by Costas Chryanthou

Created on: April 10, 2010   Last Updated: May 14, 2010

Deadly Impact 2009

“Deadly Impact” aka “To Live and Die”
Film Only Review
MGM movie
Starring
Genre Action/Thriller
Director Robert Kurtzman
Introduction
This to me was an interesting film, a film that I could not view in one sitting.

Plot Synopsis

Armstrong (Sean Patrick Flannery) teams up with the FBI whose job is to seek a mass murderer targeted Armstrong. Armstrong’s role is to track down a mass murderer. It is seen that this film is a race against time as the mass murderer communicates with Armstrong via telephone in a shock negotiation. Armstrong has initially three minutes to negotiate and decide what happens, before a bomb threat. Only the mass murderer's lower face is seen when he is communicating.

Deadly Impact

The beginning of this film was interesting and varied, it starts very quickly and the plot is drawn up very early in the film. It is a good detailed and well presented movie with interesting settings, shock style dialogue between the mass murderer criminal and to Armstrong. Within the main setting at an early stage there are co stars of the film who play good roles. Unfortunately the target in this is murder attempt is a beautiful innocent blond haired female hostage (Peggy Ann o’Neal), who is seen with blood around her face and is gagged and standing against a pillar post. It certainly is a film not for the feint hearted. The film then moved to a new scene, which was eight years later and I found somewhat strange to understand. Part of the film is that Armstrong must try and save the innocent lives that appear in this movie to try and find out his identity.

In a bar eight years later Armstrong meets a Mexican woman Isabel (Carmen Serano) who is an FBI agent. Armstrong acting was interesting and varied and Isabel is a stunning looking woman who acted well. I found there initial meeting at a Mexican bar a bit frustrating. Isabel wants to use Armstrong as a consultant in the FBI work. Certainly I found Armstrong a bit hard to understand as he drank many shots of whisky, only for the William Hopter to me acted well, he appeared very well built and professional. Soon after this there is plenty of scenes amongst the crime investigators who try and plot where to look next and who to target. The sub characters also added some extra flavor to the story and I found the cast as a whole to be excellent. I certainly was impressed with Isabel’s character in this.

All in all I found the pace of the film quite good and the

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