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Michael Jai White

Michael Jai White
Total Credits at Criticker: 79 (Actor), 4 (Director), 4 (Writer)
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Exit Wounds
Seagal stars as maverick Detroit police detective Orin Boyd, whose take-no-prisoners approach to domestic terrorism gets him booted downtown to the city's toughest precinct. (Warner Bros.)
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Justice
A comedic drama about a maverick comic-book writer (Palladino) who uses his powers of creativity to create a new kind of superhero -- an enigmatic entity named Justice who embodies the heroism of everyday existence in the face of apathy, anarchy, and cynicism. (Two Boots Pioneer Theater)
Universal Soldier: The Return
Luc Devereaux, the only surviving member of the original Universal Soldier Team. He now works with Dylan Cotner, on a project to create and improve a new Universal Soldier. Their plan is for the Universal soldier or UNISOLS to be controlled by a computer they call SETH. When the government decides to terminate the project, which includes shutting down SETH. SETH, not wanting this to happen, takes steps to prevent this. He first kills Dylan. He then has himself transfered into a body... (imdb)
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2 Days in the Valley
48 hours of intersecting lives and crimes in Los Angeles (imdb)
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Spawn
A mercenary is killed, but comes back from Hell as a reluctant soldier of the Devil. (imdb)
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Universal Soldier
Luc and Scott were killed in Vietnam, but the army has a secret project for reanimating dead people as near-perfect soldiers. (imdb)
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The Toxic Avenger, Part II
The Toxic Avenger is lured to Tokyo, Japan by the evil corporation Apocalypse Inc. So while the Toxic Avenger is fighting crime in Tokyo, Apocalypse Inc. spread evil in Tromaville. (imdb)
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Getting Played
Three beautiful women decide, on a bet, to select and seduce a total stranger. (imdb)
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Undisputed II: Last Man Standing
Sequel to the 2002 film. This time, Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers is sent to a Russian Jail on trumped-up drug charges. (imdb)
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City of Industry
Lee Egan lures his older brother Roy out of "retirement" with a sweet jewel heist, only to get killed by a backstabbing partner; then it's up to Roy to get revenge. (imdb)
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Thick as Thieves
Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first (Alec Baldwin), a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jazz records and caring for his ailing dog, Wally. The other (Michael Jai White) is a local gangster with a taste for the finer life, who decides to eliminate the competition. This ignites a war between the two men and their aides.(imdb)
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Ringmaster
Jerry Springer stars as more or less himself, the host of a raunchy, controversial and popular Los Angeles talk show which features everyday people with problems and who frequently vent thrir problems on the air... (imdb)
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Why Did I Get Married?
"Why Did I Get Married" will be the big screen adaptation of Perry's stage play about the trials of marriage, and what happens to one family when a sexy young temptress arrives on the scene. (imdb)
Freedom Song
A powerful, emotional, sometimes funny, always honest look at the civil rights movement. It focusses mostly on teenagers, and it's fascinating. (imdb User Comments)
Black Dynamite
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House. (imdb)
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Blood and Bone
After five years behind bars, Isaiah Bone (Michael Jai White) finally has the freedom to do what he wants. And the first thing on his list? Getting revenge for a fallen friend who asked him to take care of his wife and child should anything ever happen to him. Of course, meting out justice -- Bone-style -- will require total and complete immersion in the underground fighting scene. Eamonn Walker and Julian Sands co-star. (netflix.com)
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Ring of Fire
A young kickboxer must settle his dispute with a rival kickboxing club in the "ring of fire" in LA's Chinatown. (TCM.com)
Mortal Kombat: Rebirth
A detective runs through a list of bizarre criminals with a prisoner.
Pandora\
Mia DuBoisis a walking cliché, a successful therapist with an unsuccessful marriage. Her husband is more interested in working on his laptop than on her. So she is very receptive to hearing about the wild sex life that her new client the client's husband enjoyed, before he was murdered. Mia even accepts an invitation to Pandora's Box, a no holds barred secret club of sex and drugs. She falls under the spell of a dark, handsome stranger, a walking streak of sex. But is he all he seems? (imdb)
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Tyson
Tyson (1995) - TV Movie
The story of Mike Tyson. From his early days as a 12 year old amateur with a powerful punch, to the undisputed title of "Heavyweight Champion of the World", and ultimately to his conviction for rape. The story of his turbulent life moves quickly, never focusing for long on anything in particular. (imdb)
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Ring of Fire 3: Lion Strike
Dr. Johnny Wu becomes involved in a global Mafia arms cartel when they kidnap his son Bobby. The cartel, made-up of underworld leaders from around the world, become aware that he stumbled onto valuable information on a computer disk he possesses. Louie and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Kruskev use every bit of their cunning to trap Johnny and retrieve the disk. (imdb)
Full Contact
Luke Powers travels to L.A. to find that his brother has been murdered in a back alley martial arts tournament. Luke enters the tournament circuit to try to flush out his brother's killer. With the help of a trainer and former fighter, Luke enters what he thinks will be a victorious battle. (imdb)
Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown
Four fighters from different backgrounds come together to train under an ex-MMA rising star and then ultimately have to fight each other and the traitor in heir midst. (imdb)
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Tactical Force
A training exercise for the LAPD SWAT Team goes terribly wrong when they find themselves pitted against two rival gangs while trapped in an abandoned Hangar, armed with nothing but blanks. (imdb)
Shaughnessy, the Iron Marshall
Irish immigrant Tommy Shaughnessy leaves 19th-century New York City for Kansas and becomes a small-town sheriff. (imdb)
We the Party
In Los Angeles, five high-school friends deal with romance, money, prom, college, sex, bullies, Facebook, fitting in, standing out, and finding themselves.
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Ballistic
Jesse Gavin is no ordinary policewoman; she knows how to handle herself in any situation. She's an undercover cop, part of an elite police team and highly skilled in lethal martial arts! After a government witness she was supposed to protect is killed, she is suspended from the force. The next day her partner is found dead. Has she been set up? With the help of the two men closest to her heart, her boyfriend and her father, she must battle to clear her name. (imdb)
The Philly Kid
A former NCAA champion wrestler is paroled after 10 years in prison. Now, to save a friend's life, in a series of cage fights he must agree to do the impossible - lose. (imdb)
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Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An excellent match is arranged with an American businessman, but when he takes his new wife Mary across the border his true character emerges - he sells her into slavery. James and Elizabeth must go to Virginia to rescue their daughter.
Freaky Deaky
Set in 1974, a pair of '60s radicals rely on their bomb-making skills on their way to becoming capitalists. (imdb)
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Mutiny
Mutiny (1999) - TV Movie
Fact-based story about 300 predominantly black sailors who were killed on July 17, 1944 while loading munitions on a ship in San Francisco. Three weeks later, 50 survivors were court-martialed for refusing to load another shipment. The men cited the Navy's lack of care for their safety.
Generation Iron
A documentary that follows top bodybuilders as they train to compete in the Mr. Olympia competition.
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Android Cop
In the year 2045, a Los Angeles Police Department detective and his new Android partner enter the Zone, a forbidden section of the city plagued with an unknown disease. There, they discover the source of the illness and uncover a troubling Government Conspiracy at the center. (imdb)
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Falcon Rising
Chapman is an ex-marine in Brazil's slums, battling the Yakuza outfit who attacked his sister and left her for dead. (IMDb)
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Skin Trade
After his family is killed by a Serbian gangster with international interests. NYC detective Nick goes to S.E. Asia and teams up with a Thai detective to get revenge and destroy the syndicates human trafficking network. (imdb)
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Chocolate City
Life for a struggling college student changes in an instant when he meets the owner of a male strip club who convinces him to give amateur night a whirl.
Mortal Kombat: Legacy
The first season of Mortal Kombat: Legacy is a prequel to the original game, explaining the background stories of several characters from the series and demonstrating their reasons for participating in the upcoming tenth Mortal Kombat tournament on which the first game was based. The episodes are non-linear with minimal continuity and each devoted to the story of a specific character or characters. The second season covers the tournament itself. (imdb)
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Black Dynamite
The Black Dynamite animated series further chronicles the exploits of the central character, Black Dynamite and his crew. Action comedy-spoof that follows ex-CIA agent and full-time ladies man, Black Dynamite, who's out to avenge the death of his brother against kung-fu masters, drug-dealing pimps and The Man. (imdb)
Chain of Command
After finding his brother murdered after returning from duty, Webster searches for the perpetrators, but discovers a conspiracy that cuts deep inside the U.S. government. (imdb)
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The Legend of Bruce Lee
The story of the legendary martial arts icon Bruce Lee following him from Hong Kong to America and back again told in 40 hour long episodes. A 3.5 hour edited down movie version was release in the USA in 2010 (imdb)
The Asian Connection
Two American expatriates, Jack and Sam, unwittingly steal a drug lord's money when they rob a series of banks in Southeast Asia and become the target of the gang's vengeance. When Sam is killed, Jack turns to the love of his life, Pom, and the couple becomes a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde that takes the fight to the gang.
Never Back Down: No Surrender
Picking up after the events of Never Back Down 2, former MMA champion Case Walker is on the comeback trail to become champion once again. (imdb)
Vigilante Diaries
The Vigilante Diaries is a high octane action-adventure film featuring 90's movie heroes, explosive action, and international espionage. The film revolves around a team of black-ops agents turned crime-fighters, led by a brooding anti-hero, known only as "The Vigilante." These jam-packed missions of rescue and revenge take us from the mega-mansions and underbelly of Los Angeles to far away places like Iraq, Armenia, Russia, and The United Kingdom to introduce us to a cast of colorful, dangerous, (IMDB)
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Justice League Unlimited
A continuation of the Justice League animated series finds the original members of the team joined in their battle against crime and evil by dozens of other heroes from the DC comics universe. (imdb)
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The Crooked Man
While at a slumber party, twelve-year-old Olivia is blamed for the horrific and mysterious death of her friend, after singing a song (created by a reclusive mastermind, Milo White) that summons a demonic figure known as 'The Crooked Man'. Returning to her hometown six years later, a string of unusual deaths lead Olivia (Angelique Rivera) to believe that she's still being haunted by whatever she saw that fateful night. Once you sing the rhyme, everyone in the house is cursed to die by his hands. (imdb)
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Wonderland
Wonderland (2000) - TV Series
Depicting life in a mental institution from the points of view of both doctors and patients. (imdb)
S.W.A.T.: Under Siege
A SWAT compound comes under fire from an international terrorist who relentlessly and violently pursues a mystery man who was apprehended by Seattle SWAT after a raid went horribly wrong.
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Chocolate City: Vegas
The exotic dancers from Chocolate City get back together for a trip to Las Vegas and a chance at $500,000 in prize money to save the nightclub from foreclosure. They decide to enter a national stripper competition, and must travel to Vegas to try their luck at winning the competition. (imdb)
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Accident Man
Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer whose methodical hits baffle the police and delight his clients. He is the best at what he does. But when a loved one is dragged into the London underworld and murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to rip apart the life he knew in order to hold those accountable and avenge the one person who actually meant something to him. (imdb)
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Making a Killing
Three morticians get caught in a web of greed and deceit, involving buried treasure and a tangled love affair. (imdb)
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Cops and Robbers
A strung out hostage negotiator plays a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a cornered bank robber who is hell bent on getting out of the bank and humiliating the negotiator in the process. (imdb)
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Beyond the Game
Who is the strongest man in the world? (imdb)
Dragged Across Concrete
Once two overzealous cops get suspended from the force, they must delve into the criminal underworld to get their just due. (imdb)
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Every Day is Christmas
Inspired by the Charles Dickens classic "A Christmas Carol," shrewd money manager Alexis Taylor (Toni Braxton) gets the holiday visit of a lifetime. A self-proclaimed workaholic who "humbugs" love, Alexis ends up embracing the spirit of Christmas when her past, present, and future collide, forcing her to risk the one thing money can't buy: her heart. (imdb)
The Hard Way
After learning his brother died on a mission in Romania, a former soldier teams up with two allies to hunt down a mysterious enemy and exact revenge.
Triple Threat
A hit contract is taken out on a billionaires daughter intent on bringing down a major crime syndicate. A down and out team of mercenaries must take on a group of professional assassins and stop them before they kill their target.
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Undercover Brother 2
Sixteen years ago, Undercover Brother and his younger brother were hot on the heels of the leader of a racist, worldwide syndicate, but accidentally got caught in an avalanche of white snow. After they were discovered and thawed out, Undercover Brother remained in a coma. Now, it is up to his little brother to finish the job they started.
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In Search of the Last Action Heroes
"In Search of the Last Action Heroes" the most comprehensive retrospective of the '80s action film genre ever made.
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Somebody\
Though Constance is going through dialysis and is waiting for a kidney donor match, she knows that God has been good to her. Her son Douglas always takes care of her and she loves her grandson. However, she harbors a secret from her past that hardly anyone knows about. Yet little does she know is that God is about to set into motion events that will reconcile the past and bring redemption to them all.
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Welcome to Sudden Death
'Welcome to Sudden Death' is an action movie directed by Dallas Jackson. It stars Michael Jai White as Jesse Freeman, a veteran who now works as a security guard at a stadium. During a Phoenix Falcons basketball match, the bad guys sneakily enter the establishment and take some rather important people, including Jesse's daughter, hostage. So the father, with the help of the janitor, Gus, takes on the villains in order to protect what he loves. (thecinemaholic.com)
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The Legend of Bruce Lee
The story of the legendary martial arts icon Bruce Lee, following him from Hong Kong to America and back again, leading up to his tragic death at the age of 32. (imdb)
Batman: Soul of the Dragon
In the 1970s, a missing teacher of martial arts is the subject of a quest by his devoted and brilliant but distant students, who include Batman.
Assault on VA-33
Decorated veteran and PTSD sufferer, Jason Hill (Flanery) meets his wife, Jennifer, for lunch at the Veteran's Affairs hospital where she works. After Jennifer is called away for an ...
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Rogue Hostage
Single father and former Marine Kyle Snowden, on a routine stop for his job in Child Protective Services, finds himself and a group of innocent customers trapped inside his stepfather's store. (imdb)
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Black Friday
A group of toy store employees must protect each other from a horde of parasite infected shoppers. (imdb)
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Arrow
Arrow (2012) - TV Series
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The Commando
A DEA agent with PTSD returns home after a botched mission and must now protect his family from a home invasion after a recently freed convict and his henchmen come after their stash of millions inside of the agent's home.
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Dead Zone
An elite team of soldiers who, to stop the collapse of humanity, descend on a radiation-poisoned town and perform the ultimate stealth mission using high-tech armor and weapons. (imdb)
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The Island
When his brother is killed, LAPD officer Mark leaves the city to return to the island he grew up on. Seeking answers and vengeance, he soon finds himself in a bloody battle with the corrupt tycoon who's taken over the island paradise. (imbd)
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Outlaw Johnny Black
Hell bent on avenging the death of his father, Johnny Black vows to gun down Brett Clayton and becomes a wanted man in the process while posing as a preacher in a small mining town that's been taken over by a notorious Land Baron.
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Take Back
Zara and Brian are living the perfect small town life when a mysterious stranger from Zara's secret past kidnaps their daughter and now they must race to save her life. (themoviedb.org)
One More Shot
Following the attack on the black site in Poland, Navy SEAL Jake Harris is ordered to escort terrorist suspect Amin Mansur to Washington D.C for interrogation.
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For Better or Worse
Follows the ups-and-downs of married life for Marcus and Angela. (imdb)
Clubhouse
Clubhouse (2004) - TV Series
A teenage boy lives out his biggest dream as the batboy for a major league baseball team. (imdb)
MR-9: Do or Die
An elite Bangladeshi spy teams up with a CIA operative to bring down an international criminal organization headed by a ruthless businessman. (imdb)
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Don\
JT must fix his grandmother’s leaky sink while simultaneously keeping her oblivious to a deadly home invasion.
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Trouble Man
Jaxen, a former cop turned Atlanta PI, is hired to find missing R&B star Jahari. His investigation uncovers her disappearance is connected to a larger conspiracy, forcing him to question those around him and his own past.
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Hostile Takeover
Follows Pete, a professional hitman, as he faces a group of assassins after the boss of a crime syndicate suspects disloyalty due to his attendance at Workaholics Anonymous meetings.
As Good as Dead
Bryant befriends a troubled teen and introduces him to martial arts. As Bryant's mysterious and dangerous past catches up to him, he is forced into a life and death struggle to clear his name, save the boy and get back all he left behind. (IMDB)
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