Decoy (1995 film)

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Decoy
Decoy 1995 Film Poster.jpg
American poster for "Decoy"
Directed byVittorio Rambaldi
Written byRobert Sarno
Produced byAntonio F. Cortese
Gary D. Kaufman
Starring Peter Weller
Robert Patrick
Edited byFrank Irvine
Jay Miracle
Music byMark Adler
Production
companies
F.Y.D.O.E. Films, Floyd Group, Minds Eye Entertainment, Minds Eye Pictures
Distributed byPrism Entertainment Corporation, Turner Home Video (USA VHS), Videosonic Arts
Release date
1995
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$4,000,000 (estimated)

Decoy is a 1995 action film starring Peter Weller, and Robert Patrick, directed by Vittorio Rambaldi. The film was released in 1995. [1]

Contents

Background

The film stars Peter Weller as Baxter and Robert Patrick as Travis. Others in the film included Charlotte Lewis as Katya, Darlene Vogel as Diana, Peter Breck as Wellington, Scott Hylands as Jenner and Vladimir Kulich as Daniel. [2]

With an estimated budget of $4,000,000, the filming dates ranged between July 19, 1994 and August 17, 1994. [3] The film's video premiere was in late 1995 for both Japan and America, whilst in 1996, the film premiered in the UK and Australia. [4]

The film was filmed around La Ronge and Regina, both in Saskatchewan, Canada. [5]

Today, the film remains out-of-print on VHS, where it was released in both America and the UK. [6] [7] An official Polish import DVD was released at a later date. [8]

The film's two taglines read "In a world of deception and betrayal, who is the target and who is the decoy?" and "Death is their business." [9]

Plot

When a rival businessman, Jenner, threatens his daughter, Diana, tycoon John Wellington hires Secret Serviceman Jack Travis to protect her. In turn, Travis hires the eccentric mercenary Baxter, also a former SS agent, to assist. So, Travis and Baxter are hired to protect his daughter. It all seems simple enough at the beginning, but shortly after the bodyguards meet Diana they quickly find themselves in an increasingly complex and deadly situation in which almost no one is exactly who she or he seems to be. [10]

Cast

Reception

Sandra Brennan of Allmovie gave the film one star out of five. [11] The Fort Scott Tribune gave the film two stars out of five after the film was broadcast on American TV on June 12, 1997. [12] Both books Video Source Book: Video Program Listings A-I [13] and VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever gave the film two and half out of five stars. [14] The book DVD & Video Guide 2005 (Ballantine Books) gave the film three out of five. [15]

Dragan Antulov of rec.arts.movies.reviews gave two out of ten, stating "...cynics would say that Peter Weller and Robert Patrick seem like an excellent choice for the roles of mercenaries because they played killing machines in their best known films. Author of this review tends to agree with that, but their presence alone is not enough to save Decoy from well-deserved road to "straight-to- video" oblivion. Everything else is a complete mess - the plot is incoherent, the action scenes look terrible, so in the end Decoy sinks below the standards, which are lowest, even for B movies. The only thing that is relatively pleasing to the eye is the use of Saskatchewan locations but the viewers might do themselves a great service if they watch some documentary instead of this." [16]

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