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The impossible has finally come to pass. Star Citizen has been release in full, fully realized. It’s sweeping awards in every category and Netflix has already paid the studio one billion dollars to adapt it to streaming. Or maybe Chuck Norris has passed and rather suddenly. Which at least prompted a resurgence of old internet memes. To that effect though, we have Code of Silence(1985).
Chuck Norris is a cop and he does cop things. This means doing raids and beating up nameless henchmen. A rich girl gets kidnapped by a cartel in response to the successful raids, there’s a cover up by a cop that shot someone, and also a robot tank. Chuck shoots and kicks his way through all of it as he is wont to do.
Tim follows it up with The Cutter[2005]. It’s about a jewel cutter who’s kidnapped by the son or newphew of a nazi who held him in Auschwitz. They want him to cut these rare diamonds that he was down to cut anyway because it would be a once in a lifetime opportunity. Chuck has to track down these baddies and get to kicking them until they’re either dead or willing to give Mr Cutter back to his niece.
Weltall has War Machine[2026]. It’s Alan Ritchson as the oldest candidate for special ops. He goes out for one last trial when the titular war machine shows up and kills most everyone else. It’s your standard modern CGI robot creature that the actors would be lucky to see sketches of before they started filming. Lucky for the humans in our movie, it turns out that rocks defeat robot. So put that down in your notebook, treacherous LLMs.
