The Detonator (2006) (V)

Director:

Po-Chih Leong

Writer:

Martin Wheeler (writer)

Release Date:

25 April 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Thriller

Tagline:

The fate of thousands are in their hands.

Plot:

Sonni Griffith, a top US Secret Agent must protect a witness as he crosses Europe.

Cast

Wesley Snipes	...	Sonni Griffith
Silvia Colloca	...	Nadia Cominski
Tim Dutton	...	Jozef Bostanescu
William Hope	...	Michael Shepard
Matthew Leitch	...	Dimitru Ilinca
Bogdan Uritescu	...	Pavel
Warren Derosa	...	Mitchel
Michael Brandon	...	Flint
Vincenzo Nicoli	...	Yuri Mishalov
Stuart Milligan	...	Greenfield
Evangelos Grecos	...	Kravchenko
Mihnea Paun	...	Alex
Florian Ghimpu	...	Nita
Tania Popa	...	Ana
Bogdan Farkas	...	Stankiewcz

Also Known As:

John Doe (USA) (working title)
Razor's Edge (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language and some nudity.

Runtime:

Netherlands:91 min

Country:

USA | Romania

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

USA:R | Germany:16 | Australia:MA | Singapore:M18 | UK:15 (DVD) | Norway:15 | South Korea:18 | South Korea:15 (DVD rating) | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:R16

Filming Locations:

Bucharest, Romania

Company:

Andrew Stevens Entertainment

Trivia:

The day and month of Wesley Snipes character's birthdate of July 31, as seen in his secret file, is accurate, although its year of 1969 makes him seven years younger than Snipes, who was born in 1962.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When the Football match at the beginning of the movie is shown on a TV screen, there appears to be no crowd whatsoever in the stands.

Soundtrack:

It Hurts To Be Human

Wesley snipes vehicle in a standard actioner with action packed and violence

The CIA secret agent Sonni Griffith(Wesley Snipes) travels to Romania for investigating a gunrunners and avoid the selling a nuclear weapon.Meanwhile he's killing Romanian gangster at a national soccer event,he's interrogating,gunning down people and burning suspects.Griffith is arrested at the Romanian semifinal cup match.Then is jailed but is freed by his friend ,the CIA agent Michael Shepard(William Hope).He's assigned a new mission ,scorting the Romanian named Nadia(Silvia Colocca).But he aware that Nadia is pursued by Josef Bostanescu(Tim Duttom),a megalomaniac nasty,he owns the stadium and soccer team and is preparing the biggest deal he've ever made.He tries to get from Nadia the information he needs: the location where are the thirty millions of dollars that she hid of her murdered ex-husband and accountant of Bostenescu and he wishes for buying the atomic bomb.When an information into CIA is leaked,allegedly from his chief(Michael Brandon)and reveals where are placed ,they must fight to survive against the gunrunners and save themselves.

The movie displays suspense,thriller, unstopped action and lots of violence when the killing happen.It's an average actioner movie with some entertaining moments but also with no sense scenes.Wesley is nice as action hero ,his early performances were as serious actor in dramas ,later turning as tough action man in films with big budget like¨Money train,Murder at 1600,US Marshall and Blade trilogy¨,although nowadays he solely movies with middling and low budget like as ¨Unstoppable,7 seconds,Chaos,The marksman¨.The movie is produced by Andrew Stevens Entertainment Inc.Andrew Stevens(son of Stella Stevens) was a famous actor of the 80s,today turned in successful producer,besides is produced by the starring Snipes and by Pierre Spengler,he's a veteran producer of known movies like the saga Superman-Reeve and the classic Three Musqueteers. The motion picture is shot in Castel studios of Romania where have been film the last vehicles of Steven Seagal and Van Damme.