The Hades Factor - Hades Factor
Covert One: The Hades Factor

Thriller

Stephen Dorff	Jon Smith
Mira Sorvino	Rachel Russel
Blair Underwood	Palmer Addison
Sophia Myles	Sophie Amsden
Danny Huston	Frank Klein
Colm Meaney	Peter Howell
Josh Hopkins	Bill Griffin
Jeffrey DeMunn	Steven Haldane
Anjelica Huston	President
Rosemary Dunsmore	Nancy Langford
Karen Glave
Jonathan Higgins

Director	Mick Jackson
Producer	Jonas Bauer; Sherri Saito; Paul Sandberg
Writer	Robert Ludlum; Elwood Reid

Based on Robert Ludlum's novel, The Hades Factor puts a bio-terrorism spin on a good old-fashioned spy thriller storyline for this tense TV miniseries. Stephen Dorff is top-billed as a former spy turned medical researcher who is pulled back into the espionage business when a new and mysterious disease erupts simultaneously in three military-sensitive regions. The target of the investigation centers on another covert operative (Mira Sorvino), who made off with a black-market virus in the middle of a government sting. The film's solid cast, which includes Blair Underwood and two Hustons--Danny and Anjelica (as the U.S. President)--helps the suspension of belief required for this sort of story considerably, and director Mick Jackson delivers the required amount of action at a brisk and engaging clip. Squeamish viewers should know that the outbreak scenes are particularly grisly for a television production. --Paul Gaita