Live Wire (1992)

So much average

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Remember when Elaine on Seinfield called the bland guy vegetable lasagna? Well this is the vegetable lasagna of action movies. Not bad, not good. Bronson's character is an explosive expert, not James Bond. However, he can do anything and everything while crying about his feelings for his ex. Watch a Bond movie instead.

Starting according periodic table nothing in universe is without a trace,in the movie water explode without a trace,simply absurd to open a fictional plot to do this low profile production,but the worst came up along the picture,the next 007 has a frivolous and unfaithful wife who is dating a powerful senator,our hero cries for this kind of woman,became a joke for everyone in senate...until the security guards make their bad comments ....it's so much disgrace to acept this kind of role,save me that!!!Resume:First watch: 1995 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 5

This silly thriller has a pre-Bond Pierce Brosnan having a battle of wits with a deranged terrorist who has devised an unlikely bomb, in water, which reacts with stomach acid and causes people to explode. This is a pretty bad film, coming across as a weak thriller with a few horror elements combined, but it may be worth watching just for the unusual premise and the fact that you get to see lots of explosions and people on fire - a somewhat morbid fascination for the producers of this film.This is a film which never, not for one instant, engages the emotions. From start to finish we never get to care about any of the characters. Brosnan is a disappointment here, going through the thing on autopilot and uttering a few curses here and there when things go wrong. Ben Cross has to be one of the weakest bad guys I've seen in a film for a long time, and as for being threatening...you'd be better off watching one of the pros like Alan Rickman to see how it should be done. Ron Silver is wasted in a nothing role, and the only interesting thing about him is his death (he falls from a building and gets impaled on some railings - ouch!).The best bits of this film are the various moments where people explode. Typically some poor fool is usually standing at the edge of the explosion when this happens and gets ignited, so it's pretty sadistic. The victims also have their skin split open and their eyeballs fill with blood, so the gross-out factor is played for all it's worth. Not bad at all...otherwise, this is strictly predictable fare.

Bomb disposal expert for the FBI Danny O'Neill is having a rough old time. Not only his wife having a very public affair with a senator, but someone is killing a group of senators using a device that he can't find after the event. The device is a liquid that looks like water and reacts with stomach acid to cause an explosion. Danny gets even more involved when his wife's senator lover becomes a target.This was made before bomb disposal expert movies got really popular with Speed in 1994, so non one should accuse it of cashing in. It starts with an interesting idea – an explosive that looks like water and explodes inside the victim – however this needs to be treated carefully as it nees us to suspend disbelief for it to work. Unfortunately it doesn't manage to do this and the film stays a little silly throughout. The explosions are good and it provides some good scenes – but it also provides some laughable scenes, such as our hero shouting `get away from her, she's gonna blow!' or, my favourite, the bit where he has a mime in a wheel chair who has just drunk the bomb and he's looking to get him away from the crowds!It's a shame because it does start well – but it can't get past the idea of how silly it is and it affects the film. The action goes well, but once your first person blows up – it has nothing left to offer and the ending is a damp squid. The cast are so-so as well.Brosnan has star power – he's very watchable. But here he seems to be trying to hard to be a tough guy on the edge and he gets squaring his jaw and making threats etc….it's not really him. Silver does his usual smarmy stuff but doesn't have much to do and a fine actor like Philip Baker Hall is wasted in a small role.Overall it starts OK, but the weaknesses are quickly exposed – just like the liquid bomb…you won't find the plot here easy to swallow!