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"Direct Action"

With Dolph Lundgren, Polly Shannon, Donald Burda, Rothaford Gray, Conrad Dunn, Walter Alza,
Alex Karzis, Larry Day, Natacha La Ferriere, Daniel Kash

2004, Rated R for violence and language, 97 minutes

LAPD's last honest cop (Lundgren) alerts the FBI to the illegal actions of the Direct Action police
squad who are cleaning up the city while lining their own pockets and collaborating with terrorists.
Someone exposes him, and he must battle the Direct Action squad for his life, and clear his name,
until he gives his testimony while breaking in a rookie partner (Shannon).
★★★★

"Phantom"

With Ed Harris, David Duchovny, William Fichtner, Lance Henriksen, Johnathon Schaech, Sean
Patrick Flanery, Jason Beghe, Dagmara Dominczyk, Jason Gray-Stanford, Kip Pardue, Matt
Bushell

2013, Rated R for violence, 99 minutes

A retiring captain of a Soviet submarine (Harris) is commissioned by his boss (Henriksen) to take
his old boat to her final resting place. Our first clue that all is not well was that Henriksen killed
himself as the sub was leaving the harbor. Once aboard with his crew, the captain finds that there
are some radical KGB staff who are experimenting with a kind of cloaking device for their subs.
The chief KGB officer (Duchovny) butts heads with the captain and finally reveals that he wants to
start WWIII between the USA and China with the sub's nuclear warhead while keeping the USSR
out of it. Based on a true story.
★★★★