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Keenen Ivory Wayans, Jon Voight, Jill Hennessy

Comic actor Keenen Ivory Wayans made a creditable effort to expand his career horizons by writing the script for this action thriller, in which he also stars. Wayans plays U.S. Marine Sgt. James Dunn...( read more  read more... ), a military hero who refuses an order to shoot a young shepherd during the Gulf War. His insubordination leads to a lethal struggle with a superior officer and a subsequent murder conviction against Dunn. Plucked from his death sentence by a covert unit of Marines, however, Dunn soon finds himself in a shadowy world of undercover wars under the command of one Lt. Col. Grant Casey (Jon Voight). Offered freedom in exchange for aiding a mission against a corrupt industrialist (Robert Culp), Dunn agrees and then discovers he's actually been set up to take the fall for an assassination. Suddenly, he's the most wanted man in the world, with police, the military, the Secret Service, and legions of reward seekers chasing him around Los Angeles. Jill Hennessy stars as an eyewitness who happened to catch the killing on videotape and can clear Dunn if she would only cooperate with him--a problem, since he has kidnapped her. Directed by David Glenn Hogan, Most Wanted works just fine as a well-oiled action piece with a capable star and competent action sequences. The story ideas (especially Dunn's Rambo-esque flight through the city and his reliance on esoteric survival skills) feel overly familiar, but that only makes Most Wanted all the more enjoyable as a potboiler instead of a serious original. --Tom Keogh

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R, 99 min.

Directed by: David Hogan

Release Date: October 10, 1997

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DVD Release Date: September 4, 2001

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  • QueenCityFilms
    July 10, 2008
    QueenCityFilms
    One gigantic waxball of cliches, poor acting, horrendous screenwriting, and downright tomfoolery.

    Even the title sucks.
  • Deano78
    November 24, 2007
    Deano78
    This is a pretty decent action film, not heard of it before but it's pretty good if it was a straight to DVD release. The first 10 minutes are almost identical to Shooter released this year and the story is very similar. If you enjoyed that you should like this......any film with...( read more) Jon Voight as the bad guy is worth watching!!
  • sanjurosamurai
    January 29, 2007
    sanjurosamurai
    decent flick
  • wallceg
    March 7, 2009
    wallceg
    yes i love this movie
  • Soundsofmadness
    January 3, 2009
    Soundsofmadness
    No thankyou - Not interested
  • treker210
    December 12, 2008
    treker210
    Action from the get go my kinda movie
  • alicostner
    August 29, 2008
    alicostner
    The movie started on the right foot, sadly, it fell flat on its face in less than half an hour. Our hero, Sgt. Dunn, is led through this ridiculously long and boring chase until the very end, where an extremely anticlimactic ending wraps up the entire messy package.
    Being led to...( read more) believe that this is an action movie, any viewer would expect some, well...action! Not so, however. This movie seems to be in contradiction to itself. While advertised as a gun-slinging flick, most of the movie is sneaking around, running, hiding, and general boring gibberish that's supposed to be some sort of brilliant plot twist. In all, there were only perhaps three or four action scenes, and even those were woefully short.
  • johancolliander2
    July 28, 2008
    johancolliander2
    Yea! This is an awesome movie. I really liked it. It was very worth the time.
  • sxcjaydo
    July 10, 2008
    sxcjaydo
    this is a really good movie!
  • kyambati
    June 19, 2008
    kyambati
    Thrilling from start to finish. Jon voight plays one of his best bad guy characters yet

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