Product Details

• Actors: Ted Le Plat, Terry Norton, Robert Vaughn, Patrick Mynhardt, André Jacobs
• Format: NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: M.C.E.G./Virgin Visi
• VHS Release Date: August 16, 1989
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301365259
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #351,899 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3.0 out of 5 stars LOSES ITS INTENSITY IN ITS FINAL SEGMENT., September 28, 2006

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rsoonsa (Lake Isabella, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Emissary [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This South African production, shot for the most part in Cape Town ere the nation was plunged into raw anarchy, offers much for which it may be recommended, including excellent sound engineering, inventive cinematography and able direction, but the script by director Jan Scholtz gradually loses its impact. The film features Terry Norton in her first credited role, and an auspicious performance it is, since she is on screen during most of the footage as Caroline, wife of a U.S. Assistant Secretary (Ted Leplat) whose career is in jeopardy as she is being blackmailed by the KGB, successfully countering her every attempt at delivering herself from her imbroglio. Caroline's husband Jack is acting as courier in possession of a computer disc that the U.S.S.R. desperately wishes to garner as its possession would allow a breach of all American mainframe security caches, and her history of infidelity is utilized to force her into obtaining and delivering the disc to the KGB, while her reluctance to directly involve her husband in the affair plays into the hands of the intelligence agency. The initial two-thirds of this work are engrossing as the intricate storyline benefits from some good acting, dialogue and camerawork, combining to keep viewers on edge, but Scholtz apparently cannot keep from losing his way so that the conclusive scenes are cliched and rather absurd, undoing what he has achieved. Norton creates her challenging part well and with breadth and there are good turns also from Andre Jacobs and Patrick Mynhardt as the primary KGB operatives while the sound is faultlessly crafted by Leon Nel, and Johan Scheepers and Johan Lategan, respectively, handle their cinematographic and editing responsibilities with polish

3.0 out of 5 stars Australian Bond Patriot Games, August 30, 2010

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This review is from: Emissary [VHS] (VHS Tape)

1980's overblown spy drama with John Barry-like music throughout the movie. Emissary is about an married attache who hold sensitive documents that could trigger World War 3, if it falls into the wrong hand of a rogue nation. The wife of the emissary has a secretive past that her enemies would exploit to their benefit. Fast-pace action with a Bondian type conclusion.