Archive for Thriller

Session 9 (2001)

Starring David Caruso, Peter Mullan, Stephen Gevedon & Josh Lucas.

A small company comprised of just a handful of workers bids and wins a project to remove asbestos from a long abandoned building. The building is an insane asylum that was closed down 20 years prior.

Gordon (Mullan) has enough on his hands already with his wife at home and a newborn baby that is leaving him sleepless. Phil and Hank (Caruso & Lucas) don’t see eye to eye as Phil thinks Hank is a liability to the job, and not to mention Hank has stolen and now lives with his ex-girlfriend. So they all have a lot on their minds, and they only have one pressure filled week to complete the job in order to receive a $10,000 bonus.

One of the guys finds some tapes in the basement where a doctor is interviewing a patient with multiple personalities. Another one of the workers finds a hidden compartment in the wall filled with old coins and pieces of gold. But there’s more to this old asylum than just the relics, and it appears to be slowly haunting the men working there. The men start acting strange in different ways as you feel the building slowly start to invade their minds in various ways.

Rating: ★★★★★★★½☆☆

Moviepeeker scores Session 9 a 7.5 out of 10
Movie Released by October Films

Saw IV (2007)

Starring Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson, Betsy Russell & Lyrig Bent.

Jigsaw and his sidekick, Amanda, are now both dead from the last installment in the series. But, that doesn’t stop Jigsaw from having the final word. With his body laid up in the morgue, they find another tape in his body while performing the autopsy. This tape leads detectives on a path of putting together the pieces of his crimes.

One of the detectives becomes part of the game. He must try to save the lives of those also in the game while saving his own. Jigsaw gives him exactly 90 minutes to play the game or an old friend of his will die.

Rating: ★★★★★★★½☆☆

Moviepeeker scores Saw IV a 7.5 out of 10
Movie Released by Lions Gate Films

Starring Gerard Butler, Maria Bello & Pierce Brosnan.

Neil and Abby Randall (Butler & Bello) live seemingly a perfect life. They have great careers, lots of money, a beautiful home and a beautiful daughter. Then when they least expect it, it all slowly starts to get taken away from them.

Their daughter gets kidnapped and the kidnapper starts to destroy their lives. He ruins Neils credit, his money, his job and is working on his wife. He wants complete control of their lives for the next 24 hours. The scariest part is that he isn’t doing this for money, he just wants to destroy their lives piece by piece and have them live a nightmare of losing everything they worked so hard for.

Pierce Brosnan and Gerard Butler are amazing in this flick. Both are desperate men willing to do anything to achieve their goals. While Brosnan plays the psycho bent on ruining lives, Butler plays the desperate husband and father who needs to save his life and that of his family. You’ll watch this fast paced flick unfold and find out why Brosnan’s character is so determined to hurt them.

Rating: ★★★★★★★½☆☆

Moviepeeker scores Shattered a 7.5 out of 10
Movie Released by Butterfly Productions

Mission Impossible III (2006)

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

Cruel World (2005)

Starring Edward Furlong, Jaime Pressly, Daniel Franzese, Susan Ward & Nate Parker.

Philip Markham (Furlong) was recently on a TV reality show where he was to win the love of a beautiful woman (Pressly) against other vying men. He was in love and made it to the last 2 before he was dumped on live TV. He was sure she made a mistake, and he’s going to make sure she knows that.

He takes over the home where the show took place and has his own show by finding contestants on the internet to compete for 1 million dollars on his own reality show, which of course is for his own amusement.

He holds his own competitions and has daily eliminations, and instead of going home, the losers get to die one by one.

Rating: ★★★★★★★★½☆

Moviepeeker scores Cruel World an 8.5 out of 10
Movie Released by Primetime Pictures