***SPOILERS*** Fast and non-stop action thriller that despite being almost unknown to the movie going public puts most of the James Bond, and its many imitators, actions films to shame.
David Glover works for his uncle's, Mr. Wagner,] Fed-EX like delivery company in Berlin Germany called the Berlin Express. It's by sheer accident that David gets himself involved with a major assassination attempt on the only witness who could put big time international mob boss Victor Labeque behind bars for the murder of Mr. Sanders and his family his wife and five year old son. It was Sanders, a German industrialist, refusal to go along with Labeque's plan to sell illegal arms to terrorists groups that cost the lives of him and his family.
With cross-bow lady assassin Lara commandeering his delivery van David is forced to get involved in her using him as the person to assassinate the only witness who could testify against Labeque in his upcoming murder trail at the Berlin Hall of Justice. To make sure that David doesn't chicken out on the task that she has assigned to him Lara has his girlfriend, and fellow Berlin Express deliver woman, Jenny kidnapped and held hostage to be murdered, by cross-bow, if David doesn't come through! It's when David sees who he's to murder that not only he but Jenny, who's sees the person on a short-circuit TV screen in Lara hideout, realizes just how sick and evil both Lara and her employer Victor Labeque really are!
Mile an minute action with amazing heart-stopping chases on land sea and air makes you completely forget just how unbelievable the movie's storyline really is. Yet the action scenes are so amazing and non-stop that for the most part the movie's plot is the last thing that your interested in! Just wanting to do his job as a parcel deliver driver David ends up being mistaken for the assassin who had already murdered two previous witnesses in the Labeque trial as well as some dozen or so policemen who were protecting them.
***SPOILER ALERT*** Trying to prove his innocence as well as save Jenny and help catch the real assassin Lara just about took everything out of David in the movie. In the end David by risking his life in being killed by both Lara and the German police and SWAT-like assault team headed by Chief Hillman pulled off the impossible! But only after the city of Berlin suffer it's most destructive damage since the "Battle of Berlin" when the Red Army captured it back in April/May 1945.
The most effective, as well as moving, scene in the film had nothing to do with the many action scenes in it. It had to do with the emotionally packed confrontation between David and his Uncle Wagner at the Berlin Express office. Knowing that David was an innocent stooge and without his help he's doomed to either death or a life behind bars, if captured by the police, Mr. Wagner did the right thing at the end of the movie. Mr. Wagner that by giving David both the time as well as cover to save Jenny's life and put Lara's evil plan, to murder the only remaining witness against Labeque, to an end.
David Glover works for his uncle's, Mr. Wagner,] Fed-EX like delivery company in Berlin Germany called the Berlin Express. It's by sheer accident that David gets himself involved with a major assassination attempt on the only witness who could put big time international mob boss Victor Labeque behind bars for the murder of Mr. Sanders and his family his wife and five year old son. It was Sanders, a German industrialist, refusal to go along with Labeque's plan to sell illegal arms to terrorists groups that cost the lives of him and his family.
With cross-bow lady assassin Lara commandeering his delivery van David is forced to get involved in her using him as the person to assassinate the only witness who could testify against Labeque in his upcoming murder trail at the Berlin Hall of Justice. To make sure that David doesn't chicken out on the task that she has assigned to him Lara has his girlfriend, and fellow Berlin Express deliver woman, Jenny kidnapped and held hostage to be murdered, by cross-bow, if David doesn't come through! It's when David sees who he's to murder that not only he but Jenny, who's sees the person on a short-circuit TV screen in Lara hideout, realizes just how sick and evil both Lara and her employer Victor Labeque really are!
Mile an minute action with amazing heart-stopping chases on land sea and air makes you completely forget just how unbelievable the movie's storyline really is. Yet the action scenes are so amazing and non-stop that for the most part the movie's plot is the last thing that your interested in! Just wanting to do his job as a parcel deliver driver David ends up being mistaken for the assassin who had already murdered two previous witnesses in the Labeque trial as well as some dozen or so policemen who were protecting them.
***SPOILER ALERT*** Trying to prove his innocence as well as save Jenny and help catch the real assassin Lara just about took everything out of David in the movie. In the end David by risking his life in being killed by both Lara and the German police and SWAT-like assault team headed by Chief Hillman pulled off the impossible! But only after the city of Berlin suffer it's most destructive damage since the "Battle of Berlin" when the Red Army captured it back in April/May 1945.
The most effective, as well as moving, scene in the film had nothing to do with the many action scenes in it. It had to do with the emotionally packed confrontation between David and his Uncle Wagner at the Berlin Express office. Knowing that David was an innocent stooge and without his help he's doomed to either death or a life behind bars, if captured by the police, Mr. Wagner did the right thing at the end of the movie. Mr. Wagner that by giving David both the time as well as cover to save Jenny's life and put Lara's evil plan, to murder the only remaining witness against Labeque, to an end.