Genre: Action / Thriller
Length: 1h 49m 3s
Director: Andrew Davis
Tagline: What Would You Do If You Lost Everything?
Plot outline: Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio "The Wolf" Perrini. Frustrated with the official investigation and haunted by the thought that the man responsible for murdering his family might never be brought to justice, Brewer takes matters into his own hands and tracks his quarry ultimately to Colombia. Summary written by Jason
Comment: Having spent two decades bringing up a family of sorts with every Arnie film released during that time (and that folks is pretty much ALL of them) I can claim to be a reasonably well qualified expert on the active and entertaining ways of Mr Schwazenegger. Hell, I have even contributed to the IMDb, a Schwarzenegger film no one knew about! (THE COMEBACK 1980) Well guys I'm here to tell ya, if JINGLE ALL THE WAY represents the low point of his career, this effort runs a near equal! One lethargic, boring (even), colorless, cerebrally challenging dumbass flick if ever there was one! Columbian scumbags would be the least interesting of terrorists (and I do not underplay the significance of Sept 11th last year!) and this group are just plain - dull! So, Arnie's wife and cutesy daughter happen to take a cappucchino at the wrong place at the wrong time and are vaporised by one of the most underwhelming of terrorist-type explosions for years! They die, along with nine or so other unfortunate shoppers. A Columbian terrorist (The Wolf - God, is THAT original or what?) claims responsibility. Arnie then defies all advice, government shadowing and audience credibility by taking it up to "The Wolf" on his home turf! Naturally it all goes wrong. Despite impossibly brutal beatings, kicks to the face, jaw, head and ribs...Arnie appears next scene, pretty much unbloodied, unbruised and unaffected, to finally extort revenge, by which time the audience is laughing out loud at the idiocy on screen. Davis looks to be directing himself out of a job with this juvenile tripe which even on a body-count scale, rates low by Arnie's standards. I wanted to like this film but would be living in total denial if I said it was even half reasonable.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
Country: USA
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Subtitels: No ()
DVDs: 1
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| Actors: | ||
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | as | Gordy Brewer |
| Francesca Neri | as | Selena |
| Elias Koteas | as | Brandt |
| Cliff Curtis | as | Claudio Perrini/"El Lobo"/"The Wolf" |