It goes through the motions of the multinational action thriller, and, although those motions are as flamboyantly excessive as you would expect, the result is more gruelling than pleasurable.

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As is also the case with a good thriller, we get plenty of action and suspense.

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In his 2010 directorial follow-up, The Town, Affleck pulled triple duty and acted in the tense thriller that blended great acting with thrilling action.

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The producers say they hired Chip Johannessen, a former "24" writer and showrunner on "Dexter, " because of his skill with tense action-thriller plots.

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Rush Hour, Chan's new action-comedy-thriller, set box office records in the U.S. and is about to do the same across Asia.

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Her next film, The Tourist, is another action thriller this time costarring Johnny Depp which means it cost the producers (Graham King and Spyglass Entertainment) a pretty penny in star salaries.

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"Olympus" that's the story's code name for the White House, which for some reason is spelled Whitehouse on news bulletins from one of the fictional TV networks is an action thriller based on the assumption that anything is plausible if it's sufficiently violent and loud.

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It's a high-tech but earnest spy thriller, which comes in roughly midway between the geopolitical pretensions of "Syriana" and the action-speaks-louder-than-words thrust of the "Bourne" movies.

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