The Art of War

With a vital trade agreement hanging in the balance, a shipload of dead Asian refugees and the assassination of the Chinese ambassador threaten the plans of the UN secretary-general Donald Sutherland. Wesley Snipes is the UN agent implicated in the murder who must uncover the truth before he too dies., When the Chinese ambassador to the US is assassinated during vital trade talks between the two countries, a spy who is assigned to find the killer becomes the main suspect himself. He teams up with a UN interpreter in order to track down a recording of the assassination and prove his innocence., Action adventure. When the Chinese ambassador to the US is assassinated during vital trade talks between the two countries, a spy who is assigned to find the killer becomes the main suspect himself. He teams up with a UN interpreter in order to track down a recording of the assassination and prove his innocence., A spy who has convinced much of the world he doesn’t exist now must prove that he does in order to save thousands of lives in this thriller. After the assassination of Wu (James Hong), China’s ambassador to the United Nations, in the midst of negotiations on a trade pact, FBI agent Neil Shaw (Wesley Snipes) is assigned to ferret out the killer by his superior, Eleanor Hooks (Anne Archer). But Shaw soon discovers that he’s now considered a key suspect in the murder, and is the subject of a manhunt. Shaw’s ability to cover his tracks, and his network of similarly “invisible” agents, makes him a hard man to track down. But when Shaw learns that the real killers not only plan to strike again but intend to take out most of the U.N. in the process, he swings into action to prevent the attack and clear his name; Shaw is thrown into a partnership with Julia (Marie Matiko), a U.N. interpreter who witnessed Wu’s murder and may be able to trace a recording of the crime. The Art of War co-stars Michael Biehn as Bly, one of Shaw’s associates, and Donald Sutherland as the Secretary General of the United Nations. The film was originally written as a vehicle of Hong Kong action star Jet Li before Snipes stepped in as both star and executive producer., A member of the UN’s covert-operations unit is framed for the murder of a Chinese diplomat on the eve of an important trade agreement., Wesley Snipes plays action hero in this complex conspiracy thriller. Snipes is Shaw, a one-man wrecking crew doing dirty work for a covert UN unit. When a diplomat is murdered on the eve of an important trade agreement, Shaw is set up to take the blame. Anne Archer, Marie Matiko, Donald Sutherland, Maury Chaykin.