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Transporter-Refueled (2015) R-13

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Frank Martin is living a less perilous lifestyle, or so he thinks, transporting classified packages for questionable people. Things get complicated when femme fatale Anna and her three accomplices orchestrate a bank heist and the kidnapping of Frank's father. It's all part of a grand plan to take down the human trafficker who victimized her years earlier. Now a pawn in her vengeful scheme, the former special-operations mercenary must use his covert skills to play Anna's dangerous game. -WWW Stockholm syndrome , or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with the captors. 3/5 stars Written by men:    Luc Besson Bill Collage Adam Cooper Directed by a  woman:  Camille Delamarre Based on the characters created  by Luc Besson and  Robert Mark Kamen Would my movie buddy, R...

Third Person (2013 Toronto Film Festival) R-16

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(Sorry, but I cannot write about this film without some spoilers) We were only four people in the cinema and all of us knew each other. Why? Because I watched it with my mom, my dad and my younger brother. It was always pretty awkward watching a restricted film with my parents in a public  theater, so I was feeling a bit iffy, but I don't think I would have it any other way.  After all, we were all adults.  My dad's in his late 70's, my mom's in her mid 70s, plus my brother and I were both in our 40's so I guess it was perfectly alright. The movie had a good way of interlocking the stories, but there were many, many goofs.   Like how would someone in New York bump into someone in Paris? This was not a story about portals or sliding doors.  It's a story about Michael( Neeson ), a very successful writer who is estranged with his wife Elaine( Bassinger ) with a very young up and coming beautiful and sexy journalist called Anna( Wilde ) as...