May On Action & Thriller
This month on Sky Movies Action & Thriller we bring you yet another bountiful bag of nail-biting, buttock-clenching thrills and spills with Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond, Chuck Norris in Firewalker and Anthony Hopkins in Fracture!
Take a look at the new movies on Action & Thriller this month, and click on the title for more information.
Blood Diamond
The illegal trade in dodgy gems - blood diamonds - between corrupt African countries and a grasping Western world is the subject of this 22-carat thriller. Leonardo DiCaprio plays an amoral Rhodesian mercenary who strikes a deal with Djimon Hounsou's fisherman to find a rare pink diamond in exchange for the safety of his family. Together they have to negotiate the deadly chicanery of a duplicitous Sierra Leone government just as bent as the revolutionary forces attempting to overthrow it.
Firewalker
Chuck Norris stars as one half of a pair of professional adventurers who are hired by a wealthy woman with a treasure map. The trio tread the jungles and deserts of South America to do battle with mercenaries, indigenous tribes, dictators and a dude with an eye patch in their search for a temple full of gold.
The Gingerbread Man
Kenneth Branagh and Robert Downey Jr. star in this legal thriller based on the novel by John Grisham. Kenneth Branagh, a hot-shot lawyer, estranged from his wife, becomes involved with a girl whose nutty father (Duvall) has stolen her car. Branagh has him committed but, with the help of vagrant friends, Duvall escapes and the plot thickens...
Fracture
Sixty-something Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) is a cuckolded aviation engineer whose control freakery results in a bullet in the head for his straying younger wife. However, assistant DA Ryan Gosling discovers that this open-and-shut case has a nasty habit of springing back open along with Ted's cell door. Director Gregory Hoblit has fashioned a crafty thriller which winningly riffs on that old "double jeopardy" chestnut.
Outlaw
Writer-director Nick Love follows up The Football Factory and The Business with a brutal tale of lawlessness and vigilante justice. Sean Bean is Bryant, a paratrooper who comes home to find Britain overrun with crooks, thugs and deviants. Assembling a band of like-minded desperados, Bryant fights the violence the only way he knows how - with more violence. Bob Hoskins, Danny Dyer and Lennie James join the fray.
