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Movie Review: Acts of Violence (2018)

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Synopsis: While attending her bachelorette party, Mia gets in an argument with two men who are part of a human trafficking ring, and they later abduct her. With the police seemingly unable to help, her fiancé, Roman, enlists help from his two older brothers, both veterans, and, as they search for her, gun down anyone who tries to stop them. Who's in it? The movie stars Bruce Willis , Cole Hauser , Ashton Holmes , Shawn Ashmore , Sophia Bush and Melissa Bolona . Review: Much like another movie I picked out several days ago, I ended up grabbing this movie at our local library because it had one of my wife's favorites, Sophia Bush. We watched it yesterday evening and, while it wasn't quite what I was expecting, it ended up being a decent film. At least in my opinion, the movie seemed to be a throwback to the 1980s shoot-'em-up films. It was a relatively simple plot that made it easy to transition into multiple action scenes and kept the overall focus on those rather th...

Movie Review: What Happened to Monday (2017)

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Synopsis: Due to overpopulation, the planet has enacted and strictly enforces a one-child law that requires illegal siblings to be taken from their parents and placed in a cryogenic state. A group of septuplet sisters (all named after days of the week) have managed to avoid detection for 30 years by pretending to be the same woman and only leaving their apartment on the day that they are named after. However, when the first-born septuplet, Monday, goes to work on Monday morning and doesn't return, they quickly learn their secret has been exposed and must fight for survival against a system that wants to exterminate all of them to avoid the embarrassment their deception could cause. Who's in it? The movie stars Noomi Rapace , Glenn Close , Willem Dafoe , Marwan Kenzari and Christian Rubeck . Review: I must confess, I don't watch too many "Netflix original" films, mostly because there haven't been that many that have really caught my eye. In fact, e...