Roy Scheider slumming it in Moscow with a 2.7 rating? Glorious disaster cinema.
A powerful drug cartel in Moscow wants to use American businessman Steve Nichols in a smuggling scheme and ensures his cooperation by kidnapping his daughter. So Nichols solicits the help of a former KGB agent.
Acting
Roy Scheider's visible regret as villain Hassan
Practical Effects
Genuine Moscow locations before gentrification
Production
That 2002 Eastern European action aesthetic
Director
Gino Tanasescu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Alexander 'Terminator' Nevsky was a real Russian bodybuilder and actor trying to launch an action career — this was his biggest English-language role.
Shot during Russia's wild post-Soviet 1990s hangover, when Western productions could film real oligarch-era Moscow for pennies — the corruption aesthetic is accidentally authentic.
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