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INVESTIGATING SUMMARY and MOVIE SUGGESTIONS are: The Double (2011) murder of a US senator may have been doen by legendary Soviet assassin "Cassius"! Contraband (2011), Once Upon a Time In Anatolia (2011), Man on a Ledge (2011), Safe House (2012), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Haywire (2011); One of the best lines I feel in any movie about casework and investigations about investigator bias is from Double Indemnity (1944) "You know why you couldn’t figure this one, Keyes? I’ll tell you. The guy you were looking for was too close. He was right across the desk from you." Margin Call (2011), Moneyball (2011), and Chasing Madoff (2011) have very resourceful investigators, auditors or advisors that show great intelligence and insight; The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) shows both sides of a case conspiring that needed massive investigation skills! Follow the unique evidence, logic, behavior, and especially the money, usually to the top.; The Guard (2011), Good Neighbors (2011), Courageous (2011); AGAIN, we see in Alpha Dog (2006), BASED ON A TRUE STORY, IS AN EXAMPLE ABOUT WHERE MANY DID INFORMAL INTERVIEWS OF A VICTIM, YET FAILED TO PROPERLY REACT OR SEE THE MOST LOGICAL CONCLUSION WAS THE VICTIM WOULD BE MURDERED! The movie Brubaker (1980) also reenforces this point, which it is a matter of getting the victims to come forward! ALL THE INFORMATION IS USUALLY THERE TO SOLVE A CRIME, BUT THE EVIDENCE IS OFTEN MISINTERPRETED FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS! Dirty Harry Callahan of the Dirty Harry Franchise may be the prototypical cop that most cops admire; other Franchises are Lethal Weapon; Rush Hour; and Bad Boys! Movies based on books written by Tom Clancy including: The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The Sum of All Fears tend to be good; Clint Eastwood seems to choose wonderfully written work including: Blood Work, True Crime, Mystic River, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Absolute Power, In the Line of Fire; John Grisham's insightful material highlights the law and investigations in the movies: Changeling (2008), Runaway Jury (2003), A Painted House (2003), The Gingerbread Man (1998), The Chamber (1996), A Time to Kill (1996), The Client (1994), The Pelican Brief (1993), The Firm (1993), The Street Lawyer (2003) (TV), A Time to Kill (1996), Mickey (2004) and Mississippi Rising (2005). The author James Patterson (II) details interesting and often gruesome psychological profiles in Along Came a Spider (2001), Miracle on the 17th Green (1999), and Kiss the Girls (1997); Dennis Hopper is especially interesting when using psychology, imagery and patterns when investigating; Asian Film recommendations are Audition (1997), City on Fire (1979), Mou Gan Dou (2002) Infernal affairs, 1-3, Azumi (2003), Family (2001/II), Hyeongsa (2005) aka Duelist (2005), Hard Boiled (1992) aka Lat Sau San Taam (1992), Hero (2002) with Jet Li, Chungking Express (1994) The Killer (Uncut), Last Hurrah For Chivalry, She's on Duty, Kurosagi, Nodame Cantabile, Orange Days, Tramps Like Us, The Last Emperor, The Crow (1994) and Bruce Lee documentaries The Intercepting Fist (2001); Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2000); and Bruce Lee: The Path of the Dragon (1998). Movies that are not true about mostly crime and investigations are: Gone Baby Gone (2007) and Freedomland (2006) are about missing children; Civic Duty (2007), Red Belt (2008), Quid Pro Quo (2008), Borne Identity franchise, The Good Shepherd (2006), The Departed (2006), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), The X-Files, Virtuosity, Showgirls, The Peacemaker, Backdraft, Backfire, Firestorm, Hardrain, Out of Sight, Reservoir Dogs, Reindeer Games, Jackie Brown, Nim's Island (2008), Inside Man (2006), Flightplan (2005), Shoot 'Em Up (2007), Children of Men (2006), The Bone Collector (1999), Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000), The Missing (2003/I), État de siège (1972) also released as A State of Siege (1978), Beyond Borders (2003), Taking Lives (2004), Wanted (2008), Desperate Measures (1998), Total Recall, The Tracker, U.S. Marshalls, Memory of a Killer, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Woodsman, and V for Vendetta, The Punisher, Affliction, American Psycho, Seven, G. I. Jane, Clueless, Tin Cup, 12 Monkeys, The Others, Secretary, Session 9, Bottle Rocket, Catch Me If You Can, Fargo, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Grifters, 100 Mile Rule, Simpatico, Slackers, The Sting 2, Suicide Kings, The Taxman, Wild Things, Wish you Were Dead, Point Break, Con Air, Phone Booth, Hard Rain, Tripwire, Swordfish, Protocol, The Art of War, The Avengers, The Tailor of Panama, Terminal Velocity, Body Double, Silver, Air Force One,, and Misery.