北アイルランドの刑務所から、爆弾製作の天才テロリスト、ギャリティが脱獄した。そしてアメリカに渡ったギャリティは、ボストン警察の爆弾処理隊員ダヴに注目し、彼に挑戦するかのように爆弾を仕掛けた…。15台のカメラで捉えたクライマックスの船者場での場面をはじめ、全編にフィーチャーされた大爆破シーンの連続が見もの。
製作費: $28,000,000 (42億円)
興行収入: $30,156,002 (45億円)
推定収支: $2,156,002 (3億円)
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監督: スティーヴン・ホプキンス
脚本: Joe Batteer / John Rice / ジェイ・ローチ
音楽: アラン・シルヴェストリ
制作: Pen Densham / Richard Barton Lewis / John Watson
撮影監督: Peter Levy
A really rather derivative action thriller held together by a couple of decent, though entirely predictable, performances from Jeff Bridges and a rather off-form Tommy Lee Jones, The latter is an Irish bomber who has escaped from prison bent on revenging himself on Bridges - a Boston bomb disposal expert. It's got all the usual convoluted ploys as people around the target start to get bumped off, the family get threatened and we have a denouement straight from the ABC book of action thrillers. Lloyd Bridges and Forest Whitaker co-star, and this is a perfectly watchable thriller - a bit light on intrigue and thrills, but pacily directed with enough action to just about keep it going - though it could lose twenty minutes, or so.
With such top actors you would think this would be a brilliant movie. But what a dissapointment! Didn't last 10min, sorry. Story was very weak and there is no excuse with movies like "Speed" and "The Taking of Pelham 123". Think this film relied too heavily on the actors and thought that was enough.
