Blast!
If there are people that can pull in Die Hard ripoff, it is Steven E. de Souza - the guy who wrote Die Hard (and its continuation). With Blast, he moves the action on offshore oil rigs, stressing at the same time, many of the elements that one associates that with the 1988 Bruce Willis hit (ie, the unwillingness of the hero, a smug, the European villain, etc. ). But despite the effectiveness of de Souza’s script, the Blast simply never goes differently than better than the average direct to video action flick - due primarily to director Anthony Hickox in the dubious sense of style and oddball casting Eddie Griffin as the film’s hero .
Griffin plays Lamont Dixon, a firefighter, which has become a tug-captain, who had to spring into action, when its sail detained ruthless eco-terrorist by the name of Michael Kittredge (Vinnie Jones). Fortunately for Dixon, the hard-nosed FBI agent (played by Vivica A. Fox) is diligently working to resolve the situation - though it’s clear almost immediately that, in general, not much it can do. Dixon also receives assistance from scrappy computer nerd named Jamal (Breckin Meyer), while Kittredge several dispatches goons prevent Dixon from foil his evil plans.
The ideal set up for this kind of action film, which has been widely distributed in nachale’80 s i’90 s, and de Souza makes beautiful work to create situations and characters. In screenwriter also gives the Blast with sporadic cases of his admittedly off on the wall sense of humor (it is the same man, after all, who spoke with the infamous “let off some steam, Bennett” line of Commando), which allows Meyer actually good use of his smarmy persona.
But, as good as De Souza, in a scenario is not a coincidence Hickox in overreaching and thoroughly perplexed by the choice of director. Hickox at the mercy of today’s action cliches (slow motion, fast mouse moves, etc.) becomes tiresome almost immediately, and actually makes most of the fight sequences in the film vague, incoherent episodes. With Griffin, it is not quite as horrible as some of his previous work, can testify, but he did not even remotely at the same level of action heroes such as Willis, Stallone and Schwarzenegger.
As a result, no one can help themselves, but only as effective Blast you would have been more convincing leading man and best director. Nevertheless, as it is, the film is a refreshing return to the way of action should be (and it will not hurt that Jones is an extremely convincing as a vicious, brutal beatings unnecessarily).
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