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This is a good film. It has an incredible casting including Fred Ward, Rachel Ticotin, Virginia Madsen, Penelope Ann Miller, Christopher Plummer, and Kim Coates! The film has very good acting by all of these actors and that also goes for the rest of the cast! The film has a big surprise to Me and that was seeing Penelope Ann Miller as an assassin! She looked really good for the role and she was really a tremendous villain! She is neat in this film! Kim Coates and Christopher Plummer also has solid performances. The relationship between Ward and Ticotin was good and they acted good together. The musical score is unique. I strongly recommend this film to anyone who likes the good actors and actresses mentioned above and who loves thrilling films!

Many many flaws, but bad writing is the main culprit here. A decent cast, some fine acting here and there, but no one could be expected to overcome the lame script. You will cringe at the hack dialogue time and time again (the actors seem to), then after awhile, you just have to laugh weakly. And I was not charmed by Penelope Ann Miller's contract killer - an incredible character delivering some of the worst lines in the movie.

I hung in there and watched it only because I thought a terrorism film made just before 9/11 could be interesting - but there's no real payoff in this regard either. This movie has its moments, but there's no mystery as to why it went straight to video. Don't waste your time on this one.

Fred Ward plays the lead here, an alcoholic journalist with dark secrets, but he has a good relationship with his boss, Virginia Madsen, who was always a favourite of mine and who lives up to her reputation here. She tells him straight in a quarrel that she hopes he doesn't have any dark secrets, but she should only know. She trusts him anyway, he provides good stories, and that's all she wants from him. Two colleagues out of his dark past turn up and ask him to give shelter for a few days to a dark Peruvian lady in trouble, who is wanted by the FBI. He has been assigned to follow up a murder (which introduces the film), and it appears she is involved in that mess. He refuses to shelter her at first, but as she convinces him she has no secrets, they become allies, and the thriller begins. Although slightly muddled, the fast change of scenes is sometimes confusing, but the story is interesting and the drama is great. Christopher Plummer plays the FBI chief in charge of the case, while Rachel Ticotin is the lady in distress - they all act superbly. The climax keeps your teeth clenched, there are several nervy escapes, but it is well worth following to the end, which leaves some question marks still unanswered.

The reason I watched this movie was because Fred Ward was in it.He seems to always portray an interesting character,and is the type of actor who doesn't seem to be acting.Additionally the supporting cast of Christopher Plummer, and Virginia Madsen both favorites of mine offered promise.Unfortunately the story line unfolded lugubriously. The college radicals who did bad things in the sixties has been overdone. The flashback technique to that era was uninspiring.For me the highlight of the movie turned out to be the song that was sung when the ending credits appeared. Too bad that neither the name of the song nor the singer was identified because the song lyrics were more memorable than any of the movie lines.

Fred Ward is very natural, convincing. Christopher Plummer as a FBI boss is good too but it's not such a great role. Penelope Ann Miller very good in the role of a killer.