Ever since Amazon Prime Video added commercials to its commonplace tier, the variety of films on Freevee has dropped dramatically. Now, even the schlock movies present up with Prime Video logos as a substitute of Freevee’s icon. And it’s very troublesome to discover a good film on Freevee, a lot much less an amazing one.
To not be deterred, we now have put collectively a brand new listing of three underrated motion films on Amazon Freevee that it’s best to watch in August. The one issues that join these flicks is that they’ve actually good casts and so they’re a lower above the remainder of the motion films on Freevee.
Blood Father (2016)
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Chances are high very excessive that most individuals have by no means seen or heard of Blood Father, a French motion movie that made roughly $7 million in 2016. However it’s acquired a terrific solid together with Mel Gibson and William H. Macy, with supporting turns by The Boys‘ Erin Moriarty and Andor star Diego Luna.
Gibson performs John Hyperlink, a newly launched ex-convict who reunites together with his daughter, Lydia Carson-Hyperlink (Moriarty). Since John final noticed her, Lydia has grow to be an addict and the girlfriend of a hardened gangster, Jonah Pincerna (Luna). After Lydia by chance shoots Jonah throughout a theft, his gang marks her for demise. John, with the assistance of his AA sponsor, Kirby (Macy), has to discover a solution to shield Lydia from the gang and hold her out of Jonah’s grasp.
Watch Blood Father on Freevee.
No Escape (1994)
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The late Ray Liotta starred in No Escape, a 1994 movie that was set within the then future yr of 2022. Liotta’s character, JT Robbins, is imprisoned for refusing to kill harmless individuals in Benghazi, and for murdering his commanding officer, who tried to instigate a bloodbath. For that crime, and his frequent escape makes an attempt, JT is sentenced to Absolom, a distant island the place the worst prisoners are saved.
JT shortly runs afoul with Absolom’s inmate dictator, Walter Marek (Stuart Wilson), earlier than aligning himself with a rival faction led by The Father (Lance Henriksen). However as Marek and The Father march towards conflict, JT’s precedence is survival and discovering a solution to escape the island.
Watch No Escape on Freevee.
Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)
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Is it actually a resurrection when the primary Mechanic film already revealed that Jason Statham’s Arthur Bishop was nonetheless alive? It’s semantics at this level, however Mechanic: Resurrection has a significantly better supporting solid than most of Statham’s motion flicks. Whereas having fun with his retirement, Arthur and his buddy, Mei (Michelle Yeoh), witness a younger girl named Gina Thornton (Jessica Alba) being abused by her lover.
After being rescued from that scenario, Gina begins to fall for Arthur and he feels the identical. That’s when Riah Crain (Sam Hazeldine) strikes. He kidnaps Gina to drive Arthur out of retirement so he can kill three of his rivals. One of many rivals, Max Adams (Tommy Lee Jones), is a a lot tougher goal than the opposite two. So Arthur must be inventive to get out of this jam.
Watch Mechanic: Resurrection on Freevee.
