From the Marvel Cinematic Universe to the farthest reaches of outer space, let these movies take you into the thick of the action.
The Accountant 2
Director Gavin O’Connor and writer Bill Dubuque reunite for this critically acclaimed sequel to 2016’s The Accountant. Ben Affleck reprises his role as the calculative (literally!) Christian Wolff, who can solve any problem, mathematical or otherwise. But something is not adding up in his latest case, involving his old acquaintance, Raymond King (J.K. Simmons), and his protege, Marybeth (Cynthia Addai-Robinson).
Christian must work with his estranged and equally lethal brother, Brax (Jon Bernthal), who’s also a hitman, to get even with a web of killers who will stop at nothing to eliminate them. The odd couple might be a deadly dynamic duo, but they’re also pretty funny outside of all the bad-guy-killing. Come for the action, stay for the buddy comedy.
Mickey 17
If you’re a fan of Robert Pattinson, you’ll get more of him than you bargained for in this sci-fi dark comedy.
Pattinson plays Mickey Barnes, who signs up to be an ‘expendable’ on a spacefaring colonisation expedition. Mickey is subjected to dangerous conditions as a guinea pig for the colonists, repeatedly dies, and is ‘reprinted’. Things get out of hand when Mickey 18 gets printed while Mickey 17 is still alive, as only one expendable is supposed to exist at a time. Now, both Mickeys risk being eliminated altogether. They must overcome their initial hostility towards each other to work together and fight back against the megalomaniacal politician Kenneth Marshall’s (Mark Ruffalo) control.
Mickey 17 is adapted from Edward Ashton’s novel, Mickey7 (“I kill [Mickey] 10 more times,” quips writer-director Bong Joon-ho). Bong, the highly acclaimed director of Parasite, Snowpiercer, Okja, and Memories of Murder, explores his signature theme of class inequality against a big-budget, sci-fi action backdrop.
The Amateur
Rami Malek, known for playing hacker Elliot Alderson in Mr. Robot and rock star Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, might not be the name that springs to mind when one mentions “action hero”. Don’t count him out, though. Here, Malek stars as a man whom his enemies underestimate at their own peril.
Malek plays Charlie Heller, a brilliant cryptographer at the CIA. When his wife, Sarah (Rachel Brosnahan), is taken hostage and killed in a terror attack in London, he becomes preoccupied with vengeance. Charlie blackmails his superior, Deputy Director Alex Moore (Holt McCallany), so he can be trained as a field agent. He is subsequently mentored by Colonel Robert Henderson (Laurence Fishburne), who doubts that Charlie possesses the killer instinct to make him an effective operative. With the aid of a mysterious contact known only as ‘Inquiline’, Charlie tracks down the terrorists responsible for his wife’s death.
The Amateur is the second film adaptation of Robert Littell’s 1981 novel of the same name, giving the story a high-tech sheen while retaining its tension and intrigue.
A Working Man
Jason Statham is back doing what he does best — meting out justice to bad guys in brutal fashion and looking cool while he’s at it.
Statham plays Levon Cade, a Royal Marines Commando turned construction foreman. When Jenny Garcia (Arianna Rivas), the daughter of Levon’s boss Joe (Michael Peña), is kidnapped, Levon pursues her captors, abandoning his vow to leave his violent past behind. Using his contacts, Levon infiltrates the Russian organised crime syndicate that is behind Jenny’s kidnapping and comes face to face with a father-and-son mobster duo.
A Working Man reteams Statham with his Beekeeper director, David Ayer, who co-wrote the screenplay with Sylvester Stallone, based on the novel Levon’s Trade by Chuck Dixon.
Captain America: Brave New World
At the end of Avengers: Endgame, Steve Rogers passed the mantle of Captain America on to Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), formerly the Falcon. The TV series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier showed him first donning the red, white, and blue uniform, and now, Sam gets put to the test, headlining his first Captain America movie.
Sam is getting used to inhabiting the Captain America identity with Joaquin Torres (Danny Ramirez), the new Falcon, by his side. Sam’s friend Isaiah Bradley (Carl Lumbly), the forgotten Captain America who was imprisoned by the government, is framed for an attack on the president, Thaddeus ‘Thunderbolt’ Ross (Harrison Ford), at the White House. Seeking to clear Isaiah’s name, Sam must uncover a conspiracy masterminded by a shadowy figure hellbent on enacting his revenge.
Captain America: Brave New World portrays how Sam will cope with the pressure of being the new Captain America. He is set to lead the Avengers in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, as the Marvel Cinematic Universe undergoes its latest evolution.
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