Five Fingers - DVD Review
By Irv Slifkin -- Video Business, 6/22/2009
LIONSGATEStreet: July 7
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> Ryan Phillippe and Laurence Fishburne match wits in a nasty cat-and-mouse suspenser.
While on a mission to start a philanthropic food program in Morocco, Martijn (Ryan Phillippe), a Dutch musician and entrepreneur, is captured by terrorists led by Ahmat (Laurence Fishburne). Ahmat believes Martijn is a CIA operative, and he plans to chop off Martijn’s fingers one by one unless he is given the information he wants. An intimate thriller with some disturbing moments, Five Fingers plays like Syriana as reworked by David Mamet. It’s a well-constructed saga with a nifty surprise ending.
Shelf Talk: Despite some play overseas and at film festivals in 2006, Five Fingers never received an American theatrical release. Fans of the leading men will be interested, as will those who enjoyed such thought-provoking tales of political intrigue as Syriana, Arlington Road and Body of Lies.
Thriller, color, R (mature themes, language, extreme violence), 90 min., DVD $26.96Extras: featurette, trivia
Director: Laurence Malkin
First Run: L Int’l., 2006, NA
