Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her.Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her.Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her.
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- 4 nominations
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- TriviaThis is Cindy Crawford's only starring role in a film.
- GoofsThe whole plot rests on Kazak and his men trying to kill Kate before her court case causes them to lose the Tortuga in the divorce case she is pursuing. However, they only need a couple of days to complete the transfer, and any court case Kate was undertaking would take weeks, if not months, before there was any chance her client would be awarded the ship.
- Quotes
[Max has called his cousin Jodi and got the answering machine]
Ilya Kazak: [on the machine] Hello. You have reached the number of Detective Kirkpatrick's meddling relative. Cousin Jodi cannot answer the phone right now, but if you wish to leave a message, please contact your nearest psychic.
[scream from Jodi, gunshot]
Ilya Kazak: Dosvedanya to you, *asshole*!
- Alternate versionsEuropean release was 8 minutes longer, less violence, but more sex/nudity.
Featured review
Could have been anybody in this unoriginal bit of tosh
When a civil lawyer is almost killed twice, cop Kirkpatrick is assigned to protect her. Things go from bad to worse when his partners are killed and Kirkpatrick goes on the run with Kate, unsure of who to trust. Meanwhile the assassins are using powerful computer technology to locate them using phones, credit cards etc. Kirkpatrick and Kate must work out who is trying to kill them and stop them before they are caught.
This was Cindy Crawford's big vehicle to turn her from a model into a movie star - and it didn't quite work. The story is one of the main problems. Now action films never really need that good a plot, but this needed a much better reason than it had for the criminals trying to kill Kate - when you find out what it is it's all a bit silly and killing her wouldn't actually have solved it! Also the criminals spend the whole movie in the back of two landrovers with a couple of laptops that seem to be able to tap into every system on earth - yet they still can't manage to trap them. This system is advanced enough to tap calls (when the plot wants) or just locate a phone (when the plot wants), if nothing else then they just have someone say "they're not on the highway so they must be on a freight train" - and of course they are. It really is pretty thin even by action movie standards. The daftness is shown by the way that they try everything to kill her (blow up her house, shoot her on the street, car chases in public etc) and it's obvious that they don't care who sees - but when they eventually catch her, rather than kill her they kidnap her and keep her alive (don't know why) just so Billy Baldwin has time to come rescue her!
The action itself is quite good - however the opening scene where a jogging Crawford is just missed by a bullet is the most tense scene in it. The rest is the usual - people just making it out of explosions, diving gun-play, fancy car chases etc. People are killed, things blow up and the two leads just walk though it, emotionally unscathed. The other "action" is also there (to keep all Crawford's teenage fans happy) - in a unheated freight train, in the middle of the night, on the hood of a car - then they decide to do it! It's all soft focus, bit of breast, bit of ass etc and the way it is forced into the action shows that they wanted to show a bit of skin but weren't sure where to get it in!
Considering it's Crawford's film, she mostly has second billing to Baldwin as she doesn't have much to do except play the "woman-in-peril" card for all she's worth. Billy Baldwin (the least needed of the brothers) has a bigger role but isn't much of an action hero - during action scenes he has his face screwed up like a psycho and outside of that all he does is shout. Steven Berkoff does his best "Beverly Hills Cop" bad guy but just hams it up in a thankless role. To show you how wrong this film is in terms of performances - Crawford is given the lead while a really good actress like Salma Hayek is given a tiny role as Kirkpatrick's quickly forgotten girlfriend.
Overall some good explosions but don't you want more than that? If you don't then this probably has enough guns, mayhem and nudity to keep you happy for 90 minutes.
This was Cindy Crawford's big vehicle to turn her from a model into a movie star - and it didn't quite work. The story is one of the main problems. Now action films never really need that good a plot, but this needed a much better reason than it had for the criminals trying to kill Kate - when you find out what it is it's all a bit silly and killing her wouldn't actually have solved it! Also the criminals spend the whole movie in the back of two landrovers with a couple of laptops that seem to be able to tap into every system on earth - yet they still can't manage to trap them. This system is advanced enough to tap calls (when the plot wants) or just locate a phone (when the plot wants), if nothing else then they just have someone say "they're not on the highway so they must be on a freight train" - and of course they are. It really is pretty thin even by action movie standards. The daftness is shown by the way that they try everything to kill her (blow up her house, shoot her on the street, car chases in public etc) and it's obvious that they don't care who sees - but when they eventually catch her, rather than kill her they kidnap her and keep her alive (don't know why) just so Billy Baldwin has time to come rescue her!
The action itself is quite good - however the opening scene where a jogging Crawford is just missed by a bullet is the most tense scene in it. The rest is the usual - people just making it out of explosions, diving gun-play, fancy car chases etc. People are killed, things blow up and the two leads just walk though it, emotionally unscathed. The other "action" is also there (to keep all Crawford's teenage fans happy) - in a unheated freight train, in the middle of the night, on the hood of a car - then they decide to do it! It's all soft focus, bit of breast, bit of ass etc and the way it is forced into the action shows that they wanted to show a bit of skin but weren't sure where to get it in!
Considering it's Crawford's film, she mostly has second billing to Baldwin as she doesn't have much to do except play the "woman-in-peril" card for all she's worth. Billy Baldwin (the least needed of the brothers) has a bigger role but isn't much of an action hero - during action scenes he has his face screwed up like a psycho and outside of that all he does is shout. Steven Berkoff does his best "Beverly Hills Cop" bad guy but just hams it up in a thankless role. To show you how wrong this film is in terms of performances - Crawford is given the lead while a really good actress like Salma Hayek is given a tiny role as Kirkpatrick's quickly forgotten girlfriend.
Overall some good explosions but don't you want more than that? If you don't then this probably has enough guns, mayhem and nudity to keep you happy for 90 minutes.
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- Release date
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- Languages
- Also known as
- Trò Chơi Sòng Phẳng
- Filming locations
- Las Olas Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA(apartment explosion)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $50,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $11,534,477
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,946,332
- Nov 5, 1995
- Gross worldwide
- $11,534,477
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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