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Wouldn’t it be nice to be good at your job? So good that you would be brought out of retirement for one last job? That’s how we ended up slinging space donuts at the Convention of Peace Officers in Chicago six years ago. Was it worth the six dollars an hour and all the mini donuts you can eat? Some people would say no. Those people have never seen the look on a con goers face when you hand them a bag that burns their hand because the contents were in the fryer less than ten seconds ago.
First up we have 24 Hours to Live[2017]. Ethan Hawke plays a man who is retired and was good at his job. He gets an offer to hunt down one person for a million dollars a day. When he gets the info, his source realizes he was working for a PMC and kills him. The PMC wakes him up with their special technology to get the info from him anyway. And now he has twenty four hours to live and maybe rectify his work for the evil PMC.
Tim has Brooklyn’s Finest[2010]. Ethan Hawke is a cop along with Don Cheedle and Richard Gere. They’re all doing separate cop stuff in New York. As this is directed by Antoine Fuqua, who also did Training Day, you can imagine that all these officers are on the level and comport themselves to the highest standard.
Weltall then has Regression[2015]. It’s a movie set in the nineties where Ethan is investigating a sexual assault. He works with a regression therapist to get information out of the victim. Because all she claims to remember was a group of people with masks and one of them taking pictures. Things get a little out of hand with accusations flying around and building as Ethan works.
