Top cast:David Miles,Anita Hendrie,Florence Lawrence
Director:Doug Liman
Genre:Action
Region:Vietnam
Year:2001
Storyline:The policeman turns back to offer help and leaves the criminal to escape.Holding onto the creaking and collapsing gutter, the hanging man is frozen by his fear of heights (acrophobia).During a performance of flamenco dancing in the courtyard of a mansion, he spotted fugitive thief Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton) (the film suddenly went into slo-motion) across the room, and then confronted her during a jewel heist on the second floor of the mansion.He quotes Samuel Johnson""s words: "Patriotism...is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Mireau hreatens that Dax will be relieved of his command if he doesn""t agree to the attack.Although he is tired, Dax concedes to the plan o stay close to his men and to follow military orders: "If any soldiers in the world can take it, we""ll take the Ant Hill.He angrily asked about the CIA""s efforts to get him: "Why are you trying to frame me?" She also admitted that Abbott ran Treadstone and "Conklin reported to him," and that the Berlin sting buy had "something to do with a Russian politician [Neski].He rebuked wo newspaper boys on a street corner who taunted him and stole his cane and made fun of his tattered, shabby clothes.