Review of Agent Red

Agent Red (2000)
2/10
So bad the producer used an alias
16 May 2010
Warning: Spoilers
A Marine is sent on a mission to supervise in a Navy secret mission on a submarine. The mission is led by his ex-fiancé. Soon once the sub is in route it is taken over by Russians on board. The mission was a simple one; To get back a highly contagious virus made by Americans, stolen by Russians and now given back to the U.S. (which is completely stupid in theory) Bad guys on board are sick of the use of chemical warfare and want to prove to the world how wrong it is...ahem...so they plan to attach the chemical to warheads and shoot them to New York and Moscow to spread the disease there...OK yea that will teach them war is wrong by killing millions of innocents..But anyway, Dolph is on board and of course he's not gonna let this happen..oops did I spoil the ending for you? This movie was pretty bad, slow and boring with a horrible cast. I love Dolph Lundgren so thats why I got it , and hes a cheesy action star, but I am a huge fan so it's all good. No one else did any good on this film. Director/writer Damian Lee brought nothing new to the table, many of the best shots were actually edited from films like Blown Away and Crimson Tide. Can't give him any writing credits either because this is so much like the movie Counter Measures from 99 with Michael Dudikof.

The movie was produced by legendary B-movie/soft-core porn director/ producer Jim Wynorski, but on the credits he used his alias name Nobel Henry. He even did many scenes of re-shooting, but didn't allow his name on as director. Thats bad, when a guy who has done as much garbage as Jim has, doesn't even want his name attached to it.

Bottom line it has some decent action with Lundgren, but I still wouldn't recommend it to anyone - very low budget, nothing new or original. Does have some pretty good stuff the first 10-15 minutes with great blood splatter and action, once on the Submarine it lacks any great action though. Stephen Macht had a small part in the film and thats a bonus I have always liked him.

I am not one to notice or care about such things as kissing in an action film, but I have to say that the worst on screen kiss ever happened at the end of this film..

Movie had a great quote...Lundgrens character is asked "ever heard of Agent Red" He replies "sounds like a bad action movie" --- funny! 2/10 stars
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