
In the US-government's special ops, Scott is a shooter, not a planner, doing the job without regard to quaint or obsolete convention. When a Harvard undergrad goes missing (the daughter of a US leader), it's Scott who applies the pressure, first to her boyfriend, then to a madam whose cathouse is the initial stop en route to a white slavery auction in Dubai. The abductors may not know the girl's identity, but once they figure it out, she's doomed. Deadly double crosses force ... (Full plot summary below)
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In the US-government's special ops, Scott is a shooter, not a planner, doing the job without regard to quaint or obsolete convention. When a Harvard undergrad goes missing (the daughter of a US leader), it's Scott who applies the pressure, first to her boyfriend, then to a madam whose cathouse is the initial stop en route to a white slavery auction in Dubai. The abductors may not know the girl's identity, but once they figure it out, she's doomed. Deadly double crosses force Scott to become a planner. Through it all, earnest TV newscasters read the drivel they're handed.
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| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittWhen he's good, Mr. Mamet is very good indeed, and Spartan stands with the best work he's done. It's fast-moving, unpredictable, and as tautly, tightly wound as thrillers get. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan(Mamet) backslides to a system that has his speeches read in a stylized way. The result is language that sounds unhappily artificial and characters who behave like they are less than real. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe patter is always fascinating, and at right angles to the action. [Mamet]'s like a magician who gets you all involved in his story about the King, the Queen and the Jack, while the whole point is that there's a rabbit in your pocket. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongIt's smart, quick and engrossing, and even if it's also imperfect, it at least attempts to engage subjects too often ignored. |
| Greenwich Village GazetteEric LurioThe first two-thirds of the film is one of the best of the year. Then it doesn't exactly fall apart, just goes down a couple of notches to mediocrity. |
| Zertinet MoviesSteven Snyderit is nothing short of an indictment of Warner Brothers that this monumental work has gone unnoticed by the general public. |
| San Jose Mercury NewsGlenn LovellIt's the familiar good-spy-vs.-bad-spy palaver served up in standard Mamet style. |
| Internet ReviewsSteve RhodesIf the average screenwriter had just one tenth of Mamet's talent, movies would be a whole lot more fun. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenAlthough the story deteriorates in the last act, most of the movie is of high quality. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames Kendrickdeflates the well-worn Tom Clancy-ish spy genre of its emphasis on straightforward plot-point-to-plot-point narrative and refills it with a politically charged undercurrent |