It's better then most films I've seen and to be honest it is a good action film... Most of Parè's films have less then 700 votes and I don't undrstand why. He should of been a bigger star, he has more charisma then Tom Cruise. It's a decent action films with some good action sequences. The film does deserve better attention.

This is the fourth Paré flick I catch, the others being Bad Moon(a crossbreed of Lassie and your typical sub-par werewolf story),Deadly Heroes(that reuses part of a so-so car-chase in this, and is pure camp) and Village of the Damned(where I must have been basically fine with him, as I don't recall him standing out as poor). Here, he's playing two(I think; it is difficult to determine, as the only thing that sets them apart... *at all*... is that one has a patch of blood over his left eye, as evidence that he's been tortured) identical cousins(they walk and talk alike)... no, wait, twins. Yeah, they feel each other's pain(well, once, when it's required for this thing's excuse for a plot)... has that *ever* been a compelling idea? Whether or not such a thing is just a little bit realistic, it is corny as all hell. Anyway, where Double Impact had split-screen shots, we don't even get *that* here. Chris Brandt wakes up one morning, certain that his brother(in Lebanon, engaged in the conflict) is alive(he dreamt it, you see; at this point, the producers remind the writers that they are, in fact, not currently doing a script for My Little Pony). There is relatively little action, and only near the end does it get to be at least decent. This is one of the stupidest protagonists I've encountered. For some reason, he sure can fight, in spite of being a mere basketball coach. This is not that exciting or entertaining. There is hardly any tension. It is definitely a B-movie, with the acting "talent" to match. The score is fine, nothing special. Same goes for the dialog, with the occasional exception that is concentrated pain in audio form. As another person already put it, this is put together by Americans and Isralies, and offensive to everyone but those groups. There is a little sexuality/eye-candy and moderate, bloody violence in this. Flat, one-sided, and will probably give you constipation... similar, I suppose, to a pizza, albeit without the appeasing scent and taste. Yeah, watch the JCVD film instead. I recommend this solely to those looking for a fix in the genre. 4/10

***SPOILERS*** Having this gut feeling that his twin brother, CIA undercover agent, Craig Brandt is in trouble and being held hostage in Beriut Lebanon Dayton Ohio high school basketball coach Chris Brandt, both twin brothers played by Michael Pare, travels there to rescue him.

Knowing that the odds are against him, even the US Embassy refuses to help, Chris goes solo and later recruits the both friendly and wise-cracking Lebanese taxi driver Gilad, Gabi Amrani, and US Emesssy secretary Sandara Ross, Jennifer Runyon, to assist him. It doesn't take long, with him killing one of the bad guys in a ferocious knife-fight, for Chris to track down his twin brother Craig and a number of US hostages in this hideout in downtown Beriut. Trying to be a Rambo Chris is a bit over-matched and sadly comes up short in the hero department.

As you would have expected Chris messes up royally in not only having his brother re-captured but those who are holding him and the US hostages, The Kashmullah,take them out of the city. The entire group of US hostages, including Craig Brandt, end up being held in the Kashmulla stronghold fortress of Bakarbadeh some 20 miles outside of Beriut. It's then when the US government get's involved in that Chris had made a mess of everything that they were trying to do, free the hostages and Craig Brant, with their top honcho in Beriut Charlie Wolff,Lonenzo Lamas, and his sidekick the grenade packing and rocket launching expert Harold, Michael Downs, going into action.

Overlong action film that just goes on and on with a number of totally unnecessary sub-plots that includes a ridicules kidnapping of Sandra Ross by non other then her contact in the Lebanese Secret Government Emile, Menahem Einy. There's also the head of the Kashmullah US educated Abdel, Alon Abutbul, who seems to be more interested in playing a silly cat and mouse game with both Chris and Craig Brandt then getting on to business and freeing 25 fellow Kasumullah members held in US and Israeli prisons.

The two really stand-out performances in the movie has to be the taxi driver Gilad who at least makes things interesting, compared to the brain-dead-like Chris & Craig Brandt, with his both wise-cracks and Steve McQueen and Gene Hackman-like action driving sequences and young and confused Kashmullah member Yahzi, Ishai Wureit. Yahzi in fact stole the acting honors in the movie with the most realistic and moving scenes in it.

Having his whole family massacred by the hated Phalangists in 1982 Yahzi was torn between leavening his war torn country of Lebonon for the USA where he wanted to start a new life. In the most telling sequence in the movie, besides the big shoot-out in the end, Abdel really gets to Yahzi in how the US mistreated both him and his family as well as his country Lebonon. This made the murderous Abdel & Co. for once seem human, to the audience watching the film, in explaining his hatred of the US and it's allies in what they did to his once peaceful industrious and neutral, of the violence in the Middle-East, nation. It's later that Abdel showed his true colors and feelings in what he really thought about the naive and impressionable Yahzi, as well as those Yahzi's who joined up with him, but by then it was a bit too late for Yahzi to realize that!