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Cons and Scams – MovieLog https://frowningbear.com/movies What me peepers have reckoned upon Wed, 02 Nov 2022 06:47:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 Chaos (2006) https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=3063 Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:46:13 +0000 https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=3063 In Seattle, detective Quentin Conners is unfairly suspended and his partner Jason York leaves the police force after a tragic shooting on Pearl Street Bridge, when the hostage and the criminal die. During a bank heist with a hostage situation, Conners is assigned in charge of the operation with the rookie Shane Dekker as his partner. The thieves, lead by Lorenz, apparently do not steal a penny from the bank. While chasing the gangsters, the police team disclose that they planted a virus in the system, stealing one billion dollars from the different accounts, using the principle of the Chaos Theory. Further, they find that Lorenz is killing his accomplices.

Chaos

When the system breaks down… someone is about to get rich.

Tony Giglio

Canada, UK, USA

6.4

IMDb

]]> House Of Games (1987) https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2962 Sat, 22 Oct 2022 11:23:25 +0000 https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2962 A famous psychologist, Margaret Ford, decides to try to help one of her patients get out of a gambling debt. She visits the bar where Mike, to whom the debt is owed, runs poker games. He convinces her to help him in a game: her assignment is to look for tells, or give-away body language. What seems easy to her becomes much more complex.

House Of Games

Human nature is a sucker bet.

David Mamet

USA

7.3

IMDb

]]> Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007) https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2266 Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:40:07 +0000 https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2266 Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed.

Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead

Loyalty. It’s all relative.

Sidney Lumet

USA, UK

7.4

IMDb

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