Starring Tom Cruise, Michelle Monaghan, Ving Rhames, Laurence Fishburne & Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Ethan Hunt (Cruise) is back for the 3rd installment of Mission Impossible. He is actually retired now from active duty and his job is to train recruits for active duty.

While throwing a party for his upcoming marriage he receives a call asking him to come back for another job. He finds it hard to resist as the job entails rescuing a young female agent that he trained and ok’d for the mission. The job is to go to Germany and rescue her from her captors.

The job goes wrong in every way possible and he finds out a man named Owen Davian (Hoffman), a large arms dealer in the black market, is responsible. He’s now in hot water with the agency for failing and not following procedure, but his instinct wants to apprehend the man responsible.

This will be the toughest job to date as he’s facing a villain who is insane, and has uncanny luck and backup in places Hunt never would of thought of.

Rating:

Moviepeeker scores Mission Impossible III a 9.0 out of 10
Movie Released by Paramount Pictures

Starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean & Kate Beahan.

Kyle Pratt (Foster) has just lost her husband to an accident in Germany. She is flying back to the United States with her daughter, with his casket loaded in the cargo department of the plane. They move to the back of the plane where it is empty to get a little sleep, and when Kyle awakes she finds her daughter missing.

She calmly looks around but grows a bit hysterical when she cannot find her. She enlists the help of the crew to search the entire plan but they cannot find the little girl. But then she is floored when the captain (Bean) tells her that her daughter was never on the flight. In fact, her daughter had actually perished along with her husband.

She needs to be subdued by the air marshal (Sarsgaard) because she doesn’t believe what they’re telling her and knows she boarded the plane with her daughter. She must do whatever she can to find her daughter, whether those on the plane think she is delusional or not.

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Moviepeeker scores Flightplan a 8.0 out of 10
Movie Released by Touchstone Pictures

Starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet & Evan Peters.

Jake Tyler (Faris) is the new guy in school. He’s just moved to Orlando with hi Mother and little brother so that his brother can train for tennis. He left behind a fiery attitude that got him in trouble for fighting on his football team at his old school. His issues stem from the loss of his father, and his inability to prevent his father from driving drunk one fateful evening.

He finds out that a bunch of the students at the new school participate in an underground “fight club”, but he is hesitant to get involved. The ringleader of the club is Ryan McCarthy (Gigandet), and he uses his girlfriend to trick Jake into showing up at a party only to seduce Jake into a fight. Jake refuses to fight, at least until Ryan brings up his father. Their initial fight has Ryan beating up Jake in front of the whole school.

Jake starts going to a fighting gym with the intent of learning more so that he can get revenge.

This was a damn good movie with lots of good fighting sequences, but left a feeling of “karate kid” in my mouth. Still worth the watching though!

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Moviepeeker scores Never Back Down a 7.0 out of 10
Movie Released by Summit Entertainment

Starring Vin Diesel, Larenz Tate, Timothy Olyphant, Geno Silva & Jacqueline Obradors.

Sean Vetter (Diesel) is a DEA agent. He used to be a gang banger back in the day, as are the rest of his team, so they know the streets and the trade better than the rest. He’s been on a job for 7 years tracking Memo Lucero (Silva), the head of a huge drug cartel out of Mexico. They finally get their big break when they go to Mexico and apprehend Memo, and he is sent to prison in the USA.

He comes back home to his beautiful wife, Stacy (Obradors), and him and his team have a celebration. At the same time, a new face in the industry has emerged to take over the cartel and he goes by the name “El Diablo”.

That evening, a team of of the drug lord’s members come to Sean’s house to put a hit on him. They miss their target but end up killing his wife.

Now Sean not only wants revenge on those who killed his wife but also wants to bring down the whole Mexican drug cartel in the process.

Rating:

Moviepeeker scores A Man Apart an 8.0 out of 10
Movie Released by “DIA” Productions GmbH & Co. KG

Starring Billy Zane, Cristian Solimeno & Melinda Cohen.

A young couple are about to go on a trip to start a new life. Just as they are ready to go, Nick (Solimeno) gets a phone call demanding he pay back money he owes some powerful people. They threaten his mother in law, so he has little choice. He decides to try an hold up a convenience store but is interrupted as a police officer walks in. They get into a struggle and the cop is accidentally shot, and later dies.

With the police looking for them in droves now, Nick and his girlfriend, Celia (Cohen), decide to take refuge in a home they come across. They run into Victor (Zane) inside the home and tie him up in the kitchen. They repeatedly ask him where the rest of the family is from the home and he keeps telling them that they are at dinner. Dinner - yes - he has slaughtered his entire family at the dinner table in the other room. They have taken refuge amongst a murderer.

The movie is intense at times but also adds a lot of humor in to break up the monotony. Billy Zane makes this whole movie with his outstanding acting. He is very calm and deliberate with his actions, all the signs of a mental murderer.

Now Nick and Celia not only have the police to worry about, but their own lives as well.

Rating:

Moviepeeker scores Perfect Hideout a 7.5 out of 10
Movie Released by Zeitsprung Entertainment