Deadly Outbreak (1996)

Note des utilisateurs:

3.9/10   

Réalisateur:

Rick Avery

Writers:

Harel Goldstein (writer) &
Charles Morris Jr. (writer)

Genre:

Action

Accroche:

The fear is spreading.

Plot:

A terrorist group lead by Colonel Baron has taken over an Israeli biochemical weapon laboratory. Colonel...

Plot Keywords:

Terrorism | Martial Arts | Die Hard Scenario | Independent Film

Avis des utilisateurs:

Suspension of disbelief to the max

Ensemble

Jeff Speakman	...	Dutton Hatfield
Ron Silver	...	Colonel Baron
Rochelle Swanson	...	Dr. Allie Levin
Jack Adalist	...	Ramos
Jonathan Sagall	...	Gallo
Yehuda Elboim	...	Lt. Epstein
Idan Alterman	...	Ira
Dan Turgeman	...	Col. Gideon (as Dan Turjeman)
Yehuda Efroni	...	Dr. Berg
Kevin Jones	...	Hopper
Bridget Marks	...	Elaine Starkov
Yoram Yosephberg	...	Gunther
R.L. Noff	...	Vartan
Larry Smith	...	Dr. Eliot Stein
Michael Parlato	...	Luther

Autre(s) titre(s):

Deadly Takeover
Sans alternative (France) (TV title) [fr]

MPAA:

Rated R for non-stop violence, and for language.

Durée:

Germany:88 min | Sweden:87 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur

Son:

Ultra Stereo

Classification:

Iceland:16 | South Korea:18 | UK:18 | Philippines:R-18 | Germany:18 (video premiere) | USA:R

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Dlin Film Productions

Goofs:

Factual errors: The sulfuric acid is stored in a large open metallic tray of about 300 gallons. If this was concentrated sulfuric acid, it would have reacted with the metal long ago and leaked everywhere.

Guillemet:

Dutton Hatfield: [after shooting a guy in the crotch] What's the matter? Forget your bulletproof cup?

Movie Connections:

Edited into Ticker (2001)

Suspension of disbelief to the max

Aside from Ron Silver's usual wonderful, icy cool performance as the villain, the best thing about this Lethal Weapon knock-off is seeing how many action cliches you can spot. Deadly Outbreak is low-budget actioneer of the type that would star Segal, Willis or Van Damme if they had had any kind of a budget, but instead settles for a bunch of unknowns running through the most inane series of situations you can imagine (whenever someone isn't kicking someone else in the groin, or killing another hostage). Indeed, if you didn't know better, you'd think this was a Scary Movie-type of send-up of the genre. The Israeli setting gives the feeling that the producers got a subsidy from the government in order to attract some filmmaking business to Tel Aviv.

Probably the best thing you can say for this production is that for what must have been an extremely low budget, they managed to blow up an *extremely* large number of vehicles, planes, factories and what-not. All that said, however, the actors are not completely unattractive, and my teenage daughter says that I shouldn't be too hard on the movie. It still doesn't rate higher than a 3, though. Sorry!