This week’s edition is filled with drama and big helpings of action, thrills and crime mixed in.
The Imitation Game is a biographical thriller about English mathematician Alan Turing, who helped crack an essential code during World War II. Taken 3 has the return of ex-government operative Bryan Mills, but this time he’s being accused of murdering his wife and Blackhat deals with American and Chinese forces working together to stop a high level computer hacker.
All three films are jam packed with drama, the latter two also with incredible action and excitement. With one movie delving into past history and how a mathematician aided in winning one the most deadly wars in history, another being the third installment in a very popular action/crime series and the last movie involving a combination of international cooperation and high-tech situations, all three motion pictures are almost guaranteed to fill up local movie theater seats on their opening days.
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The Imitation Game is a biographical crime thriller starring Star Trek Into Darkness' Benedict Cumberbatch, Pirates of the Caribbean’s Keira Knightley and Mark Strong.
The film had its world premiere at the 41st Telluride Film Festival in August and it was also featured at the 39th Toronto International Film Festival in September where it won ""People's Choice Award for Best Film,"" the highest award of the festival.
Cumberbatch plays English mathematician Alan Turing, who with his team of code-breakers, races against time to break Nazi Germany’s Enigma code, which, in turn, helped the Allies win World War II. The movie’s trailer shows Turing and his team’s staunch determination to crack the deadly code and save who knows how many lives in the process.
Cumberbatch displays his masterful knack at character acting as he slips into the role of a man, who was persecuted for his homosexuality and could have been charged with high treason if he breathed a word of trying to crack Enigma.
It opens in theaters on Friday, Nov. 21.
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Taken 3 is the third and final installment in the popular action thriller movie franchise starring Liam Neeson and written by Luc Besson.
Again starring Maggie Grace, Jon Gries and the X-Men movie franchise’s Famke Janssen with the additions of Forest Whitaker, Dougray Scott, Neeson returns as ex-government operative Bryan Mills, only this time his world is turned upside down when he’s falsely accused of murdering his wife. Mills uses his array of expert facilities to track his wife’s real killer and dispatch his own brand of justice.
Neeson is superb playing a man determined to prove his innocence, protect his family, and avenge his wife’s murder. The film’s trailer illustrates Mills’ happy life with wife, Kim, and his good relationship with his ex-wife/mother of his daughter, Lenore (Janssen). Yet, Mills’ life is shattered when he comes home to find Kim murdered and he’s the prime suspect. Neeson’s action hero prowess is proved yet again as he goes into hiding and uses his exceptional skills to learn who really killed his wife and why he’s being framed for her murder.
It opens in theaters on Friday, Jan. 9, 2015.
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Blackhat is a dramatic action thriller written, directed and produced by Michael Mann. It stars Thor's Chris Hemsworth and The Help's Viola Davis.
Hemsworth plays Nicolas Hathaway, who has just been released from prison in order to help American and Chinese authorities track down an enigmatic cyber criminal. The flick’s trailer shows how our world is heavily interconnected by computers and how a mysterious hacker is causing unbridled chaos and how must be stopped. Hemsworth’s character gets into unfathomable situations all in his quest to stop this computer terrorist.
It opens in theaters on Friday, Jan. 16, 2015.