The Point Men
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Point Men |
| Original title | The Point Men |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Glen |
| script | Ripley Highsmith based on a novel by Steven Hartov |
| production | Silvio Muraglia, Avi Nesher |
| music | Guest Waltzing |
| camera | Alec Mills |
| cut | Matthew Glen |
| occupation | |
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The Point Men is an American action film from 2001. It stars Christopher Lambert and Kerry Fox . The story takes place in the intelligence community of the Middle East.
action
Tony Eckhardt, agent of the Israeli secret service Mossad, has a new assignment: He and his team are supposed to get rid of the top Palestinian terrorist Amar. But the operation goes wrong. They are lured into a trap and the agents are surprised by a group of heavily armed men and Tony's partner is shot. Tony is certain: the trap was set by Amar. But his superiors don't believe him and suspend him and his team from duty.
At the same time, Amar has a surgeon give Amar a makeover. He then kills the surgical team. Unrecognized, he chases Tony and his people. One by one, they mysteriously die. It turns out to be a personal campaign by Amar. But political interests also play a major role for Amar: he wants to assassinate the representative of a Palestinian delegation, a half-brother of Amar.
Amar is not only ready to kill his own half-brother, but also wants to get Eckhard and his colleague, now the only survivors of the Israeli team, out of the way. In a strong finish there is then a duel between the two agents. Amar is shot and Eckhardt starts a family with his colleague.
criticism
"Serial agent action off the shelf."
"Solidly developed thriller that clearly suffers from under-budgeting, which even the convincing Christopher Lambert cannot allude to."
"The thriller is cut so bad and confused that you almost forget the embarrassing action and the questionable Jew-Arab hunt - almost!"
Web links
- The Point Men in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Critique of The Point Men , quoted on Amazon. Retrieved March 28, 2009.
- ^ The Point Men. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Review of The Point Men . Cinema. Retrieved March 28, 2009.