David Glover is a young, American man who is working as a courier at his uncle's company, "Berling Express". David is attracted to a female co-worker by the name of Jenny, who also happens to have feelings for him. During one of his courier jobs, the attractive Lara, who claims to be a policewoman, jumps into his car and David finds himself in an exchange of fire. David is willing to help Lara, but soon finds himself framed as the professional assassin LORCA. Now David must run from the police and catch the real LORCA, who is hell-bent on murdering the last surviving witness to a brutal murder.
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I was captivated by this movie from the first scene to the last. The pace was so fast that I did not dare look away from the screen in case I miss the next turn of events. I also liked the storyline: a nice, harmless young man suddenly finds himself in the middle of a full scale war between a professional killer, who is a very clever, ruthless and beautiful lady, and the police. Of course the plot is not very realistic, which action movie is? Everything is exaggerated to make it more exciting. But compared to many other action movies, the plot is cleverly constructed and makes sense. There are even some humorous elements - like the way this young man tries to hold on to good manners in the midst of chaos, or the scene where a police commando storms the workshop of the young man's uncle who thinks this is about unpaid parking tickets. I have no explanation for the sharply negative comments on this page. It could be that the English version, which I have not seen yet, is much worse than the German version, but I doubt it. I also don't understand the complaint about German police not speaking in their native language. But this may be due to the fact that in Germany all foreign movies are dubbed and therefore I am used to it.
This movie doesn't even have enough laughs to be in a worst film festival. The plot, as near as I could make out, was an innocent man wrongly accused of being a super assassin so clever she thinks she can coerce a man into doing something that would require a spoiler to tell you how stupid it would be. The assassin has killed all the witnesses against some important rich guy on trial, except for one. She tries to make this guy kill the last witness for her. There's too much that is worse about this movie to go into the flaws of the plot. First, the movie is car chase after chase. Bond movies got away with car chases because there were plenty of cutaways, and the chases weren't overdrawn. Some movies, like Road Warrior, gave us open top vehicles with wild costumed people inside, and intriguing backgrounds, such as the desert. The reality is car chases are boring, because motor vehicles are boring, except to red necks, dorks, (and yokels who've never seen a car I suppose). And nothing is more boring than watching cars driving (speeding, wrecking, who cares) down boring city streets. Then there are some characters whose English cannot possibly be understood (the blonde girl enunciates so bad, she probably utters two words that a viewer can interpret). Just go ahead and put subtitles on instead of let them speak gibberish! And every stereotype scene you can imagine is in here. The actresses are so bad, they make the lame actors look like de Niros in comparison. It is truly impossible to watch this film without fast forwarding most of it, particularly the dull car chases that seem to take eons. When you see the last witness finally led on screen, and you're hoping that this stereotype isn't there, be prepared; it is, and I dare you not to groan. The film tries to work on a juvenile level, but fails even there. Someone could make a poll, what is worse in this movie, the writing, acting, or directing? I propose that we make captured terrorists watch this film until they crack. I don't care if it's inhumane beyond all reason. It would put this celluloid to good use.
This acting was very wooden and I have never heard of any of the principals, I am glad that Germans speak English so well now! However, the plot was a bit predictable - the female cop on the run so quickly after some guys get skewered with arrows? Gimme a break! Why did the same woman then seduce the hero? A cop? Just so? She wanted to pin the blame, and any idiot would know David was not the assassin if they would dust the bow for prints and then do a psychological evaluation and try to gauge if he had any combat or acrobatic skills.But then the plot would dry up faster than tumbleweed in Arizona during July...As for Jenny forgiving David in the course of the film, that was a stretch of reality beyond the usual suspension of plausibility. It seems to me the movie was just a vehicle to show how tough and versatile the small Mercedes coupe is and what a life-saver Red Bull after a good fright! They can't even edit the film properly - after one chase scene, you clearly see a stuntman leap out of the top of the burning black Mercedes sedan, get real! http://bajanreporter.blogspot.com/
Sorry folks this is a stinker, i only write a preview if it is really good, really crap, or there are other previews that are not 100 percent true, in my opinion. This movie falls in the second category, acting, directing, story,continuity in fact everything about the film is not good. It seems like someone got the idea to make a film in Germany, advertise for any American and English people in the area,throw them all together, with two writers, who have zilch credits to there names, lastly add to the mix a German (i think)director,who has only a couple of directorial credits to his name, none i hasten to say in English, and you have it, a no brainer of a film. there are a couple of posts on here, one from a starstruck teenager in love with Drew Fuller, in fact she sounds a little creepy, and a french person who, well read it and see. i am not going into the story/plot as there is not one, but when you see 20 or 30 German SAS/Police, and they all talk American/English, in Gemany, enough said.