The hand to hand combat scenes are especially crisp, and were a highlight for me. Most of the action sequences are pretty intense, and not campy. I had to remind myself continually that this is a made for TV mini-series, which is credit to the cinematographer, and the director. In this type of movie, we have to believe that Dorff's character wants to really find out what happened to him, but because of the way he delivers his lines, it's almost as if he doesn't really care, he just wants to kill anyone involved in putting him in these situations. Dorff shows no remorse for anything he does. He doesn't need to prove he's a bad ass by speaking. If you want to compare Bourne to this, Damon plays Bourne with restraint. I couldn't grasp why he was trying so hard to prove that he's a tough guy. He says all of his lines in a strained manner, as if he's trying to show that he's just a general bad ass. I really enjoyed him in Blade, and I liked him in a few other movies that I saw after that. I'm just amazed at how bad Stephen Dorff is as an actor. Then follows a bunch of action, a lot of discovery, and some pretty unbelievable set ups & sequences. The Jason Bourne comparisons are warranted, as we open with an event, and then a trained assassin is found with no knowledge of who he is, or how he got to where he was dumped. For a TV mini-series, it's not terrible, but it's not that great either.
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