Very Cool!!!

Good idea lost in the noise

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

I saw this when it was first released on DVD! I hated it then. I gave it another chance months ago. I like Wesley Snipes and I still believe in him. I hated it just as much this time around. It's one of those pretentious STD films that have a conflicted character. I hate it when movies reveal a lot of the ending in the opening with narration. It almost makes me wanna not watch it. Even if I have a fair idea of what's gonna happen, I prefer no hints. This movie lacks action and more importantly, excitement. Snipes looks bored at times during this movie. Can't say as I blame him. The man has bills to pay! I can't recommend this to anyone! Even the biggest Snipes fans3/10

"Low-budget" or "straight to video / DVD" don't equal "bad" in my book, and "The Detonator", a Wesley Snipes vehicle that falls into both of the above categories, may largely be a routine actioner, but it does contain some solid action sequences and some respect-worthy stunts (most of the fights are blink-and-you'll miss them, though). The plot is reasonably twisty-turny, and Silvia Colloca adds welcome grace and emotion to the film (she even gets her own "angelic" music theme: this may sound like a corny idea, but she has the "angelic" beauty to justify it). Even the Romanian shooting locations are pretty well used. Passable action fare. (**1/2)

Let's get one thing straight: I like much of Snipes' work. Unlike his other high-kicking contemporaries (Seagal and Van Damme) he can actually act. This film, however, does little to enhance his reputation; it's not exactly unwatchable - but I am not in any hurry to watch it again either. In fact, if I never saw it again it wouldn't bother me - there are just loads of better films out there to waste my on! It's a pity because with a bit of imagination and and some subtle changes this could have been a worthwhile film. Instead the director has chosen to almost try and bludgeon his audience into submission with too much over-the-top violence and very little characterisation.The biggest problem I have is with Snipes' co-star, Silvia Colloca. It baffles me that the producers of this film went to all the bother of hiring a stunning beautiful (for my money anyway) and talented actress like Miss Colloca and then give her such a pathetic one-dimensional character to play with. If she was hired to simply add a bit of "glamour" to the movie she doesn't even do that very well; there's no nudity in the film and also no sex scene worth mentioning. Strange, really. Given the amount of violence in this film it baffles me why the producers have taken such a conservative attitude to sex and nudity. Are we living in 2007 or in 1957? What the producers of this rubbish (and probably the actors as well) have forgotten is that films are meant to be fantasies. Like most of the inhabitants of this planet my real life is very boring. I would love to be chasing terrorists, be able to handle myself like Mr Snipes and hook up with a beautiful young thing like Miss Colloca. This film satisfies none of those fantasies very well. Which is precisely why I am giving it such a bad review!

Unlike some of the reviews written here, I didn't hate this movie. It is a movie that COULD have been much better than it was. Not Oscar material, true, but much better than it was.I thought the plot had a good hook and through line. Granted, this movie was badly written. And TERRIBLY directed and produced. I mean, how many irrelevant flashbacks can you have? Why were we there? What exactly is the point of the opening sequence? It seems like the producer(s) watched American Beauty a few too many times and thought 'I'll use that in an action movie!' I thought the movie wasn't that badly acted. Wesley Snipes did a credible job, he just ran afoul of some bad direction. And once this movie hit the production room, things just got worse. The main actress, I think, had the same problems. Some of the other acting was suspect, yes, but it was a low-budget flick. Again, I would say it is the director's job to pick that up and correct it.As an overall recommendation, I would agree with the first review I read that this movie is not worth seeing. Or maybe it is worth seeing, if you are a film student and want to see what NOT to do.3/10, and that's giving it praise.