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Agent Red (Captured)
Threat advisory: Elevated - Significant risk of entertaining activities
Movie propaganda
When the hunter becomes the hunted.
It's the most lethal weapon ever created. And it's about to hit two world superpowers.
Marine recon specialist, Matt Hendricks (Dolph Lundgren), has secretly boarded a submarine bound for the USA in the hope that he can restore his relationship with ex-fiancée, Doctor Lynda Christian (Meilani Paul).
She is a world-renowned virologist who is supervising the transportation from Russia to the USA of Agent Red, the deadliest biological weapon ever created. It is a highly classified mission and all security steps have been taken to ensure the save passage of the virus - or so the authorities thought. Swiftly and without warning, a Russian dissident group sabotages the mission and takes control of the submarine. They too, want to see the virus arrive in New York. however, these terrorists plan to send it inside a rocket missile...
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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film thriller action biological weapon Marine love Russia USA hijack submarine virus terrorism
Persons of interest
- Dolph Lundgren .... Matt Hendricks
- Meilani Paul .... Doctor Lynda Christian
- Aleksandr Kuznetsov .... Doctor Kretz
- Natalie Radford .... Nadia
- Randolph Mantooth .... Admiral Edwards
- Neal Matarazzo .... Lieutenant Matarazzo
- Tony Becker .... Lieutenant Jack Colson
- Steve Eastin .... Captain Russert
- Allan Kolman .... Ziggy
- Larry Carroll .... the ZNN newscaster
- Robert Donovan .... General Minowski
- Pat Skelton .... Borenz
- Melissa Brasselle .... Doctor Baker
- Steve Franken .... General Socka
- Steve Latshaw .... Storywriter
- Damian Lee .... Screenwriter
- Damian Lee .... Director
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Theatrical report
As Dolph himself says of Agent Red in the movie, "Sounds like a bad action movie."
On the upside, it's almost bad enough to be good. from the opening credits with unending shots of warships in a harbour overlaid with a banging, clashing martial march, to the one man, one girl, one gun finale, everything in Agent red screams cliché. Cliché, cliché, cliché.
Dolph is so stony-faced that he looks like a plaster cast of himself. Meilani has had so much cosmetic surgery that she's liable to topple over at the slightest nudge. She even gets into a couple of bitch fights (apologies to the feminists out there but there really is no other term for what they do) with her Russian counterpart, played with an equal lack of acting ability by the less-augmented Natalie. Aleksandr is the only actor who comes away from the film with a skerrick of credibility but that's only because his wodka Russian accent never slips, even when he rises from the dead to shoot at people without hitting them.
These bad guys really need a lesson in aiming guns.
That said, there're lots of people in uniforms running around inside boats, some great underwater explosions, horrendous continuity (check out the air-to-air missiles that magically transform into torpedoes), pretty lights (the USA Navy must've blown its entire Christmas lighting budget on this flick), good guys killing bad guys and bad guys killing nameless extras in a variety of gruesome ways.
If you want a good laugh with some killing, explosions and naked tits, Agent Red will do it for you.
Security censorship classification
MA 15+ (Medium level violence, low level coarse language)
Surveillance time
92 minutes (1:32 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
DVD rental: 14 February 2001
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