Review – The Detonator

The Romanian crime boss in this movie spouts one of the strangest aphorisms I’ve ever heard: “If you deal with the devil, you’re going to get shit on your shoes.” For some reason that got me to thinking about a Quikie-Mart managed by Satan. You go in, get your jumbo Squishee and a Slim Jim, but before the Beastmaster gives you your change, he comes out from behind the counter and drops a satanic turd on your new Nikes. Actually, that might have made for a better – or at the very least shorter – motion picture. What we get instead is a dreadful excuse for an action movie about a rogue agent trying to protect the widow of a mob accountant from predicable plots to silence her. They got Wesley Snipes for the lead (no doubt at least in part because his tax troubles left him in need of cash), but that does little to overcome the usual level of quality one expects from movies whose credits feature a lot of names that end in “escu.” When it comes to film-making, Romania is the Kansas of Europe. See if desperate