Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Rob Lowe | ... | Sean Dillon | |
Kenneth Cranham | ... | Brig. Charles Ferguson | |
Deborah Moore | ... | Hannah Bernstein | |
Jürgen Prochnow | ... | Carl Morgan | |
Ingeborga Dapkunaite | ... | Asta | |
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Daphne Cheung | ... | Su Yin |
Claude Blanchard | ... | Don Giovanni | |
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Yvonne Antrobus | ... | Lady Kate |
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Richard Rees | ... | Yuan Tao |
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Sam Mancuso | ... | Marco |
Peter Gilmore | ... | Murdoch | |
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Gilbert Martin | ... | Angus |
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Adrian Cairns | ... | Prof. Bellamy |
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Antony Zaki | ||
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Richard Orr | ... | Michael Ahern |
When they learn of a secret covenant on the status of Hong Kong signed by Mao in 1944, Chinese factions, the British government, Hong Kong businessmen, AND the Mafia all try to be the first to take hold of it. Tough man Sean Dillon, pressured by Brigadier Ferguson into working for the British, does it his own way. But we see a new twinkle in his eye when he looks at sweet Su Yin... And can it be that pretty Inspector Hanna Bernstein is beginning to grow fond of Sean? Written by Horacio Abeledo <horabe@mail.retina.ar>
Rob Lowe sleepwalks through this convoluted plot, with barely a glimmer of an expression ever crossing his face. I think he was meant to be an ex-IRA man who now worked for the highest bidder, but if so he'd lost his accent along the way. Most of the cast were equally underwhelmed by their parts, but with the main Italian villain being called, in all seriousness,'Don Giovanni', this is hardly surprising. He had a German nephew - Jurgen Prochnow, who did show plenty of expression but mostly of the 'how did I get into this film?' kind - and Prochnow had a German stepdaughter from his dead wife, which made the Italian mafia link a little tenuous. The plot was merely an excuse for lots of different locations, and ultimately a pointless exercise. However, along the way the English were shown to be pinstripe suited men who hid swords in their walking sticks, the Irish all drank a lot and danced to the sound of fiddles in sawdust floored pubs and the Scots were barking mad, rolling their eyes and saying 'och aye the noo' at every possible opportunity. The Chinese were in it too, all speaking Oxford-educated style English. It's very long, which is lucky for Prochnow as it gave his hair time to turn from grey to blond. This was the most interesting thing in the movie, but it rates high for amusement, albeit of the wrong kind.