The movie plot looked so tired and dumb that I assumed there would be a lot of good ass-kicking and people getting their heads blown off. So I rented it. To be sure, there were some cool fights, but long, tedious scenes of the "top bad guy" yelling at his inept henchmen and plot over-development kept the fireworks from happening until the end and even that was a little weak and stunted.
The plot device that kept getting in the way was the hallucinagenic drug theme. Snipes' character, Dean Cage, is injected with a drug that makes him believe he's in a past combat situation and his friend is in danger. Any suggestion is automatically believed - at one point he's told "You're on fire" and immediately we see his legs burst into flame. That was sort of neat, but they bang on this drum and rely on the theme that Cage is a poor hapless dupe so much - so sad for a renter who expected to some serious ass-whooping. Should have read some other reviews first, I guess!
SNIPE HUNTING
In spite of its derivativeness and lack of true cinematic flair, UNSTOPPABLE is enjoyable and has some good things to recommend it:
*Mark Sheppard and Kim Coates as an Abbott and Costello-style hit men duo, whose stone faced seriousness adds unintended camp;
*Jacqueline Obradors does well as a gritty cop who doesn't take guff from bad government agents;
*Wesley Snipes who will more than likely enter the aging action hero group of stars like Steven Seagal, Jean Claude van Damme and others, doesn't require much suspension of belief in his hallucinogenic stupor;
Stuart Wilson is fun in his "Let's try and act like Rip Torn" villain role.
It's all mindless froth but it kept me interested in spite of its flaws.
PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS - GREAT
Dean Cage has so many problems -
He is trying to deal with the emotional trauma of causing his friends death.
He is mistakenly identified as a CIA agent at a set-up so the twit injects him with a revelutionary hallucinatory drug that ends up killing its victim.
Cage then explodes into action as he puts the make on the would-be kidnappers and goes on the run.
Hey, I still like that truck, especially those lights. Even I was hanging on for dear life.
It took his friend, Scott's sister, a while to piece together the clues to Dean's new problem. The fading in and out of his vision was a bit distracting but made for the realism of what he was seeing.
Oh yeah, his memories were helping to block the suggestions being made to him. And confusing his tormentors.
Finally, an actress I could really like in her role, she was not overpowering, but feminine and persistent in pursueing Dean to help bring him in safely and determined to save his life.
Where is that dang antidote?
I greatly enjoyed all the actors' in their roles and will be watching it again to see what I missed the first time around.
Will recommend but it is still just a matter of taste. I enjoyed it.
the camera work in this film is excellent and the action sequences are as well
the storyline is more serious than some Van Damme movies and he handles it well More Info about this DVD Director(s): Philippe Martinez DVD Release Date: Released the 28 December 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Action buffs will have a fine time with the spray of bullets, shattering glass, and pyrotechnic silliness that makes up the bulk of Assault on Precinct 13. Updated from the little-known cops-and-robbers classic John Carpenter made in 1976 (two years before he made his name with Halloween), this high-concept thriller is mostly a lowbrow kill-fest, and is very happy with itself for being so efficient in both categories. A decrepit police station on its last night before retirement--New Year's Eve, no less--plays unexpected home to a gang of criminals who become snowbound in the basement lockup. Another mysterious gang of people who stealthily gather in the blizzard outside want one of the particularly nasty criminals (Laurence Fishburne) dead, and they'll take the rest of the... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Laurence Fishburne - Ethan Hawke Director(s): Jean-François Richet DVD Release Date: Released the 10 May 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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You get two hostage crises for the price of one in Hostage, an overwrought but otherwise involving thriller grounded by Bruce Willis's solid lead performance. Making a dramatic pit-stop on his way to Die Hard 4, Willis plays a traumatized former Los Angeles hostage negotiator, now working as a nearly-divorced police chief in sleepy Ventura County, California. Willis suddenly finds himself amidst two potentially deadly stand-offs when a trio of hapless teenagers seize hostages in the fortress-like home of an accountant (Kevin Pollack) whose connections to organized crime result in Willis struggling to rescue his estranged wife and daughter, who are being held hostage by faceless thugs at an undisclosed location. Having directed two of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell video... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Bruce Willis - Kevin Pollak - Serena Scott Thomas Director(s): Florent Emilio Siri DVD Release Date: Released the 21 June 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I'm going against popular opinion on this one compared with the other reviews placed here on amazon.com and because of that, I thought I'd throw my two cents worth in also. I've just watched this and I found it to be Snipes best effort since Blade II and I found it to be more enjoyable than the mess they made of Blade Trinity or Snipes dreadful last DTV movie, Unstoppable.
It's a thriller rather than an action movie more in the mold of Snipes past movies such as Drop Zone, Money Train or Murder At 1600. If you liked those movies then you should enjoy this. It's yet another DTV movie set in Eastern Europe, Romania this time. Personally I like these European locations, when done right modern day thrillers benefit allot from the realism of European locations for example Bourne... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Simon Fellows DVD Release Date: Released the 28 June 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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