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Action Hero of the Week: Arthur Bishop

Zach — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:41:55 +0000

Name: Arthur Bishop

Occupation: Mechanic aka hitman

Family: N/A

Allies: Steve McKenna, Harry McKenna, Sarah

Enemies: Various targets, Dean and the company Arthur works for

Weapon(s) of Choice: FN F2000 Tactical Machine Gun, Glock 17 pistol

Body Count: unknown

Memorable Quote: “What I do takes a certain mindset…”

See Arthur in Action:

Everything Action Theater: The Confession

Zach — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:00:01 +0000

It’s been over a year since we last saw Keifer Sutherland in action on 24 but he’s back to kick ass in a new Hulu web series called “The Confession”. Keifer plays a hitman who goes to a church to confess to the priest (John Hurt) about his past sins. At first the priest doesn’t want anything to do with it but is forced to listen to the confessor after he threatens to kill a pair of women in the church if he doesn’t listen to the man. The men debate the nature of evil and the nature of God as we get flashbacks to things the Confessor has done in the past. It’s classic Keifer, who’s definitely in Jack Bauer mode but with the added bonus of being able to drop f-bombs at will since this is the internet. Three episodes debuted today (the 28th) and there will be 10 in total. You can watch Episode 1 below:

The Mechanic Trailer

Zach — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:22:58 +0000

Jason Statham is playing a detective in his new movie Blitz but he has another movie coming out soon where he’s on the opposite side of the law, The Mechanic. It’s a remake of a Charles Bronson movie that finds Statham as a veteran hitman who starts training his mentor’s son, whose father is killed by a shady businessman. The two head out on a mission to get revenge and action ensues. Ben Foster co-stars and I get a very Hitman (game not movie) vibe from it, especially the part where Statham kills the guy in the pool. It’s coming out in January and you can check out the trailer below.

The Divide Teaser Trailer

Zach — Sat, 22 May 2010 16:06:37 +0000

From director Xavier Gens, the guy who made Hitman (so make of that what you will), comes The Divide, which was formerly called The Fallout. It’s about a catastrophic event that takes place in New York City that causes eight strangers to become trapped in the basement of an apartment building. Trying to survive the aftermath of the disaster, the group must also fend off a mysterious and relentless group of men in HAZMAT suits, who seem determined to kill them. The movies stars Michael Biehn and Milo Ventimiglia and is still in production, so no clear release dates but you can check out the teaser trailer below.

Real Men of Action: Chev Chelios

Zach — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:17:39 +0000

Name: Chev Chelios
Occupation: Hitman
Family: Karen Chelios (Status unknown)
Allies: Doc Miles, Eve, Kaylo, Venus, Orlando, Ria
Enemies: Carlito, Don Kim, The Verona Brothers
Weapons(s) of Choice: Springfield Armory XD, Desert Eagle
Body Count: 12+
Catchphrase: “Do I have c*** written on my forehead!?”

Chev Chelios is justifiably one of the angriest men on the face of the earth. Coming to Los Angeles from London, Chev got a job for the West Coast Crime Syndicate as a hitman. Crime boss Carlito grows worried about the fast growing Chinese Triad influence in the city and orders Chev to kill their boss, Don Kim. Chev has been trying to get out of the business to spend more time with his girlfriend Eve and lets Don Kim live on the condition that he disappear. The Triads are not pleased and threaten Carlito, who then explains he had nothing to do with it and he’ll take out the rogue elements of his organization that were responsible.

Chev’s rival, Ricky Verona, tells Carlito he can deal with Chev and breaks into Chev’s apartment and injects him with the “Beijing Cocktail”, a poison that will kill him by shutting down his adrenal gland and stopping his heart. Chev wakes up the next morning and learns all this from a DVD left by Ricky.

Chev jumps into his car to kill Ricky and calls his doctor, Doc Miles, who tell Chev he needs to keep his adrenaline up in order to slow down the poison. Chev starts an insane rampage across LA including buying cocaine from his drug dealer Orlando and then getting into a fight with his entire gang, killing Ricky’s brother Alex with a meat cleaver and Desert Eagle, shooting up epinephrine at the hospital and stealing a police motorcycle directly afterward and having sex with his girlfriend Eve in the middle of Chinatown. He gets help from his flamboyant informant Kaylo, who Verona eventually kills.

Chev eventually shoots and chops his way through Ricky’s goons and arranges a meeting with Carlito and Ricky on the roof of Carlito’s hideout. Chev got help from Don Kim and a shootout ensues where Carlito and most of his men are killed. Ricky tries to escape in a helicopter and Chev follows him. The two have a fistfight in the chopper until both of them are thrown out the side. Chev calls Eve one last time and then lands on a car. However, he somehow survives the fall and is scooped up by Chinese medics.

It turns out that Triad leader Poon Dong, found out about Chev’s insanely strong heart and put out a call for it. The medics remove Chev’s heart and replace it with an inferior artificial one. The doctors were then going to harvest the rest of Chev’s organs but he wakes up and kills them before they can. Chev finds himself attached to a belt worn battery that is keeping the artificial heart going. Chev gives another call to Doc Miles, who tells him he can transplant Chev’s heart back in if he can find it. Chev unfortunately crashes his car and breaks the battery so he must continually electrocute his body to keep going, which he does using a car battery, a transformer and rubbing against people. He chases one of the Chinese goons, Johnny Vang, all around Los Angeles, getting into a shootout at the strip club where Eve now works and killing Don Kim and his men inside of their limo.

Chev eventually catches up to Johnny at an electric plant and beats him in fistfight but finds his heart isn’t in the cooler he was carrying. The heart has already been transplanted into Poon Dong but Doc Miles manages to kidnap him with the help of his assistant Chocolate.

Chev’s victory is short lived when he is knocked out by gang member under the command of El Huron. They take Chev to El Huron’s island and it is revealed he is the third Verona brother and that he is keeping Ricky’s head alive in a fish tank. Chev is tortured by El Huron until Kaylo’s brother Venus arrives with a gang of his own and a massive firefight ensues. Chev climbs on top of a utility pole and shocks himself using the transformer. He catches himself on fire but is kicked into overdrive and beats El Huron to death. Chev suffers massive burns on his face and body and is rushed into surgery by Doc Miles. He manages to get Chev’s heart back in but believe that he didn’t make it but after he and Eve leave Chev’s eyes open and his heart is beating. Chev’s status is currently unknown but nothing worse could possibly happen to him, right?