This 165 minute film is based on a Robert Ludlum novel, Many things were changed for TV.(which is normal procedure).
The story is about biological terrorism & on particular nasty virus, that can cause many deaths. For the moment I thought I was in Robin Cook land, He writes many stories of this nature.
Stephen Dorff is our erstwhile hero. Its not that he cannot act, He sure can, but he does seem out of place in many scenes. Thr movie has a large cast & most do a good job.
The best performance is by Angela Huston as the President of the Uuited States. She is a take charge C-in-C.,We can use a President like here NOW. Her brother Danny Huston has a pivotal role as well & one great scene with Angela. They as you probably know are the children of the great John Huston & the grandchildren of magnificent Walter Huston.
Mira Sorvino is good in her role,almost unrecognizable.
We have many villains in the film, & I just new from the very beginning who the chief villain was, I was not surprised at all, He was such a good guy till the very end, & then like in many films he unmasked.
The movie was filmed in Berlin, the scenes in the US were filmed in Toronto Apparently its just to expensive to shoot movies here in the United States.
There are some exciting scenes,BUTthe last 45 minutes seemed overly long,. I did enjoy it enough to give it a bare thumbs up.
Rating *** (out of 4) 82 points (out of 100) IMDb 7 (out of 10)
The story is about biological terrorism & on particular nasty virus, that can cause many deaths. For the moment I thought I was in Robin Cook land, He writes many stories of this nature.
Stephen Dorff is our erstwhile hero. Its not that he cannot act, He sure can, but he does seem out of place in many scenes. Thr movie has a large cast & most do a good job.
The best performance is by Angela Huston as the President of the Uuited States. She is a take charge C-in-C.,We can use a President like here NOW. Her brother Danny Huston has a pivotal role as well & one great scene with Angela. They as you probably know are the children of the great John Huston & the grandchildren of magnificent Walter Huston.
Mira Sorvino is good in her role,almost unrecognizable.
We have many villains in the film, & I just new from the very beginning who the chief villain was, I was not surprised at all, He was such a good guy till the very end, & then like in many films he unmasked.
The movie was filmed in Berlin, the scenes in the US were filmed in Toronto Apparently its just to expensive to shoot movies here in the United States.
There are some exciting scenes,BUTthe last 45 minutes seemed overly long,. I did enjoy it enough to give it a bare thumbs up.
Rating *** (out of 4) 82 points (out of 100) IMDb 7 (out of 10)