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Overview

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5.5/10   11,708 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Wayne Beach (story)
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Release Date:
25 August 2000 (USA) more
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Who is your foe? more
Plot:
Shaw is an operative for the United Nations' covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation... more | full synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 9 nominations more
User Comments:
My favorite movie ever more (159 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
L'art de la guerre (Canada: French title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong violence, some sexuality, language and brief drug content.
Runtime:
117 min | Germany:116 min (cut version) | Germany:117 min (uncut version)
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2.35 : 1 more
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When Wesley Snipes' character gets on the red bike and rides off, the camera cranes down to a newspaper and focuses on a particular headline as the pages flip in the wind. The stunt man that was riding on the bike crashed just as the camera panned down to the newspaper. It was a bike that had been carefully transported from Virginia and of which only 20-some had been imported. more
Goofs:
Continuity: The car that Ms. Hooks gets into at the end of the film has a U.S. Government plate on the rear and a New York State plate on the front. more
Quotes:
Eleanor Hooks: Appearances are everything, Miss Fang. Politics and deception are built on it. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Tropic Thunder (2008) more

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9 out of 16 people found the following comment useful.
My favorite movie ever, 1 January 2007
10/10
Author: callmealiar2 from United States

In a world where nations do exist and there is in reality a political struggle for power, this movie couldn't be more timely. It uses a play on the theme of the ancient Chinese military philosophical writings by Sun Tzu. Sun Tzu said that you don't attack your enemy until you know you can defeat them and you defeat them form the inside, using their weaknesses against them. This movie brilliantly applies this philosophy into the world of international relations. This movie does all of this in the one man vs. the world schema, in the light of all modern classic action movies(Segal, van Dame, etc) but it does it with real acting, real plot and suspense, plus a few phony explosions and action sequences.

I loved the acting by Snipes and the police detective Frank Capella played by Maury Chaykin- and Donald Sutherland did a good job as well.

All in all you will love this movie and watch it again and again. I promise this film is worth watching!

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