The Detonator (2006)

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

Director:

Po-Chih Leong (as Po Chih Leong)

Writer:

Martin Wheeler

Stars:

Wesley Snipes, William Hope, Tim Dutton

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Wesley Snipes	...	Sonni Griffith
William Hope	...	Michael Shepard
Tim Dutton	...	Jozef Bostanescu
Silvia Colloca	...	Nadia Cominski
Matthew Leitch	...	Dimitru Ilinca
Bogdan Uritescu	...	Pavel
Warren Derosa	...	Mitchel
Michael Brandon	...	Flint
Vincenzo Nicoli	...	Yuri Mishatov
Stuart Milligan	...	Greenfield
Evangelos Grecos	...	Kravchenko
Mihnea Paun	...	Alex
Florian Ghimpu	...	Nita
Valentin Teodosiu	...	Czeslaw
Tania Popa	...	Ana

Storyline

After an undercover mission in Bucharest to disclose an international gang of weapon dealers, the agent Sonni Griffith is assigned to protect the Romanian Nadia Kaminski, the widow of an accountant of the Romanian Mafia. However, the CIA safe house is broken in by the criminals, and Sonni realizes that the information was leaked from inside the Agency. Alone, trusting only in his friend Michael Shepard, Sonni fights to survive and protect Nadia.

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Plot Keywords:

exploding car | opening action scene | shooting | blood | blood spatter | 

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Taglines:

The fate of thousands are in their hands.

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Genres:

Action | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence, language and some nudity

Details

Country:

USA Romania

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 April 2006 (USA)

Also Known As:

John Doe

Filming Locations:

Bucharest, Romania

Box Office

Budget:

$15,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Andrew Stevens Entertainment,Castel Film Romania,Donald Kushner Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

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.

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Goofs

At the end, Sonni Griffith winds the window up of a convertible with the roof up, however as he drives off, the film cuts to an overhead shot which shows the windows and the roof down.

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Connections

Featured in Bad Movie Beatdown: The Marksman (2012)

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Soundtracks

Come On Back
Composed by Michael Lloyd and Andrew Stevens
Published by Michael Music and King Cod Music

User Reviews

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.