Diplomatic Siege

1999
3.9| 1h30m| NR| en
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When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must join Erica Long, a diplomatic attaché who is not all that she appears, to work together on setting the correct computer code that will disable the weapon and accomplish the mission. But while watching video monitors from inside a long-forgotten surveillance room, Steve witnesses a surprising deadly takeover of the building by the Serbian Liberation Front.

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Also starring Irina Movilă

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Beanbioca As Good As It Gets
Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.
Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
elshikh4 It managed to be near the bottom as poor, hasty, naive, and the worst of all : got potentials ! Since (Die Hard - 1988) this golden, kind of new, formula of an action/disaster movie became a mad fashion; so many movies got its basic elements to remake it differently. Sadly, this word "differently" could mean good, average, and yes.. Bad.At the year of 1999, there were 3 copies already, or let's say 3 movies that had been affected with the die hard's atmosphere or case : (Sonic Impact), (Final Voyage), and (Diplomatic Siege). I won't say (Diplomatic Siege) was their best, but I'll say it isn't their ugliest !It oozes naivety. There are some parts where you feel how the script treated it wrong, highly wrong. Like it's a well story has been made into a school play. Though, I see that nothing was as bad as the direction; Mr. Gustavo Graef-Marino killed any good point in this script, making z-grade scenes out of what are supposed to be important ones. Most probably he's originally a stunts' director who got nothing to do with the drama. He was shooting any scene has no action in it with great negligence where the camera is always stationary, the cadres are all one, and the angles are primitive. That was boring before being idiot ! It ruined the thrill too. It wasn't a TV's work-like, it was the lowest TV I've ever seen !Even the smallest details weren't safe of the naivety's siege, for little instance; I can't forget the embassy's map ! whether in the computer or with the respectable big officers, It looked like something drawn by an elementary school's pupil (with low imagination too). (Peter Weller) looked indifferent as a character and as an actor ! Notice his Ropocop's metal tone comes out while he gets angry near the end. (Daryl Hannah) is not a big actress so don't wait for much, she seemed taller than the lead, and not even beautiful as she used to be once. (Tom Berenger), I believe one of the best talents here, was just handsome in the military suit, however without any role came with the suit ! The terrorists' leader who I don't know his name (or maybe don't want to !) was the top of what this movie can reach of weakness, and an epitome of its destitute condition.The explosions were the only thing to be watched in here, plus the few guns' fights. There were the only moments that hit the mark anyway. Though as a whole, I must say I've seen worse. All in all, it's not about the low production; it's about the dull dealing with what it had of gold that turned eventually into tin.P.S : If you're insisting on watching it, then beware : don't watch it through a TV channel, because with many commercials it becomes long drawn out !
lacrescenta I cringed while viewing this movie. Parts of it were OK (I enjoyed the creative use of "gadgets") but for the most part, it STUNK.I was embarrassed for Peter Weller and Darryl Hannah, who (in my opinion) had the hardest burden--to try to make do with horrible dialog, horrible story. Horrible, horrible, horrible. I cringed at their grossly inappropriate romantic trysts (time and place, people! There is a terrorist attack, you morons!). Oh my gosh. How horrible.Tom Berenger's part was significantly less embarassing--at least his character was consistent and didn't behave like a moron at times. But Berenger was wasted in this rather regrettable film.I like Weller, Hannah and Berenger, and usually enjoy what they do. But this film could not be remotely redeemed by their presence. It was simply a rotten movie.
javierwinstondiaz Oh man! This is bad! The acting is awful, the directing appalling and the script even worse! Everything that happens in this film is so incredibly implausible, ONE (there are several I could provide) example of this is when the two heroes come across a room guarded with laser death rays that can supposedly cut through stone and also flesh. So how do they get past you ask? Why Stupid Darryl Stupid Hannah simply deflects the beams using a mirror! What's that you say? But wouldn't the laser beams melt the mirror? Um....um....hey look behind you! *runs away*2/10
Jolo-2 I'm usually a sucker for mindless action flicks, but this was an incredible waste of time, both for the actors involved and anybody who tried to watch. The military special effects are laughably fake, with colored smoke substituting for real explosions. I like Weller, Hannah, and Berenger, but even they cannot rise above this horrendous made-for-TV script. In fact, this was easily their worst film -- for all of them. When the actors do stop to give their lines, the result is often unintentionally humorous. There are far too many unnecessary plot elements, making the movie feel like 6 different scripts were thrown into a blender. The scenes stolen from other movies ranging from Mission Impossible to Toy Soldiers are immediately recognizable and come across as gratuitous and weak. It's just a shame. There was so much potential, instead it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

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