What better way to give special effects teams their due than to make a movie about special effects?
In this pretty clever movie the Witness Protection division of the D.O.J. wants to employ a top special effects creator to stage a murder. A top mobster named Nicholas DeFranco (Jerry Orbach) plans to testify for the government. That is a deadly task. If the government can stage a public murder then they can hide him until the trial. It makes perfect sense, and everything seemed to go well until the same agent that employed the effect guy, Roland (Bryan Brown) tried to kill him.
From there it's an uphill battle for Roland to stay alive and figure out why the government wants to kill him. It is a good movie and a slick way to show movie buffs some of the tricks of the trade.
In this pretty clever movie the Witness Protection division of the D.O.J. wants to employ a top special effects creator to stage a murder. A top mobster named Nicholas DeFranco (Jerry Orbach) plans to testify for the government. That is a deadly task. If the government can stage a public murder then they can hide him until the trial. It makes perfect sense, and everything seemed to go well until the same agent that employed the effect guy, Roland (Bryan Brown) tried to kill him.
From there it's an uphill battle for Roland to stay alive and figure out why the government wants to kill him. It is a good movie and a slick way to show movie buffs some of the tricks of the trade.