Diplomatic Siege (1999)

Director:

Gustavo Graef-Marino

Writers (WGA):

Mark Amin (story)
Robert Boris (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

17 November 1999 (Kuwait)

Genre:

Action | Thriller

Tagline:

Who knows the truth? Who can be trusted? Who can stop the countdown?

Plot:

When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear...

Plot Keywords:

Bomb | Embassy | Hostage | US Embassy | Nuclear

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Peter Weller	...	Steve Mitchell
Daryl Hannah	...	Erica Long
Tom Berenger	...	Gen. Buck Swain
Adrian Pintea	...	Goran Mladnov
Uwe Ochsenknecht	...	Col. Peter Vojnovic
Jeremy Lelliott	...	Chris Mitchell
Irina Movila	...	Petra
Radmar Agana Jao	...	Sgt. Tim Nakajima
Brion James	...	Gen. Stubbs
Francis X. McCarthy	...	Parker
Steve Eastin	...	Bates
J. Patrick McCormack	...	Dalton
Mircea Bodolan	...	Ambassador Gannon
Francisco Reyes	...	Pascal
Audrey Rimbaud	...	Nicole

Also Known As:

Enemy of My Enemy (USA) (working title)
Enemigo de mi enemigo (Spain) (Venezuela) [es]
En la cuenta regresiva (Argentina) (video title) [es]
Enemy of My Enemy (Germany) [de]
O Inimigo Perfeito (Portugal) (video title) [pt]
Otages en péril (France) (cable TV title) [fr]
Poliorkia (Greece) (DVD title) [el]
Raid (Denmark) (video title) [da]
Trappola esplosiva (Italy) [it]
Viholliseni vihollinen (Finland) [fi]

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and some language.

Runtime:

90 min | Australia:95 min | Argentina:96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Iceland:14 (original rating) | Iceland:16 (video rating) | South Korea:15 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Germany:16 | Portugal:M/12 (video premiere) | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Company:

Tapestry Films

Quotes:

Goran: And you are?
Erica Long: Diplomatic attaché Erica Long.
Goran: Your name must have more to do with your legs, Miss Long, than your lifespan.
Erica Long: At least I still have lifespan!

Soundtrack:

Rock N' Roll Star

Dreadful

This so-called international thriller was so dreadful that I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. The team of four writers who wrote this trash should be imprisoned for crimes against humanity. The eight producers who brought it to the market should be tried for conspiracy to cause brain death. It was that bad.

This film was horrible in all regards. The production standards were below TV quality. The photography was poor, the sound was muddy and the music was pure garbage. The premise was interesting; that the U.S. planted atomic bombs in all its embassies in the Soviet Union and Eastern block countries during the cold war to give them first strike capability. Now that the cold war was over the U.S. was disarming all the bombs, but the last one was in an embassy taken over by a group of terrorists. Our heroes (Daryl Hannah and Peter Weller) had to disable it before the terrorists got control of it.

The presentation of the story was abysmal. The dialogue was so bad that I was literally guffawing between eye rolls. Some scenes were so implausible that I had to wonder what the writers were smoking. For instance, our heroes are clanking through the ventilation system, trying desperately to find a way to get downstairs to the bomb to disable it. Terrorists are all around killing one hostage an hour. So, this would be a perfect time to start necking in the air duct, right? The writers thought so.

Daryl Hannah and Tom Berenger did their best to bring credibility to their ridiculous characters with some success. Peter Weller was awful. His character had a batch of very stupid lines, which he was able to elevate to absurdity.

I rated this film a 2/10. Do not see this film under any circumstances. Action junkies might be tempted because of the enormous body count. Resist.