Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006) (TV)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Mick Jackson

Writers (WGA):

Elwood Reid (teleplay)
Robert Ludlum (novel) ...

Release Date:

9 April 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller

Plot:

While in a retrieve operation of a virus in Berlin, the Covert One agent Rachel Russell is double-crossed...

Plot Keywords:

Female President | Beautiful Woman | Based On Novel

Cast

Stephen Dorff	...	Jon Smith
Mira Sorvino	...	Rachel Russel
Blair Underwood	...	Palmer Addison
Sophia Myles	...	Sophie Amsden
Danny Huston	...	Frank Klein
Colm Meaney	...	Peter Howell
Josh Hopkins	...	Bill Griffin
Jeffrey DeMunn	...	Steven Haldane
Anjelica Huston	...	President
Rosemary Dunsmore	...	Nancy Langford
Joris Jarsky	...	Tom Fancher
Conrad Dunn	...	Ghalib Hassan
Sergio Di Zio	...	Marty Zeller
Karen Glave	...	Lt. Crowthers
Jonathan Higgins	...	Culver

Also Known As:

Életveszély (Hungary) [hu]
El Factor Hades (Spain) [es]
El primer encubrimiento de Robert Ludlum - El factor Hades (Argentina) (DVD title) [es]
Laboratorio mortale (Italy) (DVD title) [it]
Mystiki omada 1 - To agigma tou Adi (Greece) (DVD title) [el]
O Fator Hades (Brazil) [pt]
Opération Hadès (Belgium: French title) (dubbed version) [fr]
Operaatio Haades (Finland) [fi]
Thanasimi apokalypsi (Greece) [el]

Runtime:

160 min (2 parts)

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French | German

Color:

Color

Certification:

Finland:K-15 | Argentina:13 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:15

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Goofs:

Factual errors: "Lt. John Smith" an Army physician is incongruous of the facts. Commissioning as a physician begins with them entering as captains.

A great underrated film

This made for TV-movie is one of the best of its kind. It is very thorough and interesting and felt like a good film to me. The cast are very good especially Dorff in the lead role and Meaney, Danny Huston and Anjelica Huston in supporting roles. Blair Underwood was also not bad while Mira Sorvino was decent although seemed a bit miscast. The screenplay is written well by Elwood Reid, and mick jackson's direction of this adapted film from ludlum's novel is effective. This film isn't as flashy as The Bourne Supremacy, but considering that it probably didn't even have a tenth of that film's budget, and how great The two Bourne films were in general, this film succeeds. Its a great film to rent, entertaining, well done with good cinematography, editing and music. ------IMDB rating: 5.3, my rating: 9/10