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Ray Nettles, a detective of San Francisco, and his partner Fuzzy must take up to one of the most dangerous terrorist gangs of the city. When one of the terrorists, the beautiful scientist Claire Manning is arrested, Swan, the leader of the terrorists, claims he will detonate bombs throughout the city if she is not released. Because of the possible bloodshed, Nettles calls for the help of explosive expert Frank Glass...
2001 · Directed by Albert Pyun · 92 min · Action · Adventure · Crime · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 20 frames
Tagline
When the countdown hits zero, you're dead
Plot
A SWAT team converges on the house of a United States Senator, who is being held hostage. The bomb squad arrives; Frank Glass (Steven Seagal) finds a bomb in the basement and works to disarm it while the SWAT team is in a shootout with the hostage takers. Glass disarms the bomb but deems it too easy, believing it was designed to mislead him. The real bomb detonates, killing everyone inside.
A year later in San Francisco, narcotics cops Ray Nettles (Tom Sizemore) and partner Art "Fuzzy" Rice (Nas) arrest a suspect on drug charges. Ray lets a woman go who pleads for her and her child; Fuzzy tells Ray to get some help for his "demons" - he has never mourned the car bombing death of his wife and son. They see people entering a warehouse late at night and investigate. Ray apprehends a woman and three men converge on him; Fuzzy is shot by their leader (Dennis Hopper) and the three men flee. Ray arrests the woman, Claire (Jaime Pressly), but she refuses to say anything about the men. She is wearing an odd-looking bracelet which Nettles takes to the bomb squad for Glass to look over. The bracelet is found to contain detonation cord and Semtex explosive. The leader tells the police they have one hour to release Claire; when they do not, he bombs a bar.
Ray takes Glass back to the warehouse where they find a French cigarette and matchbook from a jazz club. They go to the club and kill one of the bombers, disarming his bomb. Ray questions Claire again; she reveals the bomber's names - Alex Swan, the leader, and Vershbow, the surviving member. She claims that no matter what happens, she will be killed for getting caught, and has decided to cooperate. Swan intends to plant a bomb at the police station, but Vershbow gets cold feet and forces Swan to give him the bomb at gunpoint. The police corner him and Glass apparently prevents the detonation, but Swan detonates several more bombs using a pay phone.
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Crew
- Written by: Paul B. Margolis
- Cinematography: Philip Alan Waters
- Edited by: Ken Morrisey, Cari Coughlin
- Produced by: Albert Pyun, Paul Rosenblum, Ken Aguado, George Furla
Cast
- Tom Sizemore as Det. Ray Nettles
- Dennis Hopper as Alex Swan
- Steven Seagal as Frank Glass
- Jaime Pressly as Claire Manning
- Nas as Det. Art 'Fuzzy' Rice
- Rozonda Thomas as Lilly
- Peter Greene as Det. Artie Pluchinsky
- Kevin Gage as Pooch
- Michael Halsey as Vershbow
- Norbert Weisser as Dugger
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Emmett/Furla Films, Steamroller Productions, Millennium Films, Kings Road Entertainment
- Budget: $7,000,000
- Box office: $379,739
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