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Bryan Genesse (writer)
Release Date:
14 May 2000 (USA)
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The President of the United States, in the midst of negative puplic opinion, is kidnapped while attending a charity function...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Eric Roberts | ... | The Replacement | |
| Bryan Genesse | ... | The Leader | |
| Ice-T | ... | Agent Williams | |
| John Beck | ... | President Fallbrook | |
| Robert Madrid | ... | Security Technician | |
| Brooke Theiss | ... | Mary | |
| Larry Manetti | ... | Agent Harris | |
| Michael Madsen | ... | Agent Briggs | |
| Eliza Roberts | ... | Chief of Staff Donaldson | |
| J. Cynthia Brooks | ... | Mrs. Fallbrook | |
| Richard Steinmetz | ... | Swat Leader | |
| Heidi Jo Markel | ... | Reporter | |
| Ronn Moss | ... | Fake President | |
| Bill Kirchenbauer | ... | Loud Texan | |
| Sal Landi | ... | Secret Service Agent |
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Agent of Death (USA) (video box title)
The President (USA) (working title)
The Replacement (USA) (working title)
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The President (USA) (working title)
The Replacement (USA) (working title)
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95 min | UK:91 min
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Netherlands:16 |
USA:R (Certificate #36670) |
Australia:MA |
Germany:18 |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:AA (Ontario) |
UK:18 |
Iceland:16
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Continuity: Blood on the 'replacements' shirt varies through out the film.
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This is a truly poor excuse for an action film. the characters act so stupidly and have so little charisma, it's hard to care for them one way or another. At one point, the villian fakes his death through a helicopter crash. Though he has the money he'd asked for as ransom and has no reason what so ever to go back to the site of his crime-he goes back. Another ridiculous plot point- the hero, having saved the president from a "Die Hard" style terrorist attack, doesn't just walk the Pres out of the building, but rather sits around, making calls on his cell phone.
This idiocy would all be okay if this flick had some decent action, but the fight scenes are choreographed with the energy of a sloth monkey and the shoot outs take place with enemies twenty feet from eachother, yet unable to hit a damn thing...and would the hero really shoot back at the villian if the President, this movie's "macguffin" was between them? Yes he would in this flick, because it means he can dive between pillars. This movie isn't bad because it's dumb- dumb ain't bad, I love dumb action movies- it's bad because it's insulting even to the undemanding.