Sin

Plot synopsis:
Set in the near future of 2037, many of the levels and locations are reminiscent of their current day equivalents. Banks, building sites, sewage works and other everyday recognizable buildings form the basis of many of the levels in Sin. One major difference in the world of SiN is the lack of a police force. Ten years prior to the game, the police force collapsed due to corruption and ineffectiveness against the rising tide of crime. Private security companies have taken the police's place, with some of them patrolling the streets like the former police, some in charge of protecting their employer's assets.
One of the companies which employ their own armed security forces is SinTek, a large multi-national biotechnology corporation specializing in medical and chemical research, owned by the beautiful and charismatic Elexis Sinclaire. Elexis took over the company following the mysterious disappearance of her father, Dr Thrall Sinclaire, who founded it in 2005.
The protagonist of the game, Colonel John R. ("Rusty") Blade, is the commander of one of the largest security forces in the city of Freeport, HardCorps. Prior to the beginning of the game, Blade is working to rid the streets of a potent new recreational drug named U4, which is rapidly gaining popularity in Freeport and is rumoured to be able to cause genetic mutations to its users. Yet the source of the drug is still unknown, and its effects not entirely studied. As the game begins, the player is placed into the shoes of John Blade as he responds to a full-scale bank heist and hostage situation perpetrated by a well-known Freeport criminal boss, Antonio Mancini. But as the player progresses and pursues the criminal behind the heist, further questions are raised: Who is really behind the heist? And is this linked to the reported appearances of mutants in the city?
As the game progresses, it is gradually revealed that the whole bank robbery is funded by Elexis Sinclaire, who in fact only wanted Mancini to steal a safety deposit box from the bank's vault. When she learns that he launched a full-scale bank heist instead, she injects him with concentrated U4 and turns him into a mutant, sending him after Blade. John manages to defeat the huge creature, and afterwards learns that it was, in fact, Mancini himself. Blade also finds out that the substance found in Mancini's body after his death is only manufactured by one company: SinTek. All these unavoidable facts force Blade to embark on an investigation into SinTEK's vast industrial area located in the outskirts of Freeport.
Later, Blade learns that Elexis Sinclaire's main goal is to poison the Freeport water system with vast quantities of U4, turning all of the city's inhabitants into mutants. He manages to thwart that plan, but it turns out to be just a diversion because, in the meantime, SinTek's troops steal nuclear warheads from a U.S. military base. Elexis threatens to fill them with U4 and launch them at specific targets, turning the entire world's population into mutants. As Blade becomes aware of that, he heads to SinTek's main base in order to stop Sinclaire. However, once Blade defeats the Sintek's security and mutants at the base, he reaches Sinclaire, only for her to escape by transferring her entire body into a rocket that launches itself into the sky, splits and spreads everywhere, JC is unable to locate them, in Blade's fury of the escape, he smashes a button, causing the nuclear missiles to abort and cancel their launching. Sinclaire disappears through the rockets, never to be seen again.
Throughout the missions, Blade is aided via radio link by a computer expert working at HardCorps: JC, a skilled hacker, capable of breaking into even the tightest of networks. In fact, Blade had first found out about JC when investigating a cracker who had broken into the HardCorps system. After tracking down the hacker, Blade, recognizing the perpetrator's talents, decided to make him a job offer at HardCorps instead of arresting him. Thus, JC became one of the HardCorps most valuable assets and the only one able to assist them in hacking-based missions.

Tags: revenge, murder, flashback

Review:
There were way too many holes in the plot to make this movie worth watching for everyone that likes the actors or genre.
The only reason I watched the entire movie was because, as a woman, seeing the massive revenge against rapists was very satisfying.
I thought Oldman's performance was a little more natural than that of Rhames, but his was still decent.
My feeling is that veterans such as Rhames and Oldman should have seen all of the mistakes in dialog and plot consistency and maybe passed on it altogether.
If you're up and bored in the middle of the night while it's on a movie channel, you might as well watch it..
I saw this movie only because Gary Oldman was in it.
Too bad he wasn't in the movie as much as he needed to be.
The story is an Ex-Cop is looking for his sister who has entered a life of Sin, hence the title of the movie.
While the cast wasn't bad, it was most likely just the story and the editing.
It's almost like they spent all their money on the cast, the film, and the sets.
Gary Oldman is still great, but because this movie was so boring, I have to say this is his worst movie.
I watched this movie for two reasons; The amazing Gary Oldman and for the music by Michael Giacchino of whom I'm a fan ever since his "Medal of Honor" scores.
The movie was not completely a waste of time but it also was far from good.Man to blame is I think director Michael Stevens, you can tell by looking at this movie that he is just too unexperienced.
Once you pick up the story the movie is actually not bad, it's just that it has been done about a hundred times before.Ving Rhames tries but he just ain't no good leading actor, I liked his costume but that's about all the positive I can say.
And keep an eye on Arie Verveen, I expect great things for him in the future.If you can ignore the bad dialog, story, plot-holes and directing you'll see that there is some good in this movie and that it is a watchable one that is fairly entertaining as an action movie but not a must see in any way.5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/.
The screenwriters have also shamelessly recycled one of the classic screen thriller moments from the hall of mirrors scene in "The Lady From Shanghai."  And was it not possible to come up with a more imaginative title than "Sin"?
Yet there is one compelling reason to see this movie, and that is for the performances of Ving Rhames and Gary Oldman.In the same way that the film "Heat" established a dynamic duel between Al Pacino's detective and Robert DeNiro's thief, the most interesting scenes in "Sin" are those that bring together the ex-cop (Rhames) and the sleazy drug lord (Oldman).
The plot concerns the maniacal acts perpetrated by Oldman's character, who is pursued by Rhames' character, the former cop who lost part of his arm and all of his idealism after a shady police arrest and illegal interrogation of an alleged cop-killer.There is one riveting moment when in the middle of an action scene, the characters discourse on the topic of conscience.
In this conversation, our perception of both Rhames' and Oldman's characters change when we realize that one of the characters is totally without conscience and the other has been driven by the human emotion of guilt.
But this moment remains buried among predictable and even cliched action scenes piled one on top of another.If the film could have just focused on the internal development of the two principal characters, eliminating the violent action sequences, it would have been more watchable and more memorable.
There is something special about these two exceptional actors, however, that enables Rhames and Oldman to rise above the material..
It is odd, however, that a movie can take such talented actors as Ving Rhames and, especially, Gary Oldman and turn their performances into run-of-the-mill action clichés.
Rhames utters the phrase 'she's my sister' so many times in the movie that by the end the movie has turned the phrase into a cliché all by itself.
I think that most of the reason that so many people hated this movie was because it raises your expectations because of the people involved but did nothing new within its genre.
No one is as good or bad as they initially seem to be in this movie.
The evil was heaped onto Charlie Strom, Gary Oldman's character, so heavily in the first half of the movie that it's difficult for him to escape from underneath the mountain of badness that he is under even when we see the reasons for his actions, but the good guys in particular, are not as good as they seem.
Eddie Burns (Ving Rhames) lost the use of his left arm in the line of duty, but also played a role in the death of an innocent man that could really amount to murder.
Later in the movie, Eddie is attempting to save Strom from a pool of quicksand in the middle of the Nevada desert.
Do not waste your life watching this dreadful film.
It was painful to watch, the only thing that kept me watching this dreadful film was that it was so bad I felt I had a responsibility to warn the rest of the world not to waste a couple of hours of their lives watching it.There was no plot to speak of and any hints of a plot were so obvious that you work them out at least half an hour in advance.
And by Gary Oldman?Despite the comments that you can read on amazon.com (probably done by patriotic American boobs), this is one is a complete waste of time.
It is a Sin using actors like this in this movie.
Gary olman is a great actor...most of the time.and in spite of this movie he is still good.So was Ving Rhames..but his lines are even worse.This is not a bad movie,but with the caliber of actors in it I expected so much more.It almost delivered...but kept stumbling..some of the dialog is very clumsy and awkward.Continuity did not seem to be a concern here either.This is basically a spaghetti western cop movie,starts pretty good and grabs you...then lets you go...what a shame.Still it is worth renting if you like this style of movie..
Sin is known as the B movie that Gary Oldman did, and he himself has bad mouthed it on occasion.
Back then though, this was the only kind of movie like that he had to explain away.
It really isn't the best movie, and functions as well as its limited budget and mediocre script will allow, but I must say there are a few moments, ones with stars Oldman and Rhames, that are just killer, and one in fact that borders on greatness.
Rhames plays Eddie Burns, an ex cop or military man who lives estranged in the country, until the organized gang rape of his sister (Kerry Washington) coaxes him back into Reno Nevada.
This heinous crime (a scene which borders on exploitation, to be honest) is orchestrated by Charlie Strom (Oldman), a nasty pornographer and drug kingpin who has a decades old bone to pick with Eddie.
For all the two bit moments in the script (and there are a lot), there's one showstopper of a scene between Rhames and Oldman, that is reminiscent of Michael Mann's Heat, and is quietly but surely affecting in its sadness.
Brian Cox blusters through as Eddie's former police boss, Bill Sage hangs out for a bit as a detective, and the one, the only Gregg Henry appears as a sleazy informant who feeds Rhames Intel.
He also gets the best line of the film, exclaiming "I haven't even had my morning fattie" after being rudely awakened Rhames.
Two great actors , one average movie..
The story is neither new or gripping and if you have seen Gary Oldman before playing a bad guy ( Does he play any other character?!)then this will be nothing new to you.He is rapidly being typecast .
Ving Rhames comes out of this better because at least his character has some substance.
"Sin" is a uneven but entertaining revenge film.
The plot: Ex-Cop Eddie Burns (Rhames) wants revenge for the rape of his sister.
There is one great scene with Gary Oldman and Ving Rhames where they talk about the nature of life and conscience.
Besides that scene, the whole movie is piled with clichés and underwritten characters.
The movie wastes Gregg Henry and Brian Cox. The chase scene near the end looks like a car commercial.
We excuse Ving Rhames for such a terrible performance because we understand times are hard and he just needed a little extra money.
The costumes were horrible, the music was horrible, and the writing was beyond horrible!!!The movie was so bad it was comical.
The movie is almost like Nepolean Dynamite according to my sister, because of the long pointless pauses.
You spend half of the movie looking at people look at each other and listen to bad music without any action, at all!
So again don't rent it, buy it, or even watch somebody else's movie, its that bad!!!.
This must be the worst movie I have ever seen.
This must be the worst movie I have ever seen.
I thought Ving Rhames and Gary Oldman would make for a good novie based on their previous work - but no, this is by far the worst 'thriller' there is - although it is only the directing that sucks in this one.
Rhames is an ex-cop who goes up against a bad guy played very well by Oldman (but with a lousy script).
The story could have been ok, with better directing, but even Rhames and Oldman couldn't pull this one off..
STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All CostsRetired detective Eddie Burns (Ving Rhames) is called back in to action when his young sister Kassie (Kerry Washington) is abducted by a sinister criminal named Charlie Strom (Gary Oldman).She's found fairly swiftly though,returned in one piece despite having been subjected to an horrific rape ordeal.As Burns sets out to seek justice for his sister,it emerges Strom is as eager to set up a meeting with Burns as he is with him,as he has some business of his own with the detective,in the shape of an unsettled score.As I watched this dismal feature plod on,I was woken up to a fact I've chosen to overlook for a while now:Rhames really ain't that great an actor.In some of his other,more bearable features (in which he co-stars) his problems with delivery and tone are something I don't tend to notice,but when he's carrying the film,he ends up coming out in his true colours.As for Oldman,it's really a case of how the mighty have fallen,his once commanding presence in films of real vitality and inspiration now reduced to corny,hackneyed psycho turns such as his co starring role here.The plot is an uneven,patchy mess that dabbles in overtures of the ridiculous that by the time the laughably silly,clumsily self conscious ending has rolled by,have (ahem!) swallowed the film whole.*.
I've been watching this stupid movie for an hour and boy does it suck!
Rhames just saved a woman from a fate worse than death and she had a hissy because he called her "baby".
The only bad thing of this movie is that it isn't any special.
Sin is one of those films that can promises a lot with a cast like Gary Oldman and Ving Rhames squaring off but sadly the film never really goes as deep as I felt it could .
At the end of the day it is a basic revenge film which kind of incorporates an Oldboy style formula in it but that really does not seem to pick off so much .
On the whole I was not entirely disappointed with this film as it did keep entertained through its course , Oldman stays on top with his fine form and Rhames also does good but could be better .
If modern day spaghetti western flicks are your thing then check it out otherwise nothing new here which makes this film essential viewing but worth a rent or check it out if its on TV ..
Yeah, George Parker pretty well has it right, especially the part about the woman who says "don't call me baby," after Ving Rhames saves her life.
And some of the acting isn't bad, particularly that of Gary Oldman.
Kerry Washington, who played Rhames's petite younger sister, is to-die-for gorgeous..
I have to hand it to Gary Oldman for toughing it out to finish this movie; because, I could see it in his eyes, he hated working this film.
The torture and abuse on the screen, while disingenuously hidden from the viewer — we only actually see Ving Rhames' reaction to a video of his sister's brutal sodomy-rape by two Chinese guys, and there's some kind of contrived flashback of Gary Oldman's retarded kid brother taking the rap as a cop- killer — pales in comparison to the EDITORIAL TORTURE heaped upon the audience.Seriously, this movie tries your patience.
Let's just disregard the horrible costumes and hairstyles and deliberately bad dialogue — I mean, it MUST BE deliberate, right, it must be a premeditatedly bad script — and tell me WHERE Ving Rhames is supposed to be exacting vengeance on Gary Oldman?Tell me.Ving has Gary point-blank in his sights in the evil headquarters, right, then BOOM there's a scuffle and BOOM there's a night-time car chase in the city and BOOM now they're out of the city and it's daylight in the desert and BOOM suddenly Gary Oldman's car is sinking in quicksand.Hey, all of that transpires in less than two minutes, okay?
Mercifully, Ving decides to shoot Gary Oldman's head sticking up out of the quicksand, but only AFTER insisting that Gary recite "Death Be Not Proud," okay?Is that enough abuse?
Not abuse of the actors on screen — God knows Ving and Gary were probably drinking themselves to sleep every night during production — but I mean abuse heaped upon the audience, cringing in their seats.
If this hasn't been nominated as one of the WORST movies of all time, it should be..
The whole film had a terrific idea to it and I liked the twist in the plot on why Charlie Strom (Gary Oldman) was after Eddie Burns (Ving Rhames) and we see a side to Charlie of being a tortured soul out for revenge rather than a villain (this is not an excuse on the things he did to Burns' sister but it was still a nice touch).
The whole thing though was flat and a wee bit too predictable.The only actor who stood out was Gary Oldman (who was the only reason I watched this film- otherwise I wouldnt have bothered!) Ill watch it again but only because Gary does a good part in it.....
Now keep in mind, the only reason I undertook to see this film was because Gary Oldman was on the cover.
SIN looked liked a B-grade thriller, but Gary Oldman...The truth is is that SIN has a decent ambition, but very little ability to back it up.
The film contains both an anti-hero and an anti-villain, creating an interesting ambiguity, but it simply throws it away.A retired cop (Ving Rhames), and his kid sister, are threatened by a shadowy vindictive drug/porn/gun dealer played by Gary Oldman.
Rhames' former chief (Brian Cox) shows up randomly to offer sage advice, all to the backdrop of Michael Giacchino's derivative score (although it is good to see him breakout from the video game scene).
So is this film worth seeing?
Ving Rhames tries his best, but is better suited for films like PULP FICTION, he does not emote as a crippled retired cop with a haunted past.
However, Gary Oldman is quite good...Oldman is by far one of the best actors working today, and one must assume that, like the rest of us, he has mortgage.
He still plays one-dimensional bad guys better than anyone (LEON, LOST IN SPACE, TRUE ROMANCE), and in SIN he does try.
(Watch him work in a powerful showdown in a mirrored bedroom, or his oration on conscience.)  Perhaps he read the script and thought there was potential, which there is, but the director, Michael Stevens, decides to play the movie slick, wasting time and talent.
There has been a couple of Oldman straight-to-video releases of late (NOBODY'S BABY, INTERSTATE 60, TIPTOES) after a steady string of high-profile films during the 90's.
If he keeps making films like this he could end up like Brian Cox, a good actor who shows up as a police official or someone's crazy dad in below average productions like SIN.
That would be a shame.SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I will give SIN credit, I have not seen a movie that ends with the villain being engulfed into quicksand in years.
As improbable as that sounds, the quicksand scene isn't that bad, thanks mostly due to Oldman's pride during this surreal finale.
its so bad you need to watch it.
The script is just too stupid to believe Gary Oldman and Ving Rhames said yes without a gun to their heads.Direction issues..
Sister has overdosed and magically this women who only knew she was in trouble turns to the graveyard to help save her?Bill Sage looks more like a porn star than a police officer and the porn star in the early scene looked more like the town drunk than a porn star.Then hero Ving Rhames catches one of the men who raped his sister and beats him up then the police sirens are in the background suggesting they are coming.