Leland Orser
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Taken (2008)

Fast moving thriller about a father finding his daughter that was sold into the sex trade.

Suspenseful, with a happy ending, though less happy than one would expect.

It takes a special man to shoot a man’s wife in front of him to make his point.

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Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Secret Service to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanese gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him “good luck,” so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend.

The Bone Collector (1999)

When you bring in a character that seems so extremely secondary that one would wonder why he was even bothered with, he might as well have ‘killer’ tattoed on this forehead.

But despite that, this was a good film. Fun to watch things evolve. Some great clues were given to finding the victims. I only wish Queen Latifah’s part had been much larger.

And the NYC map was actually accurate unlike many films set in the city. The traffic on the FDR was a bit light though.

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Denzel Washington plays a quadriplegic homicide detective. He and his female partner track down a serial killer.

The Good German (2006)

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While in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation which involves his former mistress and his driver.

Very Bad Things (1998)

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A group of friends head to Las Vegas for a bachelor party.. only things go wrong and a woman is killed. Soon, the bodies are piling up and the friends find themselves turning against one another as the coverup builds.

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