Can somebody identify this movie?
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Can somebody identify this movie?
It's from before 2014. I think it was made after 1990 or maybe even 2000. The actors are predominantly Caucasian.
A man wants to cause a pandemic and he has something in his possession the could do just that. A virus maybe, some kind of pathogen.
He is about to fly to Russia or China or somwhere else but he gets kidnapped from the airport along with his girlfriend.
He doesn't know but secretly his girlfriend orchestrated the whole kidnapping because he wants to stop him.
They hold him somewhere and torture him, the kidnappers want to get some names out of him, probably the names of the buyers. The interrogation/torture segment is the bulk of the movie.
He only gets told at the very end that his girlfriend was in it.
It's not Fedz (2013).
The person who tries to find it has been looking for it for 7 years and I've posted it in 2 other forums but nothing so far.
A man wants to cause a pandemic and he has something in his possession the could do just that. A virus maybe, some kind of pathogen.
He is about to fly to Russia or China or somwhere else but he gets kidnapped from the airport along with his girlfriend.
He doesn't know but secretly his girlfriend orchestrated the whole kidnapping because he wants to stop him.
They hold him somewhere and torture him, the kidnappers want to get some names out of him, probably the names of the buyers. The interrogation/torture segment is the bulk of the movie.
He only gets told at the very end that his girlfriend was in it.
It's not Fedz (2013).
The person who tries to find it has been looking for it for 7 years and I've posted it in 2 other forums but nothing so far.
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sounds like Twelve monkeys and Misson Impossible with the Chimera plot/storyline getting mixed up to me.
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No offense to pulsr and his friend who have spent seven years looking for this movie, but there is no way this is the plot of a movie.
A terrorist has a biological weapon that he's going to sell on the world market. He gets captured at the airport, and most of the movie is his captors interrogating/torturing him for information. In the end, the terrorist finds out that his girlfriend, who he thought was his accomplice, betrayed him.
How is that a plot? Most of the movie is the interrogation? Who is the audience's POV character . . . the terrorist?
A terrorist has a biological weapon that he's going to sell on the world market. He gets captured at the airport, and most of the movie is his captors interrogating/torturing him for information. In the end, the terrorist finds out that his girlfriend, who he thought was his accomplice, betrayed him.
How is that a plot? Most of the movie is the interrogation? Who is the audience's POV character . . . the terrorist?
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I did not post that they don't make movies where the protagonist is a bad or evil character, but they don't make movies where the protagonist is a bad or evil character who does not do anything.
The OP's description of the movie is that it is about a terrorist who gets caught and interrogated. The OP never mentions or suggests that the interrogation results in flashbacks that shed light on the terrorist's character, or that the interrogation is part of solving some mystery.
And finally, while an interrogation can be the framework for a movie, unless the point of the interrogation is to reveal the truth about a crime, the audience's sympathy is placed with the person being interrogated.
What the OP describes could be PART OF the plot of a movie, but it would never be the plot of a movie, as it is presented.
Yeesh!
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Don't deny your intelligence in an effort to just be a contrarian, Crocker.
I did not post that they don't make movies where the protagonist is a bad or evil character, but they don't make movies where the protagonist is a bad or evil character who does not do anything.
The OP's description of the movie is that it is about a terrorist who gets caught and interrogated. The OP never mentions or suggests that the interrogation results in flashbacks that shed light on the terrorist's character, or that the interrogation is part of solving some mystery.
And finally, while an interrogation can be the framework for a movie, unless the point of the interrogation is to reveal the truth about a crime, the audience's sympathy is placed with the person being interrogated.
What the OP describes could be PART OF the plot of a movie, but it would never be the plot of a movie, as it is presented.
Yeesh!
I did not post that they don't make movies where the protagonist is a bad or evil character, but they don't make movies where the protagonist is a bad or evil character who does not do anything.
The OP's description of the movie is that it is about a terrorist who gets caught and interrogated. The OP never mentions or suggests that the interrogation results in flashbacks that shed light on the terrorist's character, or that the interrogation is part of solving some mystery.
And finally, while an interrogation can be the framework for a movie, unless the point of the interrogation is to reveal the truth about a crime, the audience's sympathy is placed with the person being interrogated.
What the OP describes could be PART OF the plot of a movie, but it would never be the plot of a movie, as it is presented.
Yeesh!
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I'm not trying to be a contrarian. Should I have taken your comment to mean something along lines of: "This description is too vague, we need more details"? Because I took your comment to mean: "They must be remembering the movie wrong, no such film as they are describing could exist." If so, fair enough.
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Crocker Jarmen (04-22-21)
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That's So Raven mixed with Above The Law
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It's from before 2014. I think it was made after 1990 or maybe even 2000. The actors are predominantly Caucasian.
A man wants to cause a pandemic and he has something in his possession the could do just that. A virus maybe, some kind of pathogen.
He is about to fly to Russia or China or somwhere else but he gets kidnapped from the airport along with his girlfriend.
He doesn't know but secretly his girlfriend orchestrated the whole kidnapping because he wants to stop him.
They hold him somewhere and torture him, the kidnappers want to get some names out of him, probably the names of the buyers. The interrogation/torture segment is the bulk of the movie.
He only gets told at the very end that his girlfriend was in it.
It's not Fedz (2013).
The person who tries to find it has been looking for it for 7 years and I've posted it in 2 other forums but nothing so far.
A man wants to cause a pandemic and he has something in his possession the could do just that. A virus maybe, some kind of pathogen.
He is about to fly to Russia or China or somwhere else but he gets kidnapped from the airport along with his girlfriend.
He doesn't know but secretly his girlfriend orchestrated the whole kidnapping because he wants to stop him.
They hold him somewhere and torture him, the kidnappers want to get some names out of him, probably the names of the buyers. The interrogation/torture segment is the bulk of the movie.
He only gets told at the very end that his girlfriend was in it.
It's not Fedz (2013).
The person who tries to find it has been looking for it for 7 years and I've posted it in 2 other forums but nothing so far.
I accept the description from the OP at face value, especially if someone has been thinking about it for 7 years, and I am saying no such film as they are describing exists. I 100% guarantee that if this movie is identified, the actual plot will be significantly different from what is being described.
Originally Posted by Plot of Five Fingers via Wikipedia
Martijn (Phillipe), a gifted Dutch jazz pianist, flies to Morocco to set up a food assistance program. When he arrives, however, he and his travel guide, Gavin (Meaney), are quickly kidnapped by terrorists, taken to an undisclosed location, bound and blindfolded. The captors swiftly shoot Gavin and then begin methodical attempts to extract information from Martijn about where he obtained the money to set up the program by cutting off his fingers one at a time. Martijn insists that he has no idea where the money came from, though in time it becomes clear that all is not what it seems. As the torture continues, Ahmat (Fishburne) tries his hardest to get answers from Martijn. Eventually, Martijn reveals to Ahmat that he was a terrorist and was going to poison fast food with bacteria, killing potentially thousands of Americans. After giving up the names of those within the Holland terrorist cell funding him for his alleged food program, Youseff, a man who had been filming Martijn, kills him. Ahmat is revealed to be a CIA agent and Gavin is revealed to be an American who had been with Ahmat the entire time. Ahmat and his girlfriend go for a drink, showing the Statue of Liberty revealing they had been in New York City the entire time.
I haven't seen the movie, but I'm gonna go ahead and say that Count Douku was right on.
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Ash Ketchum (04-24-21)
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Crocker Jarmen (04-23-21)
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In J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye," the teenaged protagonist Holden Caulfield attends a movie at Radio City Music Hall and describes it snarkily--in great detail--but never names it. The plot sounded a lot to me like RANDOM HARVEST (1942), so I went and watched that film again. It starred Ronald Colman as a WWI vet who falls in love with an entertainer (Greer Garson) and enters into an idyllic marriage with her only to get a bump on the head and become amnesiac and go off and start a whole new life. Eventually, he becomes a successful businessman and the new secretary he hires is Greer Garson, who just patiently waits for Colman to either remember her or fall in love with her anew.
So I went back and re-read that section of the novel and while there was an amnesiac involved, everything else is completely different. I've discussed this over the years with other film buffs on-line and off and the consensus now seems to be that Salinger indeed drew on memories of seeing RANDOM HARVEST at Radio City, where it had indeed played at a time when Salinger could plausibly have seen it, and reconstructed the plot from memory for his novel, but with a few embellishments to make the movie sound much sappier than it is, enough to make it as different-sounding in print as the OP's description is from the Wikipedia plot for FIVE FINGERS.
So it all makes sense.
So I went back and re-read that section of the novel and while there was an amnesiac involved, everything else is completely different. I've discussed this over the years with other film buffs on-line and off and the consensus now seems to be that Salinger indeed drew on memories of seeing RANDOM HARVEST at Radio City, where it had indeed played at a time when Salinger could plausibly have seen it, and reconstructed the plot from memory for his novel, but with a few embellishments to make the movie sound much sappier than it is, enough to make it as different-sounding in print as the OP's description is from the Wikipedia plot for FIVE FINGERS.
So it all makes sense.
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Except that Salinger could well have used Random Harvest as a seed idea to invent a much stupider movie for his novel, but Pulsr was trying his best to describe his movie accurately.







