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It's a typical assasination story, where Dolph Lundgren as an american marshall was ordered to apprehend an assasin who want to assasinate a cuban ambassador. It lack the necessary twist to make it alive..maybe the directing is not sharp enough to capture, or even to elevate the mood. There are some dialogue and character that felt silly...like the comnmander that likes to boasting around and harassing his man if he consider it necessary to save his image, and well, i don't feel that the dialog wenth smooth...you can just feel it that it was made. Not alive enough..thus it doesn't shape the character deep enough. In this kind of movie, If you don't want to play with the character, then you would need to give a good plot on the story...like some 'existensialist' movie in 60's-70's that concern more about what happen instead of the character. The Day of the Jackall is a good example...there is a lot of suspense created from what the jackall did..the viewer is grasp on how the jackall would make his next step. Other good example is the Package..it's a trully high octane thriller and you just get very uptight watching Gene Hackman striving hard to save the president from being shot.

Other thing that annoyed me, the music score. Is really-really-really improper..it tries to create a fast and tense situation but what happen is you feel that the music doen't really go into the scene, like it was taken from some other movie and forcefully paste into this movie. It's just not there..

As for the action, Kotcheff did pretty well with a fast paced scene...the fighting scene in the wine cellar, the chasing on the train are good examples,the editing is fast and proper, the angle is just right. Although not exactly John Mc Tiernan, Kotcheff does have a chemistry on this kind of thing (considering his previous experience in movie such as First Blood, this isn't surprising). Too bad this chemistry isn't supported with a good script (or a good score for that matter).

Thanks for the proper directing on the action sequence, and the good background of Prague, this movie is still something that is watchable...and that's why i still tend to vote it for 3 star instead of 2.

The Shooter
Dolph decided he wanted to make the transistion from action hero to well respected movie star, so he dedicated himself to acting on broadway in an attempt to relearn his trade, this was his first film afterwards, and you can notice the change, Dolph makes the jump from bare chested shenigans to silk suits and his acting stands him at head and shoulders above the rest , this film has at all, set in the beautiful city of prague, it has great scenery, action scenes(including the traditional groping for a gun, while hanging off the edge of a building), love scenes(dolph manages to turn a lesbian onto men) and great cliches, buy it, you'll love it...

Cardboard Action that worked
This wasn't a bad cardboard action movie. Plenty of brawls, gun battles, and road chases. It wasn't a bad plot either. Even if the cardboard action doesn't hold your interest, watching Maruschka Detmers is worth the effort to spend 89 minutes with the film. Great location scenes. Dolph Lundgren is not Dirty Harry, but he comes off well as a Swedish souped-up Gary Cooper. I knocked off one star because of the .45. Hitting a bad guy with a .45 at 30+ yards was too much to swallow.