Black Hawk Down

A mixed assault force of Delta operators, Army Rangers, and Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) under the command of Maj. Gen. William Garrison was dropped by helicopters of the US Army's Special Operations Air Regiment (SOAR) deep into the capital city of Mogadishu's Bakaara Market, a stronghold of local warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid to capture two of his senior lieutenants, Omar Salad and Abdi Hasan Awale. The raid by the Delta operators was successful and the wanted persons were captured and taken into American custody. However, when Somali militia armed with RPGs downed two Black Hawk helicopters, a 30 minute mission became a pitched battle between the American forces and Somali militia lasting almost 15 hours.

The code word to launch was "Irene." They were a formidable armada. The helicopter assault force included about 75 Rangers and 16 Delta troops in 17 helicopters. Idling at the airport was a convoy of 12 vehicles with soldiers who would ride three miles to the target building and escort the Somali prisoners and the assault team back to base. Most soldiers deduced that the battle would only take 30 minutes, and some neglected to bring canteens, and NVG, others opting to take out the ballistic ceramic plate in their body armor to reduced the weight carried around.

This movie follows the story of many soldiers during that fateful day. Staff Sgt. Matt Eversmann , who is commanding Ranger Chalk 4 for the first time as his platoon lieutenant was sent home due to illness and the guy who replaced him had suffered an epileptic seizure. However, minutes into the Operation, PFC Todd Blackburn slips and misses the rope as the Black Hawk banks to avoid an incoming RPG. Eversman is dismayed at a casualty this early into the Operation and frantically ropes down and administers first aid with the help of his Chalk's medic, Doc. Schmidt.

Meanwhile, Delta Operators storm the target building and capture all of the prisoners. Norm Hoot radios for extraction via the convoy, Uniform 64, led by Danny McKnight. Eversman and half of his Chalk carry Blackburn on a compact litter. Blackburn was eventually loaded into a humvee, with Sgt. Streuker driving the lead humvee. However, on their way back to base, the first fatality is claimed in the form of Sgt. Dominick Pilla as he is shot while manning the 50. cal of Streuker's humvee. He falls on the lap of SP4 Thomas, who is later badly shaken up and nearly ends up not joining them going back into the city.

Back in Mogadishu, Cliff Wolcott's Black Hawk, Super 6-1 is shot in the tail rotor by an RPG. It crash lands, killing both Wolcott and his co-pilot, Briley. One wounded Delta operator Staff Sergeant Daniel Busch crawls out of the chopper and defends it valiantly with his CAR-15, wounded several times but holding back militia until help arrives. Star 4-1, "a little bird" lands next to the crashed Black Hawk. The pilot defends the Little Bird with a submachine gun while his co-pilot Chief Warrant Officer Keith Jones escorts the wounded Delta operator back onto the Little Bird for immediate medivac.

Chalk 4, led by Eversman arrives on scene having witnessed the Black Hawk go down and proceed towards it on foot, leaving behind Twombly and Nelson to hold the defensive perimeter they were supposed to do initially. On the way there, they encounter several obstacles such as technicals and bullet wounds, namely Scott Galentine having his thumb blown off. Eversman's chalk and First Lt. Tom DiTomasso's chalk set up a defensive perimeter around Super 6-1 and wait for the SAR Bird to arrive and drop medics on scene.

Super 6-8 arrived with medics aboard, but took heavy small arms fire. Despite that, the medics are successfully inserted and the bird flies away.

The prisoners are loaded up into the convoy, which eventually moves out towards the crash site. Captain Steele led a force of Rangers and Delta Operatives towards the crash site on foot. Along the way, they encounter heavy enemy resistance, during which several soldiers were wounded, some badly. Eventually, after taking many casualties, they decide to stronghold an empty building and wait for the convoy, which is lost, bullet ridden and beleaguered making its way through the streets of Mogadishu. Sergeant First Class Paul Howe (Sanderson) argues with Captain Steele that there are still men pinned down at the crash site and wants to take a small contingent on foot. After a heated argument, Steele agrees to let Sanderson take his Delta men, and Grimes, who is a member of Chalk 4 and was separated during the start.

The convoy moving through the streets of Mogadishu is under heavy fire, with unreliable directions which leads to them around in circles. They suffer many casaulties, including one where a Delta operative (Tim Griz) has his legs blown off by an RPG and a driver of a truck (SPC Richard 'Alphabet' Kowalewski) has an unexploded RPG lodged inside his body. Eventually, the battered convoy is given the go-ahead to return to base.

Super 6-4, piloted by Mike Durant is ordered to take up the holding pattern formerly taken up by Super 6-1. After getting into positions, his Black Hawk is also struck by an RPG. Initially, all systems look good, but then the tail rotor gives out and Super 6-4 goes down as well. Since most of the force is dealing with Super 6-1, and there was only one SAR bird as no one expected two Black Hawks to be shot down, no medivac was available for Super 6-4. Streuker's Humvees are ordered to go back to assist Super 6-4. However, they cannot get there in time and Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart, two Delta snipers aboard Super 6-2 request to be inserted and provide defense for the fallen crew until a larger rescue squad arrives. After having their request rejected several times, Command eventually agrees for the two of them to be inserted. Fighting their way to the downed chopper, they rescue an injured Mike Durant and then heroically defend the chopper against mighty odds, as both of them are mortally wounded. Gordon is killed first, as Shughart then hands Duran Gordon's carbine, telling him 'Gordy's gone man, I'll be outside. Good luck,' before leaving and subsequently being killed himself. The crash site is overrun and Durant is taken prisoner.

All is quiet for a while, with both sides reaching a stalemate. Streuker's Humvees are not able to find a way to the crash site due to roadblocks, so Hoot offers to take a small contingent to it on foot, much like Sanderson earlier. They arrive at the crash site and find it deserted, albeit some looters which are scared off by Hoot. They then set out to destroy the Black Hawk as it contains documents and equipment that is best kept out of Somali hands.

Meanwhile, Twombly and Nelson, the two Chalk 4 machine gunners, who were meant to return with the Humvees are lost, and as they desperately try to find the crash site they are reunited with Yurek. As they reach Eversman's position, Twombly's radio is shot and, in a bid to save his comrade, Cpl. Jamie Smith is shot and mortally wounded. He would bleed to death later, despite desperate attempts to save him.

Hoot and his men arrive at the scene and they regroup with Eversman while a rescue convoy is formed. After a while, the sounds of fighting can be heard in the distance and Hoot asks Eversman, 'Well, shall we?' Eversman, regaining his confidence, leads his team for valour and professionalism, even marking the target building with a strobe himself so the Little Birds can perform a minigun and rocket strafing run. Afterwards, someone shouts 'The convoy is here!' as indeed, a convoy of 10th Mountain Division soldiers in Malaysian and Pakistani vehicles, along with the remnants of the lost convoy. They arrive to assist the beleagued soldiers, but it is not until early next morning before they are able to leave as it takes several hours to cut through the kevlar of the Black Hawk cockpit to retrieve Cliff Wolcott's body, as 'no man is left behind.' The APCs are full, so several of the leading characters must run the last mile on foot, also known as the Mogadishu Mile. They return without encountering significant resistance.

Back at the base, the soldiers collapse and the wounded are taken care of, while Eversman sees Hoot stock up on ammunition, and asks him whether he's going back out there or not. Hoot delivers his monologue and takes off, remarking that it's Monday and they had started a whole new week. The movie ends with Eversman speaking to Jamie Smith, promising to fulfill his final requests.

18 American soldiers and 1 Malaysian soldier were killed on the day covered, with a Delta, Matthew Rierson killed during a mortar attack on the base 2 days later. It is estimated that over a thousand Somali civilians and militia lost their lives. Mohamed Farrah Aidid was killed on August 2, 1996 during a battle with the rival militia . Major General William F. Garrison retired the following day.

Behind Enemy Lines

The film's fictional plot is centered on a story of uncovering a massacre in the Bosnian War of 1992-1995 by an American airman.

Admiral Leslie Reigart's (Gene Hackman) carrier battle group is in the final stages of a NATO peace keeping deployment when the F/A-18F Super Hornet of Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) and his pilot Jeremy Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht) is shot down by a SA-13 SAM controlled by renegade Serbian forces led by General Miroslav Lokar (Olek Krupa). Lokar is committing a secret genocidal campaign against the Bosniak people in a no-fly zone that the NATO plane violates and photographs; wanting to avoid being discovered, Lokar has the plane shot down and executes Stackhouse while Burnett escapes to the countryside.

From then on Burnett is on the run, narrowly escaping from the Serb attack time after time. A Serb sniper and right hand man of Lokar, Sasha (Vladimir Mashkov) is sent to get rid of Burnett. Bazda steps on a mine and his ally Sasha leaves him to die. Burnett is chased by Sasha and escapes death after he slides off a dam while being shot at by Sasha. He makes his way to Hac, a small town in Bosnia on the back of a pickup with a group of fighters. The entire town is at an all out war. When Serbian forces attack the mall he and the fighters are hiding in, he manages to flee by disguising himself in a Serb militant outfit after dressing up a dead Serb militant with his pilot suit. He loses his radio in the attack. All the while he maintains contact with his Admiral, to lead him to a safe point for a rescue attempt. The resulting attempt to rescue the downed aviator are complicated by political considerations which are enforced on Reigart by his NATO commanding officer Admiral Juan Miguel Piquet (Joaquim de Almeida). The situation intensifies when Serbs claim that the downed aviator was shot dead by Bosnian guerrillas, after they find their dead soldier in the pilot suit.

Finally, he manages to contact the carrier via a locater in his ejection seat. The Serbian sniper tracks Burnett and waits for him to move when he hears the noise of a helicopter and he moves in for the kill. But Burnett emerges from the snow and stabs him. Then Serbian tanks, armour vehicles and infantry surround Burnett. Then U.S helicopters appear and fire on the Serbs. Near the helicopter Burnett turns back for the photographs of the massacre. Under a hail of bullets he retrieves the disk and is rescued. After the rescue he hands over the disc containing the photographic evidence to Reigart.

Volcano

Tommy Lee Jones stars as Mike Roark, a divorced Los Angeles emergency official who takes charge when a volcano grows out of the La Brea Tar Pits. A river of lava flows down Wilshire Boulevard, through the Metro Red Line subway tunnel, and creates a fountain of lava next to the Beverly Center shopping mall in Beverly Hills. The lava destroys one subway train in the Red Line, kills the Metro chairman by melting him, burns cars, firemen, homes, and fire trucks, and burns down the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

In spite of placing himself and his teenage daughter in danger, Mike decides to save the city by diverting the river of lava (with the help of demolition teams) into the concrete channel of Ballona Creek, which allows the lava to flow safely into the Pacific Ocean. But there's a problem. San Vicente Boulevard does not slope down like Mike is thinking. It slopes the opposite direction and the lava will not flow into the creek; it will instead flow the opposite direction; right into the thousands of patients at Cedars Sinai Hospital. So Mike orders the demolition team to plant charges in both the street and the Beverly Center but as they do; the lava hits a block on the Red Line subway and a massive geyser of lava erupts out of San Vicente Boulevard, threatening the Beverly Center and its occupants. Moments later, when all the charges are planted, they are fired one by one and the new 22-story Beverly Heights apartment building just across from the Beverly Center comes crashing down just as Mike Roark saves his daughter Kelly and a little boy named Tommy. Moments later, the lava hits the Pacific Ocean, bringing to an end Mt. Wilshire's reign of terror.

Hellboy

In 1944, aided by the German Nazis' military and scientific departments researching the occult, the Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin spent five years building a huge machine, a dimensional portal device on an island off the coast of Scotland, which he intends to use to bring about the destruction of Earth by awakening the Ogdru Jahad (The Seven Gods of Chaos), monstrous entities which have been imprisoned and asleep since an undisclosed time. Rasputin's magical abilities alone can't sustain the power which the portal requires to remain open, which is why he uses the device to amplify and enhance his abilities. As his time to open the portal nears, he turns his attentions to his servant Ilsa von Haupstein, a member of the Nazi party, and grants her long life, youth and beauty along with the will to serve only him. Also in his employ is Nazi Colonel Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, who seemingly can't be killed. Kroenen has been decorated by Adolf Hitler for his work as one of the Nazi Party's most brutal leaders, and is Director of the Thule Occult Society, the Nazis's occult research division, and (as Rasputin's lackey) has been aiding in the construction of the portal.

However, the United States has sent forces of their own, along with a young doctor, Professor Trevor Bruttenholm, who is well-versed in terms of magic and sorcery. After deploying on the island, they watch in silence as Rasputin activates the portal and announces that "what [he] is about to do, can never be undone." After establishing the portal leading to the Ogdru Jahad, Rasputin is vulnerable because he can't simply disengage the link. At this point, fighting breaks out between the Nazi and American soldiers. In the midst of the battle, Bruttenholm manages to toss a grenade at the portal; trying to save his master, Kroenen goes after it and becomes impaled by rebar after the grenade detonates. With the device damaged, Rasputin's life force is drawn through the portal and he disappears through to the other side, seemingly dead.

Although he is lightly wounded, Bruttenholm orders the soldiers to maintain a lookout around the area as anything could have come through the portal due to the length of time Rasputin successfully held it open. The doctor's suspicions are confirmed when he and a photographer/soldier discover a bright red creature with a right arm seemingly made from stone moving amongst the crypt they were searching (revealed to be the demon Anachnu Korim Ve Ish Tachameem Oomo-odeem). Saving the creature from being shot to death by the other soldiers, Bruttenholm coaxes the creature into his arms with a candy bar, Bruttenholm discovers that the demon was a new-born baby demon, and later on that morning, the soldiers all make the creature their official mascot and give it the nickname "Hellboy."

Sixty years later, a young FBI agent named John Myers is sent from Quantico, Virginia to a building in Newark, New Jersey which is identified as Squeaky Clean Waste Management Services. This building is actually the physical location for the Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense, which is run by Professor Bruttenholm. Bruttenholm tells Myers about their functions, then leaves him to be introduced to Hellboy through another agent, named Clay. Clay is Hellboy's primary bodyguard and housekeeper; he makes sure that Hellboy doesn't go AWOL and is always on hand to receive missions involving special 'parameters.' Also employed with the BPRD is a fish-like creature named Abe Sapien, who has a very advanced psychic ability, and Liz Sherman, a firestarter who has yet to learn to control her pyrotechnic abilities and is implied to have unintentionally injured people when overly emotional.

Meanwhile, Kroenen and Ilsa find a sacred cave and maze in the mountains of Moldavia. Kroenen deceives and stabs his guide to death, spilling his blood into an engraved portal and resurrecting Rasputin. Rasputin and his companions travel to New York and the Machen Library of Paranormal Artifacts. There, they release a demon known as Sammael, who resembles a hell-hound with a distinct insectoid appearance, and because of magical influence from Rasputin himself- now possesses the ability to split his essence in two each time he is killed, thus resulting in two Sammaels being reborn for every one that is killed.

Hellboy has to defend the city, battling the Sammaels through alleys, streets, and the subway, while trying to protect his friends from each attack. He and the team are first employed on a mission to a museum were he encounters the first Sammael. Hellboy later discovers that the Sammael deployed eggs in the city sewers. He, Sapien, and a group of agents go to the sewers. This results to the most of the team getting killed by the Sammaels that hatched from the eggs. While Sapien is wounded, Hellboy and agent Clay pursue Kroenen who appears just in front of them. The two get separated and Hellboy confronts a Sammael in a train station which ends up killing. Clay, waiting for Hellboy in the sewers, finds Kroenen. This leads Clay to fire at him, but Kroenen appears to be inmune to bullets. Just before Clay can reload his gun, he is stabbed by Kroenen repeatedly and falls unconscious. Kroenen also pretends to be defeated just before Hellboy arrives and calls for medivac. It is later revealed at the hospital that Sapien is going to be okay but that two agents died and that Clay wasn't going to survive to see the morning. Hellboy gets mad.

He is eventually pushed over the edge when Rasputin has Kroenen kill Professor Bruttenholm, who grasps onto a rosary as he dies.

Director Tom Manning takes over the BPRD and with the help of Hellboy and the others manages to find Rasputin at a mausoleum outside Moscow, Russia. Hellboy kills Kroenen to avenge the death of his adoptive father. Meanwhile Liz, with some help from Myers, lets go of the fear that has prevented her from unleashing her full potential and uses her pyrokinetic powers to encase herself in blue fire which she unleashed in a 'nova' effect, which she used to incinerate the army of Sammael demons. Unfortunately, Hellboy, Liz, and Myers are captured by Rasputin and Ilsa. Obsessed with wanting Hellboy to fulfill his destiny, Rasputin sucks Liz's soul away, killing her, and tells Hellboy that Liz will come back to life if he opens the locks of the stone that will open the portal to the Ogdru Jahad. Hellboy, caring for Liz, transforms into his true power as Anung un Rama, growing giant red horns and breathing hot breath. Just before Hellboy opens the locks with his right hand of doom that will activate the Ogdru Jahad's transformation of Earth into Hell, Myers reminds Hellboy of his Catholic faith and tosses Broom's crucifix necklace into Hellboy's grasp. Hellboy realizes that it means much more to him to live life on Earth as it is and snaps off his horns, causing the Ogdru Jahad to vanish from the world. As Rasputin expresses his disappointment in Hellboy, Hellboy stabs him with one of his broken horns.

However, Rasputin does not die; he is possessed by a demon from the Ogdru Jahad. This gigantic demon bursts out of Rasputin's body, grows to immense size, and crushes Rasputin and Ilsa. Hellboy grabs a stone sword from a nearby statue and attacks the demon's tentacles, then allows himself to be swallowed with a live band of hand grenades into its gullet. The demon dies in the resulting explosion. Liz's vital signs are gone when Hellboy returns from the fight, but he whispers into her ear and suddenly her life is restored. When she asks why her soul was returned, Hellboy replies that he simply told the demons of Hell the cost of taking her: "Hey, you on the other side. Let her go. Because for her I'll cross over, and then you'll be sorry." She and Hellboy kiss as she surrounds them in blue flame and our narrator tells us what truly makes a man, "Not how he starts things, but how he ends them."

Dare Devil

The film begins in medias res with Daredevil clutching a cross at the top of a church, bleeding. He begins to make his way inside the church, to escape from the police spotlights. He is too injured to continue and collapses. The priest of the church comes along, holds a candle to his face, calling his proper name. Matthew Murdock then tells the story of his life as it flashes before his eyes.

When he was a boy, Matt often got beat up by the local bullies. He would come home to talks from his father, Jack, a washed-up boxer, who demanded he never fight back, for fear that his son wouldn't amount to anything, instead insisting he study and become a doctor or a lawyer. Together they live alone, albeit happily. One day, Matt sees Jack beating up a stranger, operating as an enforcer for the local mob boss, Fallon. As Matt runs away, he is trapped as a forklift smashes into radioactive biohazard chemicals that spill into Matt's eyes, blinding him. He cannot see, but his other four senses obtain superhuman sharpness, and he learns to perceive his surroundings by human echolocation. Blaming himself for his son's condition, Jack regains his dignity and returns to professional boxing; he is later murdered by Fallon for refusing to throw a fight. Wilson Fisk, the man who would later be the crime don known as Kingpin, gives the final death blow to Jack, killing him. Matt promises to fight evil and avenge his father.

In a well-known scene, the Daredevil logo is depicted in flames.

Years later, Murdock works as an attorney in Hell's Kitchen by day, becoming at night the vigilante known as Daredevil. As a lawyer, Matt seeks always to defend those who are innocent of any crime, spurning all other clients despite the insistence of his partner Foggy. As Daredevil, Matt seeks out and punishes those whom he cannot convict in the courtroom. He fights crime in solitude, until he meets the martial artist Elektra Natchios (Garner). Murdock becomes infatuated with Elektra and courts her. She, eventually, comes to reciprocate his emotions. In the meantime, reporter Ben Urich (Pantoliano), who has been investigating Daredevil, finds a clue that reveals Murdock as the vigilante.

After Elektra's father is killed by the Kingpin's assassin, Bullseye (Farrell), she believes the murderer to be Daredevil due to the weapon used. Armed with two sais, she locates him and attacks, beating the reluctant Daredevil by stabbing a Sai into his left shoulder. She removes Daredevil's mask, revealing his true face; before explanations can be made, Bullseye attacks. A short battle ensues, ending when Bullseye kills Elektra with her own sai. Daredevil sets out to avenge Elektra's death, fighting Bullseye in the church where he collapsed at the beginning of the film. The collapse is here explained as part of Daredevil's fights. The church itself is Daredevil's sanctuary, concealed by Father Stevens, the priest shown at the opening, who is Matthew's guide and mentor. Daredevil defeats Bullseye by throwing him through the church window, where he lands on a police car.

Daredevil then goes to Fiskcorp to fight Kingpin, beating him in single combat. Here it is revealed that the Kingpin's obesity is an illusion, created by a rotund stomach and the partial concealment of heavily muscled limbs; this is opposed to the comic series, wherein the obesity was factual. At one point in the fight, Kingpin gains the upper hand; unable to locate him, Daredevil breaks a water-pipe, causing the water to drench and thereby outline his enemy. He gains the information by which to strike Kingpin down. Matt had earlier used this method to gain a visual image of Elektra's face, which he believed very beautiful.

Daredevil spares the Kingpin after revealing his secret identity as Matt Murdock. The Kingpin promises him that he will be released from prison eventually and that Daredevil's secret won't be safe. Matt accepts this, choosing to meet the challenge when it comes. When Kingpin threatens to reveal Murdock's identity to the underworld, Murdock counters that if he did, the Kingpin would fall into disgrace for having lost a fight to a blind man.

Throughout the film, Murdock deals with the moral implications of being a vigilante, and tries to prove that he is not a villain. His decision to spare Kingpin is a means of proving the latter to himself, on the grounds that a villain would have killed his opponent. The film ends with Ben Urich, who realizes that a man like Daredevil is needed, deciding at the last moment to delete the article he had composed, and even encouraging Murdock to carry on with his fight.

True Lies

The movie begins, James Bond-style, as secret agent Harry Tasker (Schwarzenegger) infiltrates the alpine Mansion of an international arms smuggler. Harry's mission is to track down nuclear warheads stolen from Kazakhstan. He is aided by his fellow Omega Sector agents, Albert "Gib" Gibson (Arnold) and Faisil (Grant Heslov), who communicate with him from a computerized van, waiting outside the mansion. Inside the Mansion, Tasker meets Juno Skinner (Carrere), an antiquities dealer, and the two dance the tango (over the song "Por Una Cabeza" - William Schimmel's version [1]) while Harry arranges an explosive escape.

In a twist for an action hero, Tasker has an ordinary home life. His wife, Helen (Curtis), is unaware that her husband is a spy and believes he is a computer salesman. Helen thinks Harry is boring, and their daughter Dana (Dushku), doesn't respect her father.

Working undercover, Harry and Gib contact Juno Skinner at her Washington D.C. office. It turns out Skinner is using antiques to smuggle the nuclear warheads into the United States on behalf of a radical Islamic terrorist group named "Crimson Jihad". The group's leader, Salim Abu Aziz (Malik), follows Harry and Gib when he believes they are asking too many questions.

An extended action sequence begins as Harry allows the faction members to tail him into a shopping center. He leads them into a restroom, which is destroyed in the subsequent melee. Aziz flees the battle on a stolen motorcycle, followed by Harry on a stolen police horse. The chase leads into a hotel, where Aziz rides the motorcycle into an elevator. The pursuit continues on the hotel roof, where Aziz escapes by riding the motorcycle off the roof into a swimming pool on the roof of a neighboring building. Harry tries to pursue but the horse refuses to jump and Harry ends up hanging over the edge.

Because of this action, Harry is late getting home and misses his own birthday party. To make amends, he visits Helen at her office the next day. He overhears Helen talking with a co-worker about her affair with Simon (Paxton). The subplot that follows (for the next third of the film) involves Harry's use of his agency's surveillance methods to learn more about Helen's liaison with Simon. At first, Harry believes Simon is an enemy agent, but soon discovers that Simon is a used car salesman who pretends to be a spy in order to seduce women. Harry and his team follow Helen to Simon's house, which they raid using SWAT tactics and a helicopter. Helen is taken prisoner and interrogated by Harry and Gib, who have disguised their voices. Under interrogation, Helen admits that she never slept with Simon, but that she craves adventure that she believes her husband can never provide. For kicks, Harry and Gib (dressed in spy garb and driving a white van) bring Simon to the top of a high dam where they intimidate him. Simon, dressed only in an undershirt and boxer shorts, thinks they are going to kill him. He tells them his whole scheme and soils himself. He finally folds to the point where he says, "Listen, I'm not a spy. I'm nothing! I'm navel lint! I have to lie to women to get laid. I got a little dick!; it's pathetic." The duo cock a gun and then Simon unsightly urinates and Harry and Gib leave him at the dam.

Harry gives Helen an assignment he thinks will appeal to her need for excitement. He enlists her in a mock spy operation which leads her to a hotel suite where she performs a striptease for Harry, who hides his face in shadow. Just as Helen discovers Harry through his disguise, the terrorists (Crimson Jihad) burst into the room, and Harry and Helen are taken prisoner.

At the terrorists' hideout, a small island near the town of Marathon in the Florida Keys, Aziz reveals that his faction has four of the stolen nuclear warheads and intends to detonate them. One is armed and set to blow up the island. Harry weakly apologizes to Helen just as she gives him a solid punch to the face that sends him to the ground. The two are eventually tied up. Skinner shows up, embarrassing Harry in the process by manipulating Helen into believing they may have had an affair (which they didn't). Helen only finds out more about Harry's secret past when Harry is injected with truth serum from a sadistic doctor he who eventually kills during his escape from the torture room.

A gun battle follows and most of the terrorists are killed, but one of the stolen nuclear warheads is set to detonate. The remaining terrorists flee the hideout with the other warheads. Harry and Helen separate during the battle. Aziz fires a rocket launcher at Harry, setting off an explosion and thinks he has eliminated Harry, but he escapes by jumping into the water. Helen is taken hostage by Skinner.

Once reunited with Gib, Harry coordinates an attack on the terrorist convoy, which is driving up the Overseas Highway connecting the Florida Keys. A truck carrying one of the nuclear warheads is blown up and part of the bridge is destroyed. In the limo, Helen attacks Skinner when her guard is down, in the ensuing fight, for control of the gun, the limo driver is killed, causing the limo to accelerate out of control towards the damaged part of the bridge. Harry eventually manages to rescue Helen just as the limo descends into the water through a destroyed portion of the bridge (presumably sending Skinner to her death in the process). Two of the stolen warheads are destroyed, while the bomb back at the hideout is allowed to explode relatively harmlessly.

Eliza Dushku as Dana, Harry Tasker's daughter.

Harry's daughter is kidnapped (offscreen) by Aziz and his terrorists. Harry goes to her rescue in a Harrier jet. There is a climactic battle with Aziz and his men at the top of a skyscraper, with Harry piloting the Harrier jet through the city of Miami.

Meanwhile, Dana steals the key used to detonate the nuclear bomb. This is discovered by Aziz, who chases her along with several henchmen. Dana is chased onto a crane on the roof of the skyscraper, and Dana threatens to drop the key. Harry flies the jet plane to where Dana is, and Dana slips and almost falls off the crane. Aziz grabs his gun, and fires at Harry, which shattered the back of the cockpit canopy. Aziz's henchmen, in a helicopter, flies by and shoots and shatters the front of the cockpit canopy.

Aziz and Dana end up on top of the Harrier, next to a skyscraper. Nervously standing on the jet in mid-air, a panicky Aziz threatens to shoot Dana as she clings to the front of the jet with her father. Harry signals Dana with a nod as she understands and clings on, just as he tips the jet sideways, causing Aziz to fall and his jacket to be caught on one of the jet's air-to-air missiles. "You're fired." Harry says to Aziz just as he launches the projectile through a building and into the helicopter piloted by Aziz's men resulting in a fireball.

The movie concludes "One Year Later..." with the Taskers back at home, though Helen and Dana are now aware of Harry's secret profession. Indeed, Helen has become Harry's partner, and they go off on a mission together. They meet up with Simon, who is still pretending to be a spy to pick up women. They confront him and he again wets himself and runs screaming from the room. The film ends as the couple dance a tango. A cut scene is shown after the credits with Gib in the van complaining about how he's been in the van for 15 years. He also says that next time, it's Harry and Helen's turn to be in the van.

Predator

The film begins with a mysterious spacecraft entering the Earth's atmosphere. On the coast of Guatemala, a US Army Special Forces unit, led by Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer (Arnold Schwarzenegger), is ordered by General Phillips (R. G. Armstrong) to rescue a cabinet minister. Dutch is informed they will be on their own. Former teammember and current CIA agent Major George Dillon (Carl Weathers) joins the team and they travel by helicopters to their destination within the jungle.

They are dropped behind the border where they find a crashed helicopter as well as traces of rebels being followed by U.S. soldiers. This unusual circumstance is noted by the team. They soon discover the slain U.S. soldiers hanging from a tree, all of them skinned and mutilated. Dutch reads the dog tags of one of the victims and realizes it to be his friend, Lieutenant James Hopper, a Green Beret squad leader stationed in Fort Bragg, and questions Dillon as to why Hopper's unit was in the jungle. Evidence from the pitched battle puzzles the team.

They find the guerrilla post, including multiple rebels and Soviet military advisers. The team attacks and destroys the base with little effort and with no casualties on their part, but the prisoners were marked as members of the CIA and assassinated in advance. Dutch puts together the intelligence items gleaned from his team members immediately following the attack, learning that not only was the "cabinet minister" story false, but the slain U.S. soldiers they'd discovered had been ordered to attack the base before disappearing. Dutch angrily confronts Dillon who states that Dutch and his team are "expendable assets". With a female prisoner, Anna, (Elpidia Carrillo) in their custody, the whole group proceeds to their Rendezvous point for extraction near the border. As they move through the jungle, they are unknowingly stalked by an unseen creature who views the group in infra-red and records certain phrases they speak.

The team attempting to kill the Predator. Left to right: Dutch, Mac, Dillon, Poncho, Billy

The group halts when its tracker Billy (Sonny Landham) is disturbed by a mysterious presence hiding within the trees. When Anna attempts to escape, Hawkins (Shane Black) chases her but is killed by the stalking creature.

Blain (Jesse Ventura) is killed moments later while searching for Hawkins' body. When Sergeant "Mac" Eliot (Bill Duke) rushes to assist his fallen comrade, he sees what appears to be a large, transparent creature with flashing eyes. Eliot starts screaming and immediately opens fire and is joined by the remaining members of the unit. In what is known as a "mad minute", all members of the team saturate the jungle with bullets. They stop firing and to their shock, are unable to find any bodies. The team cannot locate Hawkins' body but takes Blain's body with them. What they did not know, but is realized by Anna, was that they had only managed to wound the creature slightly in the leg, leaving a small puddle of glowing green blood on a jungle frond.

That night they decide to set up a "night defensive position" with claymore mines, flares and trip wires. Later the flares go off and Eliot wrestles with what he believes to be the creature that killed his friend, but upon using a flashlight to examine his kill, sees that what he has actually been fighting is a wild boar. The team finds it funny at first, but stop laughing when they realize that the creature used the convenient distraction to come into the camp and make off with Blain's body. Now the remaining team members begin to realize they are dealing with a powerful alien creature. When questioned at daylight, Anna recalls a local legend of villagers disappearing in particularly hot years, much like this one, until their mutilated bodies are discovered. She says that the village women refer to whatever killed them as the "Demon who makes Trophies of Men." Dutch decides to lay a trap for the creature knowing now that they are all being hunted. After the various traps are set, Dutch walks out into the clearing to get the creature to move and expose itself. Suddenly a huge thing trips a net trap, but the creature struggles free, shooting in all directions and causing a dead fall log to swing down and seriously injure Poncho (Richard Chaves).

Mac and Dillon pursue the Predator claiming that they want "payback" for their lost comrades, only to find the creature waiting for them as they are killed by its advanced weaponry and tricked by its playback of phrases like "over here" in their voices. Dutch, Billy, Pancho, and Anna struggle through the jungle towards the extraction point. At a huge log bridge, Billy stays behind to make a suicide-stand against the Predator, which buys the survivors some time. The creature kills Billy easily and catches up with the rest and kills Poncho and slightly wounds Dutch. Realizing that the Predator will not kill an unarmed person as it would be "unsporting", Dutch refuses to give Anna a gun and tells her to flee towards the extraction location.

Although wounded, and with the creature catching up, Dutch escapes by sliding off of a cliff and dropping into a huge river eventually going over a large waterfall and crawling out through the mud at the water's edge. The Predator continues his pursuit, landing in the water seconds behind Dutch. Covered in mud, Dutch finally sees the creature when the advanced technology that warped visible light is damaged and waits for his own death. But the creature doesn't appear to see him. Once the creature leaves, Dutch realizes the creature couldn't see him because he was covered in mud. The mud blocked the heat from his body and made him invisible to infrared vision. The creature goes to where he had left Mac's, Dillon's and Billy's, bodies so that he could prepare his human trophies. Meanwhile Dutch, lacking firearms, prepares to fight the creature by creating a variety of primitive weapons, including bow and arrows, and two M203 grenades he has left, converting the shells into improvised explosive arrows. As Dutch arms himself for battle, the Predator cleans the skulls of his victims to display as trophies. The scene is set for the final showdown between the two.

After nightfall, Dutch starts a large fire and lets out an intense war cry and awaits the creature's arrival. Dutch surprises the creature using a modified explosive-tipped arrow once again making the creature visible and the creature fires his plasma caster energy weapon all over the jungle trying to flush Dutch out into the open. Dutch gets his two spears he had made and follows a trail of the creatures blood, but that is exactly what the predator wanted him to do. The creature circled around Dutch to find him in a little hole. Dutch makes a run for it but ends up falling in a river, washing away his mud disguise. The creature corners Dutch. The two face each other and the creature decides to remove his high-tech weapons in favor of more sporting hand to hand combat. The creature casts off its firearms and its mask, showing its true face and a fight follows where, because of the huge difference in size, Dutch seems to be getting the worse of the fight. But, Dutch tricks the alien into following him into a booby trap, springing a huge log which crushes the Predator.

The creature, now mortally wounded and covered in its own glowing blood, activates a self-destruct device attached to its wrist and begins to mimic a maniacal laugh patterned after Billy's voice which the creature had copied. Dutch immediately runs for cover as the creature self-destructs and a massive explosion ignites the jungle. As dawn breaks the rescue helicopter with General Phillips and Anna arrives on the scene (which shortly before had been hidden by a mushroom cloud) and encounters Dutch standing alone on the scorched plain. Flying back to safety, Dutch stares at the jungle in mournful silence.

Cliffhanger

In the opening scene, hotshot mountain climber and rescue worker Gabe Walker (Sylvester Stallone) meets with his friends Hal Tucker (Michael Rooker) and Jessie Deighan (Janine Turner) on a narrow peak in the Rocky Mountains. While moving from one mountaintop to another via a steel cable, Hal's girlfriend Sarah's harness breaks and she is left dangling over a deep chasm. While the others frantically come up with a solution, Gabe straps himself in and goes out to save Sarah, but fails.

Months later, Gabe returns to town for the first time since Sarah's funeral. Overcome with guilt over having lost Sarah, Gabe has returned only to pack up his remaining possessions so he can leave permanently. However, a radio distress call comes in to the local rescue center where Hal and Jessie still work. Hal heads off to find the stranded climbers while Jessie pleads with Gabe to join Hal's rescue attempt. Battling his inner demons, Gabe meets Hal on the mountain, where the latter, still angry with Gabe for failing to save Sarah, lashes out and almost throws Gabe off the cliff.

The rescue turns out to be a fake; the two climbers are taken prisoner by ruthless thieves led by Eric Qualen (John Lithgow), who seeks to recover three suitcases containing $100 million in uncirculated US currency belonging to the United States Department of the Treasury. With the aid of turncoat Treasury agent Richard Travers (Rex Linn), Qualen and his associates attempt to steal the suitcases via a daring air-to-air transfer, but the transfer is foiled and the three suitcases are lost among the mountains. The thieves' plane loses power during the attempt and crashes. The suitcases holding the money have beacon locators, but the thieves need expert help locating them in the mountainous terrain, thus prompting them to summon the unwitting Gabe and Hal to their aid.

The group locates the first of the three cases, and Gabe is tethered to a rope and ordered to scale a steep wall to retrieve it. Gabe frees himself from the rope, and the group begins firing up the cliff, causing an avalanche which kills one of Qualen's men. Seeing the money flutter down from the top of the cliff, Qualen presumes Gabe dead and orders the group to proceed to the second case.

Walker survives the avalanche and makes his way to an abandoned cabin where he finds Jessie, who was airlifted into the area earlier. Together, they reach the second case only moments before Qualen and his mercenaries arrive. They find the case empty (except for a single $1000 bill with the words "Want to Trade?" written on it) and split up to find Gabe. A fight ensues between Gabe and one of the thieves, resulting in the latter plummeting into the darkness. The thieves, with Hal still as their guide, make their way to the abandoned cabin for the night while Gabe and Jessie throw the money into a fire and lay down to sleep.

The following morning, Gabe and Jessie attempt to beat the thieves to the remaining case. Qualen flags down and commandeers a rescue helicopter while Travers, Hal, and the last remaining mercenary track the case. Once within a reasonably close distance to the case, Travers leaves the mercenary to kill Tucker, only to find that Gabe has beaten him to the case once again. Gabe kills Travers while Hal manages to dispatch the remaining mercenary. Meanwhile, Jessie, who signaled the rescue helicopter thinking it to be a fellow rescue team member, is taken hostage by Qualen.

Communicating by radio, Qualen and Gabe make a deal to exchange Jessie for the money Gabe collected from the third case. Qualen releases Jessie, but Gabe throws the bag of money into the helicopter's rotors. In the following confusion, Qualen's helicopter falls precariously against the side of the mountain, suspended by a steel cable. Gabe and Qualen fight atop the dangling wreck. Gabe manages to jump off as the wreckage plummets several thousand feet, carrying Qualen with it. The film ends as Gabe, Hal, and Jessie are found by federal agents and rescued.

Conair

Cameron Poe, a highly decorated and honorably discharged United States Army Ranger returns to Alabama from his tour of duty in the Gulf War to reunite himself with his pregnant wife, a waitress at a local diner. Upon leaving the diner, he and his wife are assaulted by three belligerent customers, and Poe accidentally kills one of them in self-defense. He pleads guilty to manslaughter charges on the recommendation of his attorney, but receives the maximum sentence of 7-10 years because his military skills classify him a deadly weapon. He is incarcerated before his daughter is born.

Poe maintains correspondence with his daughter throughout the duration of his sentence. During this time, elements of his personality reveal a sense of honor, nobility, and utilizing violence only as a last resort to resolving conflicts. To pass the time, Poe becomes a heavy reader, learns Spanish and origami. He develops a close friendship with fellow prisoner Mike "Baby-O" O'Dell. He is paroled on his daughter's seventh birthday, having served seven years in prison.

Poe is scheduled to fly home to Alabama along with an assortment of inmates bound for a new Supermax prison being constructed in his home state. The inmates are incarcerated for a variety of extreme offenses, ranging from serial- and mass-murder to an assortment of petty offenses. Many are extremely dangerous and chained to their individual transport cages inside the C-123 airplane, including William "Billy Bedlam" Bedford, Nathan "Diamond Dog" Jones and Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom.

The transfer is overseen by U.S. Marshal Vince Larkin (John Cusack), brought in to ensure a safe and efficient transfer and DEA agent Duncan Malloy (Colm Meaney), interested in planting an undercover officer among the officers & inmates to acquire valuable intelligence from one of the convicts on the flight. Larkin discourages Malloy's intent to plant an armed undercover DEA agent aboard the plane. Malloy grudgingly accepts the conditions, but slips the agent a concealed firearm in his sock just before he boards the plane.

After take-off several of the prisoners remove hidden pins from beneath their skin. One of the inmates, Pinball (Dave Chappelle), retrieves petrol and matches lodged in his throat and ignites a fellow convict, causing a distraction and allowing Grissom and Jones the opportunity to unlock their restraints. Pinball opens Grissom and Jones's security cages. The inmates revolt, killing or detaining the guards in the cabin and killing the co-pilot with the security firearm. Grissom instructs the pilot to reassure the control tower below that the flight is on schedule, and the inmates take control of the plane.

As Pinball unlocks the restraints of the undercover DEA agent he discovers his hidden gun. The agent panics and immediately takes Pinball hostage and starts making demands for a prompt landing. After being momentarily distracted, the agent is shot by Grissom. The plane makes its scheduled landing in Carson City for a prisoner swap, where an assortment of prisoners and guards disguised as prisoners (to stand in for prisoners killed in the takeover) are transferred off the plane. Several other convicts are transferred aboard the plane. One of them is Garland "The Marietta Mangler" Greene, a notorious serial killer. Another is Francisco Cindino, the mastermind of the operation, a prominent drug lord that drafted the other prisoners into the operation in exchange for asylum in "non-extradition territory".

For the duration of the movie Poe remains the anti-hero, thrust into a heroic stance to protect both Baby-O, who suffers from diabetes and needs a now-missing insulin shot, and one of the female guards, who is restrained and of particular interest to "Johnny 23," an infamous serial rapist, with "23" being the number of his victims. Poe, on numerous occasions, is responsible for alerting local authorities to the dire situation of the plane and, in one sequence, writes messages to Larkin on the shirt of Pinball (he died during the rush to get back on the Jailbird in Carson City after he removes the plane's transponder), which he drops out of the plane onto the streets of a crowded city. He is successful in concealing his identity until the end of the film, where he actively resists the inmates on the plane and aids Larkin on a ground chase through Las Vegas after the plane famously crashes on the Las Vegas Strip. The end of the chase sees Cyrus crushed by a large machine, Poe reunited with his daughter (having managed to preserve the stuffed rabbit), and Garland Greene eluding capture and gambling in a casino.

Air Force One

President James Marshall (Ford), on a visit to Moscow, announces in a speech that the United States will not negotiate with terrorists, after an operation by U.S. and Russian Federation special forces captured the tyrannical leader of Kazakhstan, General Ivan Radek (Jürgen Prochnow). With his visit to Moscow complete, the President is now on his way home to Washington, D.C. aboard Air Force One. However, Soviet neo-nationalists posing as a news crew have infiltrated the plane.

One of President's Secret Service detail, Gibbs (Xander Berkeley), works alongside the terrorists; once the plane is aloft, he kills three fellow agents before opening the on-board weapons locker. The terrorists - led by Egor Korshunov (Gary Oldman) - storm the plane and take hostages, including Chief of Staff Lloyd Shepard (Paul Guilfoyle), Military Advisor Major Caldwell (William H. Macy), National Security Advisor Jack Doherty (Tom Everett), and Marshall's wife and daughter. Several others are killed during the shootout, including the military officer charged with carrying and protecting the nuclear launch codes of the United States Strategic Command (carried in a briefcase known as the football). The flight crew declare an emergency and prepare to land at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The President is evacuated to an escape pod by numerous Secret Service agents, who are killed defending him. At the last moment, Marshall flees the escape pod and retreats to the baggage deck. The terrorists kill the pilots and take control of the plane, which takes off again, to the surprise of standby Ramstein crew.

In Washington, D.C, Vice President Kathryn Bennett (Glenn Close) arrives at the White House, assessing the situation alongside the Secretary of Defense Walter Dean (Dean Stockwell) and other officials; they soon learn that Marshall did not board the escape pod. The terrorists call the Vice President, demand the release of General Radek, and threaten to begin executing hostages. This threat is soon realized -- National Security Advisor Doherty is shot and killed when Bennett calls to report that Russian President Petrov will not release Radek (he tells Bennett he would only do so to save President Marshall).

Still on the baggage deck, having already killed one terrorist, Marshall finds a satellite phone. While attempting to call the White House, a second terrorist finds Marshall and detains him; nevertheless, the call reaches the Situation Room. Marshall manages to covertly order an attack on Air Force One so he can subdue the terrorist. The plan works, and Marshall attempts a fuel dump to land the plane. Recognizing the presence of someone on the baggage deck (the terrorists assume him to be a Secret Service agent), Korshunov executes Deputy Press Secretary Melanie Mitchell in an effort to force Marshall's surrender. While two of the terrorists attempt to restore the fuel controls, Marshall slips by and takes another terrorist hostage, using his keys to free the hostages. Major Caldwell proposes a ruse whereby an air-to-air tanker will force Air Force One to an altitude that permits parachuting from the rear of the plane. Many of the hostages escape with parachutes, but then the tanker explodes, stranding the President and his family, Caldwell, Shepard, and Gibbs, all of which are captured and taken to Korshunov.

Korshunov forces the President to call Petrov to secure Radek's release. In Washington, Dean persuades the Cabinet to sign a Presidential Incapacitation Document, but Bennett refuses to sign it. As Radek's release is prepared, Marshall and the hostages free themselves and kill the remaining terrorists, but Korshunov captures Grace and also shoots Chief of Staff Shepard and flees to the parachute ramp. In a vicious fight, Marshall manages to eject Korshunov from the aircraft by deploying the latter's parachute while it is wound around his neck. Marshall calls Petrov before Radek's release, and prison guards kill the former general as he flees.

Kazakh MiG fighter jets loyal to Radek reach Air Force One and inflict serious damage on its engines and maneuvering mechanisms. U.S. fighters intercept and fend off the hostile aircraft just in time to save the President's plane. With Air Force One unable to land, an air-to-air ropeline rescue is arranged. Before the evacuation can be completed, the plane begins a rapid descent with Marshall, Gibbs, Major Caldwell, and a rescuer. Marshall insists on rescuing his family and then a wounded staff member before he evacuates the plane. Once it is the President's turn to leave, Gibbs drops all pretense, killing two of the others. Marshall fights with Gibbs, and escapes on the ropeline, leaving Gibbs aboard the 747, which crashes into the sea. The C-130 rescue aircraft announces that it is now "Air Force One", and the film ends with the plane flying toward safety with the F-15s flying and the First Family aboard.

Doom

The film begins on Mars in 2046, in a research facility at a location known as Olduvai where scientists are running for their lives. One by one, they are grabbed and pulled into the darkness by some unseen monster, screaming in terror. Eventually, all but a Dr. Carmack are killed. As the doctor sends an SOS rescue signal, the "thing" breaks through the door, growls and stares at the doctor, and the scene fades out.

On Earth, a team of elite special ops Marines has their leave interrupted by Sarge (The Rock), who has received a call from Olduvai. As the men suit up, Sarge pulls aside one of his men, John "Reaper" Grimm (Karl Urban), and asks him not to go because his sister is on the station. Reaper suits up anyway, and their team is deployed to Mars via a teleportation device called the Ark, located in Nevada. The Ark was discovered in 2026, and for twenty years scientists have been trying to discover who built it, and why. Upon arriving at the Mars research facility of the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC), they meet a victim of the Ark travel, Pinky (Dexter Fletcher), who had his legs severed by the Ark during an early attempt to use it. They meet up with Dr. Samantha Grimm (Rosamund Pike), Reaper's sister, who explains the situation.

"Reaper" on the left and "Goat" shown on the right.

Their mission is simple: eliminate the threat, secure the facility, and retrieve UAC property. They set off and quickly locate Dr. Carmack, who is disturbed to the point of tearing off his own ear. They return him to the lab, and Dr. Grimm tries to sedate him. John converses with his sister and learns that they have discovered humanoid remains on Mars that contain a 24th chromosome that made the creatures superhuman, invulnerable to disease and with the ability to regenerate quickly. Meanwhile, the Marines continue to explore the facility, encountering strange creatures intent on killing them. One of the creatures, an imp, succeeds in slaying one of the Marines, but is promptly killed and brought to Dr. Grimm. From blood samples taken from two hostile creatures, it is determined that their genetic makeup has been altered by the addition of the 24th chromosome; however, the injected chromosome seems to "choose" whether or not the result causes the person to be superhuman or a monster, using what Dr. Grimm believes to be the unmapped 10% of the human genome, and latching onto what could be a gene that predestines people to be evil. Consequently, the chromosome is classified as an infection, which is later spread by the projectile tongues of those infected.

Through multiple attacks by the imps, the squad is reduced to just Sarge, Reaper, The Kid (Al Weaver), Duke (Razaaq Adoti) and Dr. Grimm. They realize that despite their best efforts, a larger monster called "The Baron" (presumed to be the original infection) has escaped to Earth through the Ark. Before leaving, Sarge takes the Bio Force Gun (BFG9000 of Doom fame), humorously dubbing it the "Big Fucking Gun".

On Earth, the group finds the UAC facility full of bodies. Sarge orders that everyone breathing must be killed to prevent the infection from spreading. The Kid finds a group of living, non-infected humans and reports this to Sarge. He argues that the order should be rescinded ("Go to hell"), but Sarge responds by saying that violating the CO's order is punishable by death and shoots The Kid for insubordination. The group continues through the facility until Duke is killed during a major assault by zombies. In addition to Duke's death, and Sarge being dragged away by the zombies, Reaper is hit by a ricocheting bullet. Consequently, to save his life, Dr. Grimm injects Reaper with Chromosome 24. Rather than becoming one of the monsters, Reaper is endowed with superhuman strength and speed, as well as near instantaneous healing ability.

Following Reaper's change, the movie takes on its first-person shooter perspective, reminiscent of Doom 3. In a span of a few minutes, Reaper slays an array of monsters, including the Baron, several imps, a fair amount of zombies, and Pinky (who has appropriately mutated into a Pinky Demon).

Switching back to a standard camera angle, Reaper emerges at the exit of the facility. Bodies are scattered everywhere, and a blue burning hole in the wall, the mark of a BFG blast, is still settling. Near this hole, Reaper encounters Sarge and an unconscious Dr. Grimm lying on the floor. Reaper asks Sarge what happened to the non-infected survivors, to which he replies that he took care of it: he has killed them. Reaper then notices the same injury on Sarge that Dr. Carmack had before he turned into an Imp. After Dr. Grimm escapes to safety, the two Marines face off, Reaper having exhausted most of his current clip and Sarge similarly limited to a single BFG round. After ineffectively using this ammunition, the two engage in hand-to-hand combat, which favors Sarge. Sarge's transformation begins to manifest during the battle, making him that much stronger. Reaper prevails by throwing Sarge into the Ark, followed by a grenade. The Ark locks down after this, preventing further travel and appearing to seal the fate of both Sarge and the UAC Mars facility. Reaper then retrieves Dr. Grimm, who is just visibly conscious but unable to stand or walk, and holds her in his arms as he uses the elevator to return to the Earth's surface.

Ocean's Thirteen

Danny Ocean's (George Clooney) crew gather around a hospital bed where Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould) lies after suffering a heart attack. A flashback to four weeks earlier shows Reuben meeting with Vegas' most hated businessman, Willy Bank (Al Pacino) on the construction site of their new hotel. After Reuben secures crucial deals for Bank, he is intimidated into giving up his part of the investment, a strategy often employed by the vindictive Bank in previous deals. The shock causes Reuben's heart attack.

The gang swears to take revenge on Bank by utterly ruining his hotel, "The Bank", on the night of its grand opening. They aim to rig the various games at the casino so the players will win instead of the house. Bank was forced to take some hostile investors onto his Board of Directors to open the hotel, and if the house does not make at least $500 million in the first quarter, Bank will be removed from the chairmanship of his own hotel. The team also wishes to destroy any chance of Bank's winning the prestigious Five Diamond Award, the highest distinction granted a hotel. All of Bank's other hotels have won this award, and he has purchased valuable diamond necklaces to commemorate the successes. He has already optimistically purchased a necklace for his new hotel as well.

The main problem they face now is the artificial intelligence security system which 'can not only think, but reason', Greco, for which they hire Roman Nagel (Eddie Izzard) to lend his technical expertise. Their only other problem is how to ensure that all the patrons of the casino leave the place after making their wins but before they can lose their money all over again. Roman reveals the system was designed by a former classmate of his, Greco Montgomery (Julian Sands) and that it's designed to monitor all gamblers' psychological responses upon winning to make sure that they weren't expecting it (indicating a legitimate win). The only way to bypass it is by a huge natural disaster or a magnetron. If the system senses any trouble, it will automatically lock down, and rebooting would take three minutes twenty-one seconds. They rent a large tunnel boring machine, so it will induce an artificial earthquake underneath the hotel by generating the same resonance as the building. This is supposedly the drill that dug the Channel Tunnel from the British side.

Rusty (Brad Pitt) and Danny set about polluting a hotel room with biochemicals and bedbugs. In the lobby, a disguised Saul (Carl Reiner) is in line to check in. He "accidentally" drops a Five Diamond Award folder, catching the attention of Bank's aide, Abigail (Ellen Barkin), who immediately rushes to assist Saul. In line behind them, the genuine Five Diamond Award reviewer (David Paymer), who is supposed to be anonymous, is rudely jolted and then given the chemical-treated room by a bribed clerk. For the rest of his stay, the team ensures that he is treated as if he were an unwanted guest at a one-star hotel — he is not able to eat at the best restaurant so that the team can feed him a contaminated dumpling in the Chinese Restaurant (that gives him food poisoning), has his room filled with a noxious smell, gains multiple rashes from chemicals planted in the room, and is finally evicted from the hotel early by brutish security guards (Virgil and Turk in disguise). Before he leaves, the unhappy reviewer confronts Bank without revealing his identity and walks off.

Virgil Malloy (Casey Affleck) is sent to a Mexican factory to make the rigged dice. Upset by the terrible working conditions at the factory, he leads the workers on strike for better pay. The team sends Virgil's brother Turk (Scott Caan) to get the factory running again, but instead Turk joins the strike. The team eventually pay the factory workers their requested raise ($36,000 for the entire labor force, amounting to a $3.50 per week increase) and the factory reopens.

Disaster strikes when the drill intended to simulate the earthquake breaks down. As the replacement drill (the one that dug the Channel Tunnel from the French side) is only available for purchase and exceeds their budget, they have no choice but to make a deal with their old enemy Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) for funding; Benedict claims he has a rivalry with Bank because Bank's new hotel is blocking his pool from sunlight. Benedict requests that, in return for his financial aid, they double his investment plus steal the diamond necklaces that Bank has purchased in expectation of his Five Diamond accreditation; Ocean, Rusty and Linus reluctantly agree. Soon after, Benedict even plays along with the plan when he coerces Banks into buying a rigged domino table, run by Frank (Bernie Mac), posing as a domino dealer. The diamonds are housed in a glass case in the penthouse and are worth $250 million collectively.

Yen (Shaobo Qin) is introduced as Mr. Weng, a high-roller and rich businessman, and Linus (Matt Damon), disguised with a distinctive nose, as his business manager. Yen the acrobat infiltrates the elevator shafts and air conditioning ducts and discovers that accessing the diamonds from the floor or ceiling will be borderline impossible. The new plan to access the diamonds is for the disguised Linus to seduce Abigail, who has access to the room with the diamonds. When opening night arrives, Linus uses pheromones to seduce her, leading him to the diamond room for privacy. Inside, he inconspicuously places small explosives around the base of the column containing the jewels.

Downstairs, the FBI enters and arrests Livingston (Eddie Jemison), as he has been caught rigging machines. An agent (Bob Einstein) tells Bank that a new set of machines will be coming in shortly. Roman then brings in the rigged machines, putting them in place of the genuine machines. Prints on the machine are matched with Livingston’s, and the casino comes up with a list of known associates- Ocean's Eleven. The list, with pictures, is downloaded to the computer in Bank's office. Basher (Don Cheadle), dressed up as the stunt man for the hotel's opening show that evening, distracts Bank from the computer while Virgil and Turk modify the downloaded names and faces so that the team's cover is preserved.

The infiltrated dice from Turk and Virgil's Mexican factory are distributed throughout the casino. When the team activates their equipment, disguised as Zippo lighters, the dice will flip and stop, manipulating the outcomes of games. Also, a slot is rigged to pay a huge progressive, and Rusty leaves the final dollar coin for the next person who trips the win (since the monitoring system is still active at this point).

With the drill turned on, a mock earthquake begins and Bank rushes to the Greco system. His tampered mobile phone acts as a magnetron, shutting down Greco for three minutes. Bank is trapped in the security office and the rigged games can now be played. Team members in the casino, including Danny, Rusty, Saul, Yen, Frank, and a recovered Reuben, all make sure that everyone who plays at the casino wins, so the casino pays out millions. When the system reactivates, a stronger earthquake is simulated, prompting everyone in the casino to cash in their chips and evacuate, taking away all the money with them.

Upstairs, the FBI agent disrupts Linus and Abigail, revealing Linus was using her to steal the diamonds and replace them with replicas. As Linus is then taken away, the agent is revealed to be his successful criminal father, who is also in on the scheme. As the two reach the helipad to leave, Francois Toulour (Vincent Cassel), alias "the Night Fox" (the antagonist from Ocean's Twelve), reveals himself, after following the whole crew from the start in a partnership with Benedict. Held at gunpoint from Toulour, Linus hands over the diamonds. Toulour throws him the gun, which is revealed to be empty, then base-jumps off the casino roof.

Basher lands the helicopter, and the team detonates the explosives, freeing the diamond case from the floor. The helicopter takes off, detaching the glass case carrying the real diamonds from the building. It is revealed that Linus never switched the diamonds. Danny confronts Bank, who has lost a total of $500 million dollars from the whole ordeal, not including the necklaces, telling him he broke the rules and needed to learn from what he's done; he also states that Bank obviously isn't going to go to the police and that there's no point in Bank threatening him, because all the people Bank could hire to destroy Danny like Danny more than Bank. As the helicopter flies off, an aghast Bank watches shell shocked. As Francois also witnesses this, he discovers his set of diamonds are fake and throws them away.

The team celebrates as the fireworks Bank had organized go off on the stroke of midnight, and Reuben is given the deed to 4.6 acres of land on the Las Vegas Strip. Danny pays a final visit to Benedict, chiding him for his trickery, telling him they were aware of Toulour's presence and informing him that the 72 million dollars promised to Benedict had been donated in Benedict's name to the children's charity "Camp to Belong".

Danny, Rusty, and Linus meet at McCarran airport and watch Benedict being featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show- a reference to a previous scene in which Rusty finds Ocean in his apartment watching the show and crying- for his apparent generous donation, before going their separate ways. Before leaving the airport, Rusty sits down to play a game of slots presumably rigged by Livingston. After rigging the machine to deliver a progressive jackpot on the next play, Rusty gives his seat at the machine to the beleaguered hotel reviewer. Rusty smiles as he walks away, hearing the man scream that he had won the $11 million jackpot as everyone crowds around him and cheers. This is alluded to earlier when several characters are debating how much money they would need to be paid in order to suffer as the reviewer did.