''IF2: Interceptor Force 2'', commonly called ''Interceptor Force 2'', is a 2002
Sci Fi Pictures science-fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, sp ...
TV movie on the
Sci Fi Channel. A sequel to the 1999 Sci Fi Channel telefilm ''
Interceptor Force'', it is directed by
Phillip Roth, and stars
Olivier Gruner
Olivier Gruner () (born August 2, 1960) is a French actor, filmmaker, martial artist and former kickboxer. Born in Paris, he moved back to France in 1988 after serving in the French military and competing as a professional kickboxer, during whic ...
,
Roger R. Cross
Roger Cross (born October 19, 1969) is a Jamaican-Canadian actor who has made numerous appearances in several films and television series, mostly on productions shot in Canada. He is known for his work as Curtis Manning on '' 24'' (2005–2007 ...
,
Adrienne Wilkinson
Adrienne Wilkinson is an American actress. She is known for playing Eve, the daughter of Xena in the TV series '' Xena: Warrior Princess'' in the fifth and sixth seasons. She has appeared in numerous television series such as ''Angel,'' ''Charmed ...
,
Elizabeth Gracen
Elizabeth Ward Gracen (born Elizabeth Grace Ward, April 3, 1961) is an American actress and beauty pageant contestant who won the title of Miss America in 1982.
Early life and education
Elizabeth Grace Ward was born on April 3, 1961, in Oz ...
and
Nigel Bennett
Nigel Bennett (born 19 November 1949) is an English-born Canadian actor, director and writer. He is best known for playing the vampire patriarch Lucien LaCroix in the TV series ''Forever Knight'', for which he won the Canadian Gemini Award for b ...
. Government-trained soldiers called the Interceptors are assigned to look at a crash site of an alien spacecraft in Russia where they find a alien that can change shape.
Plot
Over
Grozny
Grozny (, ; ) is the capital city of Chechnya, Russia.
The city lies on the Sunzha River. According to the 2021 Russian census, 2021 census, it had a population of 328,533 — up from 210,720 recorded in the 2002 Russian Census, 2002 ce ...
,
Russia
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, a pair of fighter jets chase down an unidentified spacecraft moving at supersonic speeds. Within minutes, it is the jets that are chased and eventually blasted out of the sky by the spacecraft. Minutes later, residents report a "meteor" flying past the city and landing somewhere in the distant hills. Jack Bavaro, head of the Alpha Force, calls in Lieutenant Sean Lambert, the sole survivor of the first Alpha mission four years ago in Mexico. Lambert's entire team was killed while trying to capture a single specimen of extraterrestrial life. Now Weber wants Lambert to take a new team of interceptors into Russia to capture this new alien specimen.
Lambert and the Alpha Force fly to Grozny. The new team consists of science officer Dawn DeSilva and German Special Ops soldiers Bjorn Hatch, Nathan McAllister and Adriana Sikes. They find the wreckage of the alien spacecraft outside a Russian nuclear plant. Holes blasted in the razor fencing and thick concrete walls suggest the alien is inside.
The Alpha Force enters the nuclear plant and seal off the exits, creating a trap for the alien. But then, one by one, the team is killed off by a creature that possesses a laser weapon, can change its appearance, and can also regenerate itself completely from a single piece of alien tissue. Additionally, the alien has found a way to explode all the uranium fuel rods in the nuclear plant to create a lethal radiation cloud over Europe that will quickly spread and cover the rest of the world. Lambert and the remaining Alpha Force have 60 minutes to save themselves, and the Earth, from nuclear doom.
Cast
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Olivier Gruner
Olivier Gruner () (born August 2, 1960) is a French actor, filmmaker, martial artist and former kickboxer. Born in Paris, he moved back to France in 1988 after serving in the French military and competing as a professional kickboxer, during whic ...
as Lieutenant Sean Lambert
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Roger R. Cross
Roger Cross (born October 19, 1969) is a Jamaican-Canadian actor who has made numerous appearances in several films and television series, mostly on productions shot in Canada. He is known for his work as Curtis Manning on '' 24'' (2005–2007 ...
as Nathan McCallister
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Adrienne Wilkinson
Adrienne Wilkinson is an American actress. She is known for playing Eve, the daughter of Xena in the TV series '' Xena: Warrior Princess'' in the fifth and sixth seasons. She has appeared in numerous television series such as ''Angel,'' ''Charmed ...
as Dr. Dawn DeSilvia
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Elizabeth Gracen
Elizabeth Ward Gracen (born Elizabeth Grace Ward, April 3, 1961) is an American actress and beauty pageant contestant who won the title of Miss America in 1982.
Early life and education
Elizabeth Grace Ward was born on April 3, 1961, in Oz ...
as Adriana Sikes
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Alex Jolig as Bjorn Hatch
* Eve Scheer as The Woman
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Nigel Bennett
Nigel Bennett (born 19 November 1949) is an English-born Canadian actor, director and writer. He is best known for playing the vampire patriarch Lucien LaCroix in the TV series ''Forever Knight'', for which he won the Canadian Gemini Award for b ...
as Director Jack Bavaro
* Richard Gnolfo as Jenkins
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Hristo Shopov
Hristo Naumov Shopov (, ; born 4 January 1964) is a Bulgarian actor. Shopov's father, Naum Shopov, was a famous Bulgarian actor as well.
He is most noted for his 2004 portrayal of Pontius Pilate in Mel Gibson's ''The Passion of the Christ''. S ...
as Commander Gorshkov
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Vladimir Kolev
Vladimir Kolev (, born April 18, 1954) is a retired boxer from Bulgaria and Olympic bronze medalist. He also works as an actor, and has appeared in many American films.
At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, he won the ...
as First Officer
* Maxim Gentchev as Burly
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Yulian Vergov
Julian Emilianov Vergov (; born 15 July 1970) is a Bulgarian actor. He is best known for starring in the drama series '' Glass Home'' (2010–2012), and the medical drama '' Stolen Life'' (2017–2019).
Vergov made his acting debut in theatre, ...
as Chechen Rebel Leader
* Georgi Borissov as Dimitrii Pavakori
* Georgi Ivanov as Sergey
* Alan Austin as The President (voice)
Production
The film was produced by the Unified Film Organization and Interforce Productions, LLC, in association with Media Entertainment GmbH, Co. 1 Filmproduktions HG and Sci Fi Pictures.
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official site ( Sci Fi Channel) . Archived fro
the original
on February 8, 2005. Aside from the crewmembers listed in the infobox, the crew includes
production designer
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Kes Bonnet,
digital effects
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supervisor
David Ridlen,
visual effects
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a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production.
The integration of live-action footage and other live-action fo ...
supervisor Alvaro Villagomez, and
costume designer
A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film, stage production or television show. The role of the costume designer is to create the characters' outfits or costumes and balance the scenes with texture and colour, etc. The costum ...
Irene Sinclair.
The original ''
Interceptor Force'' (1999) had been the Sci Fi Channel's highest-rated TV-movie to that point.
References
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