Compadres (Unrated) Unlikely -
buddies action thriller about a disgraced ex-cop (Omar Chaparro) who joins forces with a young hacker (Joey Morgan) to exact revenge on the mobster (Erick Elias) who kidnapped his girlfriend (Aislinn Derbez) and framed him for a crime he didn't commit.
Not exact matches
It works well as a cat and mouse
thriller and
action - packed
buddy movie.
In a year where we had some pretty cool and unusual things happening in mainstream cinema (an animated «princess» movie where the most important relationship was between two sisters, a space
thriller whose face was a middle - aged woman, a high - grossing
action movie starring a young woman, a sci - fi blockbuster where 2/3 leads were NOT white men, a female
buddy - cop movie), this just seems....
Walter Hill made the jump from literate screenwriter of tough - minded crime films to director of elegantly - made bare - knuckle
thrillers and
action dramas with Hard Times (1975), a depression - era tale of underground fights with Charles Bronson and James Coburn as business partners in who aren't quite friends but become the first of Hill's guarded
buddy teams.
It's a slow burn of a
buddy cop
thriller that sticks to the most basic of
action movie clichés, entirely ignoring the CGI and overzealous plotting of the last twenty years of big - budget cinema.
Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters shine in this impressive
buddy cop
thriller that combines
action, humour and engaging characters.Read More
She and her Georgetown
buddy Zal Batmanglij, while they were unable to get work in film, spent that first summer trawling around the country with backpacks living off the grid with anarchist collectives, direct
action groups and freegans, dumpster diving and train hopping, which later became rich fodder for their current film, their second together, the terrorist
thriller «The East» (May 31).