Rainbow Warrior (1993)

Jon Voight, Sam Neill, Bruno Lawrence, Kerry Fox, John Callen ... see more  , Stacey Pickren , Tony Barry , Alison Bruce , Stig Eldred , Donough Rees , Martyn Sanderson , Greg Johnson , Ken Blackburn , Bruce Allpress , Joanna Briant , Nigel Harbrow , Te Whatanui Skimworth , Stephen Hall

"Rainbow Warrior" was the name of a real-life Greenpeace vessel, which embarked upon a worldwide pro-ecological mission in the early 1980s. While docked in New Zealand in 1985, the Rainbow Warior was ... read more destroyed by a bomb, and a crew member was killed. In this dramatization, Sam Neill and Jon Voight play two polar opposites-a hardbitten cop and a eco-activist, respectively--who team up to track down the bomber. Wisely, the script avoids making "save the whales"-type speeches, concentrating on the matters at hand in a no-frills fashion. Rainbow Warrior was released directly to video. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi