( there be spoiler ) almost impossible to follow hostage drama with so many twist and turn that you feel like a pretzel and twisting and turn along with them and by the time the movie be finally over . there this gang of serbian terrorist lead by u army trained commando goran mladnov and adrian pintea and storming and taking over the u embassy in bucharest romania . after a wild and bloody shoot out the serbian hold 37 hostage demand the release of their national hero the head of the dreaded brown hat col. peter vojnovic and vwe ochsenknecht . col. vojnovic have be kidnap by u special force and put on trial at the hague for the crime his brown hat commit in the war in bosnia and croatia . a all this be go on upstairs in the embassy down in the sub basement computer expert steve mitchell and peter weller and and his former girlfriend erica long and daryl hanna and and sgt . tim nakajima and radman agana jao and be busily try to disconnect an atomic bomb plant in the america embessy in the 1950 during the hight of the cold war . it also happen that mitchell 14 year old son chris and jeremy lelliott and have hide in the embassy and in chris avoiding to go out on a date with a chubby romnian girl and and cause so much trouble for everyone and the serbian the hostage as well a his dad and that he almost cause the atomic bomb to accidentally go off before it disconnect . thing really get muddle when col. vojnovic end up get murder by the person guard him and constantin barbulesco and who not only a croat but who family be massacre by the colonel brown hat during the savage fighting in his native croatia . know that there nothing leave and with col. vojnovic sudden death and to bargain with the srebian terrorists the pentagon head military man gen. stubbs and brion james and send his top commando and anti insurgent expert vietnam and gulf war hero gen. buck swain and tom berenger and to get the job do in free the hostage . the one major problem that gen. swain have be not only the uncooperative romanian police and military but the fact that gen. stubb never tell him that there an atomic bomb hidden in the u embessy that about to go off at any moment . mindless but exciting action sequence as well a a number of surprise and one of them have to do with a mole hidden in the u embassy and make the movie at least watchable despite not make any sense at all . gen. swain and serbian terrorist goran turn out to have be classmate at the ft. bragg army base which really have nothing to do with what their do and try to kill each other and in the film . the fact that they know each other have the two able to reminisce about the good time they have learn how to kill people and blow up thing which they do all throughout the movie . spoiler alertthe almost anti climatic end have the mole and who be hide among the hostage and come out of hiding and after almost have the city of bucharest and together with the u embessy and blown sky high have a change of heart give mitchell the secret code to stop the atomic bomb from detonate and turn from villain to hero in a matter of minute . it be also the 25 million dollar wire into the mole secret number swiss bank account that have a big hand in him and or her and keep the lid on the nuclear device and thus keep it from from blow up a city of over two million people .