2 Fast 2 Furious

Speed--it's easy to get and it's as close as the nearest set of high-performance wheels. Brian O'Connor, now a disgraced cop, fell victim to it--and now he's paying the price. As far as his bosses and the FBI brass are concerned, the hothead undercover officer threw one of their largest investigations ever. After losing his badge and any chance of redemption along with it, O'Connor is given one last chance when the feds in Miami need his help to collar Carter Verone, a flashy businessman whose using his import/export business as a cover for an international money laundering cartel. Cutoms has had Verone under intense surveillance for over a year with nothing more to show for it than the kingpin's link to illegal street racing. With their backs against the wall and time running out, officials put out a call for O'Connor to do what he does best--talk the talk and push the metal. But the rule-breaking loner has his own demands before taking on the job. He insists on recruiting his childhood friend and ex-con Roman Pearce as his partner. The Feds and Agent Markham offer Pearce, an accomplished criminal with an aptitude for barrier-shattering speed, a deal--work with O'Connor and his impressive rap sheet will disappear. Now, it's last chance for both, ex-con and ex-cop, and their ticket out of disgrace is bringing down Verone. But the lines become blurred once again for O'Connor with the appearance of undercover agent Monica Fuentes, the key to entering Verone's world who may herself be in bed with the shady entrepreneur.

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Starring: Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Eva Mendes, Cole Hauser, Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges
Directed by: John Singleton
Genres: Action/Adventure, Thriller, Crime/Gangster, Sequel and Sports
Running Time: 1 hr. 40 min.
MPAA Rating: PG 13 for street racing, violence, language, and some sensuality
Yahoo! Critics: C
IMDb Users Rating: 5.2/10 (58,359 votes)
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The Green Hornet

Britt Reid, son and heir to Los Angeles' largest newspaper fortune, is a rich, spoiled playboy who has been happy to maintain a direction-less existence. When his father James Reid dies, Britt meets an impressive and resourceful company employee, Kato. They realize that they have the resources to do something worthwhile with their lives and finally step out of James Reid's shadow. Kato builds the ultimate weapon, The Black Beauty, an indestructible car with every weapon imaginable and Britt decides that in order to be heroes, they will pose as villains. With the help of Britt's new secretary, Lenore Case, they learn that the chief criminal in the city is named Benjamin Chudnofsky. He has united all the gangs under his power, and he quickly sees that the Green Hornet is a direct threat to the prosperous criminal underworld he controls.

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Starring: Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Tom Wilkinson, Christoph Waltz
Directed by: Michel Gondry
Genres: Action/Adventure, Crime/Gangster and Adaptation
Running Time: 1 hr. 48 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sequences of violent action, language, sensuality and drug content
Yahoo! Ctitics: C
IMDb Users Rating: 6.2/10 (31,594 votes)
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The Expendables

A group of mercenaries is hired to infiltrate a South American country and overthrow its ruthless dictator. Once the mission begins, the men realize things aren't quite as they appear, finding themselves caught in a dangerous web of deceit and betrayal. With their mission thwarted and an innocent life in danger, the men struggle with an even tougher challenge -- one that threatens to destroy this band of brothers. Barney Ross is a man with nothing to lose. Fearless and void of emotion, he is the leader, the sage and the strategist of this tight-knit band of men who live on the fringe. His only attachment is to his pickup truck, his seaplane and his team of loyal modern-day warriors. His is a true cynic who describes what he does as "removing those hard to get at stains". The team behind him is made up of Lee Christmas, former SAS and a savant with anything that has a blade; Yin Yang, a master at close-quarter combat; Hale Caesar, who has known Barney for ten years and is a long-barrel weapons specialist; Toll Road, a skilled demolitions expert and considered the intellect of the group; and Gunnar Jensen, a combat veteran and an expert in precision sniping who struggles with his own demons. When the mysterious Church offers Barney a job no one else would take, Barney and his team embark on what appears to be a routine mission: overthrow General Gaza, the murderous dictator of the small island country of Vilena and end the years of death and destruction inflicted on its people. On a reconnaissance mission to Vilena, Barney and Christmas meet their contact Sandra, a local freedom-fighter with a dark secret. They also come to learn who their true enemy is: rogue ex-CIA operative James Monroe and his henchman Paine. When things go terribly wrong, Barney and Christmas are forced to leave Sandra behind, essentially giving her a death sentence. Haunted by this failure, Barney convinces the team to return to Vilena to rescue the hostage and finish the job he started. And to perhaps save a soul: his own.

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Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts
Directed by: Sylvester Stallone
Genres: Action/Adventure and Crime/Gangster
Running Time: 1 hr. 43 min.
MPAA Rating: R for strong action and bloody violence throughout, and for some language
Yahoo! Critics: C+
IMDb Users Rating: 6.7/10 (75,616 votes)
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Takers

A notorious group of criminals continue to baffle police by pulling off perfectly executed bank robberies. They are in and out like clockwork, leaving no evidence behind and laying low in between heists. But when they attempt to pull off one last job with more money at stake than ever before, the crew may find their plans interrupted by a hardened detective who is hell-bent on solving the case.






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Starring: Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Matt Dillon, Michael Ealy, Idris Elba
Directed by: John Luessenhop
Genres: Action/Adventure and Crime/Gangster
Running Time: 1 hr. 47 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, a sexual situation/partial nudity and some language
Yahoo! Critics: C
IMDb Users Rating: 5.8/10 (11,056 votes)
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The Wolfman

Lawrence Talbot is a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother...and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself.

Lawrence Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother's fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline has come to investigate.

As he pieces together the gory puzzle, he hears of an ancient curse that turns the afflicted into werewolves when the moon is full. Now, if he has any chance at ending the slaughter and protecting the woman he has grown to love, Talbot must destroy the vicious creature in the woods surrounding Blackmoor. But as he hunts for the nightmarish beast, a simple man with a tortured past will uncover a primal side to himself...one he never imagined existed.

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Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Art Malik, Hugo Weaving
Directed by: Joe Johnston
Genres: Suspense/Horror and Crime/Gangster
Running Time: 2 hrs. 5 min.
MPAA Rating: R for bloody horror, violence and gore
Yahoo! Critics: C+
IMDb User Rating: 6.3/10 (12,467 votes)
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The Collector

Handyman and ex-con Arkin aims to repay a debt to his ex-wife by robbing his new employer's country home. Unfortunately for Arkin, a far worse enemy has already laid claim to the property - and the family. As the seconds tick down to midnight, Arkin becomes a reluctant hero trapped by a masked "Collector" in a maze of lethal invention - the Spanish Inquisition as imagined by Rube Goldberg - while trying to rescue the very family he came to rob.


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Starring: Josh Stewart, Madeline Zima, Michael Reilly Burke, Andrea Roth, Juan Fernandez
Directed by: Marcus Dunstan
Genres: Suspense/Horror and Crime/Gangster
Running Time: 1 hr. 25 min.
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive sadistic bloody violence, language and some sexuality/nudity
Yahoo! Users Rating: B-
IMDb User Rating: 6.2/10 (3,229 votes)
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Bordertown

Lauren Fredricks is an ambitious newspaper reporter, who has been sent to Juarez by her editor to investigate what has happened to these hundreds of women and how the local police and authorities have been covering up the brutal rapes and murders. Lauren looks up her former colleague (and lover) Alfonso Diaz, who now runs the local paper, and they soon uncover one of the hottest stories of the year when they come across the only known survivor of one of these mysterious attacks. The victim is reluctant to speak, but Lauren convinces her to break the silence; yet the real danger is not the murder, but the larger forces who don't want the story told.

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Starring: Maya Zapata, Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Sonia Braga, Martin Sheen
Directed by: Gregory Nava
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Thriller and Crime/Gangster
Running Time: 123 min.
MPAA Rating: R for violence including a brutal rape, sexuality, nudity and language
Yahoo! User Rating: B
IMDb User Rating: 5.9/10 (3944 votes)
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The Brothers Bloom

The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust, intrigue and the most complex literary-inspired setups imaginable. Now they've decided to take on one last job -- showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress named Penelope the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world -- from New Jersey to Greece to Russia and Prague -- in pursuit of priceless artifacts wanted by some of their most unsavory competitors.

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Starring: Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz, Rinko Kikuchi, Zachary Gordon
Directed by: Rian Johnson
Genres: Action/Adventure, Romance and Crime/Gangster
Running Time: 1 hr. 53 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence, some sensuality and brief strong language
Yahoo! Critics: C+
IMDb User Rating: 7.1/10
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber's ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train. Ryder, a criminal mastermind, leads a highly-armed gang of four, threatening to execute the train's passengers unless a large ransom is paid within one hour. As the tension mounts beneath his feet, Garber employs his vast knowledge of the subway system in a battle to outwit Ryder and save the hostages. But there's one riddle Garber can't solve: even if the thieves get the money, how can they possibly escape?

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Starring: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, James Gandolfini, John Turturro, Frank Wood
Directed by: Tony Scott
Genres: Action/Adventure, Thriller, Crime/Gangster, Adaptation and Remake
Running Time: 1 hr 35 min.
MPAA Rating: R for violence and pervasive language
Yahoo! Critics: B
IMDb User Rating: 6.6/10
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The Horsemen

At home, hardened police detective Aidan Breslin has grown increasingly distant from his two young sons Alex and Sean since the death of his wife. At work, he finds himself thrust into an investigation of perverse serial killings rooted in the Biblical prophecy of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The White Horsemen, a master of deception and the unexpected leader hell-bent on conquest; The Red Horsemen, a sharp-witted warrior intent on turning man against man, with an innocence that hides a burning rage within; The Black Horsemen, a manipulative and dark tyrant, unbalanced but always one step ahead; and The Pale Horsemen, an executioner with disarming strength, determined to spread death through surgical precision. As Breslin grapples with each new revelation in the case, he slowly discovers a shocking connection between himself and the four suspects.

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Starring: Dennis Quaid, Ziyi Zhang, Clifton Collins Jr, Barry Shabaka Henley, Patrick Fugit
Directed by: Jonas Akerlund
Genres: Thriller and Crime/Gangster
Running Time: 1 hr. 50 min.
MPAA Rating: R for grisly and disturbing content, some sexual images and language
Yahoo! Users Rating: C+
IMDb User Rating: 5.9/10
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Anamorph

Stan Aubrey is a veteran cop investigating a serial killer, who may be a copycat killer based on a famous murderer Stan allegedly disposed of five years ago. As the killings go on, Stan's partner Carl Unger begins to suspect that Stan didn't do his due dilligence five years ago when he pronounced the killer dead.

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Starring: Willem Dafoe, Peter Stormare, Clea DuVall, James Rebhorn, Amy Carlson
Directed by: Henry S. Miller (II)
Genres: Drama, Thriller and Crime/Gangster
Running Time: 1 hr. 43 min.
MPAA Rating: R for disturbing grisly images, some violence and language
Yahoo! Users Rating: C+
IMDb User Rating: 5.7/10
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Pride and Glory

Four New York City cops are dead, killed in an ambush that has the entire police department on alert and on edge. With a cop killer on the loose and so much riding on the case, Chief of Manhattan Detectives Francis Tierney, Sr. asks his son, Detective Ray Tierney, to lead the investigation. Reluctantly Ray takes over the case knowing the cops who were lost had served under his brother, Francis Tierney, Jr., and alongside his brother-in-law, Jimmy Egan. On the surface, it looked like a routine drug bust gone terribly, tragically wrong. But as Ray delves deeper into the case, he realizes someone had to have tipped off the drug dealers that the cops were coming. Someone on the inside. Worse, the evidence starts to point in an unthinkable direction: to his own brother and brother-in-law. As the questions mount, the case forces the family to choose between their loyalties to one another and their loyalties to the department.

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Starring: Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Ehle, Noah Emmerich, Lake Bell
Directed by: Gavin O Connor
Genres: Drama and Crime/Gangster
Running Time: 2 hrs. 9 min.
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence, pervasive language and brief drug content
Yahoo! Critics: C+
IMDb User Rating: 7.0/10
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Burn After Reading

Osbourne Cox, a Balkan expert, is fired at the CIA, so he begins a memoir. His wife wants a divorce and expects her lover, Harry, a philandering State Department marshal, to leave his wife. A diskette of Osbourne's musings falls out of a gym bag at a Georgetown fitness center. Two employees there try to turn it into cash: Linda, who wants money for elective surgery, and Chad, an amiable goof. They try to sell the disc back to Osbourne, who has a short fuse, then they visit the Russian embassy. To sweeten the pot, they decide they need more of Osbourne's secrets. Meanwhile, Linda's boss likes her, and Harry's wife leaves for a book tour. All roads lead to Osbourne's house.

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Starring: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Brad Pitt
Directed by: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Genres: Comedy and Crime/Gangster
Running Time: 1 hr. 35 min.
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive language, some sexual content and violence
Yahoo! Critics: B
IMDb User Rating: 7.4/10
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Lakeview Terrace

A young interracial couple move into their dream home and are increasingly harassed by their next-door neighbor, a tightly wound black LAPD officer. When the couple decides to fight back the feud turns deadly.









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Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington, Ron Glass, Ajay Mehta
Directed by: Neil LaBute
Genres: Drama, Thriller and Crime/Gangster
Running Time: 1 hr. 46 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense thematic material, violence, sexuality, language and some drug reference
Yahoo! Critics: C
IMDb User Rating: 6.4/10
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Too draggy ..............

Transporter 3

Frank Martin has been pressured into transporting Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of Leonid Vasilev, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency for the Ukraine, from Marseilles through Stuttgart and Budapest until he ends up in Odessa on the Black Sea. Along the way, with the help of Inspector Tarconi, Frank has to contend with the people who strong armed him to take the job, agents sent by Vasilev to intercept him, and the general non-cooperation of his passenger. Despite Valentina's cynical disposition and his resistance to get involved, Frank and Valentina fall for each other, while escaping from one life-threatening situation after another.

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Starring: Jason Statham, Natalya Rudakova, Francois Berleand, Robert Knepper, Jeroen Krabbe Directed by: Olivier Megaton
Genres: Action/Adventure, Crime/Gangster and Sequel
Running Time: 1 hr. 43 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sequences of intense action and violence, some sexual content and drug material
Yahoo! Critics: C+
IMDb User Rating: 6.1/10
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Righteous Kill

A pair of veteran New York City police detectives are on the trail of a vigilante serial killer. After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but aren't. Before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before. Like the original murder, the victim is a suspected criminal whose body is found accompanied by a four line poem justifying the killing. When additional crimes take place, it becomes clear the detectives are looking for a serial killer, one who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. His mission is to do what the cops can't do on their own--take the culprits off the streets for good. The similarities between the recent killings and their earlier case raise a nagging question: Did they put the wrong man behind bars?

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Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, 50 Cent, Donnie Wahlberg, Carla Gugino
Directed by: Jon Avnet
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Thriller and Crime/Gangster
Running Time: 1 hr. 40 min.
MPAA Rating: R for violence, pervasive language, some sexuality and brief drug use
Yahoo! Critics: C-
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Pineapple Express

Process server Dale Denton has a grudging business relationship with the laconic Saul Silver, deigning to visit only to purchase Saul's primo product--a rare new strain of pot called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city's most dangerous drug lord, he panics and dumps the Pineapple Express at the scene. When it's traced back to him, Dale and Saul run for their lives--and they quickly discover that they're not just suffering from weed-fueled paranoia. If they survive, these two just might become real friends. All aboard the Pineapple Express.

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Starring: James Franco, Seth Rogen, Craig Robinson, James Remar, Joe Lo Truglio
Directed by: David Gordon Green
Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Thriller and Crime/Gangster
Running Time: 1 hr. 45 min.
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive language, drug use, sexual references and violence
Yahoo! Critics: B
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Saw IV

Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Upon the news of Detective Kerry's murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive at the depleted police precinct and help veteran Detective Hoffman sift through Jigsaw's latest grizzly game of victims and piece together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw, is suddenly abducted and thrust into the madman's harrowing game, the officer has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of interconnected traps...or face the deadly consequences.

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Starring: Scott Patterson, Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Costas Mandylor, Justin Louis
Directed by: Darren Lynn Bousman
Genres: Suspense/Horror, Thriller, Crime/Gangster and Sequel
Running Time: 1 hr. 32 min.
MPAA Rating: R for sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture throughout, and for language
IMDb User Rating: 6.1/10
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Plata Quemada (Burnt Money)

Argentina, 1965. Angel, a drifter, and Nene, a petty thief, meet in the bathroom of a Buenos Aires train station, and from that moment they are inseparable--both as lovers and, soon, as partners in crime. Dubbed "the Twins" by the police and tabloids, they scratch out a living trawling through the Buenos Aires underworld, until a botched heist goes wrong: leaving four dead and Angel wounded. It forces them and their swaggering straight cohort Cuervo to escape to Uruguay as per the orders of their boss, the sinister Fontana. Fugitives, they are advised to remain in hiding. until their false documents are ready. Days go by and tensions mount. The three begin going out and attracting attention. The situation worsens when Nene, who has an unhealthy relationship with Angel, falls in love with a prostitute. Cut off from their roots and the connections, convinced they've been betrayed and are under surveillance, the Twins' world begins to close in on them, testing their love and finally their sanity.

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Starring: Eduardo Noriega, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Pablo Echarri, Leticia Bredice, Ricardo Bartis
Directed by: Marcelo Pineyro
Genres: Art/Foreign, Thriller, Crime/Gangster and Adaptation
Running Time: 2 hrs. 5 min.
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Yahoo! Critics: NA
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Movie in Spanish.

The Bank Job

A car dealer with a dodgy past and new family, Terry has always avoided major-league scams. But when Martine, a beautiful model from his old neighborhood, offers him a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street, Terry recognizes the opportunity of a lifetime. Martine targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. But Terry and his crew don't realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets - secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal that spans London's criminal underworld, the highest echelons of the British government, and the Royal Family itself...the true story of a heist gone wrong...in all the right ways.

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Starring: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Thriller and Crime/Gangster
Running Time: 1 hr. 50 min.
MPAA Rating: R for sexual content, nudity, violence and language
Yahoo! Critics: B-
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The movie starts off slow, at least it gives me subtle time to know the character better first. Great cast, solid performances and good plot, well ... it's a freaking true story so it better be percise! I need to rely on the subtitle due to the British accent and usage of terms and jargons (sorry but I was totally lost without it :p) . All and all, it was a good movie. Feels like Ocean Eleven but with a twist.