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Actors: Armand Assante, Rick Shroder, Lola Glaudini, Danny Keogh
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Consequence |
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Armand Assante stars as Max Tyler, an oral surgeon with financial troubles. After being sued by a model, Max lost his wealthy status and now works in the morgue. He is having problems with his wife so he and his financial adviser/lover Eva Cruz (Lola Glaudini) hatch a plan for him to fake his own death. He flies his plan to Honduras and parachutes out, leaving a dead body in the pilot's chair. Max then has plastic surgery and assumes the identity of his dead brother Sam.
Eva was supposed to transfer three million dollars from his insurance policy but Max/Sam finds calls the bank and finds his balance was zero. He heads back to San Diego where he finds that Eva in the shower with his wife. They were going to con him for all his money. They all fight with each other when unknown rebel soldiers come in and kill his wife and drug Max/Sam and Eva.
This organization thinks that Max is really Sam. They torture him thinking he has the secret information that only the real Sam knew. Max/Sam escapes and is saved by Sam's partner John Wolfe (Rick Shroder). John Wolfe also thinks that Max is really Sam and informs him that they ran drugs using CIA money and kids as mules in Central America and that he has 250 million hidden. Max/Sam has no idea where this money is and John thinks that Max/Sam just lost his memory from being tortured. After a botched attempt at getting the three million John turns on Eva and Max/Sam. The struggle and John kills himself thinking that the gun he gave Max/Sam wasn't loaded. This all leads up to a big finale with Max finding out that Sam wasn't dead after all.
--Bobby Blades, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Consequence |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
If this is a criminal POV story...
- criminals stealing from other criminals
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- doctor
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- longhair/girliemon (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Mexico
- Central
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- licking
- lesbians!
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
- exploding bombs
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