The Point Men (2001 film)
Appearance
The Point Men | |
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Directed by | John Glen |
Written by | Steven Hartov Ripley Highsmith |
Produced by | Silvio Muraglia Avi Nesher Tom Reeve |
Starring | Christopher Lambert Maryam d'Abo |
Cinematography | Alec Mills |
Music by | Gast Waltzing |
Distributed by | Columbia TriStar |
Release date | 2001 |
Running time | 90 minutes |
Countries | United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg |
Language | English |
Budget | $6,100,000 (estimated) |
The Point Men is a 2001 action crime thriller film by John Glen, the director of all the James Bond films in the 1980s. He cast Maryam d'Abo, the leading Bond girl from his film The Living Daylights (1987), in a small role in this film.
Plot
Tony Eckhardt is shot in an anti-terrorist operation and insists that the man killed during the operation was not their intended target, the terrorist Amar Kamil. Kamil undergoes extensive facial reconstruction surgery to look like a man kidnapped to take the fall for an assassination planned to take place during an upcoming press conference. Members of the Israeli team are being killed off and Eckhardt pursues Kamil while hoping to stay alive to raise his unborn daughter.
Cast
- Christopher Lambert - Tony Eckhardt
- Kerry Fox - Maddy Hope
- Vincent Regan - Amar Kamil
- Cal Macaninch - Horst
- Nicolas de Pruyssenaere - Peter Hauser
- Donald Sumpter - Benni Baum
- Maryam d'Abo - Francie Koln
External links
Categories:
- 2001 films
- 2000s action thriller films
- 2000s crime thriller films
- British action films
- French action films
- British crime thriller films
- British films
- British thriller films
- English-language films
- Films about terrorism
- Films directed by John Glen
- Films set in Israel
- Films set in Switzerland
- Films set in Luxembourg
- Action thriller film stubs