A government assassin (Swanson), disturbed by the demoralization within her operation, refuses to kill a reporter (Dukes) and instead teams up with him to break his story of corruption in her agency, all while being hunted by her ex-superior (Madsen) and protected by her good natured "gadget man" (Faison). This is an above average TV movie that's fun to watch. A decent plot that you actually do have to give some attention to. Enjoyable performances. Not to mention that it was interesting to see half the cast of the comedy "Tinseltown" (Dukes, Perlman, Swanson) reunited in something completely different. Ron Perlman plays the cold rationalizing Director of the corrupt agency. Bad news: he's in about four scenes. Good news: they're all good scenes and he gives his villain a cool kind of the-iceman-cometh smoothness. Availability: VHS and DVD. Suggest: Amazon.com. I have used Amazon for years, for both new and used items, and have had no problems. Please remember to check that the VHS/DVD is compatible with your region/country. Worth a rent/buy used. The Region 1 DVD has an audio commentary with director John Terlesky and actor Michael Madsen and this is what they had to say about working with Ron Perlman: JT = "Here comes Ron Perlman." MM = "Ladies and Gentleman, Ron Perlman. That's the guy from 'Beauty And The Beast.'" JT = "Yes it is, yes, it is, and this guy has possibly, I don't know, would you agree, the best Brando impression that I can remember hearing?" MM = "He told a lot of really good Brando stories to me. As a matter of fact, on the day we shot this scene, in between takes, he was constantly telling me about Marlon Brando." JT = "In between takes? I was sitting there going 'guys, we gotta make a movie here.' He was going on Brando for, for, forever." MM = "He said Brando hated Val Kilmer." JT = "Yeah. That's what I heard too." (laughter, overlapping talk and Brando impressions) MM = (doing a Brando impression) "I don't like that Ron Perlman. I just, he, he thinks I like him but he's wrong. (laughter) He broke my heart. (laughter) I saw him in this film with Michael Madsen, ah, well." (laughter) JT = "I don't know, you may be having, taking a shot at that 'Best Brando.' It's a pretty good one." MM = "Mr. Perlman is a fine actor, I must say." JT = "He's really good." MM = "Very focused." JT = "Yes he is." MM = "He had a lot of dialogue." JT = "He had a lot of dialogue and he knew it in like seconds flat, and even when he went off the script, which was often, he would, it would always be like, completely lucid. I mean, it would make perfect sense. I'd go, 'where's he going with this' and he'd pull it right back in. It was amazing." MM = "Yeah, he didn't miss much." JT = "I remember him in 'Quest For Fire,' I don't know if you remember that?" MM = "Sure." JT = "But, but, I mean..." MM = "Yeah, he was very believable." JT = "Oh yeah, yeah, he's an amazing guy." MM = "That must have been fun." ... (This conversation is sprinkled throughout Ron Perlman's last scene) JT = "Here comes Ron." MM = "Ladies and Gentleman, Ron Perlman. He's good here, man. He's got so much dialogue. It's unbelievable. I mean, what a soliliquy. Good work. Listen to this." JT = "Came and delivers the goods." MM = "He was kind of angry that day too." JT = "Yeah, you got to get a little bristley, but, I thought he was just kind of, introspective." MM = "Yeah." JT = "He came in and did all these lines, I mean it was amazing, but three pages of dialogue, mostly him just, just speechifying here, and, he came in and he didn't... he took the dialogue and just kind of made it his own. He didn't, he didn't do it word for word by any means but I like what he did better." MM = "He didn't?" JT = "No, no, no" MM = "Oh God, you ruined it for me now." JT = "Oh, I'm sorry Mike. I hate to shatter your illusions like that." MM = "I thought he was so well studied." JT = "He is." MM = "Now you're just telling me he made up the whole thing." (laughter) JT = "Ron does a good menace thing too though." MM = "He does. He's a good heavy." JT = "He's a real good heavy, cause he seems intelligent, I guess, and..." MM = "It couldn't have been easy playing one of those monsters in 'The Island Of Doctor Moreau.' Dressing up like a monster and having to go on the set in front of Marlon Brando." JT = "Oh yeah." MM = "A little upsetting.".... JT = "I love the delivery on that, 'Oh really?'" MM = "Very believable. Look at him. So still." JT = "Uh huh."
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