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Synopsis: Shaw is an operative for the United Nations' covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation. When a shipping container full of dead Vietnamese refugees turns up on the docks and China's ambassador is gunned down at a dinner celebrating a new trade agreement with China and the US, Shaw is framed for the murder and must evade the FBI and Triad gangsters to find out what is really going on.
Director(s): Christian Duguay
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  2 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
30
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R
Year:
2000
117 min
$29,458,928
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We... We'll find you, if we need you.

Ceramic gun?

Clears metal detector nicely.

UN credentials. Too difficult to falsify.

High-tech communication gear,

almost Government Issue which means...

...we shop at the same store, but only you

have a higher limit on your credit card...

...which makes sense for a...

...CIA officer?

Army Intel?

Foreign government?

Just feel free to chime in at any point,

I'll just keep on talking.

The point is, Greg,

that we have dead Chinese refugees...

...and we have a dead Chinese ambassador.

I don't need a fortune cookie to tell me

that someone wants to put the kibosh...

...on the, what do you call it?

The Chinese Trade Agreement type deal.

What's going on?

Go!

Go! Go!

Son of a b*tch! Cock-sucking a**holes!

I'm too f***ing old for this.

We got the package.

Make sure you get prints.

I want him to disappear.

No dental records.

Get his prints.

Goddamn it! Sh*t!

Tensions flared with news

of the Ambassador's assassination.

Meanwhile, in an unusual move,

the FBI's withholding the identity...

...of the assassin who fled captivity

last night in a daring escape.

You check your e-mail?

I'll have to call you back.

-Give me the phone.

-Is everything all right?

Listen.

Transfer the call.

We're both here now.

The UN is running a secret unit

that assassinated China's Ambassador...

...to the United Nations.

This will be the news story of the week,

and will damage the UN permanently.

Unless?

Unless the Chinese Trade Agreement

dies on the table.

We don't have the power to kill it.

Others do. We don't.

Nevertheless, you have 24 hours.

Kill the treaty. Why?

Who stands to gain by that?

It's the way we would've done it.

What are you talking about?

The blackmail.

Our own techniques being used against us.

Your techniques, Eleanor.

I told you this would come back

to haunt us.

There is no free lunch.

You have to pay the piper.

Now, I want everything to stop immediately.

I don't want anything to happen...

...without my consultation

and my permission.

-Mr. Secretary, I must insist--

-No-no-no, you- you listen to me, Eleanor.

Who is this man?

The assassination

of Chinese Ambassador Wu...

...could not have come at a worse time

for U.S.-China relations.

UN representatives have expressed concern

that the incident could delay...

...the Chinese Trade Agreement.

But others fear more permanent damage

to relations between the two countries.

Businessman David Chan is recovering

at a downtown hospital.

His doctors made a brief statement

a few hours ago.

Mr. Chan is resting comfortably.

The bullet was removed from his arm

without complication.

Wagner?

Hey, baby.

I think you got something for me.

Same caliber that took out

Ambassador Wu.

I'm sure Greg Brogan's prints are on it.

So our boy gets rescued

by these Triad a**holes...

So our boy gets rescued

by these Triad a**holes...

-Do you ever watch wrestling, Ray?

-Sure.

I mean, you know, now and then.

Because this is just like wrestling.

How?

Well, it's reality mixed with illusion,

mixed with bullshit, mixed with...

...big scary guys from parts unknown

in dire need of psychiatric care.

Have it your way.

Thank you.

Now.

The level is too low,

and he's blocking the bug.

It is also good to

to see you again.

Miss Fang, why is it that police still believe the man

you saw is the killer when you said he was not?

Would you comment on rumors linking you

with the suspect romantically?

Oh, Miss Fang? May I have a word with you?

No. Don't you have a certain fugitive

to apprehend?

No-no-no. I just want to talk to you

for a second.

This is harassment.

I'm just trying to protect you, ma'am.

From who?

Our... fugitive friend is mixed up

with the Triads.

You know what that means.

My best friend is dying up there.

If you want to help, find the person

who tried to choke the life out of her.

Okay.

If you want to call me, there's my card.

F***!

Help! Somebody help me!

Sorry that I'm so late.

I came once

I got your message.

What message?

What's wrong, Julia?

Wait here.

Go, girl. Go.

Go. Come on.

In the car.

Move over.

Not a word.

Move on.

Not a word.

Who do you work for?

Who do you work for?

Are we just going to sit here!

Please, stop that.

No.

No?

I've got you figured out.

Oh, you do, huh?

You think I don't see that

you're as scared as I am?

That the only reason you won't tell me what

the f*** is going on is that you don't know yourself.

Okay, all right. That's enough.

Okay?

Ok?

So, what are you?

Some kind of government agent?

Translate this for me and you go free.

Free?

Free to go where?

All right. Play it again.

All right. Play it again.

Yes.

He's saying that the dead refugees...

...were a deliberate action...

...to derail the trade agreement.

And he knows who is responsible.

Who's he talking to?

He got here too late.

She was already dead.

So he took it out on a Triad stuff.

Jana Novak.

Her passport is Czech.

Her file came up blank.

Same as our guy. Same dead end.

Weird same.

Weird.

Phone records you asked for.

There's definitely a pattern

showing up here.

You mean other than

half a dozen dead bodies?

Well yeah, look. Phone numbers in sequence:

-555-3902, 555--

-Okay, let's see.

What you've got to do is,

you've got to go all the way up to 99.

Isolate the possibles...

...stake out all the locations,

wait for our guy to show up.

Bob's your uncle.

That's a good plan but,

who's Bob?

He's your uncle.

This better be a f***ing emergency.

Hello? Who is this?

We are unable to complete your call

as dialed.

Please check the number and dial again.

Protests like this one at the U.S. Embassy

in Beijing are causing many to believe...

that the UN Trade Agreement

will dissolve before it ever starts..

And all eyes are on

Secretary-General Douglas Thomas...

...to find a peaceful solution to the strained

relations between the countries.

You have a monumental crisis emerging,

Mr. Secretary-General.

I'm convinced that there's only one man

in the whole world...

...who can compel those fellows in Beijing

to stick with their agreement.

And that man is you, David.

I don't know if you're trying to flatter me

or frighten me, sir.

I think what the Secretary-General

is suggesting...

...is that you can remind all parties

involved that, as history has shown...

...economic prosperity does wonders

at keeping the peace.

Excuse me, Madam Hooks,

I missed CNN today.

Is there a war going on

that I'm unaware of?.

There's always a war going on, David.

There's your side, there's their side...

...and there's me stuck in the middle

trying to make it look like peace.

The Secretary-General spoke

to the President this morning.

And, if the situation does not improve...

...he's prepared to fly in

from Washington tomorrow...

...and attend the ceremony himself,

as a show of support for the agreement.

It's a last resort.

I- I don't want it to happen. I want this to be

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