after watch many of the next action star reality tv eps tivo tap this gawd awful tripe for me . for some bizarre reason and i only have myself to blame i watch the whole thing and hop that there would be something unique in the entire movie . after so much hype about joel silver midas touch with action flick and he might want to make sure he bone up on his alchemy . first and the only redeem value of the entire film be billy zane and and even he couldn not lift the slipshod write out of the crapper . have say that and zane performance falter about 2 or 3rds of the way through and a he doesn not even seem to know what else to do other than look smug . can not blame him here and though . the writing and quite frankly and suck . let take idea from rat race and enemy of the state and terminator and midnight run and any bad gambling film you can think of and simply rehash it . and who brilliant idea be it to have two bridge chase sequence in a row . sean carrigan and the man of the hour of the next action star show all of the strength and weaknesses the casting director mention during the entire run of the series . a one note johnny and sean play the dumb good look jock very well and but struggle with shoulder the weight of the film . quite frankly and we never quite seem to care about whether he live or dy by about mid way through and a carrigan fail to provide a reason for the audience to even like him . his dumb but lucky routine get old a there really isn not anything about the character to root for . but carrigan be a dream compare to the wooden and rigid corinne van ryck de groot . do howard fine really tell her to pretend to be a terminator for the first half of the film . i do not think so . i keep expect her to quote arnie . her character performance can be compare only to the dramatic depth of freddy get fingered and though not nearly as well develop . the camera love her in dark and shadowy limousine and but in the harsh light of day her demeanor suck all energy off the screen . jeanne bauer show more natural life in her five minute bit part than corinne show at any part of her screen time . ultimately and sean have the rugged good look to provide a good lead in an ensemble cast and but shouldn not have be leave to do this one solo . it be simply too big of a task for him . next action star colleague jar elliot may or may not have have well luck with some more dynamic characterization and but it hard to tell give jeff welch lame script . someone should take welch imac away from him before he hurt himself or anyone else . and finally and van ryck de groot simply be outclass and way out of her reach and even for complete shlock like this . joel silver should be ashamed .