Bovie Movie

Chechen rebels take over a Russian nuclear plant and it’s up to a mysterious agent(Snipes) to stop them.

A thief finds one of his best friends is in jeopardy when a disastrous robbery turns out to yield the score of a lifetime in this action thriller. Jack Tolliver (Wesley Snipes) is a former Delta Force commando who has jumped to the wrong side of the law to take part in a massive heist intended to carry off the winnings of several major London casinos. However, the robbery goes haywire and one of Tolliver’s partners is taken hostage by handful of brutal Russian gangsters. It seems the gangsters want something that Tolliver mistakenly grabbed during the foiled heist — a case containing a rare painting by Van Gogh worth millions — and Tolliver is forced to team up with rival Kelly Anders (Tamzin Outhwaite) to save both his friend and himself.

Originally due for an earlier US release, this thoughtful revenge thriller had to give way to post-11 September sensitivity. On a holiday flight to India, the family of magazine editor Jeremy Irons are involved in a hijack and killed. When the hijackers are released on a technicality, Irons turns into a gun-wielding Charles Bronson clone and starts to hunt them down, bringing him to the attention of US agent, Forest Whitaker. Despite moderate tension and an interesting cast — Charlotte Rampling, ex-Miss Moneypenny Lois Maxwell — director John Irvin (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) stretches credibility to breaking point and the increasingly unbelievable action tends to devalue the relative moral complexities raised.