杰克（尚格·云顿 Jean-Claude Van Damme 饰）曾经是一名隶属于美国中央情报局的反恐情报人员，影院用藏验版如今已经退休的他来到了法国，影院用藏验版和妻子凯瑟琳（娜塔莎·兰丁格尔 Natacha Lindinger 饰）一同享受起了闲散而又平静的生活。一个名叫仕达罗（米基·洛克 Mickey Rourke 饰）的恐怖分子引起了情报局的恐慌，为了将他制服，情报局请求业务能力优秀的杰克重新出山，杰克欣然应允。在一次交锋中，杰克对仕达罗妻儿的仁慈让仕达罗得以逃脱，而杰克也因此遭到了被情报局软禁的命运。不幸的是，杰克的仁慈并没能挽救仕达罗妻儿的性命，悲愤之中，仕达罗绑架了凯瑟琳。在狱中听闻此噩耗的杰克当即下定决心，不惜越狱也要将仕达罗捉拿归案。
回复 :河南农村某公社的柿子沟生产队，因为缺水，缺大牲畜，给发展生产带来很大的困难。贫农出身的生产队委员韩芒种和副队长李十三，在物资交流会上遇到了一匹价钱便宜的瘦马。芒种认为，只要下功夫喂，这马准能喂好。经他再三坚持，说服了怕担责任的李十三，终于以120元的便宜价钱买下了这匹瘦马。队里的饲养员梁斗，是个自私自利思想严重的上中农。他本想自己买下瘦马，养肥了好倒卖赚钱。现在看芒种给队里买回来了就百般挑剔，故意刁难，拒绝承担喂养瘦马的任务。这时候，生产队长长水从公社开会回来，带来了会议提倡的自力更生、奋发图强的革命精神。他积极支持芒种喂养瘦马的要求，并提出了修渠引水，改造60亩旱地的建议。梁斗没有把马弄到手，不死心，他怂恿妻子刘翠香去挑唆芒种的妻子蔡秀真，叫她拉芒种的后腿。确实“买马容易，养马难”，芒种白天修水渠，夜里服侍瘦马，遭到秀真反对，加上芒种用了家里的香油和荞麦皮给马治病，秀真更是生气，和丈夫吵了一架回娘家去了。梁斗百般刁难，秀真吵架出走，使芒种的工作增加了很大阻力，但芒种并没有被困难吓倒，他仍然不辞辛苦地喂养瘦马。他认为喂好这匹马不仅仅是为了队里增加畜力的问题，而更重要的是“代表队里的一个志气，一个干劲，一个希望，一个精神”。他的行动得到长水和社员们的支持和鼓励。梁斗趁队里修水渠资金困难和李十三对喂养瘦马思想产生动摇的时机，又阴谋套购瘦马。芒种揭穿了他的诡计，并积极向长水建议，自己烧石灰，换修渠用的瓦管子，自力更生地克服困难。秀真从娘家回来以后，看见马已养肥，夫妻和好，但在刘翠香的唆使下，又自作主张地把马送到饲养室交给梁斗喂去了。芒种发现后，压制着内心的激愤和痛苦，对秀真进行耐心的启发教育，终于使其觉悟过来。为查清饲养室的问题，树立贫下中农在生产中的优势，芒种被队里派到饲养室。在长水等人的帮助下，终于揭露了梁斗偷饲料和其他损公利己的行为。在队领导和群众的共同努力下，水渠修成了，湍急的清流灌溉着干旱的土地，给柿子沟带来了丰收。芒种的瘦马也喂得膘肥体壮，拉着载满粮食的大车奔驰在通往公社的大道上。
回复 :继索纳岛恐龙逃往事件过去已有八年，艾伦•格兰特博士（山姆•尼尔 Sam Neill 饰）无论如何也不愿再返回那个鬼地方。虽然发下重誓，但现状不得不让他收回誓言。他的一项史前动物研究陷入资金紧张的窘境。而这时，富有的商人保罗•科比（William H. Macy 饰）及其夫人阿曼达（Téa Leoni 饰）找到艾伦，邀请他作为向导带他们乘飞机前往索纳岛观光。一方面酬劳颇丰，一方面又得知不用着陆小岛，好了伤疤忘了疼的艾伦接受了他们的邀请。然而事情却朝相反的方向发展，他们的飞机最终迫降小岛。至此他才得知，原来科比夫妇来此的目的竟是为了寻找失踪的儿子。与此同时他还发现，经过八年的自然进化，恐龙中最聪明的速龙竟然拥有了自己赖以交流的语言。这一次他的对手不仅凶恶，而且更为狡猾……
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回复 :Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.
