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Al Waxman, Ben Cross, Brent Jennings

In this James Bond primer, Pierce Brosnan plays Danny O'Neill, an FBI explosives expert trying to get to the bottom of a series of deadly Washington D.C. detonations that has the nation's capital on e...( read more  read more... )dge. Ben Cross does a bang-up job as the heavy, along with Ron Silver as Cross's congressional co-conspirator.

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R, 98 min.

Directed by: Christian Duguay

Release Date: September 3, 1992

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DVD Release Date: June 1, 2004

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  • spiralrayonshorts
    October 8, 2009
    spiralrayonshorts
    cheesy low buget effects.
  • MetalMario2
    April 23, 2009
    MetalMario2
    It's one of those movies in which an absolutely ludicrous "ultimate weapon" is developed and used, and since the thing's existence is outright impossible, nobody in the movie is able to explain to the viewer how it works. They just say something like "it's a combination of nitro ...( read more)and napalm and...anyway, it's complicated." Yeah, you know the type. A ten-year-old kid could have come up with the story. The thing is, I expect more from adult writers who should know better than this.
  • lj1299
    March 28, 2009
    lj1299
    You should watch this.
  • nubcat
    November 21, 2008
    nubcat
    If I could have gave this one no stars I would have. Brosnan plays a explosives expert whose personal life is in shambles because she daughter drowned and his wife is doing the grossest thing she can think of-having sex with Ron Silver. He is on the trail of some vaguely European...( read more) types who make bombs that explode people. Pierce goes for an oscar in this one-he cries like a woman, he is a dick to a security guard, he leers while looking up a woman's dress. Yup, it's his full range of emotions front and center. And it ends with him saving the day, Ron Silver dying (that makes it easy on the wife), him looking up the woman's dress again (this time she was wearing underwear. Nice ones too!) and finding out that his wife's water broke and that they will have another child. Hopefully he will pay attention to this one.
  • azdw
    May 12, 2008
    azdw
    Review will be written when/if re-watched (Probability: Zero).

    First viewing: 08.05.1997
  • alimovie2002
    February 10, 2008
    alimovie2002
    An Awful Crappy Cliche Movie
  • cdn009
    January 29, 2008
    cdn009
    Would be good for a movie made for T.V.
  • garnetbernie
    October 20, 2007
    garnetbernie
    1st movie of pierce brosnan that i really love.
  • karyn8sons
    July 8, 2007
    karyn8sons
    This is AWESOME. Most clever bomb thriller plotline I've ever seen ~ Don't miss it!~
  • micc98
    February 1, 2007
    micc98
    oh nevermind, some of these aren't even worth the effort it takes to hit the not interested button

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