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• Director: Tony Scott
• Release Date: 12 June 2009 (USA)
• Run Time: 121 min
• Country: USA , UK
• Genre: Crime , Drama , Thriller
• MPAA: Rated R for violence and pervasive language.

Trivia: Shipped to theaters under the code name “Watch Your Step”.

Goofs: Revealing mistakes: Many times during the picture, the horns from Amtrak trains are heard – horns which could never be heard on a subway system.

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• Director: Michael Mann
• Release Date: 1 July 2009 (USA)
• Run Time: 140 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Crime , Drama , History , Thriller
• MPAA: Rated R for gangster violence and some language.

Tagline: America’s Most Wanted

Trivia: Leonardo DiCaprio was initially attached to star in a leading role when this project was put into development in 2004.

Goofs: Factual errors: In the opening sequence, Dillinger appears at the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City and helps his pals in the escape. Dillinger was actually jailed in Lima, Ohio, when the escape occurred.

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“Heading back to the streets where it all began, two men rejoin two women to blast muscle, tuner and exotic cars across Los Angeles and floor through the Mexican desert. When a crime brings them back to L.A., fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto reignites his feud with agent Brian O’Connor. But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy, Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if they hope to outmaneuver him. And from convoy heists to precision tunnel crawls across international lines, two men will find the best way to get revenge: push the limits of what’s possible behind the wheel. Written by Universal Studios”

• Director: Justin Lin
• Release Date: 3 April 2009 (USA)
• Run Time: 107 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for for intense sequences of violence and action, some sexual content, language and drug references.

Tagline: New Model. Original Parts.

Trivia: With $72.5 mio., had the highest-grossing opening weekend for a car-themed movie (beating Cars (2006)’ $60.1 million).

Goofs: Continuity: During the scene when Walker and the gangbanger fall from the window, they land on the car facing the rear, yet when the camera view changes to inside the car, they are facing front.

“The seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father, the retired agent Bryan Mills that left the secret service to stay near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart; she convinces the reluctant Bryan to sign an authorization to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When they arrive, they share a cab with the stranger Peter and Amanda tells to him that they are alone in Paris. When Bryan succeeds in contacting his daughter, she tells that criminals have just break in the spot and they are kidnapped by an Albanese gang of human trafficking. Bryan promises in the phone to kill the kidnapper of his daughter and immediately travels to Paris to find Kim and chase the criminals. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”

• Director: Pierre Morel
• Release Date: 30 January 2009 (USA)
• Run Time: 93 min | USA:91 min (edited)
• Country: France
• Genre: Action , Crime , Drama , Thriller
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, disturbing thematic material, sexual content, some drug references and language.

Tagline: Die Zeit für Rache ist gekommen. (The time for revenge has come.)

Trivia: The fighting art primarily used in this movie is Shinsai Goshin Kai. Liam Neeson was trained by Mick Gould who is a senior practitioner of this art and previously taught members of the SAS, including Andy McNab with whom he later worked on the Michael Mann movie, Heat.

Goofs: Continuity: In the Paris apartment when Bryan is re-listening to the recorded phone conversation, Kim is heard to say the line, “They took her.” Earlier in the film Bryan doesn’t begin to record the conversation until after this line is said. This line should not be part of the recorded conversation.