Silent Trigger
Silent Trigger
| 26 June 1996 (USA)
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Waxman is a former Special Forces soldier who is now working as a heavily armed assassin for a top secret government agency. When a covert mission goes terribly wrong, Waxman and fellow assassin Clegg become that agency's prime targets.

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Liloh

Actually its a slow Action Movie. Action? I don't know if the word Action is right for this Movie. Its maybe a Thriller. What I liked and can never forget about the Movie WERE the last 15 Minutes. Really fantastic. Boom Boom Boom. I wont rate it as Adventure. Gina Bellman such a cool Actress, I like her acting and even her real personality. She is AWESOME.AND NOW LILOZ Final thoughts on Lundgren as an Actor. I use to like this guys acting and hope he goes on making some great Movies, but I think he should take roles which suite his age. If I think of Expendeables. No comment at this point.

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Comeuppance Reviews

Waxman (Dolph) is an ex-Special Forces soldier, and expert marksman. Sometimes his emotions get in the way of his targets and will end up in a crisis of conscience. Now holed up in an unfinished skyscraper with his female assistant, Clegg (also known as Spotter - Waxman is also known by Shooter in some sources) (Bellman) - Waxman and Clegg must execute their new assignment, as well as survive the night in a creepy building with bad guys after them. Will they make it? Well, the movie certainly lives up to its name, as Dolph doesn't really say that much here. Apart from that, this was the beginning of a phase of more serious-minded films from Dolph, leading up to Hidden Assassin (1995). In Silent Trigger, however, there's a lot of set-up in the plot (perhaps too much), but what's good about this movie is that it is at least trying to be different. What helps that are the stylistic flourishes by Russell Mulcahy that provide atmosphere and interesting shots, camera-work and set design.On the flipside of that, however, the fact that the movie takes place in one location (except for Dolph's flashbacks/memories) impedes the movie, even though the set is impressive. Additionally, many scenes needed more light and were too dark to see. And there needed to be more goons for Waxman and Clegg to dispatch. So in summation, we liked what was there, so we wanted to see more of it: more locations, lights and baddies. That would have helped this movie a lot.On the bad news front, there is some really stupid and unnecessary (well, it's always unnecessary) CGI at times. And it's 1996 CGI at that. The inanity of these few moments shouldn't put you off seeing this movie, we just like to point out when this happens as a warning to potential viewers, and take the opportunity to say how much we hate CGI. There's also the classic "one really, really annoying character" cliché we see often. But the violent bits that are in the movie are great, and that keeps the viewers' interest.Also it should be pointed out that Dolph has an extremely large, complicated gun. When he's assembling it, it reminded us of the scene in Spaceballs (1987) where the ship keeps going and going and going. This thing is a monstrosity, but it does some serious damage.Shot in Montreal (it has a very Canadian feel), Silent Trigger is worth seeing but it's not the best Dolph vehicle out there.For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com

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rps-2

This film ploughs new cinematic ground. It's the first motion picture ever made without a plot. This saves the viewer the trouble of wondering what is going on and the producers the bothersome need to provide some sort of logical thread for the non stop violence, the threatening bad guys, the gratuitous sex and the continual explosions, lightning bolts and unrelated violent flashbacks. It would have been so much more difficult, for example, if the writers (were there actually writers???) had had to explain that roadside massacre or name who was being assassinated and why. It's an interesting concept that allows the filmmaker to produce 90 minutes of tasteless crap and bad acting without having to invent reasons for it or waste time to explain things, time better used to cram in even more blood, bullets and bodies. You folks at the IMDb really should come up with a "0" vote because my "1" is undeserved praise for this film!

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Something_Fishys_going_on_here

Whoever thought it was a good idea to make this film ought to be shot. The plot makes no sense at all, one minute these two characters are in a lift shaft, the next, they are in the middle of the jungle, then a desert, then back into the lift shaft again. They seem to change roles a lot too. One minute the lead guy is a friendly Russian, the next, he is chaining people to toilets and shooting his way to god knows where. The story also makes no sense at all, and the acting is very dodgy at places. If you chained someone to a toilet, surely to god you would hear them ripping it off the wall and dragging it PAST you as they escape?WHAT WERE THEY THINKING WHEN THEY MADE THIS???????????????

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