The Peacekeeper (1997)

That was an excellent one.

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

This is a great Lundgren film, with a very cool cast and awesome performances all around. It's very exciting and all the characters were awesome, and the finale was excellent, plus Dolph Lundgren is simply amazing in this!. Lundgren and Montel Williams had great chemistry together, and the character development was pretty good, plus Michael Sarrazin is very menacing as the main villain!. It's very well made, and it boasts some extremely awesome car chase sequences, plus the ending is pretty cool!. It's a great Die Hard clone, and the film is exciting throughout, plus i was very impressed by the action sequences!. Dolph seemed to be having fun with his character, and Dolph as always had some really cool one liners, plus Roy Scheider is fantastic as the President!. I usually enjoy any Dolph film, and this one is no different plus, it was just a lot of fun to watch!. This is a great Lundgren film, with a very cool cast and awesome performances all around, i highly recommend this one!. The Direction is very good. Frédéric Forestier does a very good job here, with great camera work, cool angles, great shots during the action scenes, and keeping the film at a very fast pace!. There is a little bit of blood and violence. We get lots of very bloody gunshot wounds,gory wounds and some blood splatter. The Acting is fantastic!. Dolph Lundgren is AMAZING as always, and is amazing here, he is extremely likable, hilarious had great chemistry with Montel Williams, seemed to be having a lot of fun with his character, and was just tons of fun to watch!. (Dolph Rules!).Montel Williams is surprisingly great here, he was pretty funny had great chemistry with Lundgren, and really did a great job i was impressed!. Michael Sarrazin is excellent as the main villain and was very menacing he was cool. Roy Scheider is amazing as always, and was fantastic in his screen time as the President he rocked! (Scheider rules).Monika Schnarre is gorgeous and did good in her scenes Rest of the cast to fine. Overall i highly recommend this one!. ***1/2 out of 5

This is by far Dolph's best acting performance in a movie EVER. Most people know him from playing He-Man in Masters of the Universe, but that movie is complete crap compared to Dolph's deep and emotional acting performance in this movie. If you see any Dolph movie, make it this one because it is over 500 times better than all the rest of his combined. Don't believe me, see for yourself.

The first thing that strikes you about the movie is the similarity of the title to the big-budget DreamWorks SKG debut movie [The Peacemaker] (starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman and directed by Mimi Leder). Frequently movies with such cheap and obvious cash-in aspirations turn out to be: cheap, obvious and, of course, rubbish. This movie is a jolly exception. Don't be put off by Dolph Lundgren being in it, he isn't enough to undermine the movies good points.High among those good points is the swift and exciting direction which is never better than during the spectacular roof-top car chase which occurs within the first twenty minutes. This chase is so good it could quite comfortably fit into a Bond movie featuring, as it does, eye-popping stunts, edge-of-the-seat excitement and ridiculous spectacle. While it does veer wildly into the improbable it never feels impossible and this aspect, for any action sequence, is of paramount importance. It is interesting to note that two key aspects of this chase sequence - the roof-top nature and the escape by getting out of the car just before it crashes through a parapet and down to the ground - also popped up in the same year's Bond adventure [Tomorrow Never Dies] (the motorcycle chase in Bangkok occurs partly over rooftops, the remote-controlled BMW car park chase ends by Bond getting out of the car just before it crashes through a parapet and down to the ground).Another good point is the script. It's not consistently good but it is rather better than normal for a film that is not shown theatrically (it received it's UK premiere on Sky television not at cinemas). There are frequent one-liners which help push up the entertainment value while Roy Scheider and Michael Sarrazin share an unusual and thought-provoking plot line. Rather than demanding money and a plane to an extradition-free country, the usual demands of a nutball who has control of nuclear weapons in America (see [Broken Arrow]), betrayed Saddam Hussein-assassin Doug Murphy (Michael Sarrazin) turns up surprisingly alive though he was bombed by 'friendly fire'. His demands are for the President (Roy Scheider, the entire twilight of his career looks like it is going to be a series of DTV presidents) to commit suicide - to sacrifice his life for his country just as Murphy had (even though he had little choice about it and he survived) - on national television to stop a nuclear bomb going off in Washington D.C.However, where this really scores over its pseudo-namesake [The Peacemaker] is that this movie accomplishes almost all it set out to, it is about as good as it could possibly be.

This is the kind of movie you don´t watch for the great acting or great story. This is the kind of movie you watch for the great action. Having seen some of the recently released genremovies and being disappointed by most of them this one was a nice surprise. Great action sequences! Far better than the usual b-movie action. They really went for it this time thou they easily could have made just the ordinary type of action. One scene in particular is great. It´s a car chase on rooftops!So if you want to see a good lowbudget actionmovie see this one!