My Top 10. Review on Top 10 All Time Favorite Movies

1. Inside Man(2006)

Synopsis: From a cell, a man(Clive Owen) tells us he has planned the perfect bank robbery; he invites us to watch. An efficient gang enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors, and takes hostages. They work deliberately, without haste. A snarky detective(Denzel Washington) facing corruption charges is assigned to negotiate. The bank's president has something to protect in a safe deposit box, so he brings in a high-powered fixer(Jodie Foster). With an army of police surrounding the bank, the thief, the cop, and the plutocrat's fixer enter high-stakes negotiations. Why are the robbers asking for a plane - they know they won't get one? Why aren't they in more of a hurry? If the job's perfect, why is leader of the thieves in a cell?

1. Thank You For Smoking(2005)

Synopsis: Tobacco industry lobbyist Nick Naylor(Aaron Eckhart) has a seemingly impossible task: promoting cigarette smoking in a time when the health hazards of the activity have become too plain to ignore. Nick, however, revels in his job, using argument and twisted logic to place, as often as not, his clients in the positions of either altruistic do-gooders or victims. Nick's son Joey needs to understand and respect his dad's philosophy, and Nick works hard to respond to that need without compromising his lack of values. When a beautiful news reporter(Sue Maclean) betrays Nick's sexually-achieved trust, his world seems in danger of collapsing. But there's always one more coffin nail in Nick's pack.

1. The Usual Suspects(1995)

Synopsis: Police investigating an exploded boat on a San Pedro pier discover 27 bodies and$91 million worth of drug money. The only survivors are a severely burned and very scared Hungarian terrorist and Verbal Kint(Kevin Spacey), a crippled con-man. Reluctantly, Kint is pressurised into explaining exactly what happened on the boat. His story begins six weeks earlier with five criminals(Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Spacey) being dragged in by New York police desperate for suspects on a hijacked truck and ends with the possible identification of a criminal mastermind.

1. Rounders(1998)

Synopsis: A young man(Matt Damon) is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend, Worm(Edward Norton) pay off loan sharks.

1. Syriana(2005)

Synopsis: A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company's law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes(George Clooney), the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist(Matt Damon) parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields.

1. Hotel Rwanda(2004)

Synopsis: Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda-and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man and a hotel manager, Paul Rusesabagina(Don Cheadle) summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages.

1. The Shawshank Redemption(1994)

Synopsis: Andy Dufresne(Tim Robbins), is sent to Shawshank Prison for the murder of his wife and secret lover. He is very isolated and lonely at first, but realises there is something deep inside your body, that people can't touch and get to.'HOPE'. Andy becomes friends with prison'fixer' Red(Morgan Freeman), and Andy epitomises why it is crucial to have dreams. His spirit and determination, leads us into a world full of imagination, filled with courage and desire. Will Andy ever realise his dreams.?

1. Snatch(2000)

Synopsis: Turkish(Jason Statham) an unlicenced boxing promoter and his rather strange accomplice Tommy(Stephen Graham) get pulled into the world trouble when they get involved with notorious Brick Top(Alan Ford). Things get complicated when the boxer they had lined up gets the knocked out by Mickey(Brad Pitt), a'pike' as they call him. They then try to convince Pitt not only to fight for them, but to lose for them too. Whilst all this is going on, a huge diamond heist takes place, and a fistful of motley characters enter the story, including'Cousin Avi'(Denis Farina), 'Boris The Blade'(Rade Serbedzija), 'Franky Four Fingers'(Benicio Del Toro) and'Bullet Tooth Tony'(Vinnie Jones). Things go from bad to worse as it all becomes about the money, the guns, and the damned dog!

1. Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels(1998)

Synopsis: Eddy(Nick Moran) has been known as a cardsharp since he was young. So he and his three friends Soap(Dexter Fletcher), Tom(Jason Flemyng) and Bacon(Jason Statham) all decide to chip in £25, 000 each to allow him to play in an illegal high-roller game run by one of the local villains, Hatchet Harry(P. H. Moriarty). However, Eddy didn't realize the game was crooked and he ends up owing Harry £500, 000 with dire threats about losing his fingers one at a time if he doesn't pay within a week! Eddy and his friends discuss various completely illegal schemes to obtain the money and eventually decide to rip-off the gang of thieves next door who themselves are planning to raid a clandestine drug growing operation which keeps all of its money in shoe boxes where they grow the cannabis plants. The scheme is simple enough but the best laid plans of mice and men always seems to go awry as does this one. As extreme chaos breaks loose the violence and associated body count spiral out of control, Eddy and his friends realize that they are out of their depth and desperately try to find a way out before they too find themselves among the casualties!

1. The Godfather(1972)

Synopsis: The story begins as "Don" Vito Corleone(Marlon Brando), the head of a New York Mafia "family", oversees his daughter's wedding. His beloved son Michael(Al Pacino) has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Through Michael's life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don't want to follow the old ways and look out for community and "family". An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don's influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don's fading old world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family.