This awful "action thriller" (I use the term loosely) is an the nadir of straight-to-video trash. Desperately ripping off the plots and ideas of just about anything that worked, the only exciting thing about this are the closing credits which at least provide some release from the stultifying boredom that the rest of this film brings. From the incredibly lame CGI effects work (they were too cheap to have a plane), to the barely coherent, mumbled dialogue and the smatterings of poorly-edited action, this is a bomb all the way.
Steve Guttenberg, still smarting after his career in the doldrums with the POLICE ACADEMY series and desperate to branch out into new areas (although with this kind of choice he isn't doing himself any favours) stars as the ageing hero who desperately wants to be Bruce Willis, even down to the nine o' clock shadow. Elsewhere, Sean Bean is the imported star who has only a few minutes screen time while the other actors and actresses blur into one in their sheer inability to act convincingly.
Loud music plays over anything remotely "exciting" which is enough to make for you to reach for the remote, only for Guttenberg to mumble inaudibly in the next scene. It's extremely annoying. The plot doesn't make sense, the twists are lamentable and there's barely any action as it is. Unless you have a bizarre desire to watch a low budget shot of a man getting frozen by liquid nitrogen (TERMINATOR 2 this ain't) then avoid this like the plague. Not the worst film ever made, but certainly close.
Steve Guttenberg, still smarting after his career in the doldrums with the POLICE ACADEMY series and desperate to branch out into new areas (although with this kind of choice he isn't doing himself any favours) stars as the ageing hero who desperately wants to be Bruce Willis, even down to the nine o' clock shadow. Elsewhere, Sean Bean is the imported star who has only a few minutes screen time while the other actors and actresses blur into one in their sheer inability to act convincingly.
Loud music plays over anything remotely "exciting" which is enough to make for you to reach for the remote, only for Guttenberg to mumble inaudibly in the next scene. It's extremely annoying. The plot doesn't make sense, the twists are lamentable and there's barely any action as it is. Unless you have a bizarre desire to watch a low budget shot of a man getting frozen by liquid nitrogen (TERMINATOR 2 this ain't) then avoid this like the plague. Not the worst film ever made, but certainly close.