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3 September 1992 (USA) moreTagline:
Your body is 93% water... no one is safe. morePlot:
Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible"... more | add synopsisNewsDesk:
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The very definition of good-dumb fun moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Pierce Brosnan | ... | Danny O'Neill |
 | Ron Silver | ... | Frank Traveres |
 | Ben Cross | ... | Mikhail Rashid |
 | Lisa Eilbacher | ... | Terry O'Neill |
| Tony Plana | ... | Al-red |
| Al Waxman | ... | James Garvey |
| Brent Jennings | ... | Shane Rogers |
 | Philip Baker Hall | ... | Senator Thyme |
| Michael St. Gerard | ... | Ben |
 | Clement von Franckenstein | ... | Dr. Bernard |
| Ivan E. Roth | ... | Process Server |
| Selma Archerd | ... | Judge Blair |
| Rick Cicetti | ... | Bailiff |
| Norman Burton | ... | Senator Victor |
| Scott Burkholder | ... | Thyme's Aide |
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Iceland:16 | Australia:M | South Korea:15 | Canada:18A | Germany:18 | Spain:18 | UK:15 (cut) | USA:R | Norway:18Filming Locations:
Washington, District of Columbia, USAMOVIEmeter: 
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Continuity: When Danny and Frank are coming back into the attic from the balcony, Frank is on Danny's right. In the next shot, he is on his left. It would be impossible for him to move that fast since he is handcuffed. moreFAQ
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STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All Costs
Danny O'Neill (Pierce Brosnan) is a bomb disposal expert.He's your typical cynical,hard-bitten good guy type,chewing on a cigar and uttering hard-edged one liners.Not only that,he's got the typical good guy set up.His young daughter's been killed in a tragic swimming pool accident,he's getting stick from his superiors for his unorthodox approach to his job and his wife Terry (Lisa Eilbacher) has left him and has started seeing smarmy senator Frank Traveres (Ron Silver).His life is about to get a whole lot worse,though,when a nasty piece of work by the name of Mikhail Rashid (Ben Cross) and his sidekick Al-red (Tony Plana) start putting explosive devices in the drinking water of politicians and eventually get plans to start targeting the rest of society as well.
In an action role he was to take on a few years before his debut as Bond,Brosnan manages the tough,swaggering good guy role reasonably well,as effective and convincing as he needed to be.Cross can always be relied on to deliver the goods in terms of presence as a good guy or bad guy respectively,but here his part is very poorly written and not given much meat to chew on at all.It's with the action that the film comes alive though,with one or two rollicking good sequences that you will have to see to believe.It certainly ain't with said performances or even the story which,by the end,is stewing so deeply in it's own preposterousness you can practically hear it gurgling.
But,hey,if it wasn't so silly,maybe it wouldn't have been such fun.That,and a surprisingly and ultimately pleasantly compact running time make Live Wire a genuine piece of no-brainer entertainment to savour.
Sit back,switch your brain off and enjoy.****