It wasn't just the twenty-hour journey to Singapore that made this movie tiresome. It did that all by itself.
Ruined by lack of relevance - it's set in 1972, during the war in Vietnam, but heaven knows why we need a film as small as this, today, and a lack of action - this was a low-budget inaction movie.
Nikolai Dzerzhinsky holes up in an abandoned prison on the US-Mexican border, waiting for his contact from the Washington Post. Apparently, he's got some key evidence against the CIA, and he wants to trade it for asylum in the US.
Special Agent Robert Harper is there to meet the Russian, take his documentary evidence, and kill him.
If that sounds a little contrived, wait until you see the movie. Or don't, because it's tediously slow, dry as parchment, and not worth waiting for nothing to happen.
If that's a bad case of double negativity, forgive me. I could have included a lot more.
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