Crackerjack (1994)

Directed by

Michael Mazo

Genre

heist film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

18

Rating

4.1 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widowed cop and a tour guide work together to stop a robber from using an avalanche to destroy a mountain hotel and kill everyone inside. The hotel is also home to a wealthy mobster that both the cop and the robber are after.

action-packedtensefast-pacedcoldexplosivesurvivalistclaustrophobicheroic

What happens

Crackerjack is a 1994 Canadian-American action film directed by Michael Mazo, and starring Thomas Ian Griffith, Nastassja Kinski and Christopher Plummer. The setting is the Rocky Mountains. In the film, a troubled widowed cop (Griffith) and a tour guide (Kinski) attempt to prevent a high-stakes robber (Plummer) from burying the mountain hotel hosting a wealthy mobster—whom both cop and robber are after—in an avalanche. The film was part of a wave of 1990s Die Hard imitators, and is often regarded as one of the better-made independent efforts in that subgenre. The film features a plot typical for terrorism-related films, with a terrorist group taking over a mountain resort, planning to destroy it in an intentional avalanche and to eliminate the other residents. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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