The Double O Kid

Stars: Corey Haim (License to Drive, Prayer of the Rollerboys), Brigette Nielsen (Beverly Hills Cop II, Rocky IV, Cobra), Wallace Shawn (My Dinner With Andre, The Princess Bride). "One lame Haim" about sums it up for this tired James Bond Jr. wannabe. Former teen idol Corey Haim stars as Lance Elliott, a 17-year-old gofer working for a CIA-like organization. Ordered to rush a package to L.A., the kid finds himself knee-deep in a dastardly plot concocted by a wacko computer virus designer (Wallace Shawn, slumming) to wipe out a group of scientists who are flying enroute to an environmental summit meeting. The Double O Kid, which cheerfully rips off the James Bond theme and then plays it incessantly throughout the film, could have been a decent action comedy if the filmmakers had cared more than a rat's butt about the story, but they don't and neither do we. A subplot involving a couple of deadly virtual reality videogames offer what little inventiveness the film has--but the occasional computer-animated sequence is strictly Amiga home computer level. Female action star Brigette Nielsen plays Shawn's partner in crime, and she does an okay job of being the tallest person in the movie, while Nicole Eggert plays the stereotypical frazzled female love interest. Uninspired filmmaking at its most obvious. Audience: A lead-off scene featuring a brutal shooting (complete with a jerking body) and a stream of fair-to-middling profanities throughout will not sit well with parents who fell for the game-oriented cover. And this is way too uncool to even rate a glance from the teen audience for which it seems intended.