a5c7b9f00b At a time of international incident, the body of a young female staffer is found in a White House wash room. Homicide detective Harlan Regis is called in to investigate the murder only to discover the secret service had taken hold of all the evidence for their own investigation. A frustrated Regis becomes suspicious of a cover-up and convinces secret service agent Nina Chance to aid him. The remainder of the plot is spent following Regis and Chancethey uncover the answersto who is behind the conspiracy and why. D.C. detective Harlan Regis is called to the White House after a young woman is murdered in the White House. Regis realizes this won&#39;t be a typical investigationhe keeps running into a brick wall with the Secret Service. He is only able to get the help of Agent Chance. All of this is occurring while a hostage scandal in Korea threatens to destroy the President&#39;s term. Though the &quot;murder&quot; was solved. The fate of the American soldiers, who were being held and tortured in Korea, was not really resolved,farI saw. I know that they were not the center of the story but still their presence was greatly felt. They should have resolved their fate along with the murder. As this begins…especially seeingit&#39;s a Wesley Snipes movie, you expect a by-the-numbers Straight to DVD type film….but actually &#39;MURDER AT 1600&#39; Is a very good Thriller overlooked on it&#39;s release in 1997.<br/><br/>A young woman is found murdered in the Bathroom at 1600 Pennsylvannia Ave, otherwise known&#39;The Whitehouse&#39;.<br/><br/>A woman murdered at the Whitehouse, not too dissimilar to the same year&#39;s Clint Eastwood Movie Absolute Power, though both Movies tanked at the Box Office….Anyway, Wesley Snipes plays DET. Harlan Regis who is the Homicide detective leading the investigation on the scene, he soon realises that the man the Secret Service have in custody is quite possibly innocent and there could be a Conspiracy leading right up to the Commander in Chief, Regis digs deeper along with help from Secret service agent Nina Chance (Diane lane) and they soon find that both of their lives are in dangerthey are getting closer to the truth.<br/><br/>As I said in my Summary, This has to be Snipes&#39; best movie,before he went the way of Steven Seagal &amp; Jean Claude Van Damme in Trashy straight to DVD Actioners that are on blockbusters bottom shelf, admittedly it flopped on it&#39;s release taking only $41m Worldwide, but I think It&#39;s very well written Conspiracy flick with a superb supporting cast that includes Ronny Cox,Dennis Miller,Alan Alda &amp; Daniel Benzali.<br/><br/>**** out of ***** There's hardly a single aspect of this motion picture that seems more than superficially credible, and if the United States government is really run in the Keystone Cops manner depicted in Wayne Beach and David Hodgin's script, then this country is in a great deal more trouble than anyone suspects.
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