Den of Lions (2003)
..just another dull, unremarkable action film..
14 March 2006
Warning: Spoilers
This is one of those films that seem to have been written by a committee. The script consists of nothing more than an amalgamation of the clichés of thousands (upon thousands) of second-grade action flicks. The undercover FBI agent who casually infiltrates the Russian mafia and falls for the monstrous capo's daughter, your run-of-the-mill car chases, the millionth appearance of the ever-present sale of a nuclear device to terrorists (whenever there's the Russian mafia in a film, you just *know* it's going to involve a nuclear weapon sale to terrorists sooner or later)... you get the point.

Amusingly, apparently because the film is set in Hungary, the director decided that it would be an "authentic" (!) touch to have the actors speak in a vaguely British-sounding accent ; that's indicative of the film's quality as a whole.

If you enjoy the typical action movie fare (say, Chuck Norris, Van Damme and Seagal films), you might find this worth the TV-viewing (not a rental by any stretch of the imagination). If their by-the-numbers, unimaginative approach to film-making is not your particular cup of tea, you will find it tiresome and trite, as did I.
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