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We also get a zombies - on - a-plane episode and a tense foray into the terrain of «The Stand» or «The Andromeda Strain» in a zombie - infested medical laboratory where Gerry and a buzz - cut, one - handed female Israeli soldier (the terrific Daniella Kertesz) must search for the highly implausible secret MacGuffin that will fix everything.
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This film stars Sandra Bullock (While You Were Sleeping, Love Potion No. 9) as Angela Bennett, a beta tester for various software programs who comes upon a computer disk which has a flaw that allows access into the top secret files in the mainframe of a defense computer or some such (It's a MacGuffin as Hitch would call it, I don't need to know what it does, only that it's important and people want it.)
Smith and Robbie have been split up by the screenplay for reasons that don't make much sense, and suddenly, Nicky's working a long con on a decadent Formula One honcho (Rodrigo Santoro) trying to steal the guy's secret race engine MacGuffin.
Burn After Reading is absurd and acerbic, a political hoopla revolving around a prized MacGuffin — a CD containing government secrets!
It's also worth mentioning how clichéd the «list of secret agents falls into the wrong hands» MacGuffin has become in the spy thriller.
However, their life turns back to spying when Frank and Marvin (Malkovich) show up in a governmental kill order to hide the secrets of some doomsday - bomb MacGuffin named Nightshade.
Thor, already one of the more inscrutable Avengers, decides he'd much rather be introspective on his own and jets off to a secret Asgardian cave, where he dips into a wading pool and has visions of Infinity Stones, the various multi-colored deus ex machinae that have been MacGuffins in so many Marvel movies thus far.
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