Dolph Lundgren, Fred Williamson, Kam Heskin

The director and action-magician John Woo (Face Off) can always be counted on to create spectacular violent set pieces, with bodies and broken glass gracefully airborne in slow motion. But ever...( read more  read more... )ything else in this feature-length TV pilot is grindingly conventional. Woo managed to rise above Jean-Claude Van Damme in Hard Target, but there's not much he can do with Dolph Lundgren's Jack Devlin, a kick-boxing former U.S. Marshall turned bodyguard, assigned to guard the body of a drug-addicted supermodel (Kam Heskin, from TV's Sunset Beach). Between shootouts, the elements of the future series are wheeled creakingly into place: a spacious Ikea deluxe apartment with a built-in armory, a caustic eye-patched sidekick (Saul Rubinek), and even a precocious freckle-faced girl (Padraigin Murphy) who becomes Devlin's stepdaughter, when his best buddy is rubbed out. The gorgeous showdown scene between Devlin and the psycho-stalker bad guy (Phillip MacKenzie) takes place in a milk-bottling plant, with the white stuff splashing all over---but this is TV fare, so there's no red stuff mixed in. Action addicts are advised to stick with the world-class gunplay films of Woo's Hong Kong period, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled. --David Chute

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R, 112 min.

Directed by: John Woo

Release Date: May 12, 1998

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DVD Release Date: August 28, 2001

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  • August 27, 2006
    Doesn't feel like a Woo film. Low budget, A few really stylish stunts.
  • February 18, 2009
    No thankyou - Not interested
  • October 20, 2008
    Cool made-for-TV action starring Dolph Lundgren as a mercenary suffering from a debilitating phobia acquired during a firefight who is trying to save a supermodel from the hands of a serial killer. Director John Woo does a fantastic job in the excitement and action sequences.
  • May 12, 2008
    Review will be written when/if re-watched (Probability: Zero).

    First viewing: 26.07.1998
  • April 25, 2008
    Want to see it out of morbid curiosity.
  • March 8, 2008
    Pick a card, dont look at it, put it back pmsl. was worth watchin film to just hear that.
  • December 13, 2007
    not one of John Woo's best films but great fight scenes tho'' GOT MILK...loved that scene
  • September 19, 2007
    didnt know john did a movie with dolph cool
  • September 6, 2007
    great lundgren movie
  • August 30, 2007
    I dont really remember this film, just that it has lots of action and violence

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