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Murder At 1600 [DVD] [1997]

DVD ~ Wesley Snipes
3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane, Daniel Benzali, Dennis Miller, Alan Alda
  • Directors: Dwight H. Little
  • Writers: David Hodgin, Wayne Beach
  • Producers: Anne Kopelson, Arnold Kopelson, Arnon Milchan, David Eichler, Michael G. Nathanson
  • Format: Anamorphic, Full Screen, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English, Arabic
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 22 Feb 1999
  • Run Time: 102 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CY4O
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 16,795 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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The discovery of a dead female staffer in a White House restroom galvanizes a D.C. homicide cop (Wesley Snipes), but the results aren't hard to predict: the crime implicates the Oval Office, the presidential bureaucracy impedes the investigation, and so on. What isn't so predictable is that the whole thing leads to an improbable climax involving secret tunnels created by Abraham Lincoln. (Snipes's character, by the way, is a Civil War buff.) The creaky mystery feels a little anachronistic from the get-go, with some particularly corny and laughable dialogue. --Tom Keogh

Special Features
1.33 Full Screen
1.85 Wide Screen
DVD 10
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1
Interactive Menus
Production Notes
Scene Access
Arabic
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5.0 out of 5 stars An impressive, tantalizing thriller, 28 Mar 2004
By Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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Once again I find myself praising a movie that a majority of folks seem to view as average at best. Murder at 1600 is a serious movie that you can't take too seriously, not if you want to enjoy it. Wesley Snipes has a few humorous bits, and Dennis Miller is his normally wisecracking self, and I think the movie perhaps benefits from this remote air of unreality due to its subject matter - after all, the brutal murder of a young woman inside the White House is some pretty serious stuff. The other main aspect of the film, which supplies the motive for the murder in the first place, is - granted - a little bit out there, and that is where the subtle sense of unreality pays dividends; without it, it would really be hard to get from here to there.

Carla Towne is a young unknown White House staffer - until her body is found in a White House restroom sporting a number of deadly knife wounds. This is not good news for the President, who is already bottoming out in the polls for still attempting to negotiate, six months into the crisis, the release of an AWAC crew captured and obviously tortured by the North Koreans. Wesley Snipes plays Detective Harlan Regis, the investigator summoned to the White House to investigate the murder. The Secret Service as an organization is less than friendly and cooperative, viewing the White House as its beat alone. Except for his buddy and sometimes partner (played by Dennis Miller), Regis is pretty much on his own. The tight-lipped and intimidating Nick Spikings (Daniel Benzali), the chief of White House security and definite contender for the next Lex Luthor look-alike contest (his Marlon Brando impersonation isn't half bad, either) assigns Agent Nina Chance (Diane Lane) as Regis' liaison with the Secret Service. Spikings doesn't mess around, and once he has tabbed an individual for the murder, he wants Chance to have nothing to do with Regis. The detective is pretty persistent, though, and Chance has to weigh her sense of duty against her sense of justice.

The list of suspects is quite fluid, and I think the movie does a very good job of sustaining suspense and the sense of mystery throughout. The facts as Regis acquires them make not only the President's philandering son, but the President himself possible suspects. Then you have the crisis with North Korea coming to the fore, with the President really frustrating his top advisors with his incredibly wimpy refusal to risk war with North Korea over the military hostage crisis. The truth, when it comes, does push the envelope to some degree, but it is certainly logical in the given context. I didn't ID the real bad guy any sooner than Regis and Chance did, so that to me is a good thing.

A great mystery, plenty of action, power politics, lust, murder, conspiracy inside conspiracy: Murder in 1600 offers the viewers all of this and more. The ending itself is well done in my opinion, as well. Thus, this reviewer counts this as an impressive and very entertaining thriller.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Twist, 11 Jul 2006
By Ms. Rebecca Duffy "Reb" (UK (previously TX, USA)) - See all my reviews
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Good movie, great acting! The movie starts so normal for an action flick but then gets more complicated as time goes on. It was the first one in 6 years that my partner guessed the ending wrong on!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Not exactly what I was expecting, 29 Mar 2001
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This review is from: Murder At 1600 [VHS] [1997] (VHS Tape)
After mistaking the '1600' in the title as referring to altitude (I assumed this movie would be another Passenger 57, luckily it isn't that bad) I was rather suprised to find this more a thriller than an action film. Snipes puts in a fairly credible (I say 'fairly' quite loosely) performance as the haggard detective trying to solve the murder of a young lady found in the oval office. It never exceeds the 'moderate-good' mark though, and while it is watchable and entertaining, it is still unremarkable. Alan Alda is irritatingly smarmy as the presidents' advisor and Diane Lane is rather too contived a character to become believable. The few action elements are acceptable, but tending to become slightly ambitious for a political thriller. It gives the sense that the film doesn't know quite what it wants to be.The finale through the tunnels underneath the White House provided much unintended amusement, most notably with Snipes trying his best to sneak past a futuristic looking laser setup. With it's faults however, it still manages to be better than Clint Eastwood's 'Absolute Power', and for a film with far less expectation on it's shoulders, I came away satisfied that I hadn't just wasted 2 hours of my life, I'd just bided them badly.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Snipes is great, but what starts as a fine political thriller just ends up with explosions, grunting fights and snipers
Murder at 1600 starts with all the clever thriller set-ups and intriguing plot grabbers of slick Hollywood at its best. Read more
Published 7 months ago by C. O. DeRiemer

4.0 out of 5 stars Enthralling Murder Hunt/Political Thriller
This is an excellent insight into the workings behind the scenes of US political life showing how manipulation and protection of the President can be overcome once it steps the... Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2004 by Chris Aslett

5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOM
Wesley Snipes at his best, this film offers a unique approach to the sterotypical president danger films. Read more
Published on 17 Jan 2004 by Mike

2.0 out of 5 stars Capable thriller, but a sad lack of special features.
Action junkie Wesley Snips plays DC cop Harlan Regis in this tale of murder and deception at the most prominent address in the United States, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: The White... Read more
Published on 16 Jan 2001

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