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Bookmark this pageThe Shooter (1994)
Director: Ted Kotcheff
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From Time Out Film Guide
While Jean-Claude Van Damme, his erstwhile rival in the Euro Action Hero stakes, ploughs on in A-picture productions, Dolph Lundgren, who showed greater acting range when they were paired in Universal Soldier, gets stuck in dreck like this. In a nod to thawing East-West relations, this action adventure is set in Prague on the dawn of a US-Cuban summit, where feelings are running high after the murder of Castro's ambassador to New York. Enter Lundgren's Czech-born CIA man, teamed with his former agency mentor (Ashton) and given the task of tracking down the alleged assassin, Detmers' Gallic femme fatale. Very dull.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Producer: Paul Pompian, Silvio Muraglia
Cast: Dolph Lundgren, Maruschka Detmers, John Ashton, Assumpta Serna, Gavan O'Herlihy, Simon Andreu full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 104 mins
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