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…

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…

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…