Explosive
Summary
Sabotage has a great cast who all play three dimensional characters with Mark Dacascos getting to show off his impressive martial arts skills and plenty of action scenes making this new Blu-ray from MVD well worth adding to the collection.
Plot: A Black Ops sniper goes after the rogue agent who betrayed him.
Review: Much better than most movies of its ilk, Sabotage is an involving action / intrigue film starring Mark Dacascos as Michael Bishop, a former Black Ops sniper who was almost killed in the field by a rogue agent named Sherwood (Tony Todd). Several years later Bishop is working as a bodyguard to a wealthy businessman who is killed right in front of him … by Sherwood. This leads to the involvement and investigation of the FBI, and the agent assigned to the case is Agent Castle (Carrie Anne Moss), who doesn’t trust Bishop. Through hard work and determination, Bishop and Castle begin working together to find the rogue group who hired Sherwood to assassinate the businessman. Bishop gets into a couple of close quarter fights with some bad guys, and faces off with Sherwood later on.
I was consistently surprised at how much I enjoyed this film. Tibor Takacs (The Gate) did a really good job of keeping things interesting, and his big coup came when he hired good actors to fill the roles. Aside from those I already mentioned, Graham Greene plays a pivotal role, and all of the characters are three-dimensional. Dacascos has several scenes that feature his extraordinary prowess at physicality and martial arts, and both Moss and Todd make him look even better. Takacs later worked with Dacascos again on Red Line and on The Crow: Stairway to Heaven. This was one of the better efforts from Imperial Entertainment.
Sabotage makes its debut on Blu-ray from MVD Visual as part of the MVD Rewind Colelction (#60 on the spine), and while the film was recently just released on DVD from MVD, this edition does it one better with a bonus new interview with Dacascos, as well as a new one with Tony Todd. The package comes with a foldout poster and a slipcover. This one is for the collection, no doubt about it.