Tough and Deadly
THE STORY: A buddy crime movie with Billy Blanks and Roddy Piper?! Why sure!
Billy Blanks is "Quicksilver" a CIA agent. When he comes across some information he isn't supposed to know he is beaten and drugged and left for dead. He awakens in a hospital without his memory. Elmo Freech (Roddy Piper), a private detective has already saved his life once while he was comatose. Freech takes "Quicksilver" in, calling him "John Portland'. They become partners of sorts. In time the pair learn that another CIA agent, Trenkler, is behind a big drug operation and it was he that engineered the plot against "Quicksilver". After a big fight scene finale with lots of explosions and brutal karate fights, our heroes emerge victorious!
Okay, since we know this a Roddy Piper movie, we know its going to be kinda cheesey...thats fine, because the Rod-Man is good for great cheesey movies. Billy Blanks is no actor but he's a great martial artist (Hey I know he could kick my ass)...to be honest his acting was't that bad. This movie must have had a decent budget, too. Its almost wall to wall fight scenes though. Thats a good thing!
best lines: "You ain't worth a dime to me...I'd rather shoot ya."-Elmo Freech to a thug.
"Orange juice, please...."-"Quicksilver" after he gags on a shot of chivas whiskey.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?:
1.) When we first meet Quicksilver he gets in a bigass fight. Theres one guy he hits repeatedly...for Pete's sake, how many times does he have to kick this guy? The poor shmuck must be dead by now!
2.) So, um, if Freech can figure out that "Quicksilver" has no real identity, then why haven't the police?
3.) The crooks are using an abandoned Army base for a drug running base? C'mon! first of all, I would like to know if there are any abandoned military bases in real life that just any shmoe can walk up to...secondly, even if there were, wouldn't someone notice a big ass drug smuggling operation going on there eventually? After all, the base is abandoned? Why wouldn't people, hitchhikers, bums, teens looking for a place to have sex, go there? If the CIA funded crooks shooed them away they'd tell someone!
4.) For CIA funded drug criminals they suck! both "Quicksilver" and Freech separately snuck into their operation!
5.) Whoa! Roddy Piper put the"sleeper" hold on a guy! Cool!
NUDITY AND SEX: Nada
HUH?: The first CIA briefing scene didn't tell me a damn thing that I didn't know already!
So Freech has "John Portland" as a partner now? Why? He knows nothing about him, except someone wants him dead. Niether one of them seems to concerned with finding anything out either!
Is everyone in this movie a martial arts expert? Every swinging dick that the heroes meet knows how to fight and pretty [unwrite]ing well, too.
At the end of this movie, when Freech beats up Milan who is driving the drug filled van away he turns around. now, its dark at that time...and Milan hasn't been on the road for more than say 20 minutes, but when Freech arrives back at the army base with the van its bright outside, Much brighter than early morning so Freech must have taken his time driving back.
The Tally: Theres not much more than fight scenes to expect in this movie. Thats all I really expected. For a buddy-fight-scene movie this flick does okay. If you expect a really good plot, or character development then you definitely rented the wrong movie. If you want to see Roddy Piper and Billy Blanks beat some guys up, then you hit the jackpot.