VividSimon Simply Perfect

GazerRise Fantastic!

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

sol ****SPOILERS*** Whatever you expected from a Dolph Lundgren action film, he doesn't make any others, you get here in "Direct Contact" and a lot more. Especially the ending sequence where Dolph as ex-special forces man Lucky Mike Riggens sends the films villain Clive Connelly, Michael Pare, to his final resting place in what looked like a million pieces! Recruited by Connelly, who looked so sleazy that you knew right away that he was up to no good, who claimed to work for the US Government out of a Balkan prison serving time for gun running. Mike is promised $200,000.00, about a third for what he's pied to star in the movie, to get American Ana Gale, Gina May, out of a unnamed, because no one can pronounce or spell it, ex-USSR country on the Black Sea coast. As Mike soon finds out Anne is there on her own free will working for the US Government, which Connelly is not, helping to provide for and medical aid the sick poor as well as undernourished people in the country.As we so find out it's Ana's evil Uncle Trent, James Chaike, who's behind all this who want's Connelly to get Ana, after he kidnaps her, to sign away her majority ownership rights to her deceased father's multi billion dollar arms and munition corporation and give it over it him. It takes a while for Dolph or better yet Lucky Mike to realize that, he's too busy trying to figure out a way to bed down Ana, to notice that! But by the time Mike gets the message to what Connally has in store for both him & Ana he hits the panic or speed button and let it all out. In a number of car chases bar fights and explosions that makes us watching forget just what a really bad and ridicules, but not at all boring, movie "Direct Contact" really is.Despite almost pushing 60, he was 52 when he made the movie, Lundrgen looks in tip top shape as well as being believable in the many action scenes that he's in. There's a scene in the film where Lundgren takes his shirt off, which I suspect all the women watching the movie were just dying to see, and he looked in far better shape then even Arnold Schwarzenegger looked at the same age or even ten years younger.

Jan Strydom DIRECT CONTACT is not a sequel to an earlier Dolph Lundgren film called DIRECT ACTION, the two films also don't have anything in common except that the both of them were produced by Nu Image, although Nu Image are known for their "B" action movies, compared to the previous films they've made this is probably one of their more lazier efforts, I mean DIRECT CONTACT has continuity problems that stick out like sore thumbs, this problem is due to the fact that the filmmakers used stock footage from some of their older films such as U.S SEALS, DERAILED, OUT FOR A KILL and OPERATION DELTA FORCE 4 and those are the ones I recognized, the scenes are so poorly edited into the film you actually get confused as to what is happening where it ain't even funny.The acting isn't as bad as you would expect, Dolph Lundgren and Micheal Pare both give the better performances in the film but one actor who doesn't act well at all, is one whose name I can't remember but he plays the character of Trent Robbins, that guy isn't the worst actor I've seen but he plays his role completely unconvincing, the rest of the cast is a little uneven but acceptable.Despite the film's shortcomings, it has a pretty fast pace so you won't have time to get bored, there are a lot of action scenes even though some of them are mostly stock footage, the film does manage to be entertaining to a degree but I consider it to be a bit lazy because of the use of stock footage.In short, if you have high standards its better to avoid this one, if not you won't wasting your time by seeing it.Plus, director Danny Lerner did a better directorial job on a film called TARGET OF OPPORTUNITY, compared to that film DIRECT CONTACT is a huge disappointment.

vanwicz I don't comment often but this rating has to be brought down fast, do not waste your time and money on this movie! The poorest editing you'll ever see. Scenes are catastrophically poorly executed, the destruction doesn't even make sense when entire buildings are destroyed in an effort to capture one or two people who inexplicably remain in the buildings while the threat is pending? Car chases where the second passenger is missing in most of the scenes. The plot is so drab it will make you wish you were playing solitaire instead. The acting is atrocious and the "action" scenes aren't even believable. Slaughtering of innocent people throughout the movie for no reason whatsoever, what would the city smell like? Soldiers who can barely move right, let alone make us believe they are in the police or the military. Careless producing and directing. How can someone be shot at so many times at so many angles and still get away, it's bad enough in good movies but this is too much, or should I say far too little. Even my twelve year old son is appalled. The main actor doesn't even come across to be the trained man he is supposed to be. I want my money back!

bstavrev This film is amazingly stupid. It just can't be matched with Tarantino's films as the other guy commented! The film's logic is just missing.The story is for a classical old school action movie,but the realisation is so bad.Everything is chaothic and pointless. Only the action scenes are MADE good,but actually they aren't good,because they're terribly unrealistic and foolish.It reminds me only of 20/30 years old action film on which you can laugh all the time....try watching "Operation : Delta force 2" for example :D . So the movie can be fun if you understand there is nothing serious in it.I just can't understand how can people make such films in 2009...