I got a laugh out of the film's opening disclaimer about how our government wouldn't resort to actually killing anyone in service to their agenda. Yeah, right. But just to make sure, the fictional agency involved with this one is called COMTEG, initials not standing for anything that I'm aware of, and it doesn't really matter anyway.
Robert Duvall and James Caan could easily have been cast in each other's role here, but it appears Duvall got the short end of the script since he's not really in the picture very much at all after his character George Hansen goes rogue and takes out partner Mike Locken (Caan). Hansen should have known, and he probably did, that you never leave your target alive because of the potential repercussions. Those repercussions included Burt Young and Bo Hopkins teaming up with Locken following a relatively quick recuperation from a busted up knee and elbow.
Once it was revealed that Locken's director at the agency was playing two sides, I began thinking about how a story like this could really get convoluted if even more folks in the chain of command were also so inclined. But with only Cap Collis (Arthur Hill) working both sides of the street, this story was just a little convoluted. Especially after the Japanese assassins went to work trying to take out Yuen Chung (Mako), while Miss Josephine (Sondra Blake) was fixated on calling anyone in the vicinity of Locken, Mr. Davis.
Here's something that struck me. I never noticed it before, but Bo Hopkins as Miller had this uncanny resemblance to David Letterman. I liked Locken's description of him as the patron saint of manic depressives, though he managed to tick Locken off when he shot Hansen during a stand-off. But hey, the assassination game is a dirty job, and somebody had to do it.
Robert Duvall and James Caan could easily have been cast in each other's role here, but it appears Duvall got the short end of the script since he's not really in the picture very much at all after his character George Hansen goes rogue and takes out partner Mike Locken (Caan). Hansen should have known, and he probably did, that you never leave your target alive because of the potential repercussions. Those repercussions included Burt Young and Bo Hopkins teaming up with Locken following a relatively quick recuperation from a busted up knee and elbow.
Once it was revealed that Locken's director at the agency was playing two sides, I began thinking about how a story like this could really get convoluted if even more folks in the chain of command were also so inclined. But with only Cap Collis (Arthur Hill) working both sides of the street, this story was just a little convoluted. Especially after the Japanese assassins went to work trying to take out Yuen Chung (Mako), while Miss Josephine (Sondra Blake) was fixated on calling anyone in the vicinity of Locken, Mr. Davis.
Here's something that struck me. I never noticed it before, but Bo Hopkins as Miller had this uncanny resemblance to David Letterman. I liked Locken's description of him as the patron saint of manic depressives, though he managed to tick Locken off when he shot Hansen during a stand-off. But hey, the assassination game is a dirty job, and somebody had to do it.