User Reviews

I don't know where to begin. This movie feels a lot like one of those cheap Saturday morning kids shows that they used to make back in the late eighties early nineties. Sort of like Captain Power or the Power Rangers. It's full of bad digital overlays and really cheesy sounding "secret agencies" and villains.

The acting is so bad that it's not even funny. The direction is terrible and there is little to now continuity. It seems as if someone just threw a bunch of scenes together and forgot that there was supposed to be a plot.

Perhaps one of the most ridiculous scenes in the movie comes early on, when several villains plant an explosive device in an agents car. For some reason, even though the device is clearly stated as being "remote detonated" the bad guys decide to chase her down on their motorcycles as she drives away. This chase carries on. all the while with the bad guys doing ludicrous and completely pointless bike stunts. Standing up on the bikes, doing wheelies and so on. At one point, a crash happens and one of the attackers is thrown from his bike, we see the bike (clearly cgi) thrown over the agents car but the rider has vanished. Then, a few seconds later the rider and bike return...apparently unscathed by the crash. At this point even though the car has an explosive device planted in it, the attackers choose to shoot the agent while driving past, then blow up her car. Which was also clearly done with cgi. Sound confusing? It is, and so is the rest of the movie.

I might point out that when I say cgi, we aren't talking about Lord Of The Rings type cgi here. We're talking the cheap cheesy Power Rangers type cgi, actually I think it would have been done better on Power Rangers.

Why Savini and Todd did this movie I will never know, I can only assume they did for money, as a favor to someone or because they were blackmailed into it...probably the last one.

Absence of a GOOD PLOT, absence of decent ACTING, absence of good CINEMATOGRAPHY, absence of decent looking SPECIAL EFFECTS...need I go on? Review MAY contain SPOILERS. The actors appear to be READING their lines, and not very well at that. Most of the "actors" were acting like they were in a SECOND GRADE play. The story appeared to have been written by one of the aforementioned second graders...it's not really all that convoluted...it's just so SIMPLE and DUMB, that a person thinks they must be missing something so they think it is convoluted. Nope it's not, it's EXACTLY as SIMPLE as you think it is. I UNDERSTOOD the "film", that's how i KNOW that it STUNK! MOST of the film just had people sitting around talking(reading their lines), TRYING to look sinister. The narrator was ANNOYING. The "special effects" were LAUGHABLE. I love low budget movies. I also like Carolyn Munro, Tom Savini, Jack Scarry, and Michael Berrymore...just not in THIS movie...you can tell they weren't getting paid, or weren't getting paid much, because neither their hearts NOR their talents were in it. I LOVE Tony Todd...however, he was only adequate in this movie. In fact, Tony Todd's performance is the ONLY reason I gave it 3 stars instead of 1...and Tony was only in it for a whole TWO MINUTES (seriously)! I would suggest to fast forward the DVD to the two minute Tony Todd segment. If I had gone to the theater, and paid more than a DOLLAR to see this "film" I would have been P.O.'D and demanded my money back. Hopefully the people who made this will do better next time.

Weary Puritan (solid Richard Conant) and his eager new partner Sultan (the equally fine Eric Thornsberry) are a couple of top agents who work for a secret government organization that takes care of Uncle Sam's more shady and sordid affairs. The pair have to make sure that corrupt, lecherous Senator Criswell (an amusingly venal performance by Rick Scarry) gets reelected. Of course, said assignment proves to be easier said than done. Writer/director Patrick Desmond relates the clever, complex and intriguing plot at a constant speedy pace. Moreover, Desmond stages the exciting action scenes with considerable rip-roaring flair, does a nice job of creating and maintaining a hard, gritty tone, and further spices things up with a deliciously dark sense of humor. The excellent cast of familiar cult movie faces rates as a significant asset: Tom Savini as stressed-out superior the Higher Power, Caroline Munro as cagey, ruthless British operative Abbey Church, David Hess as shrewd terrorist leader Whiplash, Michael Berryman as paranoid contact person the Seer, Tony Todd as flaky scientist the Alchemist, Keven Van Hentenryck as sleazeball computer hacker Jenkins, and Tom Sullivan as eccentric gadget maker Dr. Corrigan. Desmond's glossy cinematography, plenty of nifty CGI special effects, the funky, syncopated score by Andy Halter, Richard Conant, and Todd Skeie, the shockingly brutal and grisly violence, and a fascinating behind-the-scenes depiction of the intricate mechanizations of covert government groups all further enhance the overall sound quality of this enjoyable and interesting little sleeper.