Time Bomb

With Asian action films gaining increasing notice in the United States, a number of domestic filmmakers have announced plans to integrate the exhilarating Hong Kong style into their movies. If TIME BOMB is any indication, Israeli Avi Nesher is one director who already shares the Asian sensibilities.

Eddy Kay (Michael Biehn) is a mild-mannered watchmaker living a quiet, uneventful life in Los Angeles. But he has a secret past, one that comes to the fore when a gas-main explosion across the street from his shop inspires him to an act of uncommon bravery, rushing into the blazing building to rescue a child. It's a feat that is totally unlike him, and as if the in...