Direct Contact (2009)

I am a Dolph Lundgren fan, a big enough one that I am often forgiving of any shortcomings in his movies. But with "Direct Contact", I find it hard to express any enthusiasm. Oh sure, the production values are decent, the movie moves at a fairly brisk clip, Lundgren seems comfortable in his surroundings, and the movie makes any excuse to showcase some action. And the bad guy has a very memorable exit. Yet at the end I felt underwhelmed. The plot is nothing new, and the action isn't very exciting. In fact, the action has more than its share of incompetent editing, showing things that come out of thin air or not showing the end of an action sequence. And I found it hard to believe that nobody of authority was taking action about the bad guys killing scores of innocent people and blowing up buildings! Not the worst Lundgren movie, and far from being the worst movie ever made, but you can safely skip this one, even if you are a Lundgren fan.

DIRECT CONTACT is not a sequel to an earlier Dolph Lundgren film called DIRECT ACTION, the two films also don't have anything in common except that the both of them were produced by Nu Image, although Nu Image are known for their "B" action movies, compared to the previous films they've made this is probably one of their more lazier efforts, I mean DIRECT CONTACT has continuity problems that stick out like sore thumbs, this problem is due to the fact that the filmmakers used stock footage from some of their older films such as U.S SEALS, DERAILED, OUT FOR A KILL and OPERATION DELTA FORCE 4 and those are the ones I recognized, the scenes are so poorly edited into the film you actually get confused as to what is happening where it ain't even funny.The acting isn't as bad as you would expect, Dolph Lundgren and Micheal Pare both give the better performances in the film but one actor who doesn't act well at all, is one whose name I can't remember but he plays the character of Trent Robbins, that guy isn't the worst actor I've seen but he plays his role completely unconvincing, the rest of the cast is a little uneven but acceptable.Despite the film's shortcomings, it has a pretty fast pace so you won't have time to get bored, there are a lot of action scenes even though some of them are mostly stock footage, the film does manage to be entertaining to a degree but I consider it to be a bit lazy because of the use of stock footage.In short, if you have high standards its better to avoid this one, if not you won't wasting your time by seeing it.Plus, director Danny Lerner did a better directorial job on a film called TARGET OF OPPORTUNITY, compared to that film DIRECT CONTACT is a huge disappointment.

This film is amazingly stupid. It just can't be matched with Tarantino's films as the other guy commented! The film's logic is just missing.The story is for a classical old school action movie,but the realisation is so bad.Everything is chaothic and pointless. Only the action scenes are MADE good,but actually they aren't good,because they're terribly unrealistic and foolish.It reminds me only of 20/30 years old action film on which you can laugh all the time....try watching "Operation : Delta force 2" for example :D . So the movie can be fun if you understand there is nothing serious in it.I just can't understand how can people make such films in 2009...

If you enjoy watching action flicks and spotting hilarious goofs and completely ridiculous scenes, then this movie is for you! I love watching movies such as The Marine, and other Steven Seagal type movies that are just so bad, they end up being so funny because of the small things you find in them.If you cannot tolerate bad acting, horrible script writing, and terribly done action sequences, then by all means avoid this.The car chase scenes are especially terrible. Sometimes it seems as if Dolph is sleepwalking through his scenes.My advice is, watch it and try to notice all the goofs and such that happen, and you will have a great time.