THE MAN WITH THE SILVER CASE

Name: THE MAN WITH THE SILVER CASE
Item: THE MAN WITH THE SILVER CASE
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“Edgy Old-School Crime Thriller”

Family Content: -2 Extreme caution for older teenagers and adults.

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What You Need To Know:

THE MAN WITH THE SILVER CASE is an old-school, but edgy, crime thriller available on Prime Video and other video, streaming outlets. A mysterious, laconic assassin is tasked with transporting a silver briefcase to some equally mysterious bosses. He’s chased by other assassins whom he avoids or kills. Arriving at the office where he’s supposed to deliver the briefcase, he finds everyone murdered. He ends up being trapped in a secluded mountain cabin and must fight off rival killers. A Christian woman and her family nearby become involved.

THE MAN WITH THE SILVER CASE is told in black-and-white with minimal dialogue and lots of action. The story’s suspenseful, but the movie struggles with a thin storyline and plot twists that go unresolved. The movie has a strong mixed pagan worldview. The title character works mostly for himself and his lucrative job/mission, but he shows mercy toward two innocent victims, the Christian mother and her teenage daughter. The title character also has a substance abuse problem. THE MAN WITH THE SILVER CASE also has brief strong foul language and intense violence. MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong mixed pagan worldview with a pagan/moral mixed ending where the title character works mostly in service of himself and his job/mission, his survival and what he wants, though he shows mercy to two innocent victims, a mother and her daughter, of other really bad people who seem totally merciless, and one early scene shows the mother leading a Christian prayer before eating dinner with her daughter, son and husband;

Foul Language:

Four obscenities (including one “f” word, and one “GD” profanity;

Violence:

Several scenes show characters shooting, wounding and killing each other, with some blood shown, thugs beat up a teenage boy’s face while asking for information and apparently they’ve killed them when the title character later appears and sees the boy’s lifeless body, and he sets fire to the cabin where he found the body, it’s implied that a man chops off the hand of a dead man who was carrying the silver case in the title, title character leaves man with a wounded leg in the forest (after telling the man he’s not going to make it);

Sex:

No sex scenes but two different look at photos in a nudie magazine;

Nudity:

Upper female nudity as two different men look at a nudie magazine;

Alcohol Use:

Several scenes show characters drinking alcohol, and title character drinks until he gets drunk in at least one scene;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

Multiple scenes show characters smoking cigarettes, plus one scene shows the title character, an assassin who also delivers objects from criminals, snorting cocaine in a bar bathroom; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Criminal characters kidnap and torture a young man to get a case from him, title character locks up woman and her teenage daughter but later comes to take them out and gives them a ride to the city, and several characters steal a silver case from each other.

More Detail:

THE MAN WITH THE SILVER CASE is an old-school but edgy crime thriller on Prime Video and other video and streaming outlets for rental or buying. The story follows a mysterious assassin who is tasked with transporting a silver briefcase that many people seek. Shot in black and white, THE MAN WITH THE SILVER CASE is suspenseful but struggles with a thin storyline and plot twists that go unresolved and has a strong mixed pagan worldview with intense violence, brief foul language and a title character who works mostly for himself and his lucrative job/mission, but shows mercy toward two innocent victims, a Christian mother and her teenage daughter.

In THE MAN WITH THE SILVER CASE, a mysterious assassin with a substance abuse problem receives his next assignment, taking a silver briefcase and transporting it to his bosses. After some close run-ins with rival assassins after the same case, he makes his way to the office where he’s supposed to deliver the silver case. However, he finds everyone there dead.

Escaping some more assassins, he travels to his secluded cabin in the Swiss Alps. There, he encounters a curious teenager boy who wants to know what the man is doing. More assassins seeking the briefcase appear, however. As the danger grows, the assassin panics about getting out of this small, closed-off area. He makes some difficult decisions to escape and complete his mission.

Meanwhile, the teenage boy’s Christian mother, his sister and his American father become involved, with all their lives in deadly danger.

THE MAN WITH THE SILVER CASE is a black-and-white, old-school crime thriller with minimal dialogue and lots of action. While the concept is interesting and there’s lots of suspense, the movie struggles to captivate the viewer’s attention totally. It has a thin story and plot lines that either go unresolved or that simply are confusing or don’t make sense.

THE MAN WITH THE SILVER CASE has a strong mixed pagan worldview. The title character works mostly for himself and his lucrative job/mission, but he shows mercy toward two innocent victims, the Christian mother and her teenage daughter. The title character also has an alcohol and cocaine problem. THE MAN WITH THE SILVER CASE has brief strong foul language and intense violence. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution.