SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Paul Andrews The Peacekeeper starts as air-force pilot Major Frank Cross (Dolph Lundgren) is given a stark choice, either face a court marshal for disobeying a direct order or become a military aide for the President (Roy Scheider). Not much of a choice really. Frank's new job is to carry & protect the President's 'black bag', a black suitcase containing a computer & the codes that can launch America's nuclear missiles. Sounds an easy enough job right? Well, on his first day Frank gets into all sorts of trouble when terrorist's strike, kill all his security men mates & steal the black bag. Frank manages to survive the attack & becomes America's only hope when the terrorist's launch a nuclear missile that is targeted on Washington...Made under the alternative titles of Hellbent & Red Zone this Canadian American co-production was directed by Frédéric Forestier & sees Sweedish action star Dolph Lundgren in what turns out to be quite a fun little action thriller that isn't any sort of masterpiece but entertains for the right reasons & passes 100 odd minutes harmlessly enough. I suppose the easiest way to describe The Peacekeeper that most people will be able to relate to is that it's a Die Hard (1988)/Under Siege (1992)/Sudden Death (1995) style action thriller where Lundgren has to fight a bunch of terrorist's or bad guy's or whoever in an isolated cut off location as they hold something or someone to ransom in order to make lots of money. However I will say right now that The Peacekeeper is nowhere near as good as Die Hard, Under Siege or Sudden Death but it is quite fun a cheesy sort of way, it moves along at a decent pace & there's a fair amount of action in it too. There are a couple of moralistic concepts like would the men in power who send soldiers to their death in war be prepared to lay down their own lives, the validity & ethics of stockpiling nuclear weapons for defence purposes but it's hardly that deep or life changing stuff & it plays second fiddle to the action thankfully. All in all not a bad effort at really which somewhat (pleasantly) surprised me.The action scenes are quite good actually, there's a particularly ambitious car chase that eventually ends up with cars jumping from roof to roof. It's a sequence that wouldn't look out of place in a big budget Hollywood action flick. There are a few decent shoot-outs & fights too although the car chase is the stand out sequence. The film has a slightly cheap look about it, the sets look cheap & the cast is missing a strong central villain. The violence is fairly tame, there's not much blood, there's nothing that graphic going on & I would have preferred it if Lundgren killed the main villain rather than him just commit suicide for no apparent reason. Interestingly the helicopter scene in this was edited almost in it's entirety into the absolutely horrible Dennis Hopper/Tom Sizemore/Steven Seagal action thriller Ticker (2001).According to the IMDb this had a budget of about $10,000,000 which is actually a bit bigger than I thought considering that it does have a slightly cheap look to it although the action scenes are quite good. Despite being set in Los Angeles & the US this was shot entirely in Montréal, Québec in Canada. The acting is alright considering the material, Dolph Lundgren (who was apparently paid a hefty $2,500,000 for this) has definitely lost his harsh accent & you can actually understand him in this, the late Roy Scheider plays the President in a fairly small role while Emmy award winning talk-show host Montel Williams plays the black comedy relief sidekick.The Peacekeeper isn't the best action thriller ever made but there's enough fun to be had here to make it worth a watch, not as good as the more well known terrorist action thrillers but not too bad all the same.

hengir One does have guilty pleasures in life and one of mine is watching Dolph Lundgren films (actually and Stephen Seagal films but I'm having counselling on that one). I'm not sure why I like Dolph. He can sort of act and he does action scenes OK. Most of his films are low budget. Yet I can't resist them. 'The Peacekeeper' is about a missile base being hijacked and it is up to Dolph to save the day which of course he does, spouting one liners and shooting and punching. Not subtle, there's just something about the man. Left field charisma, or something.There are two good actors in the film, Roy Scheider and Michael Sarrazin who almost seem in a different movie. Quality shines through. Their conversations by radio are the best bits in the film. Sarrazin as a one eyed ex-soldier is scary but also tragic. Not a great film but it fills the time. Dolph has made better films though (and worse).

AwesomeWolf 'Die Hard' clones are awesome. Dolph Lundgren is awesome. Therefore, 'The Peackeeper', being both a 'Die Hard' clone and Dolph Lundgren movie, is awesome. I dare you to find a flaw in my logic, I dare you.Dolph plays Frank Cross, an officer in the United States Air Force. After dropping food to some refugees in Turkey, Cross is threatened with a court-martial. Gotta love how the U.S. military operates. However, he is save by the President's campaign team, who hope to use his mini-celebrity status as a public relations tool. Cross is given the job of guarding the Black Bag - the means by which the President can order a nuclear strike. Naturally, on Cross' first day, highly-equipped terrorists steal the bag and threaten to launch a nuclear strike at Washington.Basically, 'The Peacekeeper' is 'Die Hard' in a nuclear missile silo. It is not as awesome as 'Die Hard', but its still pretty awesome. The plot is pretty similar to that of 'Under Siege' with a change of setting and a slight change of characters. In fact, the main bad guy (Lt. Colonel Douglas Murphy (Michael Sarrazin)) is suspiciously similar to Tommy Lee Jones' character from 'Under Siege'...'The Peacekeeper' boasts some very cool action sequences. One early scene involves a car-chase along some city roof-tops, and while the movie peaks there and turns into a series of martial-arts and gun-fights for the next hour, this is still a well-done action movie, and easily one of Dolph's better efforts.'The Peacekeeper' is a very good action movie. Fans of Dolph Lundgren (all five of us out there) should enjoy it, as should anyone else looking for a good action flick - 8/10

synergy273 This movie was boring! Montel Williams was comical Dolph Lundgren looked a little tired, and Roy Scheider was a president. I kept wanting to hit fast forward. Dolph is a good action fighter, but you would think when he beats the sh*t out of those guys that would be the end of it, but they keep getting up!