What do you get if you take a generic action plot, an enormous pyrotechnics budget, two of the finest actors of their generation and spice it up with an IRA backstory? A complete turkey, apparently. Jeff Bridges is Jimmy Dove, the best of the best in Boston's bomb disposal department, which is in pieces left, right and centre following a series of massive explosions. It is, of course, personal: ...
Before he made the man-eating-lion thriller The Ghost and the Darkness and the special-effects-laden Lost in Space, director Stephen Hopkins helmed this ludicrous and critically panned thriller pitting a cop on the Boston Police bomb squad (Jeff Bridges) against a mad Irish bomber (Tommy Lee Jones) who's still holding a grudge from their early years in the Irish Republican Army ...