In Her Line of Fire (2006)

User Rating:

3.4/10   

Director:

Brian Trenchard-Smith

Writers:

Sherry Adamo (writer)
Paula Goldberg (writer)

Genre:

Action

Tagline:

Kidnapping the Vice President was their first and last mistake.

Plot:

When the Vice President's plane goes down near a remote South American island, he is kidnapped by rebel forces and held for ransom. It is up to his female Secret Service agent and a press secretary to infiltrate the camp and save him. |

Plot Keywords:

Lesbian Kiss | Sniper

Cast

Mariel Hemingway	...	Sergeant Major Lynn Delaney
David Keith	...	Vice President Walker
David Millbern	...	Armstrong
Jill Bennett	...	Sharon Serrano
Robbie Magasiva	...	Petelo
Stuart Devenie	...	John Ellison
James Gaylyn	...	Admiral Winters
Alison Hofer	...	Olive
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Paul Dzenkiw	...	Kindall
Jesse Hutch	...	Rosen
Sydney Jackson	...	Murphy
Patrick Kake	...	Hammer
Rene Naufahu	...	Solia
Lee Tuson	...	Logan

Also Known As:

Air Force Two (Australia) (DVD title)
Airforce 2 Down (Canada: English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and brief language.

Runtime:

Netherlands:88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R | Australia:M (DVD rating)

Company:

ApolloProMovie & Co. 1. Filmproduktion

Goofs:

Factual errors: (About 11 minutes in) The US Sixth Fleet operates in Europe (mostly the Mediterranean), but never the Pacific.

It Tries Hard

The fact someone even wanted to do a female type Rambo movie with a lesbian character makes me give them kudos for trying.

With a little tweaking, this could have been a pretty good film.

It is sadly lacking in the lesbian department - all we get are a couple of kisses, that's it.

The rest of it is non-stop jungle action.

The heroine, played by Mariel Hemingway, who unfortunately is a bit past her prime, hangs tough and kicks major butt, as well as knowing how to handle a gun.

Jill Bennett is her love interest, and she's attractive and brave, although of course she's not allowed to be quite as brave as Mariel's character.

If only the writers had realized you need some breaks in all that action, at least a few minutes where maybe one woman bandages up the other gal's flesh wound, and then they strip off and go for a nude swim in a jungle pool, and do some making out--it could have gone all the way up to an 8 or 9 star film for me.

The plot, such as it is, concerns the plane the Vice President is on going down in a storm near an island where some mercenaries and rebels have their training camp.

Reality goes out the window from the get-go, because the Vice President has one bodyguard, Mariel Hemingway. She may be as tough as a battalion of Marines, but people like Vice Presidents always have dozens of secret service people with them everywhere they go.

They're still struggling ashore when they come under attack by the militant operation on the island, after that it's just action, action, and still more action.

I gave it 6 stars out of 10. I suppose it didn't deserve it, but positive lesbian films come along so rarely, I like to encourage them.