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★★★☆☆ Get Smart (2008)

Plot: When the headquarters of secret US spy agency CONTROL is attacked by an evil group known as KAOS and the identities of it’s agents compromised, the Chief (Arkin) has no choice but to promote analyst Maxwell Smart (Carell), who teams up with Agent 99 (Hathaway). Given little field experience and even less time, it’s up to Smart and 99 to stop KAOS. Based on the 1965 television series.

 
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★★★½☆ Firewall (2006)

Plot: Bank security expert Jack Stanfield (Ford) is a master at designing infallible theft-proof financial computer systems. When a ruthless criminal mastermind (Bettany) kidnaps his family, Jack is forced to find a flaw in his system and steal $100 million. With the lives of his wife and children at stake and under constant surveillance, he has only hours to find a loophole in the thief’s own impenetrable system of subterfuge and false identities to beat him at his own game.

 
 

★★☆☆☆ Gattaca (1997)

Plot: In the not too distant future, genetics is used at birth to determine everything about you: where you can work, how long you will live, what your achievements will be - everything. Determined to prove the system wrong (and get his chance at going to the stars), imperfect -gened Vincent (Hawke) meets up with Jerome (Law), who has perfect genes - but isn’t going anywhere, thanks to a car accident that left him without the use of his legs. Now, Vincent must become Jerome - and make sure not one single cell of his own is ever found.

 
  
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