Rating: R
Genre:
Crime
Release Date: 03/23/2004
SubTitles: Espanol
Dubbed: French/English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 121 Minutes
Flags: Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Profanity, Children in Peril
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video
Ron Howard directed this thriller which stars
Mel Gibson as Tom Mullen, a former fighter pilot who built a ramshackle one-plane airline into a major multinational service fleet. Mullen has a multi-million dollar fortune, a beautiful wife, Kate (
Rene Russo) and a nine-year-old son, Sean (
Brawley Nolte) that he dotes on. However, Mullen's life comes crashing down around him when Sean is kidnapped. The FBI are called in, but Mullen is wary -- he was the recent target of an FBI investigation in which he was found to have bribed union officials while negotiating a contract. FBI Agent Hawkins (
Delroy Lindo) advises Mullen to make the $2 million dollar drop to pay the kidnappers, which will make it easier to track the criminals, but when the tradeoff goes wrong, Mullen takes a new tactic -- he goes on television and offers a $2 million bounty for the heads of the people who kidnapped his child. Meanwhile, it becomes clear the kidnappers include Maris Connor (
Lili Taylor), who once worked for the Mullens, and Jimmy Shaker (
Gary Sinise), one of the cops who investigated Mullen for bribery. This remake of the 1956
Glenn Ford vehicle of the same name was scripted by
Richard Price, who has a bit part as a police detective.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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