Sentences with phrase «secret agent takes»

Synopsis: A veteran secret agent takes a young upstart under his wing.

SECRET agents take note: a new technique for extending the «alphabet» of individual photon shapes could improve encrypted communications.

Not exact matches

It is no secret that City admire Gundogan's ability — In March a meeting took place Amsterdam between the player's uncle and agent, Ilhay Gundogan, and Man City Sporting Director Txiki Begiristain.

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed Rep. John Katko's bill to raise overtime limits on Secret Service agents who have taken on extra duties this year that include protecting President Donald Trump and his large family.

He took her into a little office and told her they knew she was a spy, an agent of the British secret service.

Synopsis: Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his teammates reunite for this pulse - pounding sequel, in which they attempt to take down a secret international organization known as the Syndicate — highly skilled ex-IMF agents who are intent on bringing down their former outfit.

Suddenly this might as well be «Fringe» or «Warehouse 13» or «The X-Files» or «Eureka» or any one of hundreds of shows that involve FBI agents and international espionage and terrorist thugs and secret plots to take over the universe.

The plot, essentially, is that an evil arms dealer named Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman) takes captive a female secret agent (Keri Russell) whom Cruise's character, Ethan Hunt, had trained and loves «like a little sister.»

Taken into witness protection, he's betrayed again, this time by the FBI agent who was assigned to guard him, and kidnapped as part of a secret government program.

Based on the comic book by Mark Millar, the plot follows a veteran secret agent (Firth) as he takes a young delinquent (Taron Egerton) from the London streets and enrolls him in an academy that trains it's pupils to be 007 - type secret agents.

But when crack NSA Agent Gibbons convinces Cage to infiltrate a ruthless Russian crime ring, this new breed of secret agent (codename: XXX) takes down the enemies of justice with a vengeance in this high - octane, turb... [Read More]

One would think the greatest secret agent in the world would take less time to kill Sean Bean, for one.

Judd will play First Lady to Aaron Eckhart's President with Butler starring as a secret service agent who is tasked with stopoping Korean terrorists who have taken over the White House.

From there, in a section that seems to go on forever, Lawrence does her spying to get information from American agent Nathaniel Nash (Joel Edgerton) and his link to secret intelligence trying to take down the Kremlin, and also help Dominika escape from her uncle and the Red Sparrows.

An intermittently amusing riff on British spy movies, starring Colin Firth as a secret agent who takes a novice under his wing, «Kingsman» collapses into outlandish absurdity in its second half, sloppily careening from silliness to sentimentality.

After every secret agent in England is killed in the same explosion (okay, that's kinda funny), Walter Mitty-esque MI - 7 pencil pusher Johnny English (Atkinson) takes his position at the front of the line as Britain's newest superspy.

Ricky Church continues his countdown to Spectre with a review of The Living Daylights... The Living Daylights brought James Bond back to his darker roots as Timothy Dalton took on the role of the famous secret agent, bringing a level of seriousness that had not been seen for quite some time.

Where the Kingsman emulate their upper - class betters through bespoke suits and manners, the Statesman take their cues from American Westerns (cowboys to be more precise), skimming the proceeds from their highly lucrative whiskey distillery to fund their secret agent adventures.

The film stars Gerard Butler as a disgraced Secret Service agent called back to duty when terrorists take over the...

Reinventing the spy genre for the 21st century, the story follows a British secret agent who takes his wayward nephew under his wing and trains him to become a gentleman spy.

The film stars Gerard Butler as a disgraced Secret Service agent called back to duty when terrorists take over the White House and capture the President...

The film stars Gerard Butler as a disgraced Secret Service agent called back to duty when terrorists take over the White House and capture the President (Aaron Eckhart).

In the scene Colin Firth «s secret agent character smoothly takes out some local thugs who give main character Eggsy (Taron Egerton) a hard time.

Olympus Has Fallen sees the White House taken over by North Korean terrorists, and it's up to one man — in this case, Secret Service agent, Mike Banning (Gerard Butler)-- to save the president before the people responsible get what they want.

When the President of the United States is taken hostage by a terrorist mastermind, can a disgraced secret service agent save him?

Playing by the rules, White House Down plunges aspiring Secret Service agent John Cale (Channing Tatum, G.I. Joe: Retaliation) into the depths of his ideal job when a band of disaffected mercenaries (The Great Gatsby's Jason Clarke, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter's Jimmi Simpson, and Streetdance 2's Falk Hentschel among them) take over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The American Erik «Killmonger» Stevens (Michael B. Jordan), son of T'Chaka's secret agent brother N'Jobu (Sterling K. Brown) and a prolifically lethal Special Forces veteran, wants to take over the throne, to avenge his father's death at T'Chaka's hands, but also to give oppressed people (including African - Americans in the United States) the high tech weapons needed to rise up.

Lyndon B. Johnson is shown much more adequately protected as he is hustled onto a plane after his swearing - in, Secret Service agents on all the man's side ready to take a bullet for the Chief Executive is needed.

Their hunt takes them to America and it's revealed that The Kingsman aren't the only highly secret organisation looking to protect the world; the two Brit's are introduced to Champagne, Jack Daniels and Tequila - three agents working for the Statesman, the US equivalent to Kingsman.

In this original story terrorists attempt to take over the presidential mansion and it's up to a wan na be Secret Service agent to save the day, which sounds nothing like this past springs «Olympus Has Fallen.»

He's approached by Monty (Domhnall Gleeson), a CIA agent with a proposition for him: Fly a little propeller plane over rebel bases in Central and South America, take some pictures, and maybe drop off some secret packages for Manuel Noriega, the U.S. - supported military leader in Panama.

Rex is surprised to see Secret Service agent Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) on detail, as he has lain low in the year since he literally took a bullet for Ashton.

The story recounts the secret agent's initial mission where he takes on Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), a financier for freedom fighters and terrorists.

We follow in almost real time a handful of individuals forced to make split - second decisions after this incomprehensible event that would change their lives and forever alter our world's landscape: the young doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital, the chief of the Dallas Secret Service, the unwitting cameraman who captured what has become the most watched and examined film in history, the FBI Agents who had gunman Lee Harvey Oswald within their grasp and Vice President Lyndon Johnson who had to take control of a country in a moment's notice.

In this case Jesse Eisenberg is just a loser pothead who suddenly realizes that he is a butt - whooping secret agent capable of taking on whatever the US government can throw at him.

«Olympus Has Fallen» was a pretty blatant rip - off of John McTiernan's «Die Hard,» so it should come as no surprise that «London Has Fallen» — which is more of a spiritual successor than a literal sequel to the 2013 film — takes a page from another installment in the John McClane series, «Die Hard with a Vengeance,» by staging it as a buddy movie between Gerard Butler «s gruff, no - nonsense Secret Service agent and Aaron Eckhart «s hostage - prone president.

The high - ranking government official spent decades as a secret Hydra sleeper agent, taking down S.H.I.E.L.D. from the inside.

Replacing the originally - tapped Roger Michell («Casino Royale»), Forster took the reins of Daniel Craig's second film as 007, and the result, which saw the secret agent out for vengeance against secret organization QUANTUM, and facing off against the villainous Dominic Greene, was the biggest - grossing Bond up to that point.

Two and a half years after the release of its Bond - spoofing forerunner, Vaughn has returned a sequel, in which the first film's council - estate outcast turned elite secret agent Eggsy (Taron Egerton) takes on an international drugs ring.

The disjointed style of MTV seems to have influenced early scenes; soon enough, however, the story of a risk - taking Secret Service agent (William Peterson) who stops at nothing to avenge the murder of his partner begins to hold interest.

Pym was a member of S.H.I.E.L.D., the same supersecret spy group that Nick Fury and those folks on ABC's «Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.» belong to, but quit when the group tried to nab his formula in a power grab, taking the particle and its secrets with him.

The threat assessment manual takes the findings of the Safe School study one step further, according to special agent Marc Connolly, a spokesman for the Secret Service.

You need to have some selling skills in trad publishing because you have to convince agents / publishers to take a chance on you, which means mastering the secrets of the query letter and the elevator pitch.

The DOJ's suit builds a compelling case that, through a combination of phone calls, e-mails, and secret meetings in the wine cellars of upscale Manhattan restaurants, five of the six big publishers (Macmillan, HarperCollins, Hachette, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster) arranged agreements with Apple to enter into agency - model publishing, wherein retailers act as retail agents (and take 30 % of every sale).

What does it take to become the greatest secret agent the world has ever known?

We also learn plenty about Ike's golf game: He was lucky to break 90, he took many a mulligan, and he was not averse to sending Secret Service agents out into the rough in search of his errant tee shots.

Big If A shrewd literary novel that takes on contemporary politics, this 2002 National Book Award nominee follows Secret Service agent Vi Asplund as she guards the vice president during the New Hampshire primary.

Prepare to be taken on a wild ride as you uncover gruesome secrets involving werewolves, FBI agents, and killers.

The story is about a team of trained secret agent guinea pigs that takes on a mission for the U.S. government.

Take on new enemies such as secret agents, giant creatures, Soviet Forces, and even ninja warriors in an expanded open - world.