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A slightly overweight Keanu Reeves goes through the motions for yet another action flick – this time as a research scientist who knows the secret of clean, unlimited energy. Unfortunately the powers that be cannot allow such a thing to exist, thus Keanu and partner-in-science Rachel Weisz go on the run to elude the suited NSA-style bad guys.

Movie rating: 2 star rating.  - average.
* - Watchable
** - Average
*** - Good
**** - Very Good
***** - Unmissable
Rated by TV Times.   Total Film
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz, Fred Ward, Brian Cox
Director: Andrew Davis
Year: 1996
Running time: 106 mins
Certificate: 12
 
 
There's lots of action in this espionage film, if you don't mind not being able to follow the plot.

Keanu Reeves gets back into the kind of thriller in which his fans will pay to see him, as a research worker on a project to harness hydrogen for clean energy.

No sooner has this reached fruition than mysterious figures move in on its headquarters, murder the project's associate leader and make off with certain specifications, as the lab blows up behind them.

Unfortunately, these are useless without the 'frequencies' that control them - and guess who has those? Right!

The plot gets pottier, so don't worry about it. Just enjoy the action set-pieces, which include some hair-raising stuff on a dividing bridge and a desperate battle in an unoccupied house.

The script is mostly forgettable, but for the occasional gem - as Weisz and Reeves board a Gentle Ben-style hovercraft, Weisz asks her cohort "What are you doing!?"

"The best I can!" responds the portly looking Reeves.

Not quite the movie that the pair would go on to make 8 years later - Constantine - but a sturdy thriller all the same.

Keanu runs forever; but laconic Morgan Freeman walks away with the film.



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