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

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

  (Series Cast overview, first billed only)

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

Should have been much better...

Average.

This is the third bad (not good) movie in a row based upon novels by Robert Ludlum. I think that Ludlum is just too complicated for modern-day Hollywood, whose directors, producers and writers have all formed themselves by watching MTV music clips and PC Video games. Accordingly, this film is too fast, too short and too simple to be able to even begin doing justice to the novel. There is absolutely no character building, we have no insight into the motives, no details about the plot, etc...

In my opinion, the only decent filming of a Ludlum Novel was the first 'Bourne Identity' made sometime in the 80-ies. But then, those where completely different times...