Crackerjack is a 1994 Canadian action film directed by Michael Mazo, and starring Thomas Ian Griffith, Nastassja Kinski and Christopher Plummer.
Nicknamed "Crackerjack" by his colleagues due to his reckless behavior, Jack is forced into a family vacation with his older brother, Michael, and sister-in-law, Annie, at an isolated Rocky Mountains resort.
Meanwhile, a kidnapped ice scientist named Oliver Green has been forced to plant bombs in the surrounding glacier in a mysterious plot organized by the terrorist Ivan Getz.
At that moment, the terrorists take control of the resort and attempt to coerce the mob boss to hand over his cache of diamonds, but he refuses and subsequently dies without revealing their location.
An injured Jack, realizing that Getz is the man who murdered his family, limps to the resort first aid station and discovers Oliver Green, who is hiding from the terrorists.
[8] It was the last film shot in British Columbia by North American Pictures, before production costs drove it to move much of its operations to founder Lloyd Simandl's native Czech Republic.
Writing in The Province and SouthamStar newspapers, Lee Bacchus mocked the film's tropish nature, and presented his review in the form of a quiz about genre stereotypes which, if answered correctly, meant that "you're indeed film-wise and have absolutely no reason to see Crackerjack".
[21] Kim Newman of Empire called the film a "Die Hard rip-off" where Griffith displays "formula heroism" while "[s]niggering baddie Christopher Plummer and disposable love interest Nastassja Kinski do little to spruce up a strictly no-frills effort.
"[22] British reference book Elliot's Guide to Home Entertainment deemed it "[a] by-the-numbers, big-scale actioner in the Die Hard mould, with ample violence to disguise both bad acting and holes in the plot.
"[23] TV Guide commented that "[a]ction fans not burned out on the familiar Die Hard formula will judge this variation at a mountain lodge passable.
Under Michael Mazo's direction, this carbon copy is well paced, with some good visuals and action sequences, but bland Griffith, and Plummer's comical imitation of Alan Rickman will never get this confused with the real McCoy".