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  • Mackie under threat on war movie set - 2 August 2009
    -Anthony Mackie has ruled out making another lifelike war movie after constantly fearing for his life - for real - while filming The Hurt Locker in Jordan.- -The actor, who portrayed Tupac Shakur in Notorious B.I.G. biopic Notorious, admits he didn't have a great experi

Anthony Mackie - what members say


  • The Hurt Locker
  • The Hurt Locker review by Vivacia from London
    Rated - 5.0 stars "If I'm gonna die, I want to die comfortable." 18 August 2009
    ...dably his new colleagues aren't impressed, particularly Sergeant J.T. Sandborn (Anthony Mackie) who has trouble adjusting to a team leader who takes his earpiece out whenever...   Read customer review
  • The Adjustment Bureau
  • The Adjustment Bureau review by RedValleyJohn from Biggleswade
    Rated - 4.0 stars Better than Inception 23 March 2011
    ...lan. I really enjoyed Matt Damon's performance as well as Emily Blunt's and Anthony Mackie's . It's the kind of film that does not patronise the audience with a plot th...   Read customer review

Anthony Mackie - filmography


  • Man on a Ledge on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Sam Worthington,  Edward Burns,  William Sadler
    Director: Asger Leth
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Sam Worthington stars in this New York City-set suspense thriller. Nick Cassidy (Worthington), a beleaguered former cop, is standing on a Manhattan hotel rooftop threatening to jump to his death. But even as the city's media gathers around the building and a team of police psychologists attempts to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 23,570 members
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  • Gangster Squad - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Troy Garity,  Mireille Enos,  Holt McCallany
    Director: Ruben Fleischer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Crime drama set in the 1940s and '50s in Los Angeles inspired by the real life story of vicious mob boss Mickey Cohen and the LAPD officers who tried to bring him down. After moving to LA from the East Coast, Cohen (Sean Penn) has taken control of the town. A force to be reckoned with, he not only ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 23 members
    Due for release on 26th July 2013
  • Gangster Squad (2012)
    Starring: Troy Garity,  Mireille Enos,  Holt McCallany
    Director: Ruben Fleischer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Crime drama set in the 1940s and '50s in Los Angeles inspired by the real life story of vicious mob boss Mickey Cohen and the LAPD officers who tried to bring him down. After moving to LA from the East Coast, Cohen (Sean Penn) has taken control of the town. A force to be reckoned with, he not only ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 248 members
    Due for release on 26th July 2013
  • Man on a Ledge - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Sam Worthington,  Edward Burns,  William Sadler
    Director: Asger Leth
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Sam Worthington stars in this New York City-set suspense thriller. Nick Cassidy (Worthington), a beleaguered former cop, is standing on a Manhattan hotel rooftop threatening to jump to his death. But even as the city's media gathers around the building and a team of police psychologists attempts to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 9,607 members
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  • The Adjustment Bureau - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Emily Blunt,  Matt Damon,  Anthony Mackie
    Director: George Nolfi
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? Matt Damon stars in the thriller The Adjustment Bureau as a man who glimpses the future Fate has planned for him and realizes he wants something else. To get it, he must pursue the only woman he's ever loved across, under and through the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,021 members
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  • The Adjustment Bureau on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Emily Blunt,  Matt Damon,  Anthony Mackie
    Director: George Nolfi
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? Matt Damon stars in the thriller The Adjustment Bureau as a man who glimpses the future Fate has planned for him and realizes he wants something else. To get it, he must pursue the only woman he's ever loved across, under and through the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 8,462 members
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  • Real Steel - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Kevin Durand,  Evangeline Lilly,  Dakota Goyo
    Director: Shawn Levy
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Hugh Jackman stars in this robot sci-fi action film. It is the near future, and robots have replaced humans in dangerous sports such as boxing. With the sport taken over by robots, Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) loses his chance to become a boxing champion, and instead sets himself up as a small-..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 10,777 members
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  • Night Catches Us (2010)
    Starring: Kerry Washington,  Anthony Mackie,  Jamie Hector
    Director: Tanya Hamilton
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Set on the steamy streets of Philadelphia during the summer of 1976, "Night Catches Us" follows Marcus, an ex-Black Panther who returns home to confront his past. But when his path crosses Patricia who has tried to move on from their shared history, sparks fly.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 4 members
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  • Desert Flower (2009)
    Starring: Liya Kebede,  Sally Hawkins,  Craig Parkinson
    Director: Sherry Horman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 3, sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against circumcision.
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 16 members
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  • Louis (2009)
    Starring: Anthony Coleman,  Vilmos Zsigmond,  Jackie Earle Haley
    Director: Dan Pritzker
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Shot by Academy Award-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond as a modern re-imagining of early silent film, LOUIS is an homage to Louis Armstrong, Charlie Chaplin, beautiful women and the birth of American music. The grand Storyville bordellos, ... Read More...alleys and cemeteries of 1907 New ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 3 members
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  • The Hurt Locker - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Brian Geraghty,  Evangeline Lilly,  Guy Pearce
    Director: Kathryn Bigelow
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Tense and gritty war film from director Kathryn Bigelow, following the lives of an army bomb disposal squad in war-torn Iraq. Having to look death in the face daily, the soldiers of an elite ordnance disposal team struggle to accept their new sergeant, William James (Jeremy Renner), when he risks ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 25,815 members
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  • The Hurt Locker on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Jeremy Renner,  Anthony Mackie,  Brian Geraghty
    Director: Kathryn Bigelow
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 97,304 members
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  • Freedomland - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Samuel L. Jackson,  Ron Eldard,  Edie Falco
    Director: Joe Roth
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson. When her son disappears and is believed to be dead, a single mother blames an African-American man from the projects for the kidnapping, creating a racial controversy. An African-American detective (Jackson) and a white missing child researcher team up to ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 689 members
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  • Freedomland on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Samuel L. Jackson,  Julianne Moore,  Edie Falco
    Director: Joe Roth
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Samuel L. Jackson plays Lorenzo Council, a veteran police detective who is assigned the case of Brenda Martin, a woman from a neighbouring town who claims to have been carjacked...
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 7,415 members
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  • We Are Marshall on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Matthew McConaughey,  Matthew Fox,  Anthony Mackie
    Director: McG
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    "We Are Marshall" tells an inspiring true story set in Huntingdon, West Virginia, a small town steeped in the rich tradition of college football. For decades, players, coaches, fans and families have come together to cheer on Marshall University's "Thunder Herd." For this team and this community, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 7,966 members
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  • Half Nelson on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Ryan Gosling,  Nicole Vicius,  Christopher Williamson
    Director: Ryan Fleck
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Oscar-nominated drama about an inner city teacher's friendship with a pupil. Dan Dunne (Ryan Gosling) is a young teacher struggling to find the energy to inspire his 13 and 14-year-olds as they examine everything from civil rights to the Civil War. Rejecting the standard curriculum in favor of an ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 19,583 members
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  • She Hate Me on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Woody Harrelson,  Brian Dennehy,  Ellen Barkin
    Director: Spike Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Harvard-educated biotech executive John Henry "Jack" Armstrong gets fired when he informs on his bosses, launching an investigation into their business dealings by the Securities & Exchange Commission. Branded a whistle-blower and therefore unemployable, Jack desperately needs to make a living. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 1,985 member
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  • Sucker Free City on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Darris Love,  Ken Leung,  Ben Crowley
    Director: Spike Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Spike Lee directs this urban drama, originally the pilot for an intended series, set in the modern-day melting pot of San Francisco. Three different street gangs, one white, one black and one Asian, clash in a series of brutal turf wars. As their lives intersect on the streets, the gang members ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 481 members
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  • Brother To Brother on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Alex Burns,  Duane Boutte,  Daniel Sunjata
    Director: Rodney Evans
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Drama examining the hardships of gay, black artists in the States, marking the feature-length debut of filmmaker Rodney Evans. Perry Williams (Anthony Mackie) is an African-American living in New York, who is scorned by his father because of his sexuality, and by his fellow black artists for the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 536 members
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  • 8 Mile - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Eminem,  Mekhi Phifer,  Brittany Murphy
    Director: Curtis Hanson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Controversial rapper Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers) makes his big screen debut with 8 MILE, a bracing drama directed by the increasingly audacious Curtis Hanson. Set in 1995 in the bleak, urban battle zone of Detroit, the film follows the struggles of a young man desperate to make a better ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 910 members
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  • 8 Mile on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Eugene Byrd,  Evan Jones,  Brittany Murphy
    Director: Curtis Hanson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    No matter whom we are, no matter where we live, we're all bound by borders. Many of us are content to live within these borders--others are simply forced to exist within them. But some of us need to break out, burst through, even if what is on the other side is both frightening and unknown. From ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 13,328 members
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Anthony Mackie facts

5 most recent films

Pain and Gain - 4.5 stars
Man on a Ledge - 3.5 stars
Gangster Squad - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Gangster Squad - 3.5 stars
Man on a Ledge - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Hurt Locker - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Hurt Locker - 4.0 stars
Real Steel - 4.0 stars
Real Steel - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Adjustment Bureau - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Heavens Fall - 3.0 stars
Night Catches Us - 3.5 stars
Gangster Squad - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Louis - 4.0 stars
Desert Flower - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Evangeline Lilly - 6 times - show films
Brian Geraghty - 5 times - show films
Ed Harris - 4 times - show films
Robert Patrick - 4 times - show films
Ryan Gosling - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Kathryn Bigelow - 4 times - show films
Shawn Levy - 3 times - show films
Asger Leth - 3 times - show films
Spike Lee - 3 times - show films
Ryan Fleck - 3 times - show films