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“Red” is the story of Frank Moses (Willis), a former black-ops CIA agent, who is now living a quiet life.
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The setup is straightforward enough: After getting double crossed and left for deadbytheir CIA handler Max (Jason Patric), five members of a black-ops special forces team join forces with a mercenary against the agency and its various shadowy collaborators.
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So I would expect most of the operatives to be black-ops, selected for their flexible ethical views.
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For Nolan, Reese's black-ops background will come in mighty handy as he and Finch's enterprise gains more moving parts: "We're taking that tension from the spy world and injecting it into a police procedural, hopefully with really cool results."
Person of Interest's Reese and Finch Welcome a Surprising New Accomplice 2012
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Plenty of twists in these shag-and-frag exploits of a covert British black-ops unit.
Ask Matt: Glee Project, Summer Finales, Strike Back and More! 2011
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They were hardened black-ops soldiers—mercenaries, assassins—and he was raising brows?
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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The Punisher is just that: a former black-ops specialist for the government crusades against the bad guys who wiped out his family.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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They were hardened black-ops soldiers—mercenaries, assassins—and he was raising brows?
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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Contour/Getty Images Steven Soderbergh With "Haywire," which opens Jan. 20, he heads in yet another direction, casting Gina Carano, a professional mixed-martial-arts fighter with limited prior acting experience, in the lead role as an international black-ops agent.
The Art of Directing a Fight Scene Don Steinberg 2012
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He decides to atone for his sin by intervening in the lives of the irrelevants to prevent said crimes, recruiting Caviezel's Reese, a traumatized former black-ops supersoldier, as his partner.
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