Phase IV is a 2001 Canadian-American direct-to-video action-thriller film starring Dean Cain and Brian Bosworth. It was directed by Bryan Goeres.
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Plot
Journalist Simon Tate is investigating the apparently "unrelated" accidental deaths of several students at a local university. When his friend, Dr. Benjamin Roanic, becomes a prime suspect and is then subsequently murdered, Simon sets out to prove Roanic's innocence and establish a link between the deaths and an AIDS-related drug test program.
Cast
Dean Cain as Simon Tate
Stephen Coats as Benjamin Roanic
Brian Bosworth as Detective Steven Birnam
Mimi Kuzyk as Diana Holt
Heather Mathieson as Carla Tate
Richard Donat as Karl Dean
Reception
Robert Pardi from TV Guide gave the film two out of five stars, stating: "This anti-establishment action flick is an unsatisfying mix of cautionary sci-fi tale and Hitchcockian thriller." Glenn Erickson writing for the website DVD Talk gave the film two and a half out of five stars and said: "Most of the acting is reasonable. Bosworth's role is dull but Dean Cain is likeable in a numbskull kind of way engineered to be acceptable in as many foreign markets as possible."