Phase IV | |
Director: | Bryan Goeres |
Producer: | George Shamieh Carlo Liconti |
Cinematography: | John Holosko |
Editing: | Andy Horvitch |
Music: | Sean Murray |
Studio: | American Cinema Independent Equinox Entertainment |
Distributor: | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment FWP Productions Free Dolphin International M.I.B. |
Runtime: | 103 minutes |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | English |
Phase IV is a 2002 Canadian direct-to-video action-thriller film starring Dean Cain and Brian Bosworth. It was directed by Bryan Goeres.
Journalist Simon Tate is investigating the apparently "unrelated" accidental deaths of several students at a local university. When his friend, Dr. Benjamin Roanic, becomes a prime suspect and is then subsequently murdered, Simon sets out to prove Roanic's innocence and establish a link between the deaths and an AIDS-related drug test program.
Robert Pardi from TV Guide gave the film two out of five stars, stating: "This anti-establishment action flick is an unsatisfying mix of cautionary sci-fi tale and Hitchcockian thriller."[1] Glenn Erickson writing for the website DVD Talk gave the film two and a half out of five stars and said: "Most of the acting is reasonable. Bosworth's role is dull but Dean Cain is likeable in a numbskull kind of way engineered to be acceptable in as many foreign markets as possible."[2]