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The Raid 2 2014
Differing heavily from the first, The Raid 2 sprawls all over the city of Jakarta, staging perfect fight scenes across every setting imaginable. Complete with a new haircut, Rama's new role as an undercover officer sees him adopt a much more cynical and dark demeanor. Rama's mission is no longer simply protecting his loved ones after his brother's death at the hands of the crime lord Bejo. Instead, this more brutal iteration of the protagonist has a seething thirst for…
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Collateral 2004
"A guy gets on the MTA here in L.A. and dies...you think anybody'll notice?"
Mann's Los Angeles is an unforgiving, nihilistic hellscape of crime, and Foxx as the leading man plays the layman thrust into this dark world perfectly. His conflict with Cruise's Vincent illustrates people's capacity to adapt and overcome even the most dire situations, bordering on comically life-threatening. From being "just collateral" to staring the coyote in the eyes and seeing himself, Max starts this story a complacent…
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