Five Fingers is a 2006

2006 in film

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 film

Film

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 written by Chad Thumann and Laurence Malkin and directed by Malkin.

The film was produced by many people, including actor Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne

Laurence John Fishburne III is an American film and stage actor, playwright, director, and producer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Morpheus in the Matrix science fiction film trilogy, as Cowboy Curtis on the 1980's television show Pee-wee's Playhouse, and as singer-musician Ike Turner...

 who stars in the film alongside Mimi Ferrer, Ryan Phillipe, Touriya Haoud

Touriya Haoud

Touriya Haoud is a Dutch actress, model and singer of Macedonian and Moroccan heritage.-Biography:Haoud was born in in Rhenen, Utrecht, the Netherlands....

, Isa Hoes, and Colm Meaney

Colm Meaney

Colm J. Meaney is an Irish actor widely known for playing Miles O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He is second only to Michael Dorn in most appearances in Star Trek episodes. He has guest-starred on many TV shows from Law & Order to The Simpsons...

. Five Fingers was filmed in the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

, Morocco

Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

, and Louisiana

Louisiana

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 in 2004.

Plot Summary

Martijn (Phillipe), a gifted Dutch jazz pianist, flies to Morocco to set up a food assistance program. When he arrives, however, he and his travel guide, Gavin (Meaney) are quickly kidnapped by terrorists, taken to an undisclosed location, bound and blindfolded. The captors swiftly kill Gavin and then begin methodical attempts to extract information from Martijn about where he obtained the money to set up the program by cutting off his fingers one at a time. Martijn insists that he has no idea where the money came from, though in time it becomes clear that all is not what it seems. As the torture continues, Ahmat (Fishburne) tries his hardest to get answers from Martijn. Eventually, Martijn reveals to Ahmat that he was a terrorist and was poisoning food. Youseff, a man who had been filming Martijn, kills him. Ahmat is revealed to be a CIA agent, Gavin is revealed to be an American who had been with Ahmat the entire time. Ahmat and his girlfriend go for a drink, showing the statue of liberty revealing they had been in New York City the entire time.

Cast

• Laurence Fishburne
  Laurence Fishburne
  Laurence John Fishburne III is an American film and stage actor, playwright, director, and producer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Morpheus in the Matrix science fiction film trilogy, as Cowboy Curtis on the 1980's television show Pee-wee's Playhouse, and as singer-musician Ike Turner...
  
   as Ahmat
• Ryan Phillipe as Martijn
• Gina Torres
  Gina Torres
  Gina Torres is an American television and movie actress. She is known for her roles in science fiction and fantasy. She has appeared in many television series, including Hercules: The Legendary Journeys , Xena: Warrior Princess , the short-lived Cleopatra 2525, as well as Alias , Firefly Gina...
  
   as Aicha
• Touriya Haoud
  Touriya Haoud
  Touriya Haoud is a Dutch actress, model and singer of Macedonian and Moroccan heritage.-Biography:Haoud was born in in Rhenen, Utrecht, the Netherlands....
  
   as Saadia
• Saïd Taghmaoui
  Saïd Taghmaoui
  Saïd Taghmaoui is a French actor and screenwriter. One of his defining screen roles was that of Saïd in the award winning 1995 French film La Haine directed by Mathieu Kassovitz...
  
   as Youseff
• Colm Meaney
  Colm Meaney
  Colm J. Meaney is an Irish actor widely known for playing Miles O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He is second only to Michael Dorn in most appearances in Star Trek episodes. He has guest-starred on many TV shows from Law & Order to The Simpsons...
  
   as Gavin
• Anton Sinke as The Donor
• Antonie Kamerling
  Antonie Kamerling
  Antonie Kamerling was a Dutch television and film actor and musician.-Biography:Antonie Kamerling was still a law student when in 1990 he was cast in the then new Dutch soap opera Good Times, Bad Times. His character, Peter Kelder, quickly became one of the most popular on the program...
  
   as Policeman
• Kimmosato as Neighbour
• Isa Hoes as Mother
• Merlijn Kamerling as Boy
• Delilah Van Eyck as Waitress

Reception

The film made virtually no money in its short run in theaters. On Rotten Tomatoes

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 the film has two fresh reviews and one rotten review. Jay Weissberg, from Variety

Variety (magazine)

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gave the film a positive review saying, “As a lesson in how subtle acting styles can calm a highly pitched story, pic delivers the goods.”