The Package

Plot synopsis:
The film follows Tommy Wick (Steve Austin), a man tasked with delivering a mysterious package to "The German" (Dolph Lundgren), a dangerous crime lord. Along the way Wick is attacked repeatedly by a rival gang that wants what he is carrying, eventually he discovers that his cargo is not what he was initially thought it was.
However, Tommy arrives at a bowling alley and beats up a rival for not paying back Big Doug. Afterwards he visits Big Doug who tells him he wants a package delivered to the German. En route he is pursued by a rival gang who wants what he is carrying, forcing him to fight them off and run.
Eventually Tommy is captured by the rival gang. He manages to escape, and is captured by the German and brought to see if he has compatible DNA with the German. He then breaks free and has a final showdown with the German, killing him. He then wishes Big Doug that the incident be filed away and they wish each other a hearty godspeed. Tommy then rings his wife about the cash and tells her 'I love you'.

Tags: comedy, murder, violence, revenge, humor, suspenseful, sadist

Review:
It looks pretty good and shows-off some stylish non Action camera work and a strong if padded plot that is not bad.There is enough here for Fans and maybe even enough for Slummers who dropped in just to make fun but found it reluctantly enjoyable.
The Story Thread keeps things strung together as it weaves familiar fisticuffs and gun battles together with some mildly interesting supporting Characters of note.This is probably as good as this type of thing gets and while it is attractive in a wet, dull, and gray way, it may have included one meaningless sub-plot too many (the wife or the brother, take your pick).
I watched THE PACKAGE last night and was surprised by it; mostly because the earlier Austin vehicles I had seen (HUNT TO KILL, TACTICAL FORCE) were really bad.
Of course, the highlight for me is Dolph Lundgren, who delivers another juicy co-starring role much like he did in the Cuba Gooding, Jr. action flick ONE IN THE CHAMBER last year.
While I'd still like to see Dolph get back in the directing chair, these smaller roles are good enough to fill the time in between..
Another Steve Austin movie, this time with Dolph Lundgren...do I really need to say more?
"I need a package delivered to the German." Tommy (Austin) has an easy task.
I know what your thinking Steve Austin and Dolph Lundgren in the same movie...how can that be bad??
I've seen near all of Dolph Lundgren's movies and not all are great, not all are amazingly well written but all have something decent about them and this one is no different.
The Package, while ill acted at times, does have a good story line.
The only thing he has to do is deliver a package to a man only known as "The German" played by Dolph Lundgren.
What they don't understand is that "The Package" is not what they think it is and Tommy is not just a delivery boy.If you look past the semi bad acting you find a story that is actually pretty good.
This was much better, and the director played to all his strengths in respect of both his verbal and action abilities.There were several little plot twists, and a few surprises along the way, which added to the enjoyment.There are a number of recognizable supporting characters, which is also a pleasant surprise.So my conclusion is that if you are hunting around for an action movie one night with some time to kill, this movie is for consideration.
After a long string of action films and the highly successful Expendables series, action starts Dolph Lundgren and Steve Austin team up to deliver an all-new action film The Package.
Both these guys have proved themselves numerous times over and it's always exciting to see these kinds of guys team up to deliver the action, but does The Package deliver or need to be returned to sender?
When you take two big bad ass guys like Austin and Lundgren you have certain expectations in an action movie.
Austin seems to be the more focal point of the story and has some decent action moments, but overall the film just doesn't deliver the epic punch you may hope for pitting these two together.
What action is here is pretty good and Austin is getting better and better at delivering more realistic fighting instead of his wrestler persona style.
Lundgren has always been a pro at the action scenes and is no different here.Overall this is a fine film, just falls a bit short when it comes to delivering to big action guys like this together.
Steve Austin and Dolph Lundgren put in the same movie?
The plot of the movie will probably be of no surprise to most viewers - they will have seen the "delivery of a mysterious package" story countless times before, and they will more or less guess (like me) the twist near the end concerning the package long before it happens.
With better scripts, and more experience, Steve Austin can unequivocally be a top action star in Hollywood.
The movie is your basic routine low-budget action film, nothing more and nothing less..
'THE PACKAGE': Two and a Half Stars (Out of Five)Steve Austin and Dolph Lundgren star in this B action film directed by stuntman turned director Jesse V.
It was written by Derek Kolstad (who also co-wrote another action film last year starring Lundgren, with Cuba Gooding Jr., called 'ONE IN THE CHAMBER').
The movie is your basic routine low-budget action film, nothing more and nothing less.Austin plays Tommy Wick, a courier working for a crime lord, named Big Doug (Eric Keenleyside), who takes on an assignment to deliver a package to another mob boss nicknamed 'The German' (Lundgren).
The movie has some decent action and fight scenes and the production values aren't too bad for this type of film.
It seems like Johnson could make a decent action film director if he only had better scripts to work with.
The movie is also filled with pretty atrocious acting but Austin and Lundgren deliver the goods that fans of theirs depend on them for.
Stunning Steve Williams is basically playing the Stone Cold Steve Austin Character in all his movies !!!
The Package is a very good film which I enjoyed watching.
Stone Cold Steve Austins character Tommy Wick had to use his fighting skills to fight against some pretty powerful people with Martial Arts skills.
Acting as the very dangerous and malicious killer called The German, he was very good and it was great to see him in this film alongside Stone Cold Steve Austin.
The Package was also a film that had very good acting by Stone Cold Steve Austin as Tommy Wick, Dolph Lundgren as The German, Eric Keenleyside as Big Doug, John Novak as Nicholas, Kristen Kerr as Darla and Darren Shahlavi as Devon..
The musical scoring is good, the plot is a bit generic but isn't too cliché that it's frustrating, and the casting/scripts were chosen well.To conclude, if you want to see a movie purely to just laugh and enjoy yourself, this is recommended..
Plot: A courier for a local crime lord must deliver a mysterious package while being chased by a horde of unusual gangsters.This was very disappointing to me, especially having Lundgren and Austin in a movie together would've been great, but the problem is the story is not very interesting, the writing is sub-par at best, the action is lackluster compared to their other films, and worst of all its just boring.
I'm glad the writer would then write the John Wick films which definitely improved his writing and gave the heroes and villains depth and motivations.If you're a fan of either Lundgren or Austin, avoid it at all costs watch Hunt to Kill for Austin and Skin Trade for Dolph, they are more worth your time and they deliver what you want..
This is a direct to video movie with Dolph Lundgren so it is fair to say that my expectations where not really that high.
Nevertheless, I do like action movies and I do have a faiblesse for Dolph Lundgren.
Both Steve Austin and Dolph Lundgren are great as the tough silent gun-slinging hard-hitting bad guys.
I really liked them walking through the movie leaving a trail of surprised, knocked out or dead, mostly dead actually, people.The story is not really that bad and it has somewhat of a twist to it even though that twist is fairly easily guessed once you are a bit into the movie.
The movie moves at a brisk pace yet there are enough material in between to tie the action together in a logical (logical for a direct to video action movie of course) way.Dolph Lundgren have never exactly been an actor who would win any awards for his character portrayal or actual acting performance.
Well, of course there is the obligatory sex-appeal female in the movie but she is one of the bad guys so, not surprisingly she is not around for the grand finale.Bottom line: this is a fun classical action movie and I definitely enjoyed it..
In this movie Sean Austin is the hero , while Dolph Lundgren is the villain.
It's bizarre to see Lundgren in this kind of role and despite the fact that he has one shootout and fighting scene he's pretty much wasted here."The Package" has a very decent production values , especially for a straight-to-DVD movie.
He actually gives the best performance in the whole movie.If you want to see Steve Austin and Dolph Lundgren in one movie together you should watch "The Expendables" instead .
Well, with a cast that includes Dolph Lundgren and Steve Austin it is no secret that this is a movie targeted for a male audience, and you know it is going to be a testosterone-filled movie.However, director Jesse V.
Johnson just didn't fully manage to deliver a package, pardon the pun, that would actually suffice and live up to whatever expectations there might have been given the cast list.The story is about Tommy Wick (played by Steve Austin) who is hired to deliver a package to 'The German' (played by Dolph Lundgren).
But getting from point A to point B is more difficult than it would seem, as the gangsters and other bad guys just come at him from every direction at any given time of the day.Indeed, the storyline in "The Package" was nothing impressive, and it was so simple that it was bordering on being insulting to the audience.
However, it was nice to see Dolph Lundgren in a sadistic bad guy role for a change."The Package" is an action movie that come a dozen a dime.
Four out of ten stars, generously given solely because I grew up with watching Dolph Lundgren action movies..
Steve Austin plays a collector for a local mobster who does what he does to pay a debt racked up by his brother.The mobster gives Austin a chance to wipe his slate clean if he delivered a package to the German (Dolph Lundgren.)As soon as Austin goes out to carry his task, other thugs attack him and pursue him repeatedly.
It seems they want a big payday for themselves and steal The Package.Meanwhile various people have a vendetta against The German as well who fends them off but he looks far from healthy.Austin brings a quiet dignity to his role, which he has done in several other films.
Lundgren buoyed by the cinema outings of The Expendables franchise gets to act flamboyant which he also did in One in the Chamber.Its a low budget action film, a lot of action, some nifty fight scenes but the story is rather predictable, even bland.
It isn't either of those, but it's no masterpiece either.It's simply average - the type of film you can have on in the background while you're doing something else and still understand everything that's going on.Steve Austin has to transport a 'package' across America.
It has fights, it has shoot-outs and it even has Dolph Lundgren to throw a few punches.There's really very little you can say about the film.
he was shot so many times in this movie, but turned out to be fine, like nothing happened.
he also acted like invincible but later was beaten up by tommy, a nobody played by steve austin.more funny thing was that tommy, the immortal got a wife, a sweetheart totally unnecessary for this movie.well, another stupid arrangement was the so-called "the package", something mysteriously borrowed from "ronin", a attaché aluminum case nobody knows what the contents inside but everybody tried their best to kill others to get hold of it.
Tommy (Steve Austin) plays strong arm for crime boss Big Doug (Eric Keenleyside).
Tommy has an offer by Big Doug to clear Eddie's debt by delivering a package to "The German" (Dolph Lundgren).
We don't know what is in the package, until about midpoint, when we can figure it out before they tell us.Dolph is introduced in a restaurant fight scene where he takes down about a half dozen to a dozen guys armed with automatic weapons by using a butter knife.
The climax scene where we expect the titans to fight was a let down.It is a typical fun Austin film, made better by Lundgren playing a likeable villain, a role similar to "One in the Chamber." If you like action films with simple plots, tough guy characters, fair dialogue and acting optional, this one fits the bill.
Finally things even out and become simpler as Steve Austin emerges as the hulking hero of the hour while Dolph Lundgren relishes the opportunity to play the villain set against him.
One day, Tommy is entrusted to deliver THE PACKAGE to rival crime lord The German (Dolph).
For us, the highlights naturally were the fight with Darren Shahlavi, who was so memorable as the baddie from Bloodmoon (1997), the fight with none other than Jerry Trimble, who we thought looked and sounded great, time has been very kind to him and we hope this revives his movie career, and of course the Dolph-Stone Cold battle that the whole film leads up to.
It seems his last bad guy role, or at least the only one that comes to mind, was way back as Ivan Drago.Not to be confused with the Gene Hackman vehicle The Package (1989), this particular The Package makes for entertaining and pleasant DTV action viewing, and has a different look and feel than another Anchor Bay-released Dolph outing, The Killing Machine (2010) (which interestingly also featured actress Monique Ganderton) - so if you're worried that Anchor Bay is just pumping out a mindless, samey stream of Dolph movies, have no fear, that's not the case.
Of course, the classic clichés are also delivered (pun intended?) - the Prerequisite Torture of the hero, the wife of the hero who wants him to quit his dangerous job/lifestyle, and a favorite of ours, when the baddies find a place where they know the hero is, then break out at least one machine gun and proceed to shoot up the place from outside, in an extended shooting scene, rather than go inside, giving the hero ample time to survive.It was comforting to watch a solidly-made modern-day actioner - it always helps to know you're in capable hands (speaking about the writing and direction, and all the other technical aspects, which were all pretty much right on target).
They are usually low budget action flicks, but they deliver nicely and I'm in for a good time.
Dolph Lundgren is also a star that i like, and owns several DTV movies he made, some pretty good, some not that great, but there is certainly more good than bads.This movie and Maximum Conviction(Austin/Seagal) came out nearly at the same time, but i had trouble finding The Package.
After having saw the previous Austin movie with Seagal i tough "hey if Austin can make a decent movie with Seagal, he surely can with Lundgren" but i think either the long wait have put my expectation too hight or i was misleaded by the cover.I tough Austin and Lundgren where partners in this, but the facts are that Lundgren end up being the big bad of the movie, even tough the movie present him as a main character and somewhat when Austin's charisma free partner get kill, you are waiting for him and Lundgren to team up together or something to go fight the baddies team lead by Darren Shahlavi.Honestly i can't understand where it got wrong.
Add a Jerry Trimble cameo(and the guy still delivers pretty good) for another sub boss and you end up wondering where the movie is going most of it.The final twist was kinda disappointing to me, and the fight between Austin and Lundgren is far from being impressive, especially considering the intro scene of Lundgren that was way better.
I know Dolph ain't getting younger, but not that many years ago he delivered some pretty cool fight scenes in his recent movie.
Lundgren dialogues are very OK, i just feel the general story of the movie could had been better, and the fights more impressive.
I know he is a brawler, but still...Anyway i am sure Austin's got many more nice action movie in store, and Lundgren will reprise his excellent role as Gunnar in Expendables 3, so it ain't the end of the world that this movie was under my expectation.I would give it a 6.5 could i use this rating, cause i had a decent time, i was just expecting more..
So, for the twist in the plot this movie also does not get any points.The acting is bad, but fine.
don't waste your time watching this movie.
They made action movies like this in the 80' with the dozen.
Dolf Lundgren still speaks as slow as a snail and Steve Austin still looks like a walking wardrobe, Louis XIV style or so.The action was sometimes very fake and the story with the blood type was far-fetched and unbelievable.
Stone Cold Steve Austin Versus Dolph Lundgren Through A lot Of Guys.
I don't go out of my way to see a Steve Austin movie and he does enough of them.
I'm an 80's action junkie so I sat down to watch this strictly because Dolph Lundgren was in it.
The script tries honestly enough and the main character is actually a pretty good anti hero but the script doesn't give up enough to make this last for a feature length film.
The fights are WWE style in true Austin fashion and the action scenes are basically okay but very, very choreographed and therefore look hokey.
It delivers what any person who loves Steve Austin movies would enjoy so I can't fault it for that.
The saving grace for the movie is actually Lundgren's sadistic "German" as he's known but he's very underused which is unfortunate.Steve Austin isn't a bad actor.