Dubiously reinvented as the master of the thin-story-lines/thinner-fight-sequences genre, Snipes is a secret agent after some superbad gangsters who threaten to sabotage free trade to China. Or something like that. The plot, when discernible, contains what may be cinema’s first instance of United Nations officials as international terrorists. Is Snipes that desperate for an ass to kick? C-
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