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Synopsis: A former United States marine, Chris Van Home, now lives in a small village in Iraq after spending some time as a mercenary. Needing money to fix the well, Chris agrees to join his brother, Henry, on a mission to abduct employees being evacuated from a Chinese-owned oil refinery, believing they are hunting down a man who attacked them years earlier. Instead, he learns he is inadvertently helping a mercenary group led by Owen Paddock, who is looking to re-start the refinery and steal oil. When Henry is killed by Owen, Chris reluctantly teams up with Luo Feng, an ex-Chinese special forces officer who was tasked with protecting the evacuees, to stop Owen. Who's in it? The movie stars John Cena , Jackie Cha n, Chunrui Ma, Pilou Asbæk and Wenli Jiang. Review: I came across Hidden Strike on Netflix a couple days ago and since the John Cena/Jackie Chan team up sounded intriguing, my wife and I ended up watching it yesterday evening. Overall, it ended up being an entertai...

Synopsis: Nine years after his partner was murdered, Hong Kong police detective Bennie Chan is still trying to prove prominent businessman Victor Wong is both the killer and a criminal mastermind known as "Matador." When his latest attempt to obtain evidence results both in failure and significant property damage, Chan is placed on a leave of absence but instead of taking a vacation, he is forced to hunt down American conman Connor Watts to help his deceased partner's daughter, Samantha, who has crossed paths with Wong's crime syndicate and is in trouble. The assignment proves to be fortuitous when Chan learns Watts has evidence implicating Wong but the men first must make it back to Hong Kong alive. Who's in it? The movie stars Jackie Chan , Johnny Knoxville , Bingbing Fan , Winston Chao and Eric Tsang. Review: I had never heard of Skiptrace until I came across it on one of our movie channels over the weekend. From the description, it sounded like a low-budge...

Synopsis : When a salesman at a Hong Kong fitness equipment store foils a robbery attempt, he learns his father is a former secret agent and, seeking to learn more about his dad, winds up trying to keep a powerful new drug away from an arms dealer in Turkey. Who's in it? The movie stars Jackie Chan , Eric Tsang , Vivian Hsu , Min Kim and Lillian Ho . Review: There's a ton of pollen in the air right now and my allergies were acting up this morning as a result. While I was waiting for my allergy pill to kick in, I ended up scanning through our movie channels and, mostly because I hadn't seen it before, settled on this film. I've seen other Jackie Chan movies and found the majority of them enjoyable. As a result, I did have some relatively high expectations for this film. And, as it turns out, it more than met those expectations. The movie, as I was expecting, had some very entertaining action scenes that included everything from a fight inside an elevator (m...