Detonator (2003)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

Jonathan Freedman

Writer:

Herschel Wahlkoch (writer)

Release Date:

23 January 2005 (Spain)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller | Action

Tagline:

The countdown started!

Plot:

A former FBI agent must stop a madman from setting off a bomb.

Plot Keywords:

FBI | Bomb | Handcuffs | Locker Room | Fire

Cast

Randall Batinkoff	...	Beau Stoddard
Elizabeth Berkley	...	Jane Dreyer
Stan Shaw	...	Robert Brickland
Bokeem Woodbine	...	Jack Forrester
Denis Forest	...	Steve Kerwin
John Pleshette	...	Stuart Newman
Peter Jason	...	U.S. Attorney Fred Goldenberg
Terri J. Vaughn	...	Sharona Brown
Cheselka Leigh	...	Candi
Will Stewart	...	Van Wilson (as Will Foster Stewart)
Tom Virtue	...	Fred Bizzert
Patrick Bristow	...	DeJuan Michaels
Tommy De La Cruz	...	Kid
Gregory Scott Cummins	...	James Grimes
Diannah Bays	...	Diana - reporter

Also Known As:

Detonator - Spiel gegen die Zeit (Germany)
Write-Off (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and language.

Runtime:

USA:92 min | Argentina:92 min

Country:

USA | Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Argentina:16 | Finland:K-11 | Australia:M | Germany:12 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles Center Studios - 450 S. Bixel Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

CO 1. Filmproduktions KG

Trivia:

On one scene, Beau Stoddard (Randall Batinkoff) is checking a list: you can read, among others, the names "Nathan J.", "Monty Simons", "Lisa Hansen", which are all part of the production staff of the film.

It's bad...

...actually it's very bad. The acting is bad, the screenplay is bad, and the directing is bad...actually I think the director was sleeping in his chair while "directing" the actors. The lines in this movie are predictable and cheap and overused (in other movies before).

There are even some hilarious scenes in the movie, for example when Beau jumps blind trough the windows when the bomb explodes, falling RIGHT into a pile of cardboxes laying in the MIDDLE of the street, or when Beau as a postal inspector can walk into the FBI building's operations room just like that. It's also funny to watch FBI files protected by passwords that are not encrypted, you can actually see the password that you type instead of ***** [stars,blind characters] ... Jeeeez!

The FBI operation that they pulled off...well that wasn't an FBI operation, it wasn't even professional. Federal agents running around, without any cover... Our "hero" (who has about 8 years of experience as an FBI field agent) shoots a guy, (who then falls to the ground with his gun in his hands) then walks up to him and starts asking stupid questions WITHOUT securing his weapon! All this in a hostile environment...bahhh!!!

I don't know who to blame for stupid scenes like that in this movie (the director or screenwriter), but I think whoever is responsible for them, should quit his job. Actually the guy who hired him should do the same :)

Enough said, this movie is not worth your precious time, believe me!