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From acclaimed director Ridley Scott and renowned producer Jerry Bruckheimer, based on actual events detailed in the non-fiction book by Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down is the heroic account of a group of elite U.S. soldiers sent into Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993 as part of a U.N. peacekeeping operation. Their mission: to capture several top lieutenants of the Somali warlord, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, as part of a strategy to quell the civil war and famine that is ravaging the country.
Veteran detective Joe Gavilan (Harrison Ford) is on the biggest case of his career and saddled with a new partner, K.C. Calden (Josh Hartnett), who can’t quite decide between being a cop or an aspiring actor.
In the 16th century, Lord Hidetora decides to retire and share his territory between his three sons, Taro, Jiro and Saburo. The latter foreseeing difficulties, opposes his decision. He is consequently disinherited. However, the father soon discovers that, mocking his authority, his first two sons begin to fight. Jiro treacherously kills Taro and then Saburo before realising that it is in fact Taro’s widow who is responsible for this confusion since she had sworn to revenge Hidetora’s murder of her family years ago. Now all that is left for Jiro is to die fighting the enemies of the Hidetora dynasty.
Edmond Dantes has been wrongly accused of a plot against the post-Napoleonic French government. Condemned to a prison cell in the impenetrable Chateau D’If, Dantes vows vengeance against the four conspirators who framed him. He is particularly anxious to give his ex-friend Mondego his comeuppance, since it was Mondego who married Dantes’ fiancee Mercedes.
Parallel universes collide when a rogue agent assigned to monitor these universes begins eliminating versions of himself in each alternate reality. Assuming more energy and power with each version he destroys, he must finally confront the one man standing between himself and his ultimate goal…to be the one. The One stars Jet Li as both predator and prey in an innovative, action-packed sci-fi thriller.
