An interesting cast is the only good thing about HIDDEN AGENDA, a boring and dated Canadian thriller released in 1999 with some of the technological mumbo-jumbo that filled turn-of-the-century thrillers back in the day; there's some stuff about a stolen computer disk, for instance. The setting is Germany, where an ever-youthful Kevin Dillon (of THE BLOB fame) investigates his brother's murder and comes up against a murky conspiracy. The film is cheap and dated looking and it's hard to believe that in just three years time THE BOURNE IDENTITY would come out and revitalise the genre. Cast-wise, we get turns from the underrated Michael Wincott, old-timer Christopher Plummer (who at least seems to be enjoying himself) and the great J.T. Walsh, for whom this was sadly his last role before his untimely death.
Review of Hidden Agenda
