The Peacekeeper
The Peacekeeper also known as Hellbent is a 1997 Canadian, American action film directed by Frdric Forestier, and starring Dolph Lundgren, Michael Sarrazin, Montel Williams, and Roy Scheider. The film follows U.S. Air Force Major Frank Cross, who is the only man who can prevent the president being assassinated. He must also thwart an imposing nuclear holocaust. The threat is from a terrorist group, which has stolen the Presidents personal communications computer it has the capability of launching the U.S. arsenal. The film was shot on location in the city of Montreal, Quebec.
So Cross has a new assignment. His job is now to carry the black bag, the Presidents hightech briefcase containing the go codes and communications computer for launching Americas nuclear ICBM arsenal in case of a national emergency. It should be an easy job, but on his first day on the job in Chicago a team of mercenaries manages to steal the black bag. Cross, however, manages to barely survive it and fake his death in front of the mercenaries and also infiltrates them. Thinking they have seen the last of him they fly with a helicopter that plucks them, and the black bag, from the rooftops of Chicago into the night sky and onwards to their final target... United States Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Facility K7. Disguised Cross slips into the missile silo as the crack team murders the silo personnel and takes over the launch control using the secret codes contained in the black bag.They are led by exMarine Colonel Douglas Murphy, whose unit was sent to kill Saddam Hussein during an undercover operation in Iraq before Operation Desert Storm and was then exterminated by the then Army Chief turned President, because he later realised, it didnt serve the nations interests back then to fulfill the mission. Driven by revenge he then launches a terrifying warning shot. He sends a Peacekeeper nuclear missile that destroys Mount Rushmore and kills thousands of people. Only then does Murphy make his chilling demand. The President is to kill himself in front of a live television audience to prove he did the massacre in the nations best interests, or Washington D.C. will be wiped out. ........
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