The Detonator

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The Detonator
The movie cover for The Detonator.
Directed by	Po-Chih Leong
Produced by	Donald Kushner Pierre Spengler Gavin Wilding Andrew Stevens
Written by	Martin Wheeler
Starring	Wesley Snipes Silvia Colloca
Music by	Barry Taylor
Distributed by	Sony Pictures
Release date(s)	April 25, 2006
Running time	98 min.
Language	English
Budget	$15,000,000 (estimated)
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The Detonator is a 2006 film starring Wesley Snipes. The film follows a United States agent who is protecting a government witness while crossing Europe.

The Plot is based in Bucharest, Romania, with most of the film being shot on location in Romania.

Former-CIA specialist Sonni Griffith (Wesley Snipes) is now a mercenary, risking his life in global hot spots while telling himself he’s going to retire.

After a tip-off blows his armament sting in Romania, Griffith reluctantly agrees to help old his friend Michael Shepherd (William Hope), who suspects that Romanian crime boss Joszef Bostanescu (Tim Dutton) might have a high-ranking American official in his pocket.

Bostanescu's plot involves selling a stolen biological weapon, and such a connection would expedite matters significantly. Bostanescu's Manhattan-based absentee accountant gets his throat slit for dipping into the till, and Nadia Cominski (Silvia Colloca) rifles his safe and returns to Romania with its contents.

Naturally, the USA government would like her to help them nail Bostanescu, so Shepherd hires Griffith to act as Nadia's bodyguard.

Griffith eventually learns that Bostanescu has kidnapped Nadia's son, and that she's agreed to divulge vital bank code information that she's memorized in exchange for her son. Despite Griffith's precautions, Nadia falls into the Bostanescu's hands.

As Bostanescu stalls his clients at a sports stadium, waiting for Nadia to rattle off the Swiss account numbers, Griffith attempts a rescue mission. But he remains in the dark about Bostanescu’s American insider, and may not be able save Nadia and her son.