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| Released |
2002 |
Rating |
15 |
| Director |
Rob Cohen |
Writer/s |
Rich Wilkes |
| Starring |
Vin Diesel, Asia Argentino, Samuel Jackson, Michael Roof |
| Source of story |
A (not very) original screenplay |
| Elevator Pitch |
An extreme sportsman who operates outside the law is recruited by the National Security Agency to penetrate a criminal gang in the Czech Republic. He is forced to prove himself and then to foil an attempted genocide in Prague. |
| Content |
Endless explosions, gun battles and wild set pieces, with the odd bit of plot direction at times. In some versions there is apparently some nudity, but not in the one I saw, maybe to get a rating for a teenage audience. |
| A View |
Vin Diesel had by this time appeared in Pitch Black and The Fast and the Furious and so must have developed something of a fan base. It is the only explanation I can come up with for why it made quite a bit of money. It contains a number of set pieces, pretty obviously copied from Bond films, but I liked the river craft which seemed to have been taken from Flash Gordon. |
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