Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Patrick Stewart, Alexandria Paul, Ted Levine, Christopher Lee
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Detonator
Based on Alistar MacLeen's novel Death Train, renegade Russian General Benin has American mercanary Alex Tierney hijack a train and puts a nuclear bomb aboard, sending it toward the Middle East. In reponse, United Nations Anti-Crime Organization (U.N.A.C.O.) chief Malcom Philpotsends former SAS soldier Michael Graham, U.N.A.C.O. anlyast Sabrina Carver and two Russians to Europe to stop the train before it gets to the Middle East or is detonated.
--Matthew W. Kresal, Resident Scholar
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Analysis of Detonator
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie Actual chase scenes or violence - 30% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- bald
Hair style
- (man) bald
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- terrorist
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Southeast
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Switzerland
- Germany
- Eastern Europe
Misc setting
- moving train
- fort/military installation
- scientific labs
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- radiation
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
If this is a kid's movie...
- Ages 10-15
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
