Showing in: Circuit Empire
Starting: 28 May
1999
Starring: Dolph Lundgren, Michael Sarrazin and
Roy Sheider
Production Information
United States air
force Major Frank Cross (Dolph Lundgren) is in trouble with the
"brass" again. This time he's made an unauthorized humanitarian relief
flight...dropping sacks of rice to starving Kurds. To the press, he's a hero. The
Penatagon would like to court martial him, but can't because the President (Roy
Sheider) wants the highly photogenic media hero by his side - at least until
after the next election. So Cross has a new assignment. He's to carry the 'black bag'- the
President's high-tech briefcase containing the "go codes" and communications
computer for launching America's nuclear ICBM arsenal in case of national emergency. It
should be a piece of cake, but... |
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On his first day on the job, a team of mercenaries steal the
briefcase and drop Cross off a tenth floor balcony. Miraculously, he not only survives,
but pursues the terrorists in a hijacked taxi. The ensuing car chase careens through the
alleyways and streets of Chicago, up the ramps of a parking garage and then, unexpectedly,
continues over the rooftops of the adjacent buildings! When the taxi takes a fiery plunge
off one of the buildings, the mercenaries think they've seen the last of him... but Cross
has bailed out and manages to stowaway on the helicopter that plucks them, and the black
nag, from the rooftops, into the night sky and onwards to their final target... United
Stated Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Facility K-7.
Disguised as one of the terrorist, Cross slips
into the missile silo as the crack team murders the silo personal and takes over lainch
control using the secret codes contained in the black bag. Led by ex-Marine Colonel
Douglas Murphy (Michael Sarrazin), who 'missing in action' during an undercover operation
in Iraq, they launch a terrifying warning shot: a Peacekeeper nuclear missile that
destroys Mount Rushmore! Only then does Murphy call the President and make his chilling
demand. The President is to kill himself in front of a live television audience, or the
two remaining nuclear missiles will be targeted on Washington D.C.
Only Frank Cross, Joined by the surviving
commander of the Missile Facility, Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Northrop (Montel
Williams), can stop the madness that threatens the President and millions of
civilians.
The odds are overwhelming. The countdown has started. The 'Peacekeeper' is ready to
blast off! |
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