Movie: Operation: Endgame (2010)

 

Operation: End Game

Came out; 2010

Time; 1 hour 27 Minutes

Watched: Prime

Rated: R for strong/bloody violence and pervasive language including sexual references

IMDB Rating; 4.9/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

Tomato Meter 40%

Popcorn Meter 25%

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring;

Joe Anderson as Fool

Rob Corddry as Chariot

Ellen Barkin as Empress

Odette Annabel as Temperance

Maggie Q as High Priestess

Zach Galifianakis as Hermit

Adam Scott as Magician

Brandon T Jackson as Tower

Emilie de Ravin as Hierophant

Beth Grant as Susan

Bob Odenkirk as Emperor

Michael Hitchcock as Neil

Tim Bagley as Carl

Ving Rhames as Judgement

Jeffrey Tambor as Devil

Story Line;

A dry action-comedy about two teams of government assassins working out of a top-secret underground facility using code names from the Tarot deck. When our hero--The Fool--arrives for his first day at work to find that the boss has been killed under mysterious circumstances, he must find the killer before the whole place blows up

Thoughts:

This was a triple cross movie, and it started strong but went south.

It got to the point where you didn't know who's side each person was on, or who you should be routing for. It was sloppy and not put together well

It had a great cast and the acting was great, the story line was just messy

CAUTION; Spoiler Alert

The majority of the events in the film take place on January 20, 2009, the date of the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States and the first day of work for "The Fool", as the film's main character is code-named. The Factory, a secret office of government agents, has hired him as a thief. After the beautiful High Priestess and the caustic Chariot meet the Fool, they enter the secret underground offices of the Factory, and the audience learns that Neil, Carl, and their boss Susan have the entire office under surveillance.

The Factory is separated into two teams, Alpha and Omega. The two teams specialize in black ops and oppose each other in a bureaucratic system of checks and balances. Omega Team consists of the Fool, Chariot, High Priestess, Judgement (who repeats his name whenever he can), and the Emperor. Alpha Team consists of the Fool's old flame, Temperance, the Empress, Magician, Tower, and Hierophant. The head of the Factory is the Devil. The wildcard of the office is the Hermit, an extremely dangerous assassin with diabetes and occasional irritable bowel syndrome.

Not long after the Fool is introduced to everyone, Alpha and Omega find that the Devil has been murdered, and also that he has initiated Project Endgame, which has trapped both teams underground and triggered a bomb that threatens to destroy the Factory and kill everyone. The agents need to find a way out. They decide to work in pairs with their opposing mirror agents to escape.

As they explore the office, members of Alpha Team begin to kill their Omega Team counterparts in gruesome fashion, with Empress killing Emperor with a staple remover, Hierophant killing Judgement by hitting him in the head with a table leg with nails protruding out, and Tower stabbing High Priestess in the throat with a metal bookend. Shortly after Tower is killed by Chariot who smashes his face repeatedly with a paper shredder, and then Chariot is almost killed by Magician. Back in the surveillance room, Carl, Neil, and Susan watch the carnage between the agents. But they all learn that the system has been corrupted, and Susan realizes that the clearance codes have been switched in conjunction with the inauguration.

While trying to find a way out, Fool is attacked by Hierophant but is saved by Temperance, who kills her by hitting her repeatedly in the back with the blade of a paper cutter. She reveals to him that Alpha Team was ordered to eliminate Omega Team that very day. The Fool, Chariot and Temperance spend time in Devil's Office trying to find a way of escape. Eventually Devil's Safe is cracked open, a map is found and The Fool mysteriously steals some discs without anyone else noticing. After this encounter, the trio face off against the remaining members of Alpha: The Empress, Magician and the mysterious Hermit. After more fighting and kills, such as Chariot setting Magician on fire, Hermit killing Chariot by throwing a pair of scissors into his eye and Temperance shooting Hermit in the crotch with her lipstick gun and then killing Empress by shoving a water cooler bottle down her throat causing her to drown, the Fool and Temperance are the only ones left standing. They both enter the exit elevator and escape. They kiss as the bomb goes off, destroying the Factory.

Meanwhile, Carl and Neil uncover an audio tape which the Devil recorded before his death. The Devil reveals that he has a disc with every dirty secret from the last eight years of the Bush administration. He also professes his love for Susan. The elevator emerges from a bathroom stall and it is revealed the Fool has killed Temperance, the paper cutter blade stuck in her head. He snaps the neck of a man in the bathroom who sees Temperance's body and takes his jacket, then he calls Susan, and tells her (in an English accent using the British pronunciation of ma'am as the American sound of "mom") that he has the disc, which contains "every single one of their fuck-ups." Susan reveals that she had hired the Fool specifically to enter the Factory and retrieve the files. She then shoots Carl and Neil. The film ends with the Fool confidently walking out of the building, stepping into a cab, and driving off and the screen turns black. In the credits, bits of a will, one recorded by Emperor and the other by Chariot, reveal that Emperor plans to leave his holiday home to his dog and give wine in his wine cellar to the widows of the men he killed, while Chariot promises that he will return as an evil ghost and will eat hearts for an eternity.

Movie: The Killer (2024) Caution Spoiler Alerts

 

The Killer

Came out; 2024

Time; 1 hour 6 Minutes

Watched: Prime

Rated: R for strong/bloody violence and language

IMDB Rating; 5.7/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

Tomato Meter 59%

Popcorn Meter 51%

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring;

Nathalie Emmanuel as Zee

Omar Sy as Sey

Sam Worthington as Finn

Diana Silvers as Jenn

Story Line;

The kinetic action thriller follows Zee, a mysterious and infamous assassin known, and feared, in the Parisian underworld as the Queen of the Dead. But when, during an assignment from her shadowy mentor and handler, Zee refuses to kill a blinded young woman in a Paris nightclub, the decision will disintegrate Zee's alliances, attract the attention of a savvy police investigator and plunge her into a sinister criminal conspiracy that will set her on a collision course with her own past

Thoughts:

Way too long and drawn out. So much middle unimportant things that could have been removed to make this a really good movie.

The story line was decent, the action was pretty good, the cast was great BUT my god did I get bored watching this

CAUTION; Spoiler Alert

Zee is a Paris-based professional hit woman who is frequently hired by Finn, an Irishman who works for crime lord Jules Gobert, to kill Gobert's competitors in the drug trade. Her violent lifestyle has left her with few pleasures, such as the friendship of Tessier, an elderly, wealthy tailor who helps her with crossword puzzles, keeping a goldfish, and disguises for her jobs. She has gained notoriety as the Queen of the Dead in the underworld.

Zee is hired by Finn to murder the members of a Marseille drug gang who are having a good time at a local nightclub. After Zee takes out the gangsters, a young American singer named Jenn Clark becomes entangled in the chaos and suffers a fall that causes her to lose her vision. Zee spares Jenn because he feels sorry for her, even though he must kill everyone there. After finding out this, Finn sends her to the hospital where Jenn is being held in order to complete the task. Around this same period, police inspector Sey and his partner Jax attempt to apprehend Jenn's drug-dealing boyfriend "Coco," but Coco manages to get away, hurts Jax, and takes a hostage, which forces Sey to murder him. Coco was listening to a demo recording of one of Jenn's songs when he passed away, which led Sey to follow her.

By pretending to be a US embassy vice-consul, Zee enters Jenn's room and gets ready to murder her. Sey walks in at that moment to get Jenn's statement regarding the assassination, but she does not remember much because of her traumatic shock. Zee stops trying to kill him, but Sey starts to doubt her. Additionally, he links Gobert to the recent theft of a substantial quantity of heroin from Majeb Bin Faheem, an Arabian prince who is interacting with Gobert. However, because some of the gangsters involved in both crimes were dirty cops working for Gobert, his superiors thwart his investigations out of concern for the effect it will have on their careers. It is also disclosed that Finn is accountable for the heroin theft because he wants to control the Paris drug market.

Zee shows up at the hospital to take Jenn to safety before Finn's thugs can kill her. Zee and Sey, who was visiting Jax, have a brief face-to-face encounter during the ensuing shootout before Zee makes his getaway and brings Jenn to her apartment. Following her identification of Zee as the nightclub killer, Jenn admits that she and Coco have taken Bin Faheem's heroin shipment from its original thieves and transported it to a secret location in Paris. Zee lies to Finn about having gotten rid of Jenn when they meet at the same spot, an abandoned church, but Finn finds out later. Zee is found and taken into custody by Sey, who also saves his life by questioning her and discovering that she was a part of one of his previous cases against another drug dealer. After Zee breaks out of custody, he discovers that Jenn has been abducted by Finn's men. Tessier tells him that a police officer forced him to tell him when Zee calls him.

In response to Gobert's demand that Zee kill Bin Faheem for not delivering, Finn has Gobert killed. After forcing Sey into hiding by setting him up for framing, he assigns Zee the mission of killing him in exchange for her and Jenn's freedom. Zee, however, recognizes the setup, kills the assassin, reveals that Jax is on Finn's radar, and joins forces with Sey to bring Finn down after she witnesses Sey meeting Jax at the designated location and one of Finn's assassins waiting to kill her following her hit. At the church, they get the stolen heroin back and set up a drug exchange for Jenn.

After the encounter, Zee, Sey, Finn, and his assassins engage in a bloody battle, during which Sey sets off an explosive charge that destroys the drugs and causes Jenn to regain her vision. She asks a dumb question to divert Finn's attention as he is about to kill Zee, which enables Sey to slide her a gun, which she then uses to shoot Finn. After surreptitiously witnessing Jenn's reunion with her mother, she calls Sey and informs him of her intention to make a change in her life. They then bid each other a fond farewell.

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Movie: Heretic (2024) Caution Spoiler Alert

Heretic

Came out; 2024

Time; 1 hour 51 Minutes

Watched: Max

Rated: R for some bloody violence

IMDB Rating; 7/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

Tomato Meter 91%

Popcorn Meter 76%

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring;

Hugh Grant as Mr. Reed

Sophie Thatcher as Sister Barnes

Chloe East as Sister Paxton

Topher Grace as Elder Kennedy

Story Line;

Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door. Greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant), the religious women are drawn into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, pulled further inside the strange man's house

Thoughts:

This was pretty good. It's a slow burn type and I still don't truly understand what happened at the end.

The sheer terror the girls feel when they realize what is happening comes though on the screen.

Hugh Grant in this part was amazing, the creepy was perfect!

CAUTION; Spoiler Alert

Two Mormon missionaries, confident Sister Barnes and timid Sister Paxton, arrive at the home of a reclusive Englishman, Mr. Reed. Reed invites them into his home, but the missionaries are hesitant to be alone with Reed. He assures them they are not alone because his wife is preparing a blueberry pie in the back of the house. They enter and begin to discuss religion, with Reed making several uncomfortable comments about the Mormon faith and the nature of belief. When Reed steps out of the room, Barnes realizes that the smell of blueberry pie is from a candle, the front door is locked, and they have no phone signal.

Following Reed, they enter his study, where he proceeds to give a threatening lecture arguing that all religions are adaptations of one another, and claims to have found the one true religion. Reed gives the girls a choice of two doors to go through in order to exit the house, one if they still believe in God, and one if they do not. Barnes rebels, refuting several of his claims, before they both enter the "Belief" door, only to discover both doors lead to the same dungeon.

A decrepit woman appears, eats a poisoned pie, and dies, with Reed claiming that she is a Prophet of God and the pair will witness her resurrection. A Mormon elder arrives looking for the girls but leaves after discovering nothing. The girls unsuccessfully try screaming to get the Elder's attention, and after returning to the dungeon they witness the Prophet rise again and describe the afterlife. Barnes rejects the Prophet's description, noting its similarity to common hallucinations from near-death experiences. When Barnes gives Paxton a signal to attack Reed, he slashes Barnes's throat and claims that she, too, will resurrect.

After Barnes bleeds out, Reed removes a metal object from inside her arm, claiming it is a microchip and it proves that Barnes was not real and the world is a simulation. Paxton, however, recognizes the object as a contraceptive implant, and realizes that everything was carefully orchestrated by Reed; while the girls were distracted by the Elder's arrival, a second woman hid the Prophet's corpse before taking her place and delivering the afterlife description as scripted by Reed, adding an unplanned comment: "It's not real." Reed's killing of Barnes and attempt to convince Paxton of a simulated reality was an improvisation to cover the plan going awry. Paxton discovers an underground chute through which the Prophet's corpse was hidden and climbs down with Reed promising it will show her the "one true religion."

Paxton finds a chamber full of emaciated women in cages, locked with the bike lock she used before entering Reed' house. She realizes Reed's conclusion: that a desire to control others is the root of all religions. Paxton stabs Reed with a letter opener, but Reed stabs her as she tries to escape. As they bleed in the basement, Paxton begins to pray, claiming to a vexed Reed that it is done to show kindness to others rather than to produce material results. Reed prepares to finish her off, but Barnes, who was either still alive or is briefly resurrected to answer Paxton's prayer, kills him with a plank of wood before succumbing to her injuries and going unconscious again. Paxton tearfully tells her goodbye in case it's their last time seeing each other, then climbs out of a window and sees a butterfly land on her hand; she had earlier expressed a desire to be reincarnated as a butterfly that appears on the hands of her loved ones. The butterfly suddenly vanishes, leaving an injured and confused Paxton alone in the snowy landscape