Action movies
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Action / Adventure / Thriller , produced in 2003, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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Her identity was being kept secret. Her name was ‘The Bride’ (Uma Thurman). She was a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. Once she decided to turn over her leaf, that is, to give up her job, assume a new identity, get married and live a happy righteous life. But her former boss and lover Bill (David Carradine) and the other associates - O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu), Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox), Budd (Michael Madsen), and Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) - got even with ‘The Bride’ at her wedding. The ruthless assassins gunned not only all the wedding guests but even her unborn kid. Nine people were dead but Bill’s thugs should have done their bloody job better: ‘The Bride’survived. After having been in a coma for four years, she awoke to take revenge on the people who had destroyed her life.
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Action / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2004, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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The Bride (Uma Thurman) has only three left in her death list after dispensing with former colleagues O-Ren Ishii and Vernita Green in "Kill Bill Vol. 1". She resumes her quest for justice in the series' second installment, "Kill Bill Vol. 2." With those two down, the Bride has two remaining foes to pursue - Budd and Elle Driver - before moving on to her ultimate goal...to confront her former employer, Bill (David Carradine), having dispatched, with much blood and gore, his team of assassins.
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Action / Crime / Thriller , produced in 2000, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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What can you do in 60 seconds? You can have a smoke or a cup of coffee. But there is a legendary thief named Randall "Memphis" Raines (Nicolas Cage) who can steal a car in a few seconds. Tired of playing hide-and-seek with the police and determined to turn over a new leaf, Randall leaves his "job", his home and his girlfriend Sara "Sway" Wayland (Angelina Jolie), and now he teaches carting driving to kids. However, five years later he finds out that his younger brother Kip (Giovanni Ribisi) who followed in his footsteps breaks a contract with a vicious British crime lord, Raymond Calitri (Christopher Eccleston), to deliver high end cars. Randall has no choice but to return to the criminal world in order to save his brother from the mafia and police. He reassembles his old team to steal 50 cars in one night.
2 Fast 2 Furious
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2003, Germany, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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In the sequel Officer Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker), stripped of his badge due to his kindness and close interaction with a remorseful criminal, is given one last chance to redeem his honour. Brian and his ex-con pal Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) are recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the Miami street racing circuit and collar an international drug lord, Carter Verone (Cole Hauser). Unbeknownst to the smuggling ring, O'Conner and Pearce work with gorgeous undercover agent Monica Clemente (Eva Mendes) to bring Verone to justice.
Freddy vs. Jason
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller , produced in 2003, Italy, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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Two of the most remembered eighties slasher film icons finally clash together on the big screen in a film fans have long been awaiting. Trapped in Hell when the authorities of Springwood manage to erase all evidence of his existence (and thus the fear that gives him his power), nightmare spirit Freddy Krueger comes across the soul of the equally infamous Camp Crystal Lake mad slasher, Jason Voorhees. Taking the guise of Jason's mother, Freddy resurrects him and commands him to start terrorizing Springwood, hoping to instill enough fear that the name Freddy Krueger gets out again so that the ensuing panic makes Freddy strong enough to return a seventh time. The plan works, but Freddy soon discovers that Jason, true to his nature in the past, will not stop killing, and is taking each of his victims. Determined to retake his position as the most feared killer in Springwood, Freddy devises a plan to sedate Jason into unconsciousness in order to battle him to the death. In the meantime, a small band of survivors who learn what's happening make their own efforts to not only ensure Jason's victory, but to return him to Camp Crystal Lake.
Hackers
Action / Crime / Thriller , produced in 1995, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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A young boy is arrested by the US Secret Service for writing a computer virus and is banned from using a computer until his 18th birthday. Years later, he and his new-found friends discover a plot to unleash a dangerous computer virus, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.
Hulk
Action / Sci-Fi , produced in 2003, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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Dr. Bruce Banner (Eric Bana), a brilliant scientist at the Berkeley Nuclear Biotechnical Institute working on a new genetic technolodgy, is accidentally exposed to gamma radiation. After the terrible accident Bruce discovers whenever he gets into a rage he transforms into the Hulk - a giant green-skinned merciless monstrosity unable to control himself and destroying everything in sight. The military, under the command of General Ross (Sam Elliott), are tasked to hold the monster before it can jeopardize the world, and the Hulk has to be on the run. Even the most disgusting monster can love, and Bruce falls in love with his colleague, Dr. Betty Ross, who happens to be the General’s daughter. She may be the only person who understands the link between the scientist and the Hulk and can stop him from being angry. Betty makes great efforts to save both man and creature.
Predator 2
Action / Crime / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 1990, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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While fighting a battle with drug lords, a police chief discovers a being that slowly starts to slaughter the criminals in a sadistic fashion. As the invisible hunter kills off the drug lords and fellow officers, the police chief discovers that the visitor, an extraterrestrial big game hunter, has targeted him as its next victim. Although his superiors prohibit him from taking any action, the police chief sets out to end the ordeal.
The Scorpion King
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Romance / Thriller , produced in 2002, Belgium, Germany, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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Long before the Pyramids were built, a daring and ruthless conqueror came from the East. He came along with the hordes of his loyal, bloodthirsty warriors and so he subdued ancient lands which fell before the sword of the furious invader. When the world was drowned into the dark waves of chaos, lawlessness and violence, the hero came to ruin the insuperable evil invaders. He was a hireling long ago, and his veins were filled by the scorpions' blood, now he is to defend the world against the evil powers. Let the Biblical city of Gomorrah contemplate the bloody battle!.. This prequel to The Mummy series stars The Rock, a WWE celebrity along with Steven Brand as Memnon (the tyrant), and Kelly Hu as a beautiful sorceress.
Rush Hour 2
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Thriller , produced in 2001, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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Det. James Carter (Chris Tucker) is on vacation in Hong Kong, but Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) is too busy doing police work. After an explosion at the American Embassy, Lee attempts to track down the man who may be responsible, Ricky Tan, a Triad gang leader and the former partner of Lee's father, who was also a cop. Obviously, Carter doesn't appreciate being dragged along like that, but what choice does he have? Lee discovers a power struggle among the Triads between Tan and Hu Li (Zhang Ziyi). They later find out it has something to do with the death of Lee's father, and a counterfeiting scheme. Lee and Carter go back to Cali, and later Las Vegas, where they discover that everything that's happened goes way beyond an explosion at the Embassy.
Paycheck
Action / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2003, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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Michael Jennings (Ben Afleck) is a brilliant computer engineer who works for high-tech companies. As soon as the job is done, all memory of what he has been working on is erased from his mind so that he can’t let out any secrets to competitor companies. For his most recent top-secret project that has taken him 5 years, Jennings expects to receive a huge sum of money. When he awakens one day, he, however, receives not his paycheck of four billion dollars, but an envelope filled with 19 random objects he has sent himself before the procedure. Having no opportunity to claim his rights due to his wiped memory, Michael suddenly realizes that the envelope contains the clues to his own past. With the help of his old flame, Dr. Rachel Porter (Uma Thurman), Michael must somehow solve a puzzle until his ex-employers who want him dead find him.
Spider-Man
Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2002, USA , added: 02 Dec 2004
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Well-known and deeply respected for his great deeds, the red-and-blue-suited Spider-Man is an idol and hero in New York City. Meanwhile, the modest Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) leads a regular, almost ascetic lifestyle, trying to win his spurs as a photographer, and Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) is the star of a great Broadway show. She is one of few people who know about Peter’s crime-fighting alter-ego. Harry Osborn (James Franco), once Peter’s friend, who is also aware of his secret identity, has become the New Goblin, bent on taking revenge the death of his father, the Green Goblin, by killing Spider-Man. Moreover, he is attracted by the charming Mary Jane and willing to take her away from Peter. To make matters more complicated, Peter is taken over by mysterious black alien substance Venom which amplifies his powers and changes his personality for the worst. And now he must battle not only with his remorseless foes, Harry and Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church), a crime fugitive incidentally transformed into Sandman, but also with...himself.
Pitch Black
Action / Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2000, Australia, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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He is Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel). He is a stranger to fear. More than once he has been within hair's breadth of death. This time fortune doesn't smile upon him: the dangerous escaped criminal is being caught, shackled and headed for a new prison in a large cargo spacecraft. After being damaged in a meteor storm, the spaceship crash-lands on a seemingly desolate distant planet. As a matter of fact, there is life on the eerie planet. Nasty carnivorous creatures dwelling in the subterraneans come out onto the surface and start seeking for flesh and blood, as three suns set and the planet plunges into pitch-darkness. The spaceship crash survivors – Riddick's captor William J. Johns (Cole Hauser), a Muslim Imam (Keith David ) with his three sons, Sulieman (Les Chantery), Hassan (Sam Sari) and Ali (Firass Dirani), a young stowaway, Jack (Rhiana Griffith), an antiquary, Paris P. Ogilvie (Lewis Fitz-Gerald), and two Australian settlers, Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery (Claudia Black) and John "Zeke" Ezekiel (John Moore) – have hope for the criminal Riddick who can see in the dark owing to an illegal prison surgery. Riddick get into a terrible fight with the vicious monsters so as to survive and leave the planet from whose bourn no traveller returns...
Aliens
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 1986, UK, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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The subject of a classical fantastic thriller takes place fifty years later after the dramatic events of the preceding film, "Alien". Officer Ellen Ripley should return again to the planet where the monstrous alien has made an awful carnage. What is even more awful, the suspicious planet is already colonized by humans, as Ripley gets to know, and the Corporation for which Ellen had worked, hardly wants to cover up its past failures. Ripley is to turn back to the monsters' lair; it is clear that the colonized planet has all transmissions interrupted, and the severe officer conjectures, why the distant human colony keeps silence. She realizes that she is to face the extraterrestrial repent horror again.
Alien³
Action / Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 1992, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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After she escaped the Aliens' planet, Riply (Sigourney Weaver) gets out of the frying pan into the fire: her spaceship wrecks nearby the so-called Prison planet where different social scum (violators, murderers and other recidivists) serves their long terms. Along with our brave Lt, the Alien embryo gets there, and then the hell begins again. The monstrous giant creature with its large-toothed telescopic jaws begins to judge unarmed prisoners. Who can stop the biological killing machine?
Alien: Resurrection
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 1997, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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200 years after the conclusion of Alien 3, the company is able to resurrect Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) through the process of cloning and the scientists successfully take the Queen Alien out of her. But, Ripley's DNA gets mixed up with the Queen's and she begins to develop certain alien characteristics. The scientists begin breeding the aliens, but they later escape. Soon the Xeno-morphs are running amok on the ship, which is on course to earth. The Queen then gives birth to a deadly new breed of alien, which could spell disaster for the entire human race. It's up to Ripley and a band of space pirates to stop the ship before it reaches earth.
The 6th Day
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2000, Canada, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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Il film narra di Adam Gibson, common-man con moglie e figlia, pilota di aerei a noleggio con l'amico Hank. Un bel giorno si trova coinvolto, senza volerlo e senza saperlo, in una esperienza agghiacciante creata da una megaindustria illegale di cloni umani di proprietà del perfido Michael Drucker (alla sua terza morte!), usando le ricerche del dottor Griffin Weir. Ma come è possibile? Adam è stato clonato per sbaglio. Da questo momento comincia l'inferno per il pover'uomo. Killer senza scrupoli (peraltro clonati e clonabili all'infinito) lo cercano: la clonazione umana è illegale e uno dei due Adam deve essere eliminato. Ma, questa volta, Drucker ha clonato l'uomo sbagliato!
Spy Game
Action / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2001, UK, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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1991: the Cold War is ending. Just days before the US President is to visit China for trade talks, a CIA operative named Bishop is captured in a rogue operation at a Chinese prison. He'll be shot in 24 hours unless the President steps in. CIA honchos hunker down at Langley, controlling the damage to the diplomatic mission by hanging Bishop out to dry. Enter Nathan Muir, one day before retirement from the Agency, the man who recruited and trained Bishop. Can he find a way to get the President to free Bishop; if that fails, can he engineer a rescue? He hangs around Langley, telling stories about Bishop, as he gathers intelligence, looks for opportunities, and runs his own spy game.
Equilibrium
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2002, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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An anti-utopia/action by Kurt Wimmer presents the "perfect" world where any free-thinking as well as all the arts, books, emotions and everything related is forbidden being considered as a capital crime. This world is built as a conflict-free society after the devastating Third World War, the monocratic Father and the Tetragrammaton have established the dictatorship over the Libria, a futuristic city-state. Human emotions are suppressed by voluntary injections of the "prosium", a preparation which helps the System to control its citizens. John Preston (Christian Bale), a government special agent is also under the influence of this drug, but when he forget to take a doze, he accidentally hear the fragment of the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony seeing the sunrise and discover himself unable to be a pawn of the System anymore as his emotions awake.
The Chronicles of Riddick
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2004, USA , added: 01 Sep 2004
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This sequel to Pitch Black follows escaped convict Riddick (Vin Diesel) as he finds himself between the hammer and the anvil in a raging galactic war. After spending five years on the run and pursued by ruthless bounty-hunters, Riddick is to fight for the future of the human race, which is about to annihilate by the efforts of an evil Necromongers. Notwithstanding he is not a hero but an antihero, he is an evil to defeat evil. Aided by the mysterious ethereal being named Aereon (Judi Dench), who helps him uncover the secrets of his past, Riddick has to fight against the evil Lord Marshal (Colm Feore) and his army. He meets the girl Kyra (Alexa Davalos), with whom he escaped from the monster-swarmed planet, together they should stand the battle that will determine the fate of the universe.
The Bourne Identity
Action / Adventure / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 2002, Czech Republic, Germany, USA , added: 10 Sep 2004
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Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is pulled from the Mediterranean Sea, he is bullet-wounded and remember nothing. The only key to uncover his identity is a mysterious capsule which is implanted directly in his body. The digits etched on the capsule lead him to the safe deposit box where he found some documents, cash, and a weapon. Soon he meets several people, who recognize him, but some of them are aggressive and Bourne realizes he is hunted by an assassins. His combat and language skills soon emerge, as he tries to survive attempting to uncover the past with the help of Marie (Franka Potente).
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi , produced in 1981, USA , added: 10 Sep 2004
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Max is travelling in a post apocalypse Australia where Gasoline is the most valuable commodity. He becomes involved in a struggle between bandits and a town that has build defenses around a small refinery. He must cross the no man's land several times to allow them to make a dash for freedom, pursued by the bandits in their vehicles.
The Devil's Own
Action / Drama / Thriller , produced in 1997, USA , added: 10 Sep 2004
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One of top Northern Ireland IRA terrorists, Frankie McGuire, escapes to NY, where he, under the name of Rory Devaney, with support of friendly judge Peter Fitzsimmons, lives in the house of Irish cop Tom O'Meara, who doesn't know who Frankie really is. Rory tries to buy some weapons from dealer Billy Burke, while Tom has moral problems covering up his partner cop Edwin Diaz. The problems arise when Tom begins to suspect something about Rory's identity.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War , produced in 2003, USA , added: 14 Sep 2004
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The movie brings us back in 1806. During the Napoleonic Wars, British Captain Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe) receives a battle-order to sink or capture a French frigate known as the Acheron in the cold waters off the South American coast. However, the Acheron is the first to attack the Surprise, Aubrey’s Man of War. Despite serious crippling and losses in dead, the tenacious and courageous Aubrey decides to pursue the enemy’s ship that is larger and better-equipped and sets sail across two oceans. Lucky Jack’s reputation, lives of his crew and his own are at stake.
Black Hawk Down
Action / Drama / History / War , produced in 2001, USA , added: 29 Sep 2004
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In the early 1990s the Civil War raged in Somali. The resulting humanitarian crisis carried away more than 300 thousand innocent civilians. The nation starved to death as the troops of Mohamed Farrah Aidid, the leader of the major belligerent faction, were taking the food sent by the United Nations Organization. The U.S. made a decision to send peacekeeping force to the capital city of Mogadishu in order to break down Aidid's resistance and kill him. On October 3, 1993, they planned to capture two top lieutenants of the mutinous warlord. Army Rangers and Delta Force entered the city on a mission that was supposed to take about an hour. However, things got out of kilter from the very beginning of the operation...
Last Action Hero
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy , produced in 1993, USA , added: 27 Sep 2004
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Young Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) gets to the other side of the silver screen and he meets his idol - Arnold Schwarzenegger who appears in the film as an action superhero Jack Slater. Danny becomes a participant of an action, and what is more, becomes the workmate of the movie superstar. The most difficult trial awaits our heroes when Slater gets into the real world facing the real, not the onscreen, offenders. Here, in the real world, he can die as every other man. This movie contains many allusions to the several famous Schwarzenegger's films - "Terminator -1, -2, Predator, True Lies" and other.
Hellboy
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi , produced in 2004, USA , added: 01 Oct 2004
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At the end of World War 2 Hitler tried to find an ideal weapon and turned to the powers of darkness. Ritual, started by the occult monk and the Nazi scientists, was interrupted by American agents, who had found a horned demonic child at the place where the ritual was held. Later, the benevolent Professor Bruttenholm raised the demonic child called Hellboy (Ron Perlman) to be a hero, who helps to investigate the supernatural in Dr. Bruttenholm's secret Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.). Along with the amphibious psychic Abe Sapien (Doug Jones, voiced by David Hyde Pierce) and the fire-throwing Liz Sherman (Selma Blair), Hellboy is joined by new recruit John Myers (Rupert Evans), a naive and idealistic FBI agent. Evil monk rises again, putting mankind on a brink of destruction as he has drawn a new demonic being called Samael into our world. Meanwhile, a love triangle emerges in the story as Myers, the FBI agent becomes Hellboy's rival for Liz's affections. Guillermo del Toro's wisecracking and eccentric film is based on the comic book series by Mike Mignola.
I, Robot
Action / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2004, USA , added: 05 Nov 2004
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It's the year 2035, and the community now has the help of robots. These robots have three laws integrated into their system. One, they cannot harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Two, they must do whatever they're told by a human being as long as such orders don't conflict with law one. Three, they have to defend themselves as long as such defense doesn't conflict with laws one or two. One day, the writer of the three laws, Alfred Lanning, apparently jumps out of the tenth-floor window of U.S. Robotics. The majority of the Chicago Police Department believe that he committed suicide, but Detective Del Spooner (Smith), who hates robots, thinks he was murdered, and the number one suspect is a Nestor Class-5 robot who calls himself Sonny. However, if it was Sonny, then that means he would've had to have broken the three laws. With the help of Dr. Susan Calvin, Spooner must now discover the truth before it's too late.
Evil Dead II
Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror , produced in 1987, USA , added: 05 Nov 2004
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Ash - the sole survivor of the original 'Evil Dead' - returns with his girlfriend Linda to the remote cabin in the woods. He discovers a tape recorder that a professor had used to record incantations from the Necronomicon XMortis - the Book of the Dead. When he turns it on, the recording releases a dark, sinister force from the woods. It turns Linda into a zombie, her soul possessed by some hideous demon, and then tries to do the same to Ash. Other people come to help Ash, but one by one they are taken over by the Evil Dead force that also possesses Linda, the Professor, and the Professor's wife...and they try to make sure Ash is...Dead by Dawn!
The Crow
Action / Crime / Fantasy / Thriller , produced in 1994, USA , added: 15 Nov 2004
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The action-packed, explosive movie tells the tragic story of rock musician Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) and his sweetheart Shelly Webster (Sofia Shinas) who never get married because they are viciously assaulted and murdered by a gang of street thugs for no reason at all. One year later, the guy's restless soul is brought back to life by a mysterious crow and Eric goes on a mission to exact vengeance on his killers, Top Dollar (Michael Wincott), the leader of the gang, and his violent henchmen.
