Botched attempt at a comedy thriller that sees ex-Cold War warrior Gene Hackman attempting to return his Russian counterpart, Mikhail Baryshnikov, to the Soviets as part of a swap. Writer/director Nicholas Meyer throws in all the predictable spy-film elements - imprisoned U2 pilots, the CIA, KGB, Colombian drugs money - mixes them with the requisite double-crosses and ends up with something of a confused jumble. Veering uneasily between action thriller and screwball comedy, the movie fails to make the most of Hackman's talents. Ballet star Baryshnikov, who defected for real in 1974, returns to similar territory to that of 1985's White Nights, but at least we saw him dance there. No curtain calls here, iron or otherwise. TAGLINE: You can't tell a man by the company that keeps him.

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