WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

MBunge Okay, I gotta call shenanigans on this movie. If you can put together a production involving a legitimate C-level star like Doph Lundgren, a couple of recognizable faces like Stephen Macht and Randolph Mantooth and a babe like Natalie Radford who will get naked and can actually act, you've got the raw materials for some Perfectly Acceptable Entertainment. No, you're probably not going to win any awards but if you keep the production values reasonably high and come up with an action script that doesn't insult the intelligence of the average mollusk, cranking out something plenty of 14 year old boys will think is cool shouldn't be that great a challenge. Agent Red fails to meet that standard.I can forgive the cheap and poorly conceived sets on display here. Stacking some props in empty office space and trying to pass it off as the command deck of an aircraft carriers doesn't look that bad and the inside of a factory can vaguely resemble the interior of a submarine, though you should know better than to let the audience see the cement floors in your supposed sub. What I can't look the other way on is that there's enough stock footage in this film to choke a horse and that fairly extensive action scenes from at least three separate movies, probably more, have been cannibalized to try and prop up the otherwise abysmal storytelling at work here. I mean, hardcore cinema geeks could make a drinking game out of naming where all the shots came from that obviously didn't originate with writer/director Damian Lee. If those are the kind of low, borderline crooked tricks a filmmaker has to resort to, it's better for everyone if they don't even bother.And the script here is even more egregious. Again, I can excuse the blatant ripping off of Die Hard and the plentiful use of creaky clichés. Who expects something like Agent Red to be art? However, it frequently appears that no one read this screenplay all the way through. Otherwise, someone would had to have noticed the eye-rollingly repetitive exposition, the hammer-to-the-forehead foreshadowing and the you've-got-to-be-kidding me moments of dramatic illogic in the plot. Let me give you an example of what I mean by that third thing. Toward the end, an admiral (Randolph Mantooth) decides he has to sink a submarine in order to prevent an attack on the U.S. Almost immediately after that scene, we get another where the President (Bill Monroe) orders the admiral to sink the sub. But if he was already going to do it, why did they include the latter scene of superfluous command? And if the folks behind Agent Red thought there was some drama to be found in the President ordering the admiral to sink the sub, why include the former scene of the admiral deciding to do it all by himself? There's no way to explain both being in the same movie unless nobody was paying attention.As for the details…a deadly bio-weapon is being shipped from Russia to the U.S. by nuclear submarine, with Marine ass-kicker Matt Hendricks (Dolph Lundgren) and his bitchy, hard-faced scientist of an ex-fiancée (Meilani Paul) along for the ride. A group of terrorists who spend an inordinate amount of time moving in slo-motion, led by Dr. Kretz (Alexander Kuznetsov) and his fanatical love-mate Nadia (Natalie Radford), kill everyone on board except Matt and his honey and plan to launch the lethal bio-agent at both America and Russia to protest the creation of such genocidal weapons.Lundgren practically sleepwalks through this motion picture, perking up only for the fight scenes where it's so clear the other members of the cast have such little training that Lundgren essentially has to fight himself. I do have to give him credit for knowing how pathetic this movie was going to be and trying to avoid looking as bad he might have. There a scene at the beginning involving a commando raid to steal a stealth fighter, which still doesn't make any sense no matter how many long I think about it, where every other member of the infiltration team is sporting this hilariously bad camouflage paint on their faces while Lundgren's mug is unadorned.If you're still unsure about Agent Red, let me put it this way. Jean-Claude Van Damme is the only person I would encourage to watch this film and that's only because it would make him feel a lot better about his career choices.

Comeuppance Reviews Apparently there's a deadly "bio-weapon" out there called Agent Red which, if released to the public, would kill many people horribly. Captain Matt Hendricks (Dolph) is assigned to go aboard a submarine and pick it up, to deliver it back to the U.S. Government. Helping him out is potential love interest Dr. Linda Christian (Paul). When the sub is hijacked by some evil Russians who want the Agent Red, Hendricks and Linda must fight them and get the Agent Red back safely. What will happen, and will anyone care? Agent Red should be shown in film schools as a perfect example of how NOT to make a movie. All this supposed "movie" consists of is a disjointed mishmash of stock footage from a bunch of different sources. Playing "spot the stock footage" isn't really the same thing as enjoying a movie. It's just insulting to audiences. It assumes they are just idiots who don't know anything. Working off of this absurd premise, Damian Lee once again proves he's a hack, and Jim Wynorski had to come in and reshoot much of the footage. Again, not a great sign.As if suffering through yet another junky submarine slog wasn't enough, this movie is talky, yet without any character development. It's the worst of all worlds. It's impossible to care about the proceedings. Even Dolph can't save this trainwreck (sub-wreck?) of a movie. Really the only people that would be watching this are Dolph fans to begin with, and this is just a slap in their faces. Most of this isn't really Dolph's fault. It's Lee and producer Andrew Stevens. What were they thinking? Did they honestly believe anyone in the world would actually like this crud? There's not even really any action to speak of, maybe a few brief fights, shootings, and some stock-footage explosions. This barely qualifies. But it does have every cliché imaginable, including the "wacky taxi driver", naturally named Ziggy (Allan Kolman). Is this movie Counter Measures (1999)? Is it Storm Catcher (1999)? Who can tell? Even though Dolph's name here is Hendricks, in the stock footage "he" wears a suit with the name tag "Holloway". Did no one notice this during (what passed for) the editing process? Agent Red is what happens when footage is cobbled together, and a presumed movie is assembled, but without any surprises or intelligence. The presence of Dolph prevents this from being a zero star movie, but in all other aspects, it really is.Assembling footage is not the same thing as making a movie, which the horrendousness of Agent Red amply proves.For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com

Arlis Fuson A Marine is sent on a mission to supervise in a Navy secret mission on a submarine. The mission is led by his ex-fiancé. Soon once the sub is in route it is taken over by Russians on board. The mission was a simple one; To get back a highly contagious virus made by Americans, stolen by Russians and now given back to the U.S. (which is completely stupid in theory) Bad guys on board are sick of the use of chemical warfare and want to prove to the world how wrong it is...ahem...so they plan to attach the chemical to warheads and shoot them to New York and Moscow to spread the disease there...OK yea that will teach them war is wrong by killing millions of innocents..But anyway, Dolph is on board and of course he's not gonna let this happen..oops did I spoil the ending for you? This movie was pretty bad, slow and boring with a horrible cast. I love Dolph Lundgren so thats why I got it , and hes a cheesy action star, but I am a huge fan so it's all good. No one else did any good on this film. Director/writer Damian Lee brought nothing new to the table, many of the best shots were actually edited from films like Blown Away and Crimson Tide. Can't give him any writing credits either because this is so much like the movie Counter Measures from 99 with Michael Dudikof.The movie was produced by legendary B-movie/soft-core porn director/ producer Jim Wynorski, but on the credits he used his alias name Nobel Henry. He even did many scenes of re-shooting, but didn't allow his name on as director. Thats bad, when a guy who has done as much garbage as Jim has, doesn't even want his name attached to it.Bottom line it has some decent action with Lundgren, but I still wouldn't recommend it to anyone - very low budget, nothing new or original. Does have some pretty good stuff the first 10-15 minutes with great blood splatter and action, once on the Submarine it lacks any great action though. Stephen Macht had a small part in the film and thats a bonus I have always liked him.I am not one to notice or care about such things as kissing in an action film, but I have to say that the worst on screen kiss ever happened at the end of this film..Movie had a great quote...Lundgrens character is asked "ever heard of Agent Red" He replies "sounds like a bad action movie" --- funny! 2/10 stars

dwolf The only enjoyable thing about watching this movie is making fun of it. The plot makes no sense at all. The movie making problems are numerous. The opening scene has Lundgren involved in a mission stealing what would appear to be a US Stealth aircraft, but from whom? Some of them wear US uniforms and some wear a hodge podge of various other uniforms. It is not explained. The "submarine" set looks nothing like a sub including concrete pillars and cinder block walls in some shots.THE FOLLOWING INCLUDES PLOT SPOILERS but since the movie is very predictable they don't spoil much.Here are just a few of the problems: It is not explained how the terrorist get on to the sub in such great numbers. The virus incapacitates and kills most of the crew within seconds but the terrorists continue to operate fine for a long time when exposed very directly to the virus. Dolph Lundgren's actions directly result in the destruction of a US submarine and crew but is portrayed in the movie as heroic. A US fighter plane changes into a Swedish fighter and is then shot down by the terrorists in the sub using a missile designed to sink surface ships. The US Navy then launches fighter aircraft who launch air-to-air missiles which miraculously turn into torpedos. The many torpedoes fail to hit the sub in spite of no one being in the control room to launch counter measures or take any evasive action. The two remaining characters at the end of the movie have about a zero percent chance of knowing how to surface a submarine but don't seem worried.I could list many more.