The Hades factor

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Movie
German title The Hades factor
Original title Covert One: The Hades Factor
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 170 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Mick Jackson
script Elwood Reid
production Sherri Saito
music J. Peter Robinson
camera Ivan Strasburg
cut Lori Jane Coleman
occupation

The Hades Factor (OT: Covert One: The Hades Factor ) is an American thriller by Mick Jackson from 2006. It was first shown on November 26, 2006 in Germany.

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Numerous people are infected with the unknown Ebola variant "Hades". The virus has appeared in various locations around the United States , including Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton , a diner in Seattle, and the Guantánamo Bay internment camp , and is highly lethal . Former intelligence agent and medic Jon Smith, who previously worked for Covert One , the federal agency , is investigating the case. His fiancee, the epidemiologist Sophie Amsden, that of his former intelligence activities knows nothing researched at USAMRIID at Fort Detrick in Frederick ( Maryland ), the disease-causing viruses, an immune serum to develop and a pandemic to prevent.

In Berlin, "Covert One" is staging a purchase of the virus from an Afghan contact in order to arrest the head of the gang, Al-Fulani . The agent Rachel Russel comes into possession of the virus, but is attacked in her getaway car by her own people who are trying to steal the virus from her. She then goes into hiding and a game of cat and mouse begins, in which it is not initially clear who is on which side.

When Jon Smith and Sophie Amsden get too close to the origin of the virus and realize that it is a development by the US military who tested the virus on their own soldiers in Afghanistan , the epidemiologist is deliberately infected with the pathogen and dies . Several attacks were carried out on Jon, but he was able to escape.

Jon Smith realizes that Afghan Islamists who obtained the virus infected themselves in order to introduce the virus to the United States. There they put the pathogen with time fuses in the ventilation shafts and air conditioning systems of large public buildings in order to infect a large number of people. In doing so, they not only want to bring jihad to the USA, but at the same time defeat the world power with their self-made weapons. Although the contamination of the population cannot be prevented, the US pharmaceutical company “Maisser Pharmaceutical” is launching an active ingredient against the pathogen on the market in good time. Palmer Addison can ultimately be convicted of having hired the terrorists on behalf of "Maisser Pharmaceutical" to boost business in this way.

Reviews

Scott Weinberg wrote in "DVD Talk Review" on July 16, 2006 that the thriller looked like a long episode of the TV series 24 . The director is not known for “sophistication”, the script “limps”, the art of acting is practically non-existent, the film is boring. The lack of previous history of the main actors prevents identification with the characters, and the “subject matter is interesting, but 160 minutes of film too short”.

Others

The thriller is a film adaptation of the novel "The Hades Factor" by Robert Ludlum from the year 2000. It was shot in Berlin and Toronto . However, the film takes some liberties from the book and also adds elements from the novel "The Casandra Plan".

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  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for The Hades Factor . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2006 (PDF; test number: 107 849 DVD).
  2. ↑ "DVD Talk Review" (English), Scott Weinberg, July 16, 2006
  3. ↑ quotenmeter.de , Fabian Riedner, November 24, 2006

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