In order to make good with his former employers, a submarine captain
takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the Black Sea
for a submarine rumored to be loaded with gold.
Well-made, if not particularly original submarine adventure with a capable cast does manage to create some suspense, but no surprises.
A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.
Dark, intense, downward spiral of an undercover cop is skillfully revealed in slow bits and with a twist ending; Nicole Kidman delivers a remarkably terrifying performance as the downtrodden cop.
A macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods.
Third time round the series continues in expected top quality of production, and again it's the two lead's extraordinary performances that holds the interest; the plot itself develops quite slowly and is construed a bit too complicatedly.
10 years after a global economic collapse, a hardened loner pursues the
men who stole his only possession, his car; along the way, he captures
one of the thieves' brother, and the duo form an uneasy bond during the
dangerous journey.
Extremely well-made and performed doomsday drama is very violent and conveys a bleak world without heart and redemption.
Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical
journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an
infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.
Refreshingly idiosyncratic sci-fi road movie uses the term aliens in both senses of the word (the USA even has built a large wall on the Mexican border!), but the low budget shows with the monster scenes held mostly in dark, and the human interest in the story is quite limited.
Maltin**1/2: "Unusually conceived, ultra-low-budget is surprisingly intelligent and occasionally suspenseful, though it's overlong, inconclusive, and the acting level varies sharply. Still, an impressive debut..."
An air marshal springs into action during a transatlantic flight after
receiving a series of text messages demanding $150 million into an
off-shore account, or someone will die every 20 minutes.
An old-hat premise is turned into an above-average thriller by keeping the tension high throughout and upping the ante of the plot's possibilties to the edge of credibility.
Maltin**: "Follows a familiar textbook for this kind of thriller but
delivers the goods and keeps you guessing right to the outlandish
finale."
