Art Of War (DVD)

On my 9 week residence in Manhattan last year this film was released with TV spots on regular rotation. None of them inspired me to go and see the film. Fast forward a year and thanks to my cousin's worrying weakness for poor films on dvd I have now had the chance to see it. Wesley Snipes is one of those actors who seems quite good when he's got the material (Blade, One Night Stand)but more often than not he chooses to some very mundane action films (Drop Zone, Demolition Man). The Art of War is another one of these films. I've no doubt that the original intention was to create a clever spy thriller full of twists and turns and perhaps create some ...

Director Christian Duguay created this lackluster spy-genre film,one in a long line of b-pictures that attempted to make Snipes an action hero. Wesley Snipes has yet again given us another brilliant on the edge of your seat action thriller/thriller. This time Wesley play's a spy who has convinced much of the world he does'nt exist but who now must prove that he does in order to save thousands of lives in this great thriller. After the assassination of wu(James Hong),China's ambassador to the united Nations,in the midst of negotiations on a trade pact,FBI agent Neil Shaw(Snipes)is assigned to ferret out the killer by his superior,Eleanor Hook's ...