Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol is a 2011 American action film and the fourth installment in the Mission: Impossible series. In Budapest to intercept a courier holding Russian nuclear launch codes, IMF agent Trevor Hanaway (Josh Holloway)is killed by assassin Sabine Moreau (Léa Seydoux) who is works for someone code named “Cobalt”. The other members of Hanaway’s team Jane Carter (Paula Patton) and newly promoted field agent Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) extract Ethan Hunt and Hunt’s source Bogdan from a Moscow prison. Hunt is assigned to lead Carter and Dunn in infiltrating secret Moscow Kremlin archives to locate files identifying Cobalt, who is known to be a Russian consultant with a goal of detonating a nuclear bomb. During the mission, someone broadcasts across the IMF frequency alerting the Russians to Hunt’s team. Although Dunn and Carter escape a bomb destroys the Kremlin and Russian agent Sidorov arrests Hunt, suspecting him as responsible for the attack. The IMF extracts Hunt from Moscow and the Russians have called the attack an undeclared act of war which forces the US president to activate “Ghost Protocol” a black operation contingency that disavows the IMF. Hunt and his team are to take the blame for the attack, but will be allowed to escape from government custody in order to track down Cobalt. Before Hunt can escape the IMF’s secretary (Tom Wilkinson)is killed by Russian security forces led by Sidorov, leaving Hunt and intelligence analyst William Brandt (Jeremy Renner)to find their own way out. Hunt identifies Cobalt as Kurt Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist)a Swedish born Russian nuclear strategist who believes the weak must die for the strong to survive, so he plans to start a nuclear war to initiate the next stage of human evolution. Hendricks bombed the Kremlin in order to acquire a Russian nuclear launch control device, next he needs the activation codes from Moreau in order to launch a nuclear missile at America. The exchange between Moreau and Hendricks’s right hand man, Wistrom is due to take place at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Hunt’s team members separately convince Moreau and Wistrom that they have made the exchange with one another. However, Moreau identifies Brandt as an agent. While Hunt chases Wistrom  only to realize that Wistrom is actually Hendricks in disguise, escaping with the codes Carter detains Moreau. Moreau attempts to kill the inexperienced Dunn and Carter kicks her out a window to her death. Brandt accuses Carter of compromising the mission for revenge against Moreau, but Hunt accuses Brandt of keeping secrets from them as he has displayed fighting skills typical of an analyst. While Hunt seeks more information from Bogdan, Brandt admits he was assigned as security detail to Hunt and his wife, Julia in Croatia. Brandt says that while he was on patrol, Julia was killed by a Serbian hit squad prompting Ethan to pursue and kill them before he was caught by the Russians and sent to prison. Bogdan and his arms dealer cousin inform Hunt that Hendricks will be in Mumbai. Hendricks facilitated the sale of a defunct Soviet military satellite to Indian telecommunications entrepreneur Brij Nath. The satellite could be used to transmit the order to fire a missile. The team heads to India to prevent Hendricks from using the satellite, which can be controlled from computers at Nath’s home. more…

One night at the hospital waiting for news about his wife’s condition after she is attacked and brutally raped by a stranger Will (Nicolas Cage) is approached by a mysterious man named Simon (Guy Pearce) who says he represents an organization that ‘deals with people’ whom he describes as ‘a few citizens seeking justice’. Simon proposes an intriguing offer, Simon will arrange to have a complete stranger exact vengeance on Laura’s attacker in exchange for a favor from Will in the near future. Distraught and grief stricken Will consents to the deal and unwittingly pulls himself into a dangerous underground vigilante operation. While continuing to protect his wife from the truth, he quickly discovers that his quest for justice could lead to frightening and deadly consequences. more…

The film opens with fast talking businessman and diamond dealer Kyle Miller (Nicolas Cage) speaking to a client over the phone as he returns to his home, his wife Sarah (Nicole Kidman) and his teenage daughter Avery (Liana Liberato). Avery disrespects her parents and despite being forbidden to do so, sneaks out of the house to go to a party with her friend Kendra (Emily Meade). Sarah appears bored of life as a housewife and yearns for more in her marriage while Kyle seems to harbor a hidden aversion towards his wife. Just as Kyle is about to leave for a business transaction the house is suddenly invaded by a gang of burglars masquerading as police. The thieves, Elias (Ben Mendelsohn) his stripper girlfriend Petal (Jordana Spiro) his younger brother Jonah (Cam Gigandet) and a large intimidating man named Ty (Dash Mihok) tell Kyle and Sarah that they have been spying on them for some time and are aware of the large amounts of cash and diamonds hidden in their home. They demand Kyle to open a safe hidden in the wall but, despite a threat to utilize a syringe containing lethal injection chemicals, he defiantly refuses believing that he and Sarah would be killed if he simply gave into their demands. Sarah meanwhile, recognizes Jonah through his mask. Through a series of Jonah’s flashbacks and a conversation with Elias, it is strongly implied that Sarah and Jonah had a previous affair when the latter was employed as a technician to install the house’s security system. Unbeknown to Elias, Sarah secretly steals the syringe from him during this conversation. Having left her party in disgust Avery returns home and after a brief chase is also captured and taken to her parents. Elias appeals to Kyle, claiming that he needs money to pay for a kidney transplant for his dying mother and that if Kyle refuses to comply, he will instead take one of Avery’s kidneys. Sarah catches Elias off guard and holds him hostage with the syringe. Forced into a Mexican standoff the thieves compromise by letting Avery escape in exchange for Kyle opening the safe. He does so revealing it to be completely empty. Kyle explains that he is actually bankrupt and has no money his house and all of his possessions were bought on loaned credit. Enraged Elias breaks Kyle’s hand and instead demands material compensation by taking Sarah’s prized diamond necklace. However Kyle reveals that this too is a fake cubic zirconia replica and is completely worthless. Ty recaptures Avery from outside and brings her back into the house. Kyle volunteers for his own kidney to be taken instead of his daughter’s, but Elias reveals that it was a ploy and that he hated his mother who is already dead. Ty grows impatient after receiving a phone call and commands Elias to hurry up. Kyle realizes that the burglars are themselves being coerced into committing the heist against their will. The thieves then separate the Miller family, with Kyle and Avery being tied up and guarded in the living room and Sarah being pursued by Jonah in the kitchen. Jonah states to Sarah that he still loves her and promises that she and Avery will be left unhurt. Meanwhile, Kyle uses a lighter to burn both his own and Avery’s binds they attempt an escape and set off the house’s security system. Kyle ends up in a struggle with Ty and despite Ty’s superior strength and fighting skills Kyle manages to inject a portion of the syringe chemicals into his arm, causing him to fall unconscious. Thinking that Ty is dead, Elias shoots Kyle in the leg and reveals his true motives that he is a drug dealer working for an organized crime syndicate. Shortly after being given a job to sell $180,000 worth of cocaine, Elias and Petal were carjacked at gunpoint and all of their shipments were promptly stolen. Faced with threats of retribution, Elias was then forced to commit a heist to pay off his debt. Jonah, who had previously seen the Miller’s residence suggested it as a place to rob. more…

Underworld Awakening is a 2012 American 3D action horror film directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein. The film begins Six months after the events of Underworld: Evolution, humans capture the vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale) during “the Purge” a global military crusade to exterminate Vampires and Lycans after mankind learns of their existence. Humans call them “Non Humans” and “the Infected”. Twelve years later the human governments have concluded the genocidal campaigns against the vampires and lycans. They have annihilated 95% of the vampire race and believe the lycans are extinct. Selene dubbed “Subject 1″ is freed from cryogenic suspension by “Subject 2″ and escapes the medical corporation named Antigen. The corporation is ostensibly trying to make an antidote for the virus that creates vampires and lycans. Selene starts to have strange visions after her escape, which she follows believing them to be linked to her lover the vampire lycan hybrid Michael Corvin. The visions lead her into a building where she runs into David (Theo James) a fellow vampire. While talking to David, Selene has another vision. Following the vision, she discovers not Michael but a young girl called only as “Subject 2″ also known as Eve (India Eisley) later revealed to be a hybrid and the daughter of Selene and Michael. David, noting that Eve has been injured by the lycans and is somehow not healing, takes them to his coven. David’s father, Thomas (Charles Dance) does not welcome Selene and Eve. Blaming Selene for provoking the destruction of the vampire race, he stuns her with the news that Michael died twelve years ago. A vampire woman offers some of her blood to the wounded Eve, which she refuses to drink at first implying that she has never drunk blood before. With Selene’s encouragement, she accepts the gift and heals extremely quickly. Dr Jacob Lane (Stephen Rea) director of Antigen is revealed to be a lycan alongside his son Quint (Kris Holden Ried). The “antidote” the corporation has been working on for many years is actually to make lycans immune to the deadly effects of silver on their species and to enhance their physical abilities. Eve’s hybrid genetic code is required to achieve this, so Lane sends Quint with other lycans to the vampire coven to recapture her. Meanwhile, expecting a human attack at any moment, David tries to rally the vampires’ resistances to fight back while his father orders everyone to evacuate and hide. Most of the vampires stay and arm themselves heavily. more…

Tower Heist is a 2011 crime comedy film directed by Brett Ratner and written by Ted Griffin and Jeff Nathanson. Josh Kovacs (Ben Stiller)is the building manager of The Tower, a high rise luxury apartment complex on Central Park West in New York City whose employees include concierge Charlie (Casey Affleck) his brother in law, Enrique (Michael Peña) the elevator operator, Lester (Stephen Henderson) the doorman nearing retirement, Odessa (Gabourey Sidibe) a maid and Miss Iovenko (Nina Arianda) who furtively studies for her bar exam at work. One morning Josh sees what appears to be a kidnapping of Tower tenant and wealthy businessman Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda). Josh gives chase and almost catches him when he is clotheslined by FBI agent Claire Denham (Téa Leoni). Denham explains that Shaw wasn’t being kidnapped he was attempting to flee arrest, accused of running a Ponzi scheme. Josh tells the Tower staff about Shaw’s arrest and explains that he gave Shaw their pension fund to invest. Josh, Charlie and Enrique visit Shaw under house arrest in his penthouse apartment. Josh tells Shaw that Lester attempted suicide after losing everything he had. Shaw expresses condolences but appears insincere. Josh responds by destroying the windows of a 1963 Ferrari 250 GT Lusso Shaw has on display in his apartment. The building’s General Manager (Judd Hirsch)is furious at Josh’s action and fires Josh, Charlie and Enrique. Josh meets Denham at a bar and she invites him to get drunk. As they drink she says Shaw must have had a cash safety net and suggests in jest that he find and steal it. Josh gathers Charlie, Enrique and former Tower tenant Mr Fitzhugh (Matthew Broderick)to draw up a plan to steal Shaw’s money. Charlie brings up the obvious drawback that they are not thieves. Josh enlists his neighbor, a petty criminal named Slide (Eddie Murphy) to help. Slide trains the team but realizes he cannot do the robbery because he doesn’t know how to crack the safe in Shaw’s apartment. Because of this they bring in Odessa whose family ran a locksmith business. more…

Two FBI agents are surveilling a warehouse. As a man walks out of the door, he is approached by an assassin from behind who slits his throat and escapes. The agents rush to the scene to find the man dead. However, they could not identify the assassin as he committed the murder in darkness. Later, CIA agents arrive on the scene and take charge. Former CIA operative Paul Shepherdson (Richard Gere) is retired. He is summoned by CIA director Tom Highland (Martin Sheen) to look into the murder. He is introduced to a young FBI agent Ben Geary (Topher Grace) who is an expert on a former Soviet operative known as Cassius, who Geary predicts to have committed the murder due to his signature throat slitting method. Paul and Ben visit one of Cassius’s proteges who had been locked up in prison, to learn the whereabouts of Cassius. They provide him with a radio and leave. The prisoner then swallows the batteries from the radio and fakes a stomach upset. After arriving at the hospital, he spits out the batteries overpowers the medical staff and escapes. In the basement’s garage, he is attacked by Paul who reveals himself to be Cassius. Cassius slits his throat. Upon investigating the crime scene Ben grows suspicious of Paul Meanwhile, a Russian terrorist and murderer Bozlovski (Tamer Hassan) has entered the US. As the investigation deepens Paul warns Ben to pull out, due to the possibility of harm to his family. more…