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3/10
Ridiculously didactic and naive
sziami14 February 2017
This seems to be a low-budget movie built on the doubtful idea that the real reason for the 2nd Iraq war was Saddam Hussein's shift to the euro rather than the dollar as a currency for oil sales. This is presented as a huge secret, discovered by three people when they get into a car accident with a dead senator, and find a piece of paper in the senator's car with the words "Iraq", "euro", and "oil" written on it. This piece of paper becomes the main evidence. Then of course they risk their lives uncovering this huge, dark secret. The movie is extremely didactic and ridiculously naive, the events are totally predictable. The dialogues are dumb and unrealistic. Later in the movie there is some shooting and action but I couldn't watch it any further after about 50 minutes.
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1/10
A very sorry excuse for political suspense fim
foxbrick3 April 2019
Simply sub-professional on every level. No one here gives anything resembling a professional performance, the script, direction and special effects are even worse, and no other other aspect of the video is up to the level of production of even something like "The Room", nor is this waste of time even as unintentionally campily strange. One of those amateur films that looks a bit like a more slapdash than usual porn film, with no sex and even less polish. Never before have supposed European and Arab cities looked so much like scruffier streets in L.A. or perhaps Cleveland or Toronto.

Television listings services and even the poster art editors at IMDb have been known to confuse this film with the no-budget 2001 feature of the same title with Karen Sillas...at least that one had a professional actor or two on hand.
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1/10
Do not waste your time
shainhaas11 March 2019
5 minutes in and already know it is horrible acting and an even worse plot line. They should be ashamed of this garbage
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Mystery sort of interesting, but not that good
vchimpanzee3 April 2019
There is a lot of excitement before the amazing conclusion.

Early in the movie, and occasionally after that, actors seem like they are reading their lines around the table for the first time. Performances are better when things are exciting. However, I get the impression that excitement results from editing and unsettling music more than the actors themselves.

There is some violence but nothing too graphic.

This is about on the same level as a TV episode, but not that great.
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