The Detonator
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 The movie cover for The Detonator. |
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| Directed by | Po-Chih Leong |
| Produced by | Donald Kushner Pierre Spengler Gavin Wilding Andrew Stevens |
| Written by | Martin Wheeler |
| Starring | Wesley Snipes Silvia Colloca William Hope Tim Dutton |
| Music by | Barry Taylor |
| Cinematography | Richard Greatrex |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures |
| Release date(s) | April 25, 2006 |
| Running time | 98 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15,000,000 (estimated) |
The Detonator is a 2006 film starring Wesley Snipes. The film follows a United States agent who is protecting a government witness while crossing Europe.
The plot is based in Bucharest, Romania, with most of the film being shot on location in Romania.
[edit] Plot
Former-CIA specialist Sonni Griffith (Wesley Snipes) is now a Homeland Security Agent, risking his life in global hot spots while telling himself he’s going to retire.
After a tip-off blows his armament sting in Romania, Griffith reluctantly agrees to help his old friend Michael Shepherd (William Hope), who suspects that Romanian mafia boss Joszef Bostanescu (Tim Dutton) might have a high-ranking American official in his pocket.
Bostanescu's plot involves selling a stolen biological weapon, and such a connection would expedite matters significantly. Bostanescu's Manhattan-based absentee accountant gets his throat slit for dipping into the till, and Nadia Cominski (Silvia Colloca) rifles his safe and returns to Romania with its contents.
Naturally, the US government would like her to help them nail Bostanescu, so Shepherd hires Griffith to act as Nadia's bodyguard.
Griffith eventually learns that Bostanescu has kidnapped Nadia's son, and that she's agreed to divulge vital bank code information that she's memorized in exchange for her son. Despite Griffith's precautions, Nadia falls into Bostanescu's hands.
As Bostanescu stalls his clients at a sports stadium, waiting for Nadia to rattle off the Swiss account numbers, Griffith attempts a rescue mission, but he remains in the dark about Bostanescu's American insider, and may not be able save Nadia and her son.
[edit] Cast
- Wesley Snipes as Sonni Griffith
- William Hope as Michael Shepard
- Tim Dutton as Jozef Bostanescu
- Silvia Colloca as Nadia Cominski
- Matthew Leitch as Dimitru Ilinca
- Bogdan Uritescu as Pavel
- Warren Derosa as Mitchel
- Michael Brandon as Flint
- Vincenzo Nicoli as Yuri Mishalov
- Stuart Milligan as Greenfield
- Evangelos Grecos as Kravchenko
- Mihnea Paun as Alex
- Florian Ghimpu as Nita
- Tania Popa as Ana
- Bogdan Farkas as Stankiewcz
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