Enjoyable pulpy conspiracy suspense thriller, with an Army Sargent (Gene Hackman) losing his "package" of a convicted Army soldier (Tommy Lee Jones) after an incident in an American airport lounge. Of course, in such popcorn fare, the protagonist finds that things are not what they seem, and that his escaped prisoner wasn't the actual man, but somebody who took his place. Meanwhile, the Americans and Russians are to sign a nuclear disarmament treaty in Chicago, while the prisoner makes his way there...while covert governmental ops try to take down our protagonist. The first of three consecutive films that director Andrew Davis will pair up with Tommy Lee Jones, followed by UNDER SIEGE and THE FUGITIVE.
