***SPOILERS***James Bond like action flick that takes place over some half dozen countries involving this crack Israeli Mossod assassination team headed by the though as nails Tony Eckhardt, Christopher Lambert. It's Tony's job to put an end to top Palestine hit-man Amar Kamil, Vincent Reagan, who's out to foil the Israeli Palestinian peace process before it gets off the ground.
After escaping an assassin attempt in Luxembourg by Tony's hit-team Kamil had his face surgically altered to look like an AP photographer so he can get back at those who tried to do him in as well as wiped out his entire family of Palestinian guerrillas. Right from the start you see that Kamil means business by having the doctor and nurse, both very pro-Palestinian, who altered his looks murdered for no other reason then in trying to show the audience just what a ruthless and unfeeling psycho he is. With stopping the Israeli Palestinian peace process as the main goal, by those who are backing him, Kamil instead goes after Tony and his hit-team for strictly personal reasons. This gives Tony the drop on Kamil to not only what he's up to but what, with his faced surgically altered, he looks like!
In Austria Germany Monaco as well as New York City Kamil whacks almost all of Tony's assassination team members until his not too on the ball, who must have gotten his job by knowing someone in high places, boss Israeli Gen. Ben-Zion, Martin Siegel, finally puts him and what's still left of his team back together. It's now Tony's, who up until then was made to shuffle paper and sharpen pencils, main job to hunt down and put Kamil's reign of terror, in destroying any hopes of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, to an end. By then Kamil had already made his way back to his home town- Jerusalem-ready willing and able to knock off top Palestinian Representative President Jamil El-Aziz, Patrick Dean, at the peace signing ceremony slated to take place there between him and the Israeli Prime Minister.
***SPOILERS*** Despite the almost non-stop action interrupted by the scenic views of the many on location shots in the film the plot was anything but logical or cohesive. Kamil who was so successful in knocking off almost Tony's entire elite hit-team just couldn't get a good shot at Palestinian President Jamil El-Aziz, who we find out is Kamil's half-brother, even when he was less then 20 feet away from him with his gun-site trained on his head! Kamil's flawless escape plan fell apart by the simple reason that his decoy the AP photographer he was impersonating somehow escaped his, Kamil's men, captors! How this was done was never shown in the movie. In fact you get the impression that the flawless escape plan was dropped, for budget reasons, or totally forgotten about by the movie makers with the hope that those watching the film would forgot, in all the confusion, about it as well!
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