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(More customer reviews)Though this movie is now nearly 20 years old, it is still extremely watchable. It does not rely on special effects. It, rather, relies on the development of Hitchcock-like suspense.
In the movie, the magazine reporter fiance of a CIA computer specialist is executed by terrorists via random drawing while she is on assignment in europe. This infuriates the main protagonist of the movie -- the CIA employee. He collects enough information on CIA sensitive activities to blackmail the agency into allowing him to go into eastern europe so he can locate and eliminate the terrorists that killed his fiance himself.
He is the amateur in a professional's game. The plot is believable, the suspense is tangeable, and the story line not predictable.
I promise that if you like suspense movies, you will love this one! The acting, from main and supporting characters, is good. I particularly enjoyed the character who played the father of the murdered fiance. CIA officers and execs also play their roles (though perhaps a bit stereotyped) quite well.
5 stars.
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At 29, Charles Heller was a mathematician without equal.At the CIA he was a computer expert wtihout peers.But when terrorists murder the most important woman in his life, he becomes an assassin without experience.To avenge her death, the CIA trained him, briefed him, armed him, and then... they abandoned him.The first 11 minutes will rivet you to your seat.IN A WORLD OF PROFESSIONALS, THERE IS NO ROOM FOR AN AMATEUR.
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