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Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) is an American buddy cop action comedy film, featuring the iconic duo of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. It is the fourth installment in the popular Bad Boys series, following Bad Boys for Life (2020). Four years after Isabel Aretas’s death, MPD Detective Mike Lowrey ties the knot with his physical therapist, Christine. However, their joyous celebration takes a turn when Marcus Burnett suffers a mild heart attack and falls into a coma. In his comatose state, Marcus has a vision of their late Captain Conrad Howard ...

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) is a post-apocalyptic action film directed and produced by George Miller, who also co-wrote the screenplay. Set in a dystopian Australia ravaged by the apocalypse, the story centers around two children, Furiosa and Valkyrie, who stumble upon the Green Place of Many Mothers while picking peaches. However, their peaceful moment is interrupted by a group of raiders led by Dementus of the Biker Horde. In an attempt to protect her home, Furiosa tries to sabotage the raiders’ motorcycles but ends up being captured as their leader’s prize. Meanwhile, her mother Mary sets off on a ...

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024) is an American action comedy film under the direction of Mark Molloy. Thirty years have passed since the Wonder World incident, and Axel Foley remains a detective for the Detroit police, working closely with his friend, Deputy Chief Jeffrey Friedman. During a Red Wings game, Axel pursues a group of thieves who are looting the locker room, causing significant damage to the city in the process. Under pressure from the police commissioner, Jeffrey announces his retirement and suggests that Axel reconnect with his daughter Jane Saunders. Jane is now a defense attorney in LA and has been ...

Civil War (2024), a dystopian thriller film written and directed by Alex Garland, portrays a United States ravaged by internal strife. The country is divided into two factions: an authoritarian federal government, headed by a third-term president, and rebellious secessionist groups. Despite the president’s claims of imminent victory, it is widely believed that the ‘Western Forces’ (WF) led by Texas and California will soon take over Washington, D.C. Surviving a suicide bombing in New York City only strengthens the resolve of veteran war photographer Lee Smith and his journalist colleague Joel to seek ...

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) is an American spy action film directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen. The film follows the story of a next-generation Russian stealth submarine, the Sevastopol, which is equipped with an advanced AI. However, when the AI becomes self-aware and betrays its crew by causing a fatal attack, IMF agent Ethan Hunt must take action. He travels to the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Desert to retrieve a crucial key piece from Ilsa Faust, an MI6 agent who is on the run. In order to ...

Fast X (2023), an American action film directed by Louis Leterrier, follows Dominic Toretto and his team as they embark on a new mission. This film serves as the sequel to F9 (2021), the tenth main installment and eleventh overall in the Fast & Furious franchise. As requested by the Agency, Dom’s team must steal a computer chip during its transit in Rome while he stays behind with Letty and their son Brian ‘Little B’ Marcos. However, things take an unexpected turn when Cipher seeks their help after being double-crossed by Dante Reyes, son of drug lord Hernan Reyes seeking revenge ...

The American film, John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023), is a neo-noir action thriller directed and co-produced by Chad Stahelski. Shay Hatten and Michael Finch are credited as writers. In the movie, John Wick prepares for revenge against the High Table while hiding underground with the Bowery King in New York City. He later travels to Morocco where he takes down the Elder, known as ‘the one who sits above the Table’. Upon hearing of this, Marquis Vincent Bisset de Gramont, a member of the High Table, summons New York Continental Hotel manager Winston and his concierge Charon. The Marquis expresses disappointment in ...

The Old Man (2022–2024) is an American drama thriller television series based on the 2017 novel The Old Man by Thomas Perry. As a Vietnam veteran and former CIA operative, Dan Chase lives off-the-grid in Connecticut for thirty years after killing an intruder who broke into his home. The show was developed by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine. While fleeing, Chase rents a room from Zoe McDonald, who becomes his forced partner. In light of Chase’s complicated past during the Soviet–Afghan War, FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Harold Harper was ...

Black Crab (2022) is a Swedish action thriller directed by Adam Berg. The film is adapted from Jerker Virdborg’s novel, Svart krabba, and features a screenplay by Berg and Pelle Rådström. It opens with Edh and her daughter, Vanja, stuck in traffic when they are suddenly ambushed by enemy forces. Fast forward a few years and we see Edh now serving as a soldier, arriving at the base after traveling by train. She is dropped off by a lieutenant in a dangerous ...

The upcoming action spy film, The 355 (2022), helmed by director Simon Kinberg and written by Theresa Rebeck and Kinberg, follows the story of a group of individuals embroiled in an intense race for a special decryption program drive. This sought-after drive, capable of accessing any digital system on Earth, is presented to criminal mastermind Elijah Clarke by a drug lord at a location 150 mi (240 km) south of Bogotá, Colombia. However, Clarke’s betrayal leads to chaos as he kills the drug lord just as authorities ...

Day Shift (2022) is an American action comedy film directed by J. J. Perry, written by Tyler Tice and Shay Hatten from a story by Tice. The movie follows Bud Jablonski, a blue-collar dad who secretly spends his days hunting and killing vampires while seemingly working as a pool cleaner. One day, during a “cleaning job,” Bud witnesses a man leaving the house he’s working at and decides to investigate further. This leads him to encounter two vampires, an elderly woman and younger man, who happen to live in ...

Ambulance (2022) is an American heist action thriller film, directed and co-produced by Michael Bay and written by Chris Fedak. A collaboration between New Republic Pictures, Project X Entertainment and Bay Films, it is a remake of the 2005 Danish film Ambulancen. Will Sharp, a former Marine and Afghanistan veteran, desperately seeks $231,000 for his wife Amy’s experimental cancer surgery. He turns to his lifelong criminal adoptive brother Danny for help. Together they plan a $32 million bank heist. Despite some initial hesitation, Will agrees when Danny ...

The Gray Man (2022) is an American action thriller directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Mark Greaney. In 2003, senior CIA official Fitzroy visits a prisoner who had been convicted of killing his abusive father to protect his brother. Eight years later, Fitzroy offers the man his freedom in exchange for working as an assassin in the Sierra program. In 2021, code-named “Sierra Six,” he is on a mission in Bangkok with fellow agent Dani Miranda to eliminate a target ...

RRR (2022) (subtitled onscreen as Roudram Ranam Rudhiram) is an Indian Telugu-language epic period action drama film directed by S. S. Rajamouli, who co-wrote the story with V. Vijayendra Prasad. Set in 1920 during British rule, the tyrannical administrator Scott Buxton and his sadistic wife Catherine abduct Malli, a young girl from the Gond tribe known for her artistic talents. The tribe’s guardian Komaram Bheem is enraged and disguises himself as a Muslim man named Akhtar to rescue her. Meanwhile, the Nizamate of Hyderabad warns Scott’s office of ...

Bullet Train (2022) is a 2022 American action comedy film directed by David Leitch and starring Brad Pitt as an assassin on a high-speed train. Adapted from the novel Maria Beetle (released as Bullet Train in the UK and US), written by Kōtarō Isaka and translated by Sam Malissa, the story takes place in modern day Tokyo. Yuichi Kimura, a grieving father seeking revenge for his son’s death, receives a cryptic message to meet his assailant on the bullet ...

Memory (2022) is an American action thriller film helmed by Martin Campbell and written by Dario Scardapane. Adapted from De Zaak Alzheimer by Jef Geeraerts, it serves as a remake of its Belgian predecessor, The Alzheimer Case. The story follows contract killer Alex Lewis, who lives in Mexico and battles early onset Alzheimer’s while working for Davana Sealman. His latest assignment takes him to El Paso, Texas to eliminate Ellis Van Camp, a builder at the Texas Central Processing Facility. During his time in ...

Last Seen Alive (2022), an American action thriller film directed by Brian Goodman and written by Marc Frydman, begins with Detective Paterson accusing a man named Knuckles of kidnapping and threatening him with life in prison. As the detective tightens his grip on Knuckles’ throat, he confesses, “she’s dead.” Wealthy real-estate agent Will Spann and his wife Lisa are headed to her parents’ house so she can have some alone time. While stopping for gas along the way, Lisa enters the store to buy a bottle of water. Upon leaving the store, she ...

The Contractor (2022) is a high-stakes action movie directed by Tarik Saleh for his English-language debut. SFC James Harper, a decorated Green Beret, is discharged from the army due to his use of illegal steroids to treat a debilitating knee injury. Desperate for financial stability, he reaches out to his friend Mike, who works for a private military company under fellow veteran Rusty Jennings’ leadership. Despite receiving lucrative offers from numerous military contracting firms, Harper feels a sense of duty to his country. Mike informs him that Rusty conducts undercover operations for the Department of ...

Top Gun: Maverick (2022), an American action drama directed by Joseph Kosinski, tells the story of United States Navy Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. Despite his impressive career as a test pilot and numerous accolades, Maverick’s repeated insubordination has hindered him from advancing in rank. Fortunately, his former TOPGUN rival, Admiral Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, who now commands the U.S. Pacific Fleet, often comes to his aid to prevent him from being grounded. However, Rear Admiral Chester “Hammer” Cain steps in and cancels Maverick’s “Darkstar” scramjet ...

Red Notice (2021), an American action comedy film written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, stars Dwayne Johnson alongside Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot and Ritu Arya. This marks the third team-up for Thurber and Johnson, following their successful collaborations on Central Intelligence (2016) and