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Director:
Mick Jackson
Writers (WGA):
Elwood Reid (teleplay)
Robert Ludlum (novel) ...
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Release Date:
9 April 2006 (USA) more
Genre:
Thriller more
Plot:
While in a retrieve operation of a virus in Berlin, the Covert One agent Rachel Russell is double-crossed... more | add synopsis
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Pregnant Sorvino Did Own Stunts
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Cast

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Stephen Dorff ... Jon Smith

Mira Sorvino ... Rachel Russel

Blair Underwood ... Palmer Addison

Sophia Myles ... Sophie Amsden

Danny Huston ... Frank Klein

Colm Meaney ... Peter Howell

Josh Hopkins ... Bill Griffin
Jeffrey DeMunn ... Steven Haldane

Anjelica Huston ... President
Rosemary Dunsmore ... Nancy Langford

Joris Jarsky ... Tom Fancher

Conrad Dunn ... Ghalib Hassan

Sergio Di Zio ... Marty Zeller
Karen Glave ... Lt. Crowthers

Jonathan Higgins ... Culver
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Additional Details

Runtime:
160 min (2 parts)
Country:
USA
Language:
English | French | German
Color:
Color
Filming Locations:
Berlin, Germany more

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Factual errors: "Lt. John Smith" an Army physician is incongruous of the facts. Commissioning as a physician begins with them entering as captains. more

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A Tense, Well-Scripted Thriller Pertinent to our Times, 7 September 2006
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Great literature its not, but Robert Ludlum is hard to beat as a writer of suspense thrillers and COVERT ONE: THE HADES FACTOR is no exception. Writing the screenplay with Ludlum is Elwood Reid and together they have created a very fast moving tale of the threats of bio-terrorism, found in Mick Jackson a perfect match for a director, and gathered an exciting cast to make this 160 minute made-for-television movie fly by at tremendous speed.

The premise of the film involves the worst of all 'weapons of mass destruction' - biological warfare - and here the topic is dealt with in a fascinating manner that pulls the US Government into the fold as implicated in the feasibility of such warfare. Not possible? Well, watch the film and make up your own mind.

Stephen Dorff plays Jon Smith, a one time covert agent for the White House, who becomes ensnarled in a plot to release the Hades Virus (a hemorrhagic lethal variant of the Ebola virus) to destroy the US. Smith's girlfriend Dr. Amsden (Sofia Myles) works for the government in the department that watches for measures just such as this. When the plot to sell the virus (is it possibly a virus known to the US government as the Scimitar project?) falls into the hands of an agent Rachel Russell (Mira Sorvino), the confusion of who is working for whom unfolds and all manner of agents and FBI, CIA, etc agents tumble around the President (Anjelica Huston) trying to identify the true culprits and the race to stop the dissemination of the deadly virus. In the many roles of varying consequence are actors Blair Underwood, Danny Huston, Colm Meaney, Josh Hopkins, etc.

The film is not without its gruesome elements: what depiction of bio-terrorism could avoid that? But the pace and the action sequences and the many locations of the film make the story propel along at a fascinating pace and the actors hold their own despite some predictable moments. Though this obviously is a fiction novel and a good one at that, there is a degree of truth in all fiction and any time writers and artists can help us understand possibilities, we are the better informed for it. Recommended viewing.

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