(The poster for “Air
Force One”)
Weekends on Studio Universal go with a bang – literally.
This is the slot for thrills and explosive antics with Hollywood’s hard men.
Studio Universal goes all-out this month, with an assortment
of action adventures spread across the month. The second and third weekends
share a theme of Hero’s Journey, with
premieres including Bulletproof Monk
(October 10) in which a martial artist monk (Yun-Fat Chow) charged with
protecting an ancient scroll teams up with an unlikely candidate for continuing
his legacy – a self-centred young American man (Seann William Scott).
The Glimmer Man
(October 11 at 20h20) stars channel favourite Steven Seagal opposite Keenen
Ivory Wayans as two mismatched cops who must work together to stop a killer,
and find themselves with an extra incentive
when their target strikes close to home.
Air Force One
continues the theme on October 17, with Harrison Ford as a US President whose
plane is hijacked by terrorists. With some presidents, that might not have been
such a bad plan, but this is Harrison Ford so of course he’s a military veteran
who soon turns the tables on the bad guys! Gary Oldman and Glenn Close also
star.
Then on October 18, it’s Jean-Claude van Damme’s 55th
birthday, so Studio Universal joins in the celebrations with The Shepherd (19h40) in which he plays
an ex-cop going up against drug smugglers and their corrupt associates in a
Texas border town.
The theme shifts to Deep
Sea Danger’ on October 24, beginning with tense World War II submarine
thriller Below. Bruce Greenwood and Matthew
Davis star in a tale of strange things happening in one of the most
claustrophobic environments on Earth. Deep
Rising follows at 19h50, with hijackers attacking a cruise ship only to
find themselves up against tentacled monstrosities. The film stars Treat
Williams and Famke Janssen.
On October 25, Kevin Costner is the amphibious hero seeking
a sanctuary on a drowned planet in the post-apocalyptic epic Waterworld. The inimitable Dennis Hopper
heads up his adversaries. That’s followed at 20h15 by Sanctum, a race against time in which trapped divers exploring a
cave system must find a new route to the surface before their air runs out.
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