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Great Film overall

Excellent but underrated film

Best movie ever!

I was interested in watching this film in part because it was directed by John Glen, who had directed several James Bond movies in the 1980s that I had liked. However, after watching this movie, all I could think was that Glen's status as a director had fallen greatly in the years between James Bond and this film. To be fair, Glen was working with a script that really needed a few more rewrites before filming - the opening is kind of vague, the chief villain character is kind of vague, and various plot details here and there are vague as well. Despite this inadequate script, the movie could still have been fun with some energetic direction. But the movie is slow-moving and the few action sequences really lack zip and punch. Though this may have been in part due to the low budget, which also results in the movie having a somewhat cheap look and feel that resembles low budget Canadian television shows from the 1990s. To date, this is the final movie that Glen has directed. Maybe that's for the best.

***SPOILERS***James Bond like action flick that takes place over some half dozen countries involving this crack Israeli Mossod assassination team headed by the though as nails Tony Eckhardt, Christopher Lambert. It's Tony's job to put an end to top Palestine hit-man Amar Kamil, Vincent Reagan, who's out to foil the Israeli Palestinian peace process before it gets off the ground.After escaping an assassin attempt in Luxembourg by Tony's hit-team Kamil had his face surgically altered to look like an AP photographer so he can get back at those who tried to do him in as well as wiped out his entire family of Palestinian guerrillas. Right from the start you see that Kamil means business by having the doctor and nurse, both very pro-Palestinian, who altered his looks murdered for no other reason then in trying to show the audience just what a ruthless and unfeeling psycho he is. With stopping the Israeli Palestinian peace process as the main goal, by those who are backing him, Kamil instead goes after Tony and his hit-team for strictly personal reasons. This gives Tony the drop on Kamil to not only what he's up to but what, with his faced surgically altered, he looks like! In Austria Germany Monaco as well as New York City Kamil whacks almost all of Tony's assassination team members until his not too on the ball, who must have gotten his job by knowing someone in high places, boss Israeli Gen. Ben-Zion, Martin Siegel, finally puts him and what's still left of his team back together. It's now Tony's, who up until then was made to shuffle paper and sharpen pencils, main job to hunt down and put Kamil's reign of terror, in destroying any hopes of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, to an end. By then Kamil had already made his way back to his home town- Jerusalem-ready willing and able to knock off top Palestinian Representative President Jamil El-Aziz, Patrick Dean, at the peace signing ceremony slated to take place there between him and the Israeli Prime Minister.***SPOILERS*** Despite the almost non-stop action interrupted by the scenic views of the many on location shots in the film the plot was anything but logical or cohesive. Kamil who was so successful in knocking off almost Tony's entire elite hit-team just couldn't get a good shot at Palestinian President Jamil El-Aziz, who we find out is Kamil's half-brother, even when he was less then 20 feet away from him with his gun-site trained on his head! Kamil's flawless escape plan fell apart by the simple reason that his decoy the AP photographer he was impersonating somehow escaped his, Kamil's men, captors! How this was done was never shown in the movie. In fact you get the impression that the flawless escape plan was dropped, for budget reasons, or totally forgotten about by the movie makers with the hope that those watching the film would forgot, in all the confusion, about it as well!

Rare are the authors that are able to create a vivid movie about the clashes of Israeli hitmen and Arab terrorists. 007 - veteran John Glen joined the legion of these greats with his latest feature THE POINT MEN. "Ripley Highsmith"`s script (based on Steve Hartov`s novel THE HEAT OF RAMADAN) served as an exceptional reason for the reunion of the reliable B - cast that doesn`t even warm the bench in the mainstream cinema these days. Action fans eventually got an opportunity to enjoy a pretty smart conception of heartwarming cliches from the , allegedly dead, MOSSAD - genre that was revived by an intelligent script, above average budget and Glen`s crafty direction of gunfights and car chases where bullets really hit the flesh and real cars get smashed up. No comment belongs out of this statement. There`s just home cinema for all those action buffs who craved for a good flip of an expensive Mercedes ever since McTiernan`s DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE.

Yet another low budget b-movie starring the not so bad Lambert. I don't know what to call this movie. I think it's supposed to be a political thriller or something like that. But to me this movie has nothing. No story, no message, it's just a mess.The movie is about a antiterrorist team that screws things up a little and kills the wrong guy? this team is a bunch of amatuers if you ask me ;) and then the terrorist wants his revenge and starts to take them out one by one. Doesn't it sound exiting? I'm sorry but it really isn't!I think this john glen guy should consider a career change because if he can't do any better then this... well do i have to say more. If you must see this movie for some strange reason prepare to be bored and annyoed with bad acting and bad scripting.