Hidden Agenda 2001 by AverageMansReviews

Hidden Agenda 2001 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is going to be flashing effects/colourful effects/shooting/burning/torture/drowning/medical

Daedalus network,: briefly; we meet the creator of this mainframe which is designed to give new identities and previous ones secret; former NSA Agent Jason Price [Dolph Lundgren:] other than creating this network he and consequently his little group work for very lucrative contracts, but eventually they take this case after the death of Price's best friend.

Generally speaking: the storyline/script is something solid and good, but having said all of this; the execution is far from the best as roughly speaking this film goes on for 94 minutes and man it is ridiculously slow and what is it with these turning effects roughly just 90° angle; I don't get it, it brings nothing of positivity to the film, all it does is bring confusion as in what the hell was that? I mean I get the slow motion effects sometimes used in this film with the martial arts sequences; because that was filmmaking in the early 2000's for you and not forgetting this sometimes used background music of alternative techno or some kind of music like that.

Action and art ; as I was saying we have martial arts, including but not limited to our lead character Price torturing someone for information; by drowning them until they gave up the information by pushing ahead underneath the water in this fish tank and later on in one way or another we have some snow in some scenes/sequences.

Character developments and performances; they are both solid versions of what they were going for here; solid character types to go with solid performances to create solid chemistry.

This film receives: 4/10, this film is mixed; it is just really, really slow and consequently this project gets given this mark, I hasten to add that one point or another it was looking at a slightly higher mark, because on the whole it doesn't claim to be anything other than what it is; which is a crime, investigations and action movie; but man it definitely needed a rocket behind it, because with some speed/momentum behind it; this film could have been good, instead of being left very high and very dry.