the detonator be set in bucharest where some sort of ex cia government agent name sonni griffith ( wesley snipe ) have track down a arm dealer name dimitru ( matthew leitch ) and thing go wrong though and dimitru find out that sonni be work for the u government . after a big shoot out most of dimitru men have be kill by sonni which the local romanian police force be unhappy about and top man flint ( michael brandon ) decide to send sonni back to the u and at the same time protect a woman name nadia cominski ( silvia colloca ) who be also be send back to the u . however it turn out that nadia be want by dimitru and his football club own bos jozef ( tim dutton ) who need her in order to complete a deal for a nerve gas bomb which they intend to set off in washington kill million of people . this american and romanian co production be direct by po chih leong and the detonator confirm beyond any shadow of a doubt that wesely snip have join the wash up action film star club who be relegate to make generic action film in eastern european location and yep snipe have join such luminary a jean claude van damme and steven seagal and dolph lundgren and rutger hauer and chuck norris . i give snipe a bit of credit since he hold on a little long than the rest with the excellent blade represent trinity ( 2004 ) still fresh in a lot of cinema goer mind ( every film he have make since have go straight to dvd ) but it have to happen sooner or later and like a lot of the name i have mention snipe have live off the reputation of a few great film and if you look at his career he be in more bad film that good one . like the recent film of jcvd and seagal the detonator be pretty awful . the script by martin wheeler be a predictable and boring and by the number a anything out there . the detonator be the sort of film you expect to see on an obscure cable tv channel playing at 2 oclock in the morning . the detonator be chock full of clichés and snipe be force into a situation where he have to protect a woman and at first they dislike each other but by the end they be in love and his close friend at the cia turn out to be a traitor while the obnoxious by the book bos no one like actually turn out to be a pretty decent guy and snipe character be allow to run around bucharest shooting and killing and blowing people up like it doesn not matter and he never get arrest and the action be dull and forgettable and the bad guy own a football club so there be lot of annoy football terminology and there aren not even any funny one liner . director leong doesn not do anything anything to liven thing up and the detonator look cheap with a car chase in which the two car never seem to get over the 30mph mark . ok the action scene be relatively well stag but they be few and far between and utterly forgettable in a bad guy shoot at snipe and miss and in return snipe shoot at bad guy and kill him sort of way . there a half decent car crash and explosion but very little else . it seem some of the detonator be shoot in a romanian football stadium and i think i would rather have watch the game for 90 minute rather than this film . with a supposed budget of about $ 15 and 000 and 000 the detonator be reasonably well make but not that much really happen . set and film in bucharest in romania . the act isn not that great and snip just doesn not seem interested and feel like he be just there for the money which i do not blame him for at all . the detonator be yet another poor clichéd action film star a have be actor and set in eastern europe . why do sony keep make these thing . not recommend and there be much good action fare out there .