Wesley Snipes stars (and for what it's worth also executive produces) in this straight-to-video actioner about a framed UN spy. It's a rehash of The Fugitive and its sequel US Marshals, which starred oh-would-you-believe-it Wesley Snipes! This time he gets to play Bond as an operative in a covert UN unit who become entangled in a plot to undermine a Sino-US trade agreement. However due to the secrecy of his work, Snipes is arrested trying to catch the assassin and is quickly put in the frame himself.
It's a fairly standard action piece, what with Snipes getting to do his kung-fu and current fave movie baddies the Triads getting roped in too, which means we get to see the usual Asian-looking people playing dignitaries and villains. Of course a woman gets involved as well, and you simply must have Donald Sutherland playing an important bloke in a suit.
The acting ranges from mediocre to stilted, with veterans like Michael Biehn okay on autopilot but the aforementioned lead lady being pretty poor. Snipes also just about passes muster, but it seems without taking a chance to show whether he can diversify he will go on peddling this kind of no-brainer and sitting on the rental racks alongside Van Damme. |
