The Art of War (2000)

The Art of War: Directed by Christian Duguay. With Wesley Snipes, Anne Archer, Maury Chaykin, Marie Matiko. UN’s secretary general uses covert operations to help diplomacy along. Shaw’s called back 6 months after one such operation. He witnesses the murder of Chinese UN ambassador at UN, NYC, chases the assassin and ends up a suspect.

“The Art of War, a somewhat pretentiously slick and stylish thriller is a nice action film from the first year of the new millennium. Grafting current events onto that old stand-by plot device, the accused innocent man, and adding lots of gratuitously arty cinematography, Duguay has come up with a film that manages to be diverting – provided, of course, you donu0026#39;t think too deeply about the plot. When the film works, itu0026#39;s because of the tight pacing and expertly choreographed action scenes. The u0026quot;surpriseu0026quot; twists in the plot are nothing of the sort – anyone who doesnu0026#39;t expect the return from the dead of one character and the betrayal by another hasnu0026#39;t seen many of these movies. This is a good Wesley Snipes film, rather forgotten.”