the president of the usa be address a charity dinner . anybody attend be search for weapon and but they have not reckon on several of the guest turn up with drinking straw blowpipe that shoot poison dart disguise a toothpick at incredible range and and with such accuracy that the president minder get it in the neck every time . what a weapon . i be go out to buy a packet of straw and a box of cocktail stick right now and and i be go to wreak havoc in my neighbourhood . it an attempt by sinister force to get the president re elect by stag a fake kidnap attempt and have him escape to make himself popular . the president know nothing about this plot and have a sudden attack of self righteousness and and the fake kidnap attempt turn into a real one . eric robert come out of nowhere and do his die hard routine . but the difference between eric robert and bruce willis a die hard be that bruce willis actually have a reason to be in the building . eric robert stymy the kidnap attempt after be shoot in the knee and continually whack by an aluminium pole and scorch with a flame thrower and fall down the side of a skyscraper and again down a lift shaft . he certainly earn the ransom money in bearer bond that the president say he could keep at the end . but it would have be curtain for eric robert if only one of the villain have think of puff a drinking straw at him . apart from those few little detail this film be perfectly believable .