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Two Mor­gan Free­man movies. One of the things that I like about Mor­gan Free­man is when he cusses in a movie. He does it prop­erly, voice inflec­tion and all. You just don’t expect that kind of lan­guage to come out of his mouth. He plays the bad guy in both of these movies but the lik­able kind.

In The Code (also titled “Thick As Thieves”), Mor­gan Free­man plays the part of a Mas­ter Thief. He’s the star of the movie but he shares the stage with Anto­nio Ban­deras who does most of the action sequences and all of the sex scenes. The two of them team up and have to plan and exe­cute a heist for some Faberge eggs. While all the plan­ning and steal­ing is going on, there are a lot of secrets and sub­terfuge to keep your mind busy. It’s not till the last third of the film that you find out who’s play­ing who and to what end. It’s a decent movie, the heist was good and it wasn’t totally pre­dictable. Mor­gan Free­man uses pro­fan­ity only once but to good effect and Anto­nio Ban­deras gets the girl. It’s worth see­ing at home. I give it a 3 1/2 out of 5 marks.

In The Con­tract, Mor­gan Free­man is a con­tract assas­sin. He and his group of mil­i­tary trained mercs have been given a mis­sion. Mid­way through the op he gets into an auto­mo­bile acci­dent and gets hurt and caught. His men need him to get paid so they set out to res­cue him from a Home­land Secu­rity trans­port oper­a­tion. Freeman’s char­ac­ter nearly escapes but instead gets handed off to a Teacher and his son who hap­pen to be on a camp­ing trip. The teacher is played by John Cusack who appar­ently has some­thing to prove to his son. He tries to get to safety and civ­i­liza­tion with his son, and new pri­sioner (Free­man) in tow. It’s a race to see who gets to Free­man and his group first, the Feds or Freeman’s team. It’s not till near the end that you find out Freeman’s true mis­sion. Mor­gan Free­man doesn’t curse in this one but he does fight. He pretty much kicks John Cusack’s ass. I give this movie 4 marks.