***SPOILERS*** sloppily made international political thriller that has to do with a nominee for vice president Louisiana Governor Chip Majors who's somehow involved, in knowing too much, about the North Korean uranium enrichment program that's threatening world peace. That's if the North Koreans are able to produce military grade plutonium to fit into their intercontinental missiles and .150 to .300 mm artillery shells.
It's before Chip is to attend a major contributer shindig at a swanky New Orleans hotel that he decides to let off some steam by fooling around with his favorite $1,000.00 a pop hooker so he can loosen himself up for the important political affair. It's just when he popped himself up with a couple of Viagra pills and is about to go into action that Chip notices that his sexual partner is, with a gun and silencer attached to it, planing to rub him out before he can even pull his pants off. Beating her, the hooker, to the punch Chip ends up both disarming and strangling her to death. With the two Louisiana state troopers who were protecting him coming to his aid their shocked to find the governor is such a embarrassing and compromising position. In a hotel room with his clothes off and a dead hooker laying in his bed!
The two state troopers Devin Taylor & Tom Cobb, with Taylor somewhat hesitant, are given one million dollars by Chip to cover up the whole mess that he just got himself into. A mess that would not only destroy his political carer but can land him behind bars for 10 to 15 years!
The movie jumps from Louisiana to off all places war-torn Afganistan where officer Cobb's estrange wife Gloria is working with the US military as a CIA interrogator. It's then that we realize just what all this has to do with Governor Chip Majors. It's in what Chip knows about the North Koreans and their nuclear ambitions that he can really do them lots of damage. That's if he ever gets elected vice president and informs his boss, his party's Presidential Candidate South Carolina senator Edmund, about them and their future military plans!
It's then that the film start to get completely out of hand with gangs of North Korean hit squads who originated out of Afghanistan to provide the North Koreans with cover, in not being connected with them, in trying to eliminate Gov. Majors before he and his running mate Sen. Edmund end up in the oval office!
***SPOILERS*** With a number of shoot ups car chases and explosions to keep the audience from falling asleep, in trying to follow what the film is trying to tell them, Gov Majors is eventually neutralized but only after officer Taylor, by refusing to take his bribe money, decides to turn him in. Officer Cobbs who played along with the corrupt Governor ended up getting iced by the North Korean sponsored assassins to also make sure that he doesn't talk if, like Taylor, he decides to change his mind. In the case of Officer Taylor he doesn't have to be silenced by the hit teams since he, by trying to play the good guy in the movie, ended up getting framed in the Governors murder and is set to spend the rest of his life, if he's in fact not executed, behind bars!
P.S Even though he gets top billing in the movie actor Billy Zane is on screen for less then five minutes. Zane plays CIA chief of Far Eastern Operations Graham who orchestrated this entire sleazy and criminal operation and at the same time, in him being almost invisible in the film, not wanting to be connected to it.
It's before Chip is to attend a major contributer shindig at a swanky New Orleans hotel that he decides to let off some steam by fooling around with his favorite $1,000.00 a pop hooker so he can loosen himself up for the important political affair. It's just when he popped himself up with a couple of Viagra pills and is about to go into action that Chip notices that his sexual partner is, with a gun and silencer attached to it, planing to rub him out before he can even pull his pants off. Beating her, the hooker, to the punch Chip ends up both disarming and strangling her to death. With the two Louisiana state troopers who were protecting him coming to his aid their shocked to find the governor is such a embarrassing and compromising position. In a hotel room with his clothes off and a dead hooker laying in his bed!
The two state troopers Devin Taylor & Tom Cobb, with Taylor somewhat hesitant, are given one million dollars by Chip to cover up the whole mess that he just got himself into. A mess that would not only destroy his political carer but can land him behind bars for 10 to 15 years!
The movie jumps from Louisiana to off all places war-torn Afganistan where officer Cobb's estrange wife Gloria is working with the US military as a CIA interrogator. It's then that we realize just what all this has to do with Governor Chip Majors. It's in what Chip knows about the North Koreans and their nuclear ambitions that he can really do them lots of damage. That's if he ever gets elected vice president and informs his boss, his party's Presidential Candidate South Carolina senator Edmund, about them and their future military plans!
It's then that the film start to get completely out of hand with gangs of North Korean hit squads who originated out of Afghanistan to provide the North Koreans with cover, in not being connected with them, in trying to eliminate Gov. Majors before he and his running mate Sen. Edmund end up in the oval office!
***SPOILERS*** With a number of shoot ups car chases and explosions to keep the audience from falling asleep, in trying to follow what the film is trying to tell them, Gov Majors is eventually neutralized but only after officer Taylor, by refusing to take his bribe money, decides to turn him in. Officer Cobbs who played along with the corrupt Governor ended up getting iced by the North Korean sponsored assassins to also make sure that he doesn't talk if, like Taylor, he decides to change his mind. In the case of Officer Taylor he doesn't have to be silenced by the hit teams since he, by trying to play the good guy in the movie, ended up getting framed in the Governors murder and is set to spend the rest of his life, if he's in fact not executed, behind bars!
P.S Even though he gets top billing in the movie actor Billy Zane is on screen for less then five minutes. Zane plays CIA chief of Far Eastern Operations Graham who orchestrated this entire sleazy and criminal operation and at the same time, in him being almost invisible in the film, not wanting to be connected to it.