the detonator is set in bucharest where some sort of ex cia government agent named sonni griffith (wesley snipes) has tracked down a arms dealer named dimitru (matthew leitch) and things go wrong though and dimitru finds out that sonni is working for the us government. after a big shoot out most of dimitru men have been killed by sonni which the local romanian police force are unhappy about and top man flint (michael brandon) decides to send sonni back to the us and at the same time protect a woman named nadia cominski (silvia colloca) who is also being sent back to the us. however it turns out that nadia is wanted by dimitru and his football club owning boss jozef (tim dutton) who need her in order to complete a deal for a nerve gas bomb which they intend to set off in washington killing millions of people. this american and romanian co production was directed by po chih leong and the detonator confirms beyond any shadow of a doubt that wesely snipes has joined the washed up action film stars club who are relegated to making generic action films in eastern european locations and yep snipes has joined such luminaries as jean claude van damme and steven seagal and dolph lundgren and rutger hauer and chuck norris. i give snipes a bit of credit since he held on a little longer than the rest with the excellent blade represent trinity (2004) still fresh in a lot of cinema goers minds (every film he has made since has gone straight to dvd) but it had to happen sooner or later and like a lot of the names i have mentioned snipes has lived off the reputation of a few great films and if you look at his career he been in more bad films that good ones. like the recent films of jcvd and seagal the detonator is pretty awful. the script by martin wheeler is as predictable and boring and by the numbers as anything out there. the detonator is the sort of film you expect to see on an obscure cable tv channel playing at 2 oclock in the morning. the detonator is chock full of clichés and snipes is forced into a situation where he has to protect a woman and at first they dislike each other but by the end they are in love and his closest friend at the cia turns out to be a traitor while the obnoxious by the book boss no one likes actually turns out to be a pretty decent guy and snipes character is allowed to run around bucharest shooting and killing and blowing people up like it doesn not matter and he never gets arrested and the action is dull and forgettable and the bad guy own a football club so there are lots of annoying football terminology and there aren not even any funny one liners. director leong doesn not do anything anything to liven things up and the detonator looks cheap with a car chase in which the two cars never seem to get over the 30mph mark. ok the action scenes are relatively well staged but they are few and far between and utterly forgettable in a bad guy shoots at snipes and misses and in return snipes shoots at bad guy and kills him sort of way. there a half decent car crash and explosion but very little else. it seems some of the detonator was shot in a romanian football stadium and i think i would rather have watched the game for 90 minutes rather than this film. with a supposed budget of about $15 and 000 and 000 the detonator is reasonably well made but not that much really happens. set and filmed in bucharest in romania. the acting isn not that great and snipes just doesn not seem interested and feels like he is just there for the money which i do not blame him for at all. the detonator is yet another poor clichéd action film starring a has been actor and set in eastern europe. why do sony keep making these things. not recommend and there are much better action fare out there. 
the detonator is set in bucharest where some sort of ex cia government agent named sonni griffith (wesley snipes) has tracked down a arms dealer named dimitru (matthew leitch) and things go wrong though and dimitru finds out that sonni is working for the us government. after a big shoot out most of dimitru men have been killed by sonni which the local romanian police force are unhappy about and top man flint (michael brandon) decides to send sonni back to the us and at the same time protect a woman named nadia cominski (silvia colloca) who is also being sent back to the us. however it turns out that nadia is wanted by dimitru and his football club owning boss jozef (tim dutton) who need her in order to complete a deal for a nerve gas bomb which they intend to set off in washington killing millions of people. this american and romanian co production was directed by po chih leong and the detonator confirms beyond any shadow of a doubt that wesely snipes has joined the washed up action film stars club who are relegated to making generic action films in eastern european locations and yep snipes has joined such luminaries as jean claude van damme and steven seagal and dolph lundgren and rutger hauer and chuck norris. i give snipes a bit of credit since he held on a little longer than the rest with the excellent blade represent trinity (2004) still fresh in a lot of cinema goers minds (every film he has made since has gone straight to dvd) but it had to happen sooner or later and like a lot of the names i have mentioned snipes has lived off the reputation of a few great films and if you look at his career he been in more bad films that good ones. like the recent films of jcvd and seagal the detonator is pretty awful. the script by martin wheeler is as predictable and boring and by the numbers as anything out there. the detonator is the sort of film you expect to see on an obscure cable tv channel playing at 2 oclock in the morning. the detonator is chock full of clichés and snipes is forced into a situation where he has to protect a woman and at first they dislike each other but by the end they are in love and his closest friend at the cia turns out to be a traitor while the obnoxious by the book boss no one likes actually turns out to be a pretty decent guy and snipes character is allowed to run around bucharest shooting and killing and blowing people up like it doesn not matter and he never gets arrested and the action is dull and forgettable and the bad guy own a football club so there are lots of annoying football terminology and there aren not even any funny one liners. director leong doesn not do anything anything to liven things up and the detonator looks cheap with a car chase in which the two cars never seem to get over the 30mph mark. ok the action scenes are relatively well staged but they are few and far between and utterly forgettable in a bad guy shoots at snipes and misses and in return snipes shoots at bad guy and kills him sort of way. there a half decent car crash and explosion but very little else. it seems some of the detonator was shot in a romanian football stadium and i think i would rather have watched the game for 90 minutes rather than this film. with a supposed budget of about $15 and 000 and 000 the detonator is reasonably well made but not that much really happens. set and filmed in bucharest in romania. the acting isn not that great and snipes just doesn not seem interested and feels like he is just there for the money which i do not blame him for at all. the detonator is yet another poor clichéd action film starring a has been actor and set in eastern europe. why do sony keep making these things. not recommend and there are much better action fare out there. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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