JOHN WICK CHAPTER 1

Director- Chad stahelski.

Award- Golden Trailer Awards.

Toronto Film Critics Association Awards.

Clio Awards.

IndieWire Critics Poll.

Golden Tomato Awards.

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John wick is an action, drama film released in 2014 and, as the movie progress, John wick loses his wife Helen to a terminal illness he receives a beagle puppy named Daisy to help him cope with his grief he connects with the puppy and they spend their day driving around in his vintage 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 at a gas station he encounters a trio of Russian gangsters whose leader Losef Tarasov insists on buying his car that John refuses to sell it the mobsters follow John to his home that night knock him unconscious steal his car and kill Daisy Joseph takes the Mustang to a chop shop run by Aurelio to have the vehicle identification number changed Aurelio recognizes the car and upon learning that Losef stole it from John punches him before throwing him out of his shop John visits Aurelio who tells him Joseph is the son of Viggo Tarasov the head of the Russian crime syndicate in New York City Vigo informed by Aurelio of Losef beats and explains to him who John wick.

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 John was formerly an assassin nicknamed Baba Yaga translated in the film as Russian for boogeyman due to his lethal works when John wanted to retire and Marry Helen Vigo gave him an impossible task implied to involve multiple assassinations in a short period of time John succeeded and his efforts were key in establishing the Tarasov syndicate, Vigo tries to talk John out of seeking retribution but John silently refuses Vigo then sends a 12 man hit squad to John's house but John kills them all and has the bodies professionally removed. Vigo places a two million dollar bounty on John's head and personally offers the contract to John's mentor Marcus, John seeks refuge at the Continental Hotel which caters exclusively to the criminal underworld and permits no business on its premises Vigo doubles the bounty for those willing to break the rules to kill John at the Continental,, John learns from Winston the Continentals owner that Vigo has Losef protected at his nightclub the red circle John enters the red circle and kills his way to Losef but Viggo's henchman gets in John's way allowing Losef to escape John retreats to the Continental to patch up his injuries, miss Perkins an assassin and former acquaintance sneaks into John's room to kill him,  Marcus alerts John allowing him to subdue Perkins he forces Perkins to reveal the location of Viggo's front knocks her unconscious and leaves her with fell assassin Harry to await punishment however Perkins frees herself and kills Harry, John travels to little Russia Church which serves as Viggo's Front and destroys Viggo's cache of money and blackmail material when Viggo and his team arrive John ambushes them but he is subdued and captured Viggo taunts John for thinking,, he could leave his old life behind before John can be killed Marcus intervenes again allowing John to free himself and accost Viggo who reveals Losef location John then travels to Losef safehouse and kills him and his bodyguards Perkins learns that John and Marcus has been in contact and tells Viggo who has Marcus beaten for information before executing him in his home Viggo calls John to report this planning to have Perkins ambush him. Perkins is called to a meeting with Winston who has her executed for breaking the Continentals rules when she killed Harry on hotel premises Winston calls John to inform him that Viggo was planning to escape by helicopter John races to the harbor helipad where he kills Viggo's remaining henchmen before engaging Viggo in a brutal brawl on the dock, Viggo pulls a knife but John allows himself to be stabbed surprising Viggo John then disarms and fatally wounds Viggo wounded himself John stops at a waterfront, Animal Clinic to treat his wound and takes with him a pitbull puppy which was scheduled to be euthanized John and the dog walk home along the boardwalk where he had his last date with Helen.

HOBS AND SHOW

DIRECTOR-David Leitch.

AWARD-Kids Choice Award For Favorite Movie Actor.

CAST-Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba, Venessa Kirby, Eiza Gonzalez+more.

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Hobbs and Shaw is an action, adventure movie released in 2019. The movie starts with a scene in London, Hattie Shaw and her team of mi6 agents attempt to retrieve a programmable super virus dubbed snowflake from terrorist organization ettieon, Brixton Lore an ettieon operative with a cybernetic implant that allows him to perform superhuman feats arrives and kill all the agents except Hattie who inject snowflake into her self before escaping. Brixton frames Hattie for killing her team and stealing snowflakes forcing her to go on the run. Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw. Peddy's brother is both informed of the missing virus and they are reluctantly assigned to work together to track it down. After a brief meeting at a CIA black site at Leadenhall building. Derrick goes to Hattie's house for information while Hobbs manages to find Hattie. After a brief scuffle, he brings her to the CIA office. As Deckard then returns the office, the office is attacked and Hattie is taken by Brixton, whom Deckard recognizes as an old colleague turned enemy. He'd previously shot and supposedly killed Hobbs and Deckard pursue and rescue Hattie, during an ensuing car chase managing to escape from Brixton who crashes into a  double-decker bus. 

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However Brixton frames all three as traitor via a tian's control of global news media, the three locate professor and Drako snowflakes creator who inform them that to prevent snowflakes from eradicating humanity. Hattie while the virus is still dormant must either be killed or have the virus removed with a specialized extraction device located in Antion's headquarters in Chernobyl after flying undercover to Moscow and rendezvous in with Deckard's girlfriend Margarita to rearm the three infiltrate the facility. However, Darko is killed and the device is damaged during their escape if Hobbs takes the Trio to his childhood home in Samoa to visit his strange brother Jonah a talented mechanic to repair the device and lay low before comforting Brixton. Again Hobbs has a tense reunion with his family but Jonah is eventually persuaded to help them by their mother. The makeshifts battalions, prepare for Tian's arrival setting up a variety of traps around the island, Jonah successfully repairs the device and start the virus, just as Brixton army arrives at the daybreak in ensuring battle. Brixton soldiers are defeated Brixton retakes Hattie via helicopter, however, Hobbs and Deckard, and Samoans bring the aircraft down, working together Hobbs and Deckard defeats Brixton who was remotely transmitted afterward by Tian's director. Hobbs and Deckard send messages to the director promising to find them in particular Hobbs whom he claims to have a history with the group. They celebrate their victory in mid and post-credits scenes Hobbs brings his daughter to meet their extended family in Samoa, Deckard and Hattie are employed to bust, their mother out of the prison and Hobbs receive a call from his partner Locke informing him that he has broken into a facility and discovered another virus worse than the snowflakes virus.

RED SPARROW

DIRECTOR-Francis Lawrence

CAST-Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling+more.

AWARD-EDA Special Mention Award.
Golden Schmoes.
IMFA Award.

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The red sparrow is a 2018 action movie casting Jennifer Lawrence as the lead role, the movie shows the story of an innocent girl who later become a spy for Russian. She is a ballerina dancer and she gets hurt and then she goes to spy school to become a sparrow, lots of people complained that wasn't a realistic spy school, it was sexiest because she didn't learn how to use weapons and fight and all this useful spy stuff but I completely disagree I think that this kind of a spy school was way more realistic of what spy school would actually be like and the skills set the real-world spies who operate in the real world, not in the movie, where you have a big shoot out with people and its all about weapons and fighting, no that's in a spy movie. Actual spies are all about manipulating people having different identities being able to be a chameleon and become whatever you mark or target wants you to be and I thought this was so well done and conveying.

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In spy school, the first things you lose is the sense of identity and any attachments to anything that made you any kind of distinctive personality to wipe away and go in with a completely blank slate when you start your spy career and what I thought was interesting when you can see this kind of meta-commentary on how apparently there's a great emphasis on individuality and the people having personalities and identity and  Russia in particular. Again this was very reminiscent of that there's this emphasis on the community and sacrifices, you are just a cog in the machine and you lose any sense of individuality so you could interpret it that way, but I interpret it way very interesting that it seemed like at the school what they basically doing was creating psychopaths now one of the most important things about psychopaths, sometimes they feel like they have no inherent essence and no identity no, no real personality, they are just chameleon and them just kind of blend to whatever environment they are in and also whoever they are with whatever they are trying to get out of someone, whoever they are with they can become the kind of a fantasy version of that person they can see that person wants most and they can just become that because again they have no core essence, they can become what anyone wants them to be. In the school where they don't really have the hang-ups about lots of things but in particular sex and sexuality was a huge part of this school and they can use sex as a tool a weapon whatever they want to to use it as they don't feel the same kind of emotions around it as other people, they don't feel the same kind of insecurity so I thought it was very interesting and a great scene when she's in the class with that guy, she does kind of assert herself and thought it was really great sense. I think the acting here as a whole was stronger here almost everyone gives a fantastic performance in this one, the looks were more stylized, and in some way, it was aesthetically better but  I thought this had a really awesome look as well, that was totally it's own and I think it was just a better tighter story. I don't want to take away from that, there are lots of great things about this movie, the amazing fight scene. so Jennifer Lawrence has two tasks she has to find the mole person who's Russian who's traitor and is giving information and then her second task is she is an American trader giving information to the Russian, and get this data that's secrets from the U.S and bring up to Russia, now at this point she is flipped sides and she is working with the American so what she does is she meets with Boucher gives her the money takes the tape but then switches the tape she's going what her plan is, she's gonna give the Russian fake information that actually not the real information and gives the tape back to Americans and switches side and the Americans find out that Boucher is a traitor so when Boucher goes to leave she is picked up by the Americans, now the Russian sees this and the think Jennifer sparrow was the one who was meeting with her and knows about her plan and they torture her but she didn't give the information. She gets released and understands her whole goal is to get revenge so she realizes the best way to for her to get revenge is to pretend she's been kidnapped by the Americans and they are kind of holding her hostage, what she does is she goes to the Russian and I had been captured and but the good news is I know the mole and you, re gonna arrest him capture him don't kill them pretend that we are doing a hostage exchange where you are gonna give them all to Americans because Americans like the guy he's feeding them information so pretend you that you are gonna give them the American exchange for me because I am captured you got to get me out of here and also I found the existence of the mole so you have to rescue me. This is how Jennifer makes her way back to Russian where she is a hero at the end.

THE KING

DIRECTOR- David Michod

AWARD- AACTA Award for best supporting actor.
AACTA Award for best costume designe.
AACTA Award for best production designe.
AACTA Award for best cinematograohy.

CAST-Timothee Chalamet, Robert Pattention, Joel Edgerton, Lily-Ross-Deep, Sean Harries+ more.

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The king is a biographical film released in 2019 and tells the story of kings Henry journey and how even though he had absolute power, the manipulation, and pressure surrounding and shaping his decision made it seems at the time like he had none and there's no better explanation of this than the final scene between him and William chief justice. we will get to that in a bit.

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Following the battle of Agincourt in 1415 in which England defeated Edward Cullen and his army. Henry engaged month-long negotiation with king Charles the six king if France in relinquishing and control over the France kingdom, this led to Henry marrying Charle's daughter Catherine of Valois, it's only when Henry talks to Catherine about the assassination attempt against him, the same assassination the spurred Henry to retaliate and take over France. He learns the truth that the never sent the assassin, some within his own did, but before we get to that we need to understand where Henry started. At the beginning of the film he's portrayed as a drunk womanizer with no ambition over his father's throne, in fact, there's no evidence to suggest he was like this at all, he supposed righteous youth is most likely the result of Shakespear who betrayed him in such in his plays but casting like this makes for good character development. As we'll see Henry's character changed throughout the film, well in the movie he's seen as a drunk, it's his pragmatism and compassion in the face of war that set him apart from his father at least in the beginning. he so believes his father is fighting wrong with the rebellious hotspur he puts his own life on the line to challenge him in one on one combat whoever wins decides the battle saving countless lives. This selflessness opposed with Henry brother Thomas after Henry's victory against hotspur, he says his filed was mine it was to mark my dominion, Thomas doesn't care about the countless lives and blood that was to be shed, he only cares for his glory and Henry, on the other hand, even knowing he won't be king put his life on the line. When Henry becomes king however that things started to change he is no longer a drunk or a womanizer but on the same token he started to move slowly away from that strong moral compass and that selflessness he had is starting to be manipulated by external events around him. The first test comes in the form of a ball supposed present from the Delphine of France it's cruel joke suggesting the king to be a boy who still plays with the toys a gesture which would make other kings march of to battle to defend their honor not so with Henry even though he is recommended to retaliate by his advisers when this fails to provoke England to war anew plot is devised an assassination attempt is foiled twisting Henry's army to march on France leading to their eventual victory at the Battle of Agincourt, during this time Henry's compassion warms he ordered Falstaff to kill the prisoners which when he refused almost end up in killing his closest friend. And confidence doesn't miss about you right here with my own hand with his grip on power crumbles so too does that young compassionate king to be what we saw in the beginning which leads us to Henry's conversation, one may even like it to an interrogation attempt and she explains that neither his father nor her brother was the one to order it in the fact, she was in the room when her father received a message accusing him of the plot, seeing her reaction of laughter at the farcical claims, Henry believes her to be true therefore making the person behind the plot within his inner circle, he interrogate slore chief justice William, asking him how much land he sought to gain if England were to conquer France. Henry presses further asking him how he came about knowing of the assassination plot but his lies are easily seen through that.

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Chief justice confesses his part in the plot saying that it was for the king own good, giving you wanted boy, all I ever wanted was peace but it came at the cost of thousands of lives no to mention Henry killing his own cousin who he thought involved in assassination plot this is hope pieces for it is forged in the victory but victory at the cost of war is never what Henry wanted, his entire conquest in France was a manipulation Henry had unwillingly become what he hated the most for his father, who list for conquest. When William gets on his knees to profess Henry's he brutally stabbed and killed him, it shows the no compassion this is all done before the eyes of the child a symbol of innocence. Henry visited Catherine asking for only one thing from her that she always speaks to him clearly and true. The betrayal of the chief justice, someone who was supposed to speak clear and true has made Henry wary if he's going to embark on marriage with her, he needs her to promise this that he longs for truth and clarity which Catherine says she will give him. It is said both Catherine and Henry loved each other in the real-life.

OLD GUARD

OLD GUARD

Director - Gina Prince-Bythewood.

Cast - Charlize Theron, Kiki Layne, Harry Melling, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kanzari, Luca Marinelli, Chiwetel Ejiofor+ more.

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GOOD WILL HUNTING

GOOD WILL HUNTING

Director - Gus Van Sant.

cast - Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Robin Williams, Minnie Driver, Stellan Skarsgard+ more.

Awards - Academy award for best original screenplay.
Golden globe award for best screenplay - motion picture.
Academy award for best actor in supporting role.
Screen actor guild award outstanding performance by a male actor in supporting role.
BAFTA critic' award for best breakthrough performance.
Chicago film critics association award for most promising actor.
European film academy achievement in world cinema award.
Las Vegas film critics society for most promising award.
Satellite award for best original screenplay.
Blockbuster entertainment award for favorite actor - video.
Critics' choice award for best original screenplay.
Florida film critics' circle award for newcomer of the year.
Humanitas prize for feature film.
NBR award for special achievement in film making.

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LIFE OF PI

LIFE OF PI

DIRECTOR - Ang Lee.

Cast - Suraj Sharma, Iffran Khan, Tabu, Raff Spall, Adil hussian+ more.

Awards - Academy award for best music score.
MTV movie award for most frightened performance.
Academy award for best director.
Academy award for best visual effects.
Academy award for best cinematography.
BAFTA award for best cinematography.
BAFTA award for best special visual effects.
Golden globe for best original score.
Satellite award for best cinematography.
Satellite award for best adapted screenplay.
Bandung film festival for the best imported drama film.
Critic's choice movie award for best cinematography.
Critic's choice movie award for best visual effects.
ADG excellence in production design award - fantasy film.

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