Synopsis
He thought he was protecting her life. Instead he was saving the world.
A web of intrigue and conspiracy lies beneath the euphoria as the U.S. is about to put a man on the moon for the first time in over thirty years
2001 Directed by Yves Simoneau
A web of intrigue and conspiracy lies beneath the euphoria as the U.S. is about to put a man on the moon for the first time in over thirty years
Garvin Cross Kymberly Sheppard Brad Loree Ed Anders Darryl Scheelar Bruce Fontaine Terrance Leigh Mike Crestejo Rick Pearce Brett Armstrong Randy Lee Owen Walstrom Ryan Ennis Bill Ferguson Gavin Buhr Deb Macatumpag Kristene Kenward Heath Stevenson Claire Webb Yvette Jackson William Lawrence
Ignition - Tödliche Zündung, Ignition - Dieci secondi alla fine, Mise à feu, El quinto hombre, Gyilkos összeesküvés, Start v ohrožení, Старт към небето, Contagem Regressiva
Bill Pullman as an action star? Lena Olin as a hot judge? Count me in. I don't even care that the story is so weird and convoluted.
It's not very good but I liked Lena Olin in this a really lot. (maybe i should give it 2 and a half stars???) It's funny I wasn't really paying all that much attention to it until my friend Lou pointed out that she kinda reminded him here a bit of Carla Gugino and you know he's not wrong. The normally serious Olin is playing a similarly spunky kinda persona in this. She's a federal judge being placed in the protective custody of ex U.S. Marshall Bill Pullman here--and the two of them are good together as they sorta figure out this elaborate conspiracy plot that leads them to discover that someone is trying to sabotage this rocket launch that…
I'm gonna kill this goddamn woman myself.
Eleanore's 2023 Watchlist: All kinds of great and new and interesting stuff, PLUS also every ridiculous and obscure Bill Pullman movie you've never even heard of
Anyway, I'm just saying, BUCKLE UP
Read a Tweet just after finishing this last night that said, "I LOVE '90s thrillers. They all look great and they're all insane and they made 100 million of them apparently because every day I stumble across a new one that I never heard of," and I truly feel this grand period of plenty really did spill over into the the early '00s, 'cause here we are, this thing absolutely qualifies.
So it opens with Bill's US Marshal character just housing…
A web of intrigue and conspiracy lies beneath the euphoria as the U.S. is about to put a man on the moon for the first time in over thirty years.
Despite the two stars this is a mediocre thriller with a preposterously implausible conspiracy.