Adam Armus

Ex-CIA spy Jason Monk (Patrick Swayze) emerges from retirement to stop a power-hungry despot in this adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's thriller. Monk knows the truth about Russian presidential candidate Komarov (Patrick Bergin), whose secret evil plans include genocide and whose head of security killed four of Monk's agents. Along with a Russian detective (Annika Peterson), Monk uncovers a deadly plot involving WMDs.

FBI hostage negotiator Jack Bender (Dean Cain) finds himself on a plane overtaken by terrorists (led by Anthony Michael Hall) demanding a billion-dollar ransom in order to prevent them from detonating a nuclear bomb over Los Angeles. Jack must use his skills to talk the terrorists down to avoid the only other option: blowing up the aircraft in the sky.

Five prisoners of war escape captivity in a Confederate prison camp only to land in an uncharted Pacific island where time stands still and dastardly pirates don't take kindly to strangers in director Russell Mulcahy's screen adaptation of fantasy author Jules Verne's literary classic. They thought they were on their way to freedom when they leapt into a balloon and took to the skies, but upon landing on an island where nothing is as it seems, these escapees are about to embark on the adventure (allrovi.com)