English Movies - 3
You can watch the following movies below:
- Pistol Whipped
- Funny Games
- The nines
- The Contractor
- Taxi (2004)
Enjoy.
Pistol Whipped
Plot:
Matt is an elite ex-cop whose life has gone down hill since he was kicked off the Force. After a rough encounter with a mysterious henchman, Matt is brought face to face with his only chance at reclaiming his life and clearing his gambling debt markers. Only after he gets started on his new tasks does he recognize good guy from bad. Meanwhile Matt’s love for his only daughter helps him battle one of his greatest enemies, alcoholism.
Funny Games
Plot:
The film begins with a well-to-do family — Georg, his wife Anna, his son Schorschi and their dog — arriving at their lake house. Their next-door neighbour pops in to visit, accompanied with two young men, Peter and Paul, whom he introduces as friends. The two men begin imposing themselves on the family’s courtesy, and in the process destroy their phone and ruin all their eggs. Eventually a frustrated Anna demands that the men leave, asking Georg to eject them from the premises. Paul breaks Georg’s leg with Georg’s golf club and the two men take the family hostage. They force the family to participate in a number of sadistic games in order to stay alive.
Paul asks if the family wants to bet that they will be alive by 9 o’clock in the morning, though he doubts that they will win. Between playing their games, the two men keep up a constant patter, and Paul frequently ridicules Peter’s weight and lack of intelligence. He describes a number of contradicting stories of Peter’s past, though no definitive explanation is ever presented as to the men’s origins or motives. When some of the family’s other neighbours arrive for a visit, Anna passes the men off as friends until the visitors leave. Schorschi eventually escapes to the house next door, but finds the family dead. He attempts to shoot Paul with a rifle, but the gun fails to go off. Paul returns him to the house, along with the gun. After a few more games, the men play a counting-out game between the family members and select Schorschi. They shoot him and leave. Read more here. Another review here.
The Nines
Plot:
The film is divided in to three acts:
"The Prisoner" tells of a troubled actor under house arrest living in another person’s house because he burned down his own.
"Reality Television" tells of a television writer trying to get his pilot made. The house he lives in is the house the actor stays in.
"Knowing" tells of an acclaimed video game designer who is lost when his car breaks down, a situation shown in the pilot of the writer.
This film explores the concept of simulated reality.
Some references:
- So I made a movie. John August.
- Movies look nothing like reality. John August.
- The 34th Saturn Award Nominations. The Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror Films.
The Contractor
Plot:
Snipes stars as stoic assassin-turned-horse wrangler James Dial, a deeply damaged human being who has seen more than his fair share of horrific violence and pointless bloodletting. Called back into the line of fire by his former boss, Dial is promptly shipped to London just in time to obliterate an international terrorist who slipped through our hero’s fingers several years ago. As it goes with such cinematic scenarios, the mission goes awry, something blows up, and Dial takes refuge inside his English liaison’s dingy apartment complex. With the help of a fearless young girl and her indomitable spirit, James will attempt to flee the country before law enforcement officials slap a pair of rusty cuffs on his thick death-dealing wrists.
More references:
Taxi
Plot:
Belle (Queen Latifah) is a talented driver and automechanic who dreams of driving in NASCAR. As the film opens she celebrates her last shift as a bicycle courier by performing a crowd-pleasing sequence of bicycle stunts as she passes through New York City, breaking a speed record in the process. She has won her taxi license. Belle neglects her boyfriend and has bestowed much love on her custom-built cab over the past five years. This evening, having skipped her dinner date, she installs a supercharger into the cab.
The next day, her first customer offers her a $100 tip if she can make it to JFK in fifteen minutes. She makes it in nine, making the passenger sick in the process. Meanwhile, a group of fashion models exit the airport.
The action cuts back to New York City where undercover detective Washburn, (Jimmy Fallon) is about to bust a phone card ring from Cuba. He makes up a street name in Havana, which blows his cover, and a gunfight develops. Washburn’s partner is wounded in the arm and the Cubans escape. Trying to follow them in his partner’s car, Washburn starts it in reverse and crashes it. Back at the precinct station, Lt. Robbins, (Jennifer Esposito) confiscates his driver’s license.
Later, hearing of a bank robbery, Washburn in plainclothes encounters trouble flagging down a car to take him to the scene, so flags down a taxi cab, which turns out to be Belle’s. They arrive at the bank just as the four robbers depart in a BMW. Washburn accidentally shoots out one of Belle’s windows and they end up cornering the BMW in an alley. The BMW driver cleverly gives Belle the slip, but as the car passes the recognises the occupants as the same models from the airport. Their leader is Vanessa (Gisele Bündchen). In a misunderstanding, police arrive and hold up Belle and Washburn.
Belle’s cab is impounded as evidence and she is taken in for questioning as a witness to the robbery;
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