, Henry Delarue. Delarue runs the local town with a brutal hand. Now he wants vengeance on the man who killed his brother and the local townspeople are too scared of him to stand up to him. Jon is fighting more than just the local thugs, he is facing the entire town.

A really great western movie with Mads Mikkelsen .

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Stand Up Guys / 2012 / USA / 6.5 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

A pair of aging stickup men try to get the old gang back together for one last hurrah before one of the guys takes his last assignment - to kill his comrade. After 28 years, Val gets out of prison, and his friend Doc picks him up. The local mob boss, Claphands, wants Val dead (Claphands' son died in a robbery and he blames Val) and Doc has until morning to kill him. It's a long night: Val wants to party - they visit a cat house, Val needs Viagra, they break into a pharmacy. After midnight, they pick up Hirsch, their old wheelman, drive the city in a stolen car. They visit the cat house, help a woman in distress, bury a body, and eat at Doc's hangout, a café where the waitress, Alex, is cheerful. The sun rises, Claphands wants Val dead, and Val, who has figured out his fate, is resigned. Is there anything left to take care of?

Great movie about friendship, getting old and hard decisions.

Great cast with Al Pacino and Christopher Walken.

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The Nice Guys / 2016 / USA / 7.4 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

In 1970s Los Angeles, a mismatched pair of private eyes investigate a missing girl and the mysterious death of a porn star. Set against the backdrop of 1977 Los Angeles, The Nice Guys opens when single father and licensed PI Holland March (Gosling) is hired to investigate the apparent suicide of famous porn star Misty Mountains. As the trail leads him to track down a girl named Amelia (Qualley), he encounters less licensed and less hands-off private eye Jackson Healey (Russell Crowe) and his brass knuckles, both hired by the young hippie. However, the situation takes a turn for the worse when Amelia vanishes and it becomes apparent that March wasn't the only party interested. As both men are forced to team up, they'll have to take on a world filled with eccentric goons, strippers dressed as mermaids and even a possible government conspiracy.

A great and funny movie about two private investigators who are in search of a missing girl. Many weird, funny and strange events happening. The movie already starts totally weird.

Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling two big hit stars playing 70s detectives . What else would you want?

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Swallow / 2019 / USA / 6.5 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession. Against the backdrop of insufferable domestic ennui, the soft-spoken former saleswoman and newlywed housewife, Hunter, is struggling to stretch the bars of her gilded cage, a lavish and immaculate modernist villa in New York, even though she seems to have it all. But, more and more, as sad Hunter tries, unsuccessfully, to meet her controlling family's expectations, compliance turns into submission, obedience transforms into obsession, and pica, a compulsive eating disorder, starts to take over. Now, swallowing non-nutritive objects and engaging in increasingly impossible tasks becomes Hunter's dangerous newfound addiction, and there's no telling how far she'll go to maintain a false and fleeting sense of power. Who can save Hunter from herself?

A weird one but nonetheless a very interesting subject movie.

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Son of a Gun / 2014 / Australia / 6.4 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

JR busts out of prison with Brendan Lynch, Australia's most notorious criminal, and joins Lynch's gang for a gold heist that soon pits the two men against one another. Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Protection, if you can get it, is paramount. JR soon finds himself under the watchful eye of Australia's most notorious criminal, Brendan Lynch. But protection comes at a price. Lynch and his crew have plans for their young protegee. Upon release, JR must help secure Lynch's freedom, staging a daring prison break. As a reward, he's invited to join the crew as they plan a gold heist that promises to deliver millions. However, as things start to go wrong, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues. JR finds himself unsure of whom he can trust and on a collision course with his former mentor.

A interesting jail story / heist movie with Ewan McGregor but it's not that special. One more for the Aussie friends as that movie is a Australian production .

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Eastern Promises/ 2007 / USA / 7.6 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

A teenager who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family. In London, the Russian pregnant teenager Tatiana arrives bleeding in a hospital, and the doctors save her baby only. The Russian descendant midwife Anna Khitrova finds Tatiana's diary written in Russian language in her belongings and decided to find her family to deliver the baby, she brings the diary home and ask her uncle Stepan to translate the document. Stepan refuses, but Anna finds a card of a restaurant owned by the Russian Semyon inside the diary and she visits the old man trying to find a lead to contact Tatiana's family. When she mentions the existence of the diary, Semyon immediately offers to translate the document. However, Stepan translates part of the diary and Anna discovers that Semyon and his sick son Kirill had raped Tatiana when she was fourteen years old and forced her to work as prostitute in a brothel of their own. Further, Semyon is the dangerous boss of the Russian mafia "Vory v Zakone", jeopardizing the safety of Anna and her family.

It was a very interesting movie to watch.

It was very funny though to watch actors like Vincent Cassel speak Russian (don't mind that I watched the movie with German dub). He always plays some or another kind of villian in most movies.

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Namsanui bujangdeul / 2020 / South Korea / 7.0 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

In the 1970s Korea is under the absolute control of the president Park who controls the KCIA the organization with the edge over any branch of government.

A south Korean movie based on real events that happend in the 1970s in South Korea. Of course this is a thriller drama movie and not a documentary!

>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassinat..._Chung-hee

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Mine 9 / 2019 / USA / 6.4 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

Two miles into the earth, nine Appalachian miners struggle to survive after a methane explosion leaves them with one hour of oxygen.

A great movie about an accident inside coal mines and how a few survived it and got rescued. Sad, too.

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Présumé coupable / 2011 / France / 7.3 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

A family man battles to prove his innocence after being accused of a heinous crime.

Sadly on the above description on the site. It deserves more as the story is far deeper and shocking.

To quote one of the best reviews for the movie "A Harrowing Look at a Criminal Justice System Gone Wrong". Shows another absolutely massive case of the corrupt and incompetent justice system in many countries. Also what kind of filth we humans are and how inhumane our friends the police and etc are. No serve and protect. Bullshit. Look at America and other countries. Don't trust the police or the justice system. It's all bought. Even the politics in my country are bought through lobbying.