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The team of Wesley Snipes and Sean Connery could have lit up the screen. Instead, they are shackled with a script that fizzled and never get a grasp of their characters' identities —the two never live up to their potential. Snipes plays Lieutenant Web Smith, a Los Angeles police officer who is called in to investigate the strangling death of an attractive young woman at a party at the L.A. office of a Japanese corporation. Snipes, who last starred in the action film Passenger 57, tries to portray a brash American cop versed in Japanese culture. Unsure of his superiors' abilities and questioning the loyalty of his partner, Snipes' character ought to be more tortured and confused than the occasionally-angered persona that appears on screen. 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With the investigation at a dead end, plot development screeches to a halt and the Junior Mints start looking incredibly interesting in comparison. For the remainder of the film, the plot wanders through Smith and Connor's per sonal lives, introduces (and eliminates) a crooked senator and meanders into a segment on the Nakamoto Corporation's attempt to take over an American semiconductor firm. Throughout this little jaunt, the film loses its edge and degenerates into a B movie. Although the film attempts to deal with touchy issues such as "Japan bashing," CREDIT Savings Accounts Certificates of Deposit Share Draft (Checking) Accounts Fixed and Accumulative IRAs Holiday and Vacation Club Accounts Payroll Deductions Direct Deposit Audio Response Automated Teller Machines (ATM) Access Secured and Unsecured Loans Home Equity Loans SERVING PENN STATE EMPLOYEES AND THEIR FAMILIES Teller Dept. Loan Dept. Administrative Office Credit Union Bldg. 1937 N. Atherton St. 1937 N. 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