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…

The Three Musketeers is a 2011 adventure film directed by Paul W S Anderson. In Venice the Three Musketeers Athos (Matthew Macfadyen), Porthos (Ray Stevenson) and Aramis (Luke Evans) with the help of Athos’ lover, Milady de Winter (Milla Jovovich) steal airship blueprints made by Leonardo da Vinci. After the mission to steal the blueprints they are betrayed by Milady, who gives the blueprints to the Duke of Buckingham (Orlando Bloom). Upon returning to France the Musketeers are forced to disband by Cardinal Richelieu (Christoph Waltz) for their failure. One year later young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) leaves Gascony for Paris in hopes of becoming a Musketeer like his father once was, only to learn that they no longer exist. D’Artagnan ends up challenging Captain Rochefort (Mads Mikkelsen) the leader of Richelieu’s guard to a duel after being offended by him, but Rochefort merely shoots him while he’s distracted. In an attempt to get revenge, D’Artagnan offends Athos, Porthos and Aramis for petty reasons and schedules duels with each of them at the same day and at the same place, but at different times not knowing who they are. Athos brings Porthos and Aramis with him to the duel as his seconds and introduces all of them to D’Artagnan. D’Artagnan realizes who they are but is prepared to continue with the duel. Before they can begin however, D’Artagnan and the Musketeers are attacked by the guards for breaking the law by having a public duel. They fight the soldiers off, but are summoned before the young King Louis XIII (Freddie Fox) and his wife Queen Anne (Juno Temple). Richelieu attempts to convince the king to execute the four prisoners but he and the queen are too impressed by their bravery and congratulate them instead, much to Richelieu’s anger. Later Richelieu meets with Milady, who is actually working for him. He orders her to plant false love letters among the Queen’s possessions and steal Queen Anne’s diamond necklace and hide it in the Tower of London with the objective of framing Queen Anne as having an affair with the Duke of Buckingham, who is in France on behalf of the King of England along with a fully armed airship built using the designs stolen from the Musketeers. The affair would force King Louis to execute Queen Anne and declare war on England. At this point the people would demand a more experienced leader for the country: Richelieu himself. Before leaving Milady demands that Richelieu give her an authorization declaring that she was working on behalf of France’s best interests. Queen Anne’s lady in waiting Constance Bonacieux (Gabriella Wilde) discovers his plan and pleads with the Musketeers to stop Richelieu. more…

The Debt is a 2011 drama thriller film based on a screenplay written by Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman and Peter Straughan. The film is a remake of the 2007 Israeli film of the same name by Assaf Bernstein. In 1965 Mossad agent Rachel Singer (Jessica Chastain) arrives in East Berlin to meet with fellow agents David Peretz (Sam Worthington) and Stefan Gold (Marton Csokas). Their mission is to capture Nazi war criminal Dieter Vogel (Jesper Christensen)known as “The Surgeon of Birkenau” for his horrific pseudo medical experiments on Jews during World War II and to bring him to Israel to face justice. Rachel and David present themselves as a German married couple from Argentina and Rachel plants herself as a patient at Vogel’s obstetrics and gynecology clinic. Both Stefan and David develop an attraction to Rachel and Stefan reveals to her that David lost his entire family in the Holocaust. At Rachels third appointment she injects Vogel with a sedative during an examination and induces the nurse to believe Vogel suffered a heart attack. Stefan and David arrive dressed as an ambulance crew and make off with the unconscious Vogel in an ambulance, barely ahead of the real ambulance team. Under cover of night they attempt their ex-filtration at Wollankstraße Station, on a rail line along the sector boundary between East and West Berlin and next to a mail depot. As they prepare to load Vogel onto the train, Vogel suddenly awakens and sounds the horn of the stolen mail truck where he was being held alerting East German guards to their presence. In the ensuing shootout, David sacrifices his chance to escape in order to collect a compromised Rachel leaving the agents with no choice but to bring Vogel to their apartment and plan a new extraction. At the apartment they take turns monitoring Vogel, who attempts to psychologically humiliate and intimidate them. During one of David’s shifts, he becomes violent after Vogel discusses the reasons why he believes that Jews had many weaknesses, making them an easy target. David breaks a plate over Vogel’s head and repeatedly beats him only to be stopped by Stefan. During Rachels next shift watching Vogel he manages to cut through his binds using a shard of the broken plate and ambushes Rachel with a razor leaving her with a permanent scar on her face. He escapes into the night as the agents are left to assess their failure. Panicked and hoping to save face for both himself and for Israel, Stefan convinces Rachel and David to go along with the fiction that Vogel was killed. They agree to lie and use the cover story that Rachel shot and killed Vogel as he tried to flee. In the following years Rachel, David and Stefan become national heroes for their roles in the mission. During a party at the home of Rachel and Stefan , Rachel confesses to David her distaste with her current life; Stefan puts his career and social status ahead of her while also punishing her for not loving him and having feelings for David. David admits his intention to leave Mossad and the country imploring Rachel to come with him. Rachel cannot bring herself to abandon her daughter and she and David part ways. more…

Killer Elite is a 2011 action film based on the 1991 novel The Feather Men by Sir Ranulph Fiennes and is directed by Gary McKendry. In 1980 mercenaries Danny Bryce (Jason Statham), Hunter (Robert DeNiro), Davies (Dominic Purcell), and Meier (Aden Young) are in Mexico to assassinate a man. Danny unwittingly kills him in front of his young daughter, then is injured during the getaway. Affected by this outcome, Danny retires and returns to his native Australia. One year later Danny is summoned to Oman where Hunter is being held captive. He meets with the Agent (Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje) who arranges missions for mercenaries and learns that Hunter accepted a $6 million job but failed to accomplish it. If Danny doesn’t complete Hunter’s mission, Hunter will be executed. Danny is introduced to Sheikh Amr a deposed king of a small region of Oman who wants Danny to kill three former SAS agents Steven Harris (Lachy Hulme), Steven Creeg and Simon McCann who killed his three eldest sons during the Dhofar Rebellion. Danny must videotape their confessions and make their deaths look like accidents and he must do it before the terminally ill Sheikh dies. Doing this will allow the Sheikh’s fourth son Bakhait (Firass Dirani) to regain control of the desert region his father had ruled. If Danny fails, Hunter will be killed. Danny reunites with Davies and Meier. They agree to help him in exchange for a share of the money. As Danny and Meier sneak into the house of their first target Steven Harris in Oman, Davies questions local bar patrons about former SAS members. This is reported to the Feathermen a secret society of former operatives protecting their own. Their head enforcer Spike Logan (Clive Owen) is sent to investigate. After Harris confesses on videotape, Danny and Meier take him to the bathroom. Their plan is to break his neck using a hammer with tiles similar to those of the bathroom floor to make it appear that Harris slipped and broke his neck. Danny is distracted by the arrival of Harris’s girlfriend and when he returns to the bathroom he finds that Meier was forced to kill Harris hastily in a struggle. Mean while in London, Davies discovers the second target Steven Cregg preparing for a long night time march in wintry weather at a local SAS base. Davies pretends to be a civilian having car problems outside the base’s fence, allowing Danny to infiltrate the base. There he drugs Cregg’s coffee to induce shock and cause Cregg to die of hypothermia during the march. Danny discuised in SAS uniform, follows Cregg on the march and a delirious Creeg confesses on videotape to Danny before he dies. Their last target Simon McCann currently a mercenary, for this they rig a truck to respond to remote control with the help of a new and inexperienced team member Jake (Michael Dorman). more…

Real Steel is a 2011 American science fiction film based on the 1956 short story “Steel” by Richard Matheson. In 2020 human boxers have been replaced by robot boxers. Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is a former boxer who owns such a robot Ambush competing in unsanctioned matches and in exhibitions with it. At a rural fair Ambush is destroyed by Black Thunder a bull belonging to promoter Ricky (Kevin Durand). Having made a bet that Ambush would win, Charlie now owes Ricky $20,000 which he doesn’t pay before leaving. Charlie is informed his ex-girlfriend has died and that he must attend a hearing to decide the fate of his preteen son Max (Dakota Goyo). Max’s wealthy aunt Debra (Hope Davis) and uncle Marvin (James Rebhorn) want full custody, which Charlie gives them in exchange for $100,000 half in advance, on the condition that Charlie take care of Max for three months while the couple are away on a second honeymoon. Charlie and Max meet with Charlie’s childhood friend Bailey Tallet (Evangeline Lilly) who runs the boxing gym of her deceased father, Charlie’s old coach. Charlie buys a secondhand World Robot Boxing league (WRB) robot the once famous Noisy Boy and arranges for it to fight the illegal circuit’s champion Midas at a venue belonging to his friend Finn (Anthony Mackie). Partly due to both his inexperience with Noisy Boy’s combinations and his own overconfidence, Charlie ends up losing control of Noisy Boy and Midas destroys it. Charlie and Max break into a junkyard to steal scraps that he can use to put a new robot together. There Max falls over a ledge where he is saved from doom by getting snagged on the arm of a buried robot. After Charlie pulls Max back up, Max digs out the entire robot, called Atom. On Max’s insistence, Charlie takes it back to Bailey’s gym, where they discover Atom is an obsolete Generation-2 sparring bot built in 2014. Atom has been designed to sustain massive damage, but is unable to deal much damage itself. Partly due to both Max’s insistence and Charlie needing money, the duo takes Atom to fight an unsanctioned outdoor match against a robot called Metro and Atom wins, earning back some of Charlie’s money. Max later upgrades it to take vocal commands using spare parts from Noisy Boy and the spin frame from Ambush and successfully convinces Charlie to train the robot.  more…

Abduction is a 2011 action thriller film directed by John Singleton. The film follows Nathan Harper (Taylor Lautner) a teenager who lives with his parents Kevin (Jason Isaacs) and Mara (Maria Bello). He has a recurring nightmare and consults a psychiatrist, Dr Geraldine Bennett (Sigourney Weaver) to discover why. In class one day at schoolNathan is partnered with his longtime friend Karen Murphy (Lily Collins) on a school assignment about missing children. Karen finds a website that shows what the children would look like as they got older through age progression technology and Nathan discovers that a young boy named Steven Price would look exactly like him, when Price got older. Searching in his basement, he finds the same shirt that Steven is wearing in the picture and realizes that he and Steven are the same person. Curious about his past Nathan calls the website’s owner, unaware that he is a Serbian terrorist. The man reports back to his commander, Nikola Kozlow (Michael Nyqvist) who deploys two agents to Nathan’s house. They attack Nathan’s parents, who tell him to run before being murdered. The house is destroyed. Nathan and Karen escape and attempt to call the police, but the call is intercepted by CIA operative Frank Burton (Alfred Molina) who tells Nathan that he’s in danger and sends a team to track him down. Before the team arrives Dr Bennett appears and tells Nathan that Burton can’t be trusted. She reveals that Nathan’s biological father, Martin (Dermot Mulroney) is a CIA agent who stole a list from Kozlow with the names of corrupt CIA operatives. Kozlow created the website in order to locate Nathan and use him as leverage to force Martin to return the list. Kozlow’s men appear, having intercepted Nathan’s call. Bennett tells Nathan to run away and head for a safe house in Arlington, Virginia. Karen decides to go with Nathan. Before they leave, Bennett tells him he can only trust his father and a man called Paul Rasen and blows up her car to facilitate both their escape and her own. Nathan and Karen arrive at the safe house, where Nathan finds Martin’s cellphone, as well as an address and photo of his biological mother, Lorna Price. They discover that she is dead. Nathan visits her grave and Karen notices fresh flowers, so she asks the caretaker about recent visitors. He reveals that the last visitor was Paul Rasen from Nebraska. Nathan and Karen head to Nebraska on a train; Kozlow’s right hand man Sweater (Ilia Volok) follows them. When Karen leaves to get food, he kidnaps her and attempts to capture Nathan but Nathan overpowers him and throws him off the train. Karen escapes and reunites with Nathan. more…