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The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

This silly thriller has a pre-Bond Pierce Brosnan having a battle of wits with a deranged terrorist who has devised an unlikely bomb, in water, which reacts with stomach acid and causes people to explode. This is a pretty bad film, coming across as a weak thriller with a few horror elements combined, but it may be worth watching just for the unusual premise and the fact that you get to see lots of explosions and people on fire - a somewhat morbid fascination for the producers of this film.This is a film which never, not for one instant, engages the emotions. From start to finish we never get to care about any of the characters. Brosnan is a disappointment here, going through the thing on autopilot and uttering a few curses here and there when things go wrong. Ben Cross has to be one of the weakest bad guys I've seen in a film for a long time, and as for being threatening...you'd be better off watching one of the pros like Alan Rickman to see how it should be done. Ron Silver is wasted in a nothing role, and the only interesting thing about him is his death (he falls from a building and gets impaled on some railings - ouch!).The best bits of this film are the various moments where people explode. Typically some poor fool is usually standing at the edge of the explosion when this happens and gets ignited, so it's pretty sadistic. The victims also have their skin split open and their eyeballs fill with blood, so the gross-out factor is played for all it's worth. Not bad at all...otherwise, this is strictly predictable fare.

In this flick Pirece "Remington Steele" Brosnan plays a detective who think s he's James Bond and who suffers from sporadic bouts of potty mouth. He has a girl friends with a great pair o' gams who doesn't know much about anything but she looks good which always helps in a movie. I liked PB in RS-even though it was a bit 'conservative'-I thought it worked & I liked that he had a female "sidekick" who was smarter than he was-it showed he was intelligent himself. This film is 'exploitation cinema' as it tries to sell you the idea that it is about catching terrorists when it really isn't about anything. It suggests the idea a tasteless & colorless poison can be added to water to generate a super powerful explosion. Yeh and its called 'Dues ex Machina'-just like in old Roman plays when they ran out of ideas.Might work if you had a lousy date with someone and wanted to erase the memory of it. Combine with booze kind of thing-other than that its basically a dud that bare passes on the high number of camera movements it uses.

This is the best pre-bond Brosnan movie (ok so that's not saying much) but this is relly enjoyable if you leave your brain at the door and get used to brosnan's dodgy american accent.a must see for all Brosnan & tounge in cheek action fans.rating 8/10 for originality 9/10 for action 6/10 for script and direction (could have been better)

Christian Duguay (Joan Of Arch '99, the Art Of War) brings a stylish action thriller starring the current James Bond, Pierce Brosnan. Brosnan plays Danny O'Neill, a bomb expert for the F.B.I. with a lot of problems. His daughter just died in a recent pool accident and his wife cheated on him with a well known Senator (Ron Silver). But when a group of senators start being blown away by terrorist bombs, Brosnan is only one who can come up the answers before Silver becomes one of the next victims. Brosnan is very good as the down on his luck agent. He drinks, smokes and he has that very scruffy look. Duguay does a very good job with the camera work. There are many different shots that you won't normally see in an action film. The film also has a dark feel to it. The colors are deep and sometimes it hard to see things in night shots. There is a lot of action and semi complicated plot. Live Wire is an OK action thriller showing off Brosnan's non-Bond side. If you have nothing better to rent it. But I recommend Speed for a great film about a mad bomber. This one just wets the appetite.