Shawn Woods Movies
- 2004
Tony (Carlos Bernard) has taken Jane (Alexandra Lydon) out of CTU, with plans to exchange her for Michelle (Reiko Aylesworth). Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) is in pursuit, with Adam (Zachary Quinto) guiding him using the satellite image. Jack catches up to Tony, who reluctantly tells Jack the location of the pay phone where he's supposed to wait for Saunders' (Paul Blackthorne) call. They go together, and Jack forces Tony to make Saunders change the location for the exchange. Tony angrily tells Jack, "Just because you sacrificed your wife for this job, doesn't mean I'm going to sacrifice mine!" But Saunders agrees to the change, and Jack and Tony join a CTU team at the new location. Michelle makes a daring escape attempt. Chase (James Badge Dale) and Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) discuss the future of their relationship. Keeler (Geoff Pierson) goes to Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) with a photo of Milliken's prescription bottle, which he says has Sherry's (Penny Johnson Jerald) fingerprints on it. He threatens to expose the whole sordid affair unless Palmer resigns after the current crisis is over. With Palmer's blessing, Wayne (D.B. Woodside) teams up with Bruce Foxton (Mark Rolston), a shady mercenary operative, to break into Sherry's house and find the evidence. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kevin Fry, Shawn Woods, (more)
- 2004
Tony (Carlos Bernard) helped Saunders (Paul Blackthorne) escape CTU's clutches because he is holding Michelle (Reiko Aylesworth) hostage. Now Tony tries to cover his tracks, deleting the satellite imagery of the CTU team being moved. Chloe (Mary Lynn Rajskub) realizes that the video is missing, and suggests to Tony that Saunders might have someone helping him inside CTU. Tony has her work on tracing Saunders' last call to him. Tony and Saunders seem to be at a stalemate, because Tony has said he'll kill Jane (Alexandra Lydon) if anything happens to Michelle, but when Saunders finds out CTU is tracing his call, he orders Tony to put a stop to it, and he does. Jack (Kiefer Sutherland), who has just gotten back to L.A., overhears Tony shutting down the trace, and demands to know what's going on. Tony admits to screwing up, and tells Jack he'll resign once the crisis is over. Jack points out that Tony didn't just screw up; he lied to cover his "mistakes." Jack relieves him of duty, forcing Tony to take even more drastic action. Meanwhile, Sherry (Penny Johnson Jerald) goes to Palmer's (Dennis Haysbert) opponent, Keeler (Geoff Pierson), and offers him evidence that Palmer lied to cover up her involvement in Alan Milliken's death. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christina Chang, Zachary Quinto, (more)
Further cementing 2003 as the year of Ron Shelton cop movies, the director continued his vacation from the sports genre with Hollywood Homicide, a police comedy that comes right on the heels of Shelton's Dark Blue, a decidedly grittier cop thriller. The film stars Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett as LAPD homicide detectives Joe Gavilan and K.C. Calden, two cops with bigger dreams. Gavilan moonlights as a real estate agent, while Calden teaches yoga and yearns for a career on the big screen. When an entire hip-hop group is murdered on-stage, Gavilan and Calden are called in to handle the case. As their investigation progresses, they begin to suspect that the rappers were offed for attempting to get out of their recording contract with label head Sartain (Isaiah Washington). Along with Bruce Greenwood and Keith David, the supporting cast boasts a plethora of real-life musicians, including Dr. Dre, Gladys Knight, Dwight Yoakam, Master P, and Ronald DeVoe of New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, (more)
Director Dominic Sena follows up his stylish action film Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) with this high-tech thriller. John Travolta stars as Gabriel Shear, a charismatic spy who plots to steal a multi-billion-dollar fortune in illegal government funds. In order to make his scheme work, however, Gabriel needs some help from a computer hacker, which is where Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) comes in. Stanley has been paroled from prison after serving a lengthy sentence for penetrating the FBI's cyber-surveillance operations. Issued a restraining order that keeps him away from computers and living penniless in a trailer park, Stanley wants only to be reunited with his daughter Holly, who's in the custody of his ex-wife, now remarried to a pornographer. Gabriel and his partner Ginger (Halle Berry) offer Stanley the chance to get his child back in exchange for his help, but the hacker soon realizes he's a pawn in a larger operation than the high-tech bank heist he thought he was perpetrating. In the meantime, a dedicated federal agent (Don Cheadle), the same man who once arrested Stanley, is trying to expose Gabriel's operation. Swordfish also stars Sam Shepard and Zach Grenier. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, (more)
- 2001
John Clark Jr. (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) risks incurring the wrath of precinct skipper Rodriguez (Esai Morales) when John's badge is stolen from his car. Led by Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz), the rest of the squad tries to cover up for John -- a task that becomes difficult when the badge is used in a string of robberies committed by a crook posing as a cop. In hopes of recovering John's badge and saving his job, fellow officer Connie McDowell (Charlotte Ross) adopts a most unusual disguise. And elsewhere, Connie is assigned a case that leads her to consider contacting the daughter whom she gave up for adoption 16 years ago. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Henry Simmons
