This is a tale of sweet revenge. After his daughter and wife are killed by an evil arms dealer for no good reason other than being in the wrong time at the wrong place, John North (Brian Bosworth) is out for revenge. Who can blame him? And he’s the guy who can pull it off—a military officer who trains soldiers in hand to hand combat, he’s a walking, talking time bomb ready to go off. No wonder the alternative title is One Tough Bastard. North finally tracks down the suspected arms dealer—Karl Savak (Bruce), an FBI agent. Now things really take off in a flight of fancy.  Unless they are
undercover agents,
FBI
personnel do NOT look like Karl Savak. Come on—long hair, a ring in his
nose? No way. Agents dress like Scully and Muldur on The
X-Files,
not in Savak’s
fancy
duds, let alone that nose ring! Don’t get us wrong, we’re not
complaining about the way Bruce looks. That long hair and cigarette
constantly dangling out his mouth are very sexy in a bad boy sort of
way. Nor has Bruce ever looked more sensuous. Whew! But the
character is not very nice. Not nice at all. Savak does manages some droll line while on his killing sprees. To one competing arms dealer who’s about to get aerated with  major assault
weapons, he
comments, “You follow
Muhammad Ali, don't ja? You just don’t dance as good.” Ever the cool
bad guy, he waltzes into the headquarters of a very tough Black bad guy
played by M.C. Hammer (who doesn’t dance or sing in this one, though it
might have perked things up) and smarts off. Right and these guys
won’t tell the FBI? Well, they do want in on the hot new weapon
that Savak is marketing. But their karma catches up with their greed
later on… U can't touch this. :)Well, frankly the rest of the plot is not seriously worth talking about. It’s full of cliches, implausibilities, an annoying kid and schmaltz (North trying to save the kid from the path of evil…). But as so often is the case in his movies, Bruce is the highlight of the film and the only thing that makes it watchable. Savak is yet another delicious villain played by Bruce with great panache and drollery. We tend to agree with one reviewer at the IMDb who said:  “If not for
Bruce Payne who
obviously had fun
over-acting, this would be one of the worst movies I ever saw.
Fortunately Payne probably saw the mess he was in and decided to take
the money and at least have a good time so we get a bad guy's
caricature that is actually quite funny.”
Wanna perk up a movie? Hire Bruce Payne. He always comes to the
rescue.He’s gorgeous, he’s cool, he’s funny, he’s sexy. We can handle the logic-defying plot and even that nose ring just to see Bruce strut his ever so delectable stuff in this one. |
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