wchb712
***Spoiler Alert***** This movie is by far the worse move in the history of film making. The acting is so contrived that you swore the 'actors' were reading from queue cards. I was so painful to watch as this cast of misfits tried to add feelings and emotions to their lines. The story goes nowhere. Cliché abound. And the action sequences come from the old Batman or Superman TV shows. Remember the villain ducking a good 2 seconds before Batman took a swing? Remember the slowly thrown hand gun at Superman and he ducks? Same things here except for the wacky cartoon bubbles. For the love of all that is holy, this should have been made as a cartoon. No way any competent actors would sign up for this unless they are in if for the money grab. I agree with the other reviewers that the acting was on par with a 10th grade play. A Telemundo soap opera thinks that this movie was over-the-top. Save your $1 for the 99cent burger instead.
sol1218
***SPOILERS*** sloppily made international political thriller that has to do with a nominee for vice president Louisiana Governor Chip Majors who's somehow involved, in knowing too much, about the North Korean uranium enrichment program that's threatening world peace. That's if the North Koreans are able to produce military grade plutonium to fit into their intercontinental missiles and .150 to .300 mm artillery shells.It's before Chip is to attend a major contributer shindig at a swanky New Orleans hotel that he decides to let off some steam by fooling around with his favorite $1,000.00 a pop hooker so he can loosen himself up for the important political affair. It's just when he popped himself up with a couple of Viagra pills and is about to go into action that Chip notices that his sexual partner is, with a gun and silencer attached to it, planing to rub him out before he can even pull his pants off. Beating her, the hooker, to the punch Chip ends up both disarming and strangling her to death. With the two Louisiana state troopers who were protecting him coming to his aid their shocked to find the governor is such a embarrassing and compromising position. In a hotel room with his clothes off and a dead hooker laying in his bed!The two state troopers Devin Taylor & Tom Cobb, with Taylor somewhat hesitant, are given one million dollars by Chip to cover up the whole mess that he just got himself into. A mess that would not only destroy his political carer but can land him behind bars for 10 to 15 years!The movie jumps from Louisiana to off all places war-torn Afganistan where officer Cobb's estrange wife Gloria is working with the US military as a CIA interrogator. It's then that we realize just what all this has to do with Governor Chip Majors. It's in what Chip knows about the North Koreans and their nuclear ambitions that he can really do them lots of damage. That's if he ever gets elected vice president and informs his boss, his party's Presidential Candidate South Carolina senator Edmund, about them and their future military plans!It's then that the film start to get completely out of hand with gangs of North Korean hit squads who originated out of Afghanistan to provide the North Koreans with cover, in not being connected with them, in trying to eliminate Gov. Majors before he and his running mate Sen. Edmund end up in the oval office! ***SPOILERS*** With a number of shoot ups car chases and explosions to keep the audience from falling asleep, in trying to follow what the film is trying to tell them, Gov Majors is eventually neutralized but only after officer Taylor, by refusing to take his bribe money, decides to turn him in. Officer Cobbs who played along with the corrupt Governor ended up getting iced by the North Korean sponsored assassins to also make sure that he doesn't talk if, like Taylor, he decides to change his mind. In the case of Officer Taylor he doesn't have to be silenced by the hit teams since he, by trying to play the good guy in the movie, ended up getting framed in the Governors murder and is set to spend the rest of his life, if he's in fact not executed, behind bars!P.S Even though he gets top billing in the movie actor Billy Zane is on screen for less then five minutes. Zane plays CIA chief of Far Eastern Operations Graham who orchestrated this entire sleazy and criminal operation and at the same time, in him being almost invisible in the film, not wanting to be connected to it.
treysweeney
Terrible movie. This should be labeled a comedy. Separate plot lines (connected by a mere unnecessary phone call) mixed with terrible acting cause a true one-of-a-kind movie watching experience.How expensive is good camera work? All the shots in this movie are from the view point of a midget in the back of a crowd; always looking up and peoples backs listening to people talk.All background information is given through long, boring monologues. As far as the plot goes, this could possibly be an interesting start to a political thriller. But it took way to long to go nowhere with it.All in all, a terrible movie. 1 star. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME.
ramst53
The only other reviewer calls this "feature" awful. Trust me when I say that is too kind a word. I usually try to find something redeeming in most films I watch, but there is simply nothing here. I often wonder, when I see productions like these with big names in them (Zane, Roberts, Givens-does she count?), if those people are desperate for money. I know Zane just had a show recently on ABC that was canceled, and Roberts does some decent work here and there, but their decision-making skill have to be called into question when they attach their names to this.Subplots that are sort of relevant but don't really make sense and don't come to a resolution, bad acting all around, horrible editing and shot selection, horrific special effects, and production value that looks as if it was shot with a hand-held digital camera all contribute to this "fine" feature.Avoid at all costs. Please. I beg of you....