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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-21 (Thursday)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 11:13:07 -0400
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 06:42:21 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

>On 3/22/24 6:04 AM, shawn wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 05:33:38 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> What did you watch?
>> 
>> The other thing I watched was a movie called THE EXPATRIATE about a
>> guy who was hired for a temporary job breaking security devices for a
>> company, but it turns out it was all a fake as all of the employees
>> are killed once they break enough devices. The setup was to enable
>> someone to break into a CIA black vault and steal some documents.
>> Documents that it turns out prove a company was shipping military
>> weapons to rebels in Africa when the ship carrying the weapons went
>> down. It was just watchable and not a movie I would seek out.
>
>There's no movie with that actual title, though apparently this is an 
>"alt title" for the 2012 film "Erased" with Aaron Exkhart – Is that this 
>movie you're talking about?

Yep, that's the one. Because he is an expatriate dealing with others
my brain just substituted the name.

>If it is, I stumbled across it... let's say about 5 years ago, and it 
>ended up being more engrossing than I was expecting (though I believe I 
>didn't watch the whole movie, having missed the beginning).
>
>And it co-stars Olga K!!

Yes, it does and she is lovely. Though clearly evil! ;)