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The Point Men is a luxembourgeois film of genre Drama directed by John Glen released in USA on 7 september 2001 with Christophe Lambert
The Point Men (2001)
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Add to a movie listThe Point Men is a 2001 action crime thriller film by John Glen, the director of all the James Bond films in the 1980s, about a team of Israeli agents being killed off one-by-one after a botched anti-terrorist operation. He cast Maryam d'Abo, the leading Bond girl from his film, The Living Daylights (1987), in a small role in this film.
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Une équipe de la légion étrangère israélienne élimine les membres d'un groupe de terroristes palestiniens dirigés par un leader particulièrement dangereux, Amar Kamil. Au moment où ils parviennent à l'avoir lui dans leur collimateur, cela se révèle un piège, dont le filet va petit à petit se resserrer sur eux. Mais ce terroriste qui les assassine un à un pour se venger est lui-même épaulé par un réseau de mafia russe constitué d'anciens officiers du KGB qui ne voit pas d'un très bon œil la dilapidation des fonds confiés… et réclame l'exécution d'une mission qui va le conduire à devoir tuer son demi-frère… pour compromettre le processus de paix…Actors
Christophe Lambert
(Tony Eckhardt)
Maryam d'Abo
(Francie Koln)
Kerry Fox
(Maddy Hope)
Vincent Regan
(Amar Kamil)
Cal MacAninch
(Horst)
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