646f9e108c When F.B.I. Agent Zack Grant&#39;s partner is killed during a blown-up operation, he attempts to find the person responsible. Mafioso Frank Serlano believes Zack is responsible for his only son&#39;s death in the same operation and kidnaps Zack&#39;s son to holdbait. The action gets wild when airline stewardess Mary is taken hostage to add what seems another insurmountable problem for Zack. There appears to be No Way Out. Never heard of this movie but it popped up one night on cable and I sat down to watch it. The moviea whole is not bad but I get the feeling that the director wasn&#39;t sure exactly what type of movie he wanted to make. And after watching it, I still don&#39;t know. Is it an action move, a romantic comedy, a 48hr buddy movie… A 1\2 hour into what I thought was a basic action movie, it kinda just started to jump around. One scene it&#39;s action movie, next scene it&#39;s a romantic comedy, next scene it&#39;s an action comedy movie, etc…<br/><br/>Besides the whole schizophrenia stuff, the movie is really not that bad. I pretty much like anything with Crowe and everyone with the exception of Slater is pretty good.<br/><br/>I recommend this movielongthere&#39;s not a good game. What starts offa fairly promising film completely collapses after the first 20 to 30 minutes. Kelly Hu plays rookie FBI agent &quot;Seiku Kobayshi&quot; who volunteers to go undercovera call-girl in order to plant a listening device into the bathroom of a dangerous white supremacist organization. Once inside the organization she guns down the leader, &quot;Victor Serlano&quot; (played by Ian Zierling) and several of his men. When FBI agent &quot;Zack Grant&quot; (played by Russell Crowe) arrives on the scene, Seiku jumps out of the high-rise to her death. During the follow-up investigation it is learned that Seiku had very recently contacted an important leader of the Yakuza named &quot;Yuji&quot; (Etsushi Toyokawa). This results in speculation that she was somehow coerced by Yuji to kill Victor, so FBI agent Zack Grant is sent to Japan to investigate. A gun-battle then ensues and Zack arrests Yuji in order to take him back to the United States. Meanwhile, Frank Serlano (Michael Lerner), the father of the white supremacist leader, kidnaps Zack&#39;s son &quot;Eric&quot; (Andrew J. Ferchland) in order to pressure Zack to bring Yuji to him. On the way back &quot;Mary&quot; (Helen Slater) is introduced into the filmone of the flight attendants who becomes inadvertently involved in the scenario. So far so good. Unfortunately, it is at this point where the film begins to deterioratethe audience is treated to one far-fetched incident after another. While Helen Slater played her part adequately, the same can&#39;t be said for Russell Crowethis wasn&#39;t one of his better performances. But the main responsibility for this fiasco belongs on the shoulder of the director/writer, Frank A. Cappello. With the cast that he had he should have been able to produce a much better film. Instead he chose stunts and gimmicks over good acting and a reasonable plot. What a shame.
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