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Hong Kong:IIB certified movies
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In the contemporary world you don't need to be a wizard to change someone's destiny. It takes you only to sit down at the computer. When attorney Robert Clayton Dean (Will Smith) becomes the target of corrupt National Security Agency official Thomas Brian Reynolds (Jon Voight), his brilliant career and happy marriage is utterly ruined. Reynolds, who uses the latest high-tech surveillance gadgets and other vast resources of his department, turns him from a law-abiding citizen into a 'serious offender' within a few days. Accused of murder he hasn't committed, Dean finds himself deprived of his prestigious well-paid job, with his family spied on, and his personal information deleted from all electronic databases. It is clear that he is framed. But how can he prove his innocence if he has such a formidable foe? He gets the only chance to clear his name and reclaim his life when he comes into contact with a former intelligence operative and surveillance expert, Brill (Gene Hackman), and learns to turn Reynolds' batteries against himself. |
| Return to Paradise
[1998,
USA]
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| Give up three years of their lives or give up the life of their friend. They have eight days to decide. |
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Three American college grads, John Volgecherev (Vince Vaughn), Tony Croft (David Conrad), and Lewis McBride (Joaquin Phoenix), meet by chance and decide to spend their vacation together in Penang, Malaysia. The exotic island, hot women, drinks and drugs - life in paradise! When the exciting vacation is over, John and Tony come back home to the United States, but Lewis goes to Borneo so as to dedicate himself to the study of tropical fauna. But some time later Lewis ends up arrested by local police who found a large quantity of hashish in the bungalow the buddies had rented. According to the Law of Malaysia, an over-limit amount of drug is classified as distribution; therefore Lewis is threatened with the death penalty. If John and Tony return and share the blame, the death sentence will be reduced to jail time. |
| Scream 2
[1997,
USA]
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| Jemand ist mit seiner Liebe zu Fortsetzungen einen Schritt zu weit gegangen. (Somebody has taken his love for sequels one step too far.) (2 more taglines...) |
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In a two-year period the tragic events at Woodsboro seem to start being recreated by another psychotic guy. Sidney (Neve Campbell), who's been trying to rebuild her life as a student of Windsor College, is in danger again. When two college students get killed right in a cinema while watching the new film "Stab", based on what happened two years ago, Sidney (Neve Campbell) and her friends anticipate that this bloody story could be even more pervert this time... |
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Bud White (Russel Crowe) and Ed Huxley (Guy Pearce) are LA cops in the 50s. These guys are so different that sometimes they even hate each other, but now they are to work together at the murder which should be solved at any cost. Wide LA beaches and the bright sun of California seems to be the perfect crime scene as the mafia bosses compete to occupy an empty place on the top of the criminal hierarchy after the main mafia boss was imprisoned to serve a long term. Kim Basinger appears in the film as a high-paid prostitute-blackmailer.
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In this thought-provoking science-fiction drama, student math whiz Joan Leaven (Nicole deBoer), ex-con Rennes (Wayne Robson), former cop Quentin (Maurice Dean-Wint), office worker David Worth (David Hewlett), free clinic doctor Helen Holloway (Nicky Guadagni), and autistic man Kazan (Andrew Miller) have nothing in common with each other. But they suddenly find themselves embayed in a seemingly endless labyrinth of interlocking cube-like cells. They have neither water nor food and thus they don't have long to live. None of them knows how and why they were imprisoned but they come to realize that they are pawns in someone's diabolical game where their imprudent actions may cost lives. Some time later they discover that each of them has a unique skill that may aid in their escape. What they must do is to learn to cooperate and coordinate their actions with each other so that they can find a way out. |
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200 years after the conclusion of Alien 3, the company is able to resurrect Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) through the process of cloning and the scientists successfully take the Queen Alien out of her. But, Ripley's DNA gets mixed up with the Queen's and she begins to develop certain alien characteristics. The scientists begin breeding the aliens, but they later escape. Soon the Xeno-morphs are running amok on the ship, which is on course to earth. The Queen then gives birth to a deadly new breed of alien, which could spell disaster for the entire human race. It's up to Ripley and a band of space pirates to stop the ship before it reaches earth. |
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Based somewhat more authentically on the Grimm Brothers' story of a young woman who is unliked by her stepmother, the film includes the talking mirror, a poisoned apple, and some ruffian gold (not diamond) miners (and they aren't dwarfs or cute). It takes place at the time of the Crusades, and depicts the attitudes of the wealthy and the peasant classes toward one another. |
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Kevin Lomax is a hotshot southern lawyer who knows how to play the game. He gets the opportunity of a lifetime when he is offered a job with a law firm that promises many opportunities. He takes his wife to the Big Apple in hopes of a better life and a good job. He only finds himself on the receiving end of trouble when his boss is the Devil himself and has some treacherous plans up his sleeve for Kevin. |
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The time is the future. Johnny Rico joins the military after graduation to become a citizen and for the love of his high school sweetheart. In the war against the bug aliens of Klendathu, the military is a very dangerous place to be. Johnny works his way through several battles and with the help of his friends and comrades, helps turn the tide of the war, and save the human race. |
| Amistad
[1997,
USA]
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| Freedom is not given. It is our right at birth. But there are some moments when it must be taken. |
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Amistad is the name of a slave ship traveling towards the New World in 1839. It is carrying a cargo of Africans who have been captured, taken on board, and chained in the cargo hold of the ship. As the ship is crossing the Atlantic, Cinque, who was a tribal leader in Africa, leads a mutiny and takes over the ship. They continue to sail, hoping to find help when they land. Instead, when they reach the United States, they are imprisoned as runaway slaves. They don't speak a word of English, and it seems like they are doomed to die for killing their captors when an abolitionist lawyer decides to take their case, arguing that they were free citizens of another country and not slaves at all. The case finally gets to the Supreme Court, where John Quincy Adams makes an impassioned and eloquent plea for their release. |
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Jackie Brown (Pam Grier), a 44-year old flight attendant, used to augment her modest income by smuggling - until the day she was caught right at the airport. Under the threat of being sent to jail she agrees to help the agents to trap the gun dealer Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson). Eventually, the witty lady comes up with an almost impeccable plan to play off the struggling forces - the cops and the criminals - against each other and misappropriate a half million dollar. So will Jackie be able to outfox everybody? |
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Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) – rich and aging American banker, celebrates his 48-th birthday absolutely alone, as he usually spends his leisure time knowing well that his father committed suicide at the same age. Suddenly returns Conrad, Nicholas's brother, who was noted by a shady reputation, and had disappeared years ago. He gave Nicholas a card providing membership in some strange community, named Consumer Recreation Services. Yielding to temptation, Nicholas visits this doubtful entertainment, and many unpleasant, annoying and bad things start to happen to him. |
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Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thorton) was born and raised in a fanatically religious family. At the age of twelve, he caught his mother having sex with her lover. He considered their actions appalling and killed them with a sling blade. Twenty-five years later, the partially handicapped Karl is deemed harmless to society and released from a mental asylum. When he returns to his Arkansas hometown, he takes a job at a repair shop and lives in the backroom. He develops a warm friendship with a young boy named Frank Wheatley (Lucas Black) and is soon invited by his widowed mother, Linda (Natalie Canerday), to move into their garage. However, when he meets Linda's aggressive and abusive boyfriend who maltreats Frank and Linda and mocks at Karl's disabilities, Karl is faced with an agonizing moral dilemma. |
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The moving story of a Hungarian mapmaker and his dying memories of the romance that tragically alters his life. Burned horribly in a fiery plane crash while crossing the Sahara Desert during WWII, he is tended to by a Canadian nurse with ghosts of her own and haunted by a thief seeking answers for a crime from his past. |
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An intelligent, wickedly ironical serial slayer, fond of scary movies, has begun to terrorize a small quiet town of Woodsboro. The inventive murderer uses everything he knows about the horror movie genre to play with his young victims – highschool kids. He's wearing a Halloween mask, he never fails to outwit the police and continues his thrilling game. Can the main character Sidney (Neve Campbell) still believe her classmates? Her boyfriend? The dreadful nightmare from A Nightmare On Elm Street is back in Scream. |
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Movie based on the television series finds Jim Phelps and his team charged with stopping a traitor from stealing and selling classified material. Everything was going well until the man they are following and all of the team are inexplicably killed except for Ethan Hunt. Ethan then calls the Director and goes to meet him when he discovers that the whole mission was to ferret a mole that they have been suspicious of for some time. The Director shows evidence that hints that Ethan's the one they have been looking for but Ethan knows that he is not, so he escapes. Ethan then arranges to meet the buyer and whom he warns against using the material he has and when they meet he offers to get what he paid for in exchange for telling whom the mole is. Ethan, along with Phelps' wife Claire recruits two disavowed agents to help him which won't be easy. |
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After a waterfront explosion, Verbal (Kevin Spacey), an eye-witness and participant tells the story of events leading up to the conflagration. The story begins when five men are rounded up for a line-up, and grilled about a truck hijacking (the usual suspects). Least pleased is Keaton (Gabriel Byrne) a crooked cop - exposed, indicted, but now desperately trying to go straight. The cops won't leave him alone, however, and as they wait for their lawyers to post bail, he is talked into doing one more job with the other four. All goes tolerably well until the influence of the legendary, seemingly omnipotent "Keyser Soze" is felt. Although set in the modern day, it has much of the texture of the forties, plus suspense, intrigue (a fairly high body count), and lots of twists in the plot. |
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The hero of Banderas, a musician, has reasons to revenge: his beloved girl is killed by the drug-trading gangsters and he himself is wounded. During the film, an angry musician gets even with the mobsters, making his way to kill the bosses. Bloody skirmishes, fiery music and Mexican passions, intertwined in the inimitable Rodrigues-style action movie.
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| Heat
[1995,
USA]
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| From "The Godfather" to "Scent of a Woman".From "Raging Bull" to "Goodfellas".Two of America's celebrated superstars will finally collide. (2 more taglines...) |
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This film is nothing but the tough duel between an offender and a cop. One of the most experienced burglar in US named Neal MacAuley (Robert De Niro) stands against Al Pacino's cop - detective Vince Hanna who is as charismatic as his enemy and has a penchant for strong measures as well. The scenes with the bank robbery and the following battle on LA streets are really breathtaking.
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