Johnny Gallagher is sent from Germany with a prisoner. The prisoner escapes from the men's room at National Airport and Hackman begins his search for his man.
Enlisting the help of his ex-wife and various old friends, he finds that the prisoner is part of a plot by senior military personnel on both sides.
Their aim is to kill a very high-ranking world figure in order to sabotage arms control talks....
For a film directed by a seasoned action auteur, and staring behemoths like Hackman and Jones, the film is really boring and mundane in places.
Made in a time when film makers thought that audiences would be enthralled by stuffy men in rooms talking a lot, a lot of the cast are wasted, and the action scenes are just a montage of men with moustaches chasing Hackman and co.
Hackman and Jones are great though, and when they share the screen, the film blisters in entertainment, but it isn't long enough.
The last ten minutes are interesting and Davis does an amazing job of the climax, but we have to trawl through a mundane set up before the end.
A waste.
Enlisting the help of his ex-wife and various old friends, he finds that the prisoner is part of a plot by senior military personnel on both sides.
Their aim is to kill a very high-ranking world figure in order to sabotage arms control talks....
For a film directed by a seasoned action auteur, and staring behemoths like Hackman and Jones, the film is really boring and mundane in places.
Made in a time when film makers thought that audiences would be enthralled by stuffy men in rooms talking a lot, a lot of the cast are wasted, and the action scenes are just a montage of men with moustaches chasing Hackman and co.
Hackman and Jones are great though, and when they share the screen, the film blisters in entertainment, but it isn't long enough.
The last ten minutes are interesting and Davis does an amazing job of the climax, but we have to trawl through a mundane set up before the end.
A waste.