This Review Reveals Minor Details About the Plot.
Missing Memory
Plot Overview
Tom Tomashevsky was recruited to the
FBI out
of college, given special training, and assigned undercover work
for his facility with languages—his grandmother was Russian
and he speaks fair Spanish, too. He had his growing family set up
for Witness Protection when he infiltrated the Russian mob. He earned
the mob's trust enough to let him broker a deal of drugs for cash
with a Mexican cartel. His immediate supervisor agent Mason Reese
(Adam Beach) had him stiff the Mexicans in the exchange starting a gang war
to flush out a putative mole in the FBI. The fibbies think the money is gone,
Reese doesn't know where Tom stashed it, the Russkies are looking for
Tom, and Tom now suffering from amnesia doesn't remember much of
anything. He's become a drifter running into rough receptions
from people he can't even remember.
Psychiatrist and lecturer
Dr. Grace Bishop (Erica Cerra) had analyzed
him before he fled. Her assessment is that he's suffering from a
disassociative fugue caused by some unknown trauma. It's as author
Steve Martini wrote, “It's often said that you can key the loss
of mental facilities to a singular traumatic event, a fall, an accident,
a change of habitat” (201). He's trying to reintegrate his persona
from snatches of memory, complicated by his multiple identities from
using—to borrow a line from Martini—“more aliases
than there are characters in a Tolstoy novel” (55). Dr. Bishop is now the only friend he's
got, and the FBI
is using her relentless search for the guy to help them trace him.
Ideology
Tom is routinely assaulted, threatened,
and beat up. He fights back but only to get away. He doesn't know
why he's so unpopular, but he's on his way to finding out. It's as
the proverb (Prov. 30:33) says,
“Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the
wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath
bringeth forth strife.” Churn that milk long enough, and it
changes into butter. Rub a guy the wrong way over time, and he's liable
to harden into anger. Same as if you hit him on the nose, he'll bleed.
Needing work Tom, calling himself Jake, asks Russian skipper
Mikhail (Stephen Dimopoulos) on the docks of Coos Bay, Oregon, if
his east coast work lobstering 
would qualify him. “Huh,”
replies Mikhail, “Well, here we are salmon, sablefish,
some swordfish, occasional squid.” 
Jake replies, “I can
handle nets if that's what you're fishing for.” Trawl those
deep waters time after time and you'll pull up sea life. The way people
keep after Tom, something critical is bound to get dredged up
from his memory, while his face is bleeding, and then
it's time for him to
make a thumbs-up or thumbs-down decision regarding his adversaries.
Production Values
“”
(video 2010) was directed by Robert Lieberman. It was written by Timothy
Scott Bogart. It stars Steve Austin, Erica Cerra and Adam Beach. Austin's
acting was the high point of this mediocre film. Still, he was miscast
for his lack of eastern/collegiate diction, 
especially in the argument with his well-spoken
wife. He sounds more like a professional wrestler turned actor than a
college grad recruit. And the little lady should have known the lunk
wouldn't settle for some office job. The Doctor played by Erica Cerra was
easy on the eyes. Adam Beach did a good job playing a thorn-in-the-side
agent. The other actors survived their minor parts without much to
recommend them.
MPAA rated it R for violence and some language. It was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The frames were close making it feel claustrophobic, even in the big city or on the coast. The camera was shaken during the action scenes, and we were bombarded with images for the memory ones. Its runtime is 1½ hours.
Review Conclusion w/a Christian's Recommendation
Here's one to be viewed for mundane entertainment, not an elevating experience. If all you're looking to see is some mental case getting slapped around until he wakes up, this one is for you. It's a solid B–film having been shot well on a low budget in a hurry. See it when you don't want to be challenged.
Movie Ratings
Action factor: Decent action scenes. Suitability For Children: Not Suitable for Children of Any Age. Special effects: Well, at least you can't see the strings. Video Occasion: Good for a Rainy Day. Suspense: Keeps you on the edge of your seat. Overall movie rating: Three stars out of five.
Works Cited
Scripture is quoted from the King James Version. Pub. 1611, rev. 1769. Software.
Martini, Steve. Compelling Evidence. Copyright © 1992 by Steven Paul Martini, Inc. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1992. Print.
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