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…

In present day, scientists in Arctic uncover a circular object with a red, white and blue motif. In March 1942, Nazi officer Johann Schmidt (Hugo Weaving) and his men invade Tønsberg Norway, to steal a mysterious tesseract possessing untold powers. In New York City, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is rejected for World War II military duty due to various health and physical issues. While attending an exhibition of future technologies with his friend Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Rogers again attempts to enlist. Having overheard Rogers conversation with Barnes about wanting to help in the war Dr Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci) allows Rogers to enlist. He is recruited as part of a “super soldier” experiment under Erskine Colonel Chester Phillips (Tommy Lee Jones) and British agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell). Phillips is unconvinced of Erskine’s claims that Rogers is the right person for the procedure but relents after seeing Rogers commit an act of self sacrificing bravery. The night before the treatment, Erskine reveals to Rogers that Schmidt underwent an imperfect version of the treatment and suffered side effects. In Europe Schmidt and Dr Arnim Zola (Toby Jones) successfully harness the energies of the tesseract, intending to use the power to fuel Zola’s inventions. Schmidt, having discovered Erskine’s location dispatches an assassin to kill him. In America Erskine subjects Rogers to the super soldier treatment, injecting him with a special serum and dosing him with “vita rays”. After Rogers emerges from the experiment taller and muscular, one of the attendees kills Erskine, revealing himself as Schmidt’s assassin Heinz Kruger (Richard Armitage). Rogers pursues and captures Kruger but the assassin commits suicide via cyanide capsule before he can be interrogated. With Erskine dead and the super soldier formula lost, US Senator Brandt (Michael Brandon) has Rogers tour the nation in a colorful costume as “Captain America” to promote war bonds rather than allow scientists to study him and attempt to rediscover Erskine’s formula. In Italy 1943 while on tour performing for active servicemen, Rogers learns that Barnes unit was lost in battle against Schmidt’s forces. Refusing to believe that Barnes is dead, Rogers mounts a solo rescue attempt with Carter and Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper) flying him behind enemy lines. Rogers infiltrates the fortress belonging to Schmidt’s HYDRA organization, freeing Barnes and the other captured soldiers. Rogers confronts Schmidt who reveals his face to be a mask, removing it to display the red skull like face that earned him the sobriquet the Red Skull. Schmidt escapes and Rogers returns to base with the freed soldiers. more…

Transformers: Dark of the Moon is the third installment of the live action Transformers film series. Like its predecessors Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers: Dark of the Moon is directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. In 1961 the Ark a Cybertronian spacecraft carrying an invention capable of ending the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons, crash lands on the dark side of Earth’s Moon. The crash is detected on Earth by NASA and President John F Kennedy authorizes a mission to put a man on the Moon as a cover for investigating the craft. In 1969 the crew of Apollo 11 lands on the Moon. In the present the Autobots assist the United States military in preventing conflicts around the globe. During a mission to Chernobyl to investigate suspected alien technology Optimus Prime the leader of the Autobots finds a fuel cell from the Ark, discovering that it had survived its journey from Cybertron. The Autobots are attacked by Shockwave, who manages to escape. After learning of the top secret mission to the Moon the Autobots travel there to explore the Ark. They discover a comatose Sentinel Prime Optimus’ predecessor as leader of the Autobots and the Pillars he created as a means of establishing a Space Bridge between two points to teleport matter. After returning to Earth, Optimus uses the energy of his Matrix of Leadership to revive Sentinel Prime. Meanwhile, Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) is frustrated that he is unable to work with the Autobots and is failing to find a job. He also becomes envious of the close relationship between his new girlfriend, Carly Spencer (Rosie Huntington Whiteley) and her boss Dylan Gould (Patrick Dempsey). After finding work, Sam is provided information by his eccentric co-worker Jerry Wang about the Ark before Jerry is assassinated by the Decepticon Laserbeak. Sam contacts the now independently wealthy Seymour Simmons (John Turturro) and together they realize that the Decepticons and their leader, Megatron are murdering people connected to the American and Russian space missions to the Ark. They locate two surviving Russian cosmonauts, who reveal satellite photos of hundreds of Pillars being stockpiled on the Moon. Sam realizes that the Decepticons raided the Ark long before the Autobots mission and intentionally left Sentinel and five Pillars behind to lure the Autobots into a trap Sentinel being the key to activating the Pillars and the Decepticons lacking the means to revive him. The Autobots rush to return Sentinel to their base for protection but Sentinel betrays them and kills the Autobot Ironhide, revealing he had made a deal with Megatron to ensure the survival of the Cybertronian race. Sentinel uses the Pillars to transport hundreds of concealed Decepticons from the Moon to Earth and Carly is captured by Gould, who is revealed to be in the service of the Decepticons. The Autobots are exiled from Earth at the demand of the Decepticons to avoid war but as their ship leaves Earth it is destroyed by Megatron’s second in command Starscream killing the Autobots. more…

Conan the Barbarian is a 2011 sword and sorcery fantasy film based on the character Conan the Barbarian created by Robert E Howard. The film is a new interpretation of the Conan mythology and is not related to the films featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film begins with a group of sorcerers from Acheron who have created a mask from the skulls of dead kings and sacrificed their pure blood daughters to the dark gods in order to give the mask the power to subjugate the entire world. After killing countless people in their campaign to conquer the planet the sorcerers were defeated by the barbarian tribes who destroyed the mask, scattering the pieces across the tribes with each tribal leader keeping one piece to ensure that the pieces would be difficult to reunite. Thousands of years later in the Hyborian Age, Corin (Ron Perlman) is a barbarian chief who holds one of the pieces of the mask. In a battle against a rival tribe Corin’s wife, after being wounded by the enemy gives birth to their son Conan (Leo Howard) and dies. Conan grows up to become a skilled, but violent warrior whom his father believes is not ready to wield his own sword. One day their village is attacked by the forces of Khalar Zym (Stephen Lang) a warlord that is reuniting the pieces of the Mask of Acheron in order to revive his dead wife and conquer Hyborea. After locating Corin’s piece and murdering the entire village Zym leaves. Conan is the only survivor and swears revenge. 20 years later Conan (Jason Momoa) is a pirate still seeking revenge. With the help of his friend Artus (Nonso Anozie) he raids a slave camp and takes the rescued slaves to the city of Messantia, where Conan meets Ela-Shan (Saïd Taghmaoui) a thief being chased by a man whom Conan recognizes as Lucius (Steven O’Donnell) one of Zym’s soldiers from years before. Conan allows himself to be captured alongside Ela-Shan and in prison, escapes and confronts Lucius who is forced to reveal that Zym is planning to sacrifice the pure blood descendant of the sorcerers of Acheron in order to unleash the mask’s power. He helps the rest of the prisoners to escape and in gratitude Ela-Shan tells Conan that if he ever needs him, Conan will find him at the City of Thieves Argalon. Meanwhile, Zym and his daughter the sorceress Marique (Rose McGowan) attack a monastery where they believe the pure blood is. Sensing something is wrong Fassir (Raad Rawi) an elderly monk who teaches the monastery’s students, tells one of them Tamara (Rachel Nichols) to run away and return to her birthplace. Tamara’s carriage is chased by Zym’s men. Conan hears the commotion and recognizing Zym’s men, attacks and kills them saving Tamara. Conan also captures one of Zym’s men Remo (Milton Welsh) and catapults him to Zym’s nearby camp after forcing him to reveal Tamara’s importance as the pure blood. Zym and Marique confront Conan, who is pretending to be interested in exchanging Tamara for gold but instead attacks Zym, but Marique saves her father by invoking soldiers made of sand and then poisoning Conan with a poison laced boomerang sword. more…