Don't expect a return to form here, and just enjoy this as a straight -
forward police thriller meant strictly for entertainment value.
Then, as Eve Dallas puzzles over a homicide that seems carefully planned and yet oddly personal, she receives a tip from an unexpected source: an author
of police thrillers who recognizes the crime — from the pages of her own book.
Argento fans lusting for a classy slasher movie of the «Suspiria» / «Opera» variety are headed for a disappointing rendezvous with an old -
fashioned police thriller, upgraded by serious actors in the main roles.
«Bad Guy,» playing on a double bill with the Hong
Kong police thriller «Infernal Affairs,» is about a low - class pimp who, spurned during a chance meeting with a privileged college girl, kidnaps her and makes her into a prostitute to teach her a lesson.
The next movie of his to arrive will be with another veteran of his last; Will Smith stars in
fantasy police thriller Bright, due on Netflix this December.
Additionally, on Monday, June 3, at 7:30 p.m., the Archive's look at emerging voices in Czech cinema comes to a close with director David Ondříček in person for his taut
neo-noir police thriller, «In the Shadow» (2012), which was the Czech Republic's official Oscar entry for 2013.
His
latest police thriller reminds me a lot of the former, and that's great news, because along with landing Denzel Washington an Oscar for Best Actor, «Training Day» is perhaps one of the best cop films ever made.
If there was a bestselling non-fiction book called «Second -
Whack Police Thrillers for Dummies», then director Brad Furman has read it cover to cover and inside out.
Hot Fuzz might meet the entertainment quotient for viewers already predisposed to enjoy the big budget
schlock police thrillers it openly pays homage to, but that doesn't mean it succeeds much more than its inspirations.
Writer - director Bong has long excelled at tweaking genre, notably in monster movie The Host (06) and in his super-tantalizing 2003
police thriller Memories of Murder, which pre-emptively out - Zodiac'd Zodiac by four years.
«Caught in the Crossfire»:
Police thriller about two detectives (Chris Klein and Adam Rodriguez) who are targeted by gang members and crooked cops while investigating a crime.
Nicholas Cage is back on form with this impressive
Herzog police thriller remake high on surreal humour and narcotics.
It's not quite «Street Kings» bad, but it's loaded with so many tired clichés that you might as well be watching any
old police thriller.
Jerry Bruckheimer is teaming with Scott Derrickson, the writer / director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Sinister, for the long - brewing
paranormal police thriller Beware the Night.
While Sea of Love probably won't go down as one of Al Pacino's (Scarface, Godfather Part II) greatest films, his performance still makes this otherwise
standard police thriller worth watching.
A high - concept mating of
the police thriller and the supernatural, Gregory Hoblit's movie (sophomore jinx?)
Here, he takes a genre film,
the police thriller, and mines it for psychological complexity.
Burt Reynolds showed signs of becoming a very personal filmmaker with
this police thriller, his third outing as a director.
It is fascinating the way this movie works so well as
a police thriller on one level, while on other levels it probes feelings we may keep secret even from ourselves.