Fast Gun

I watched this movie the other night with a couple of friends, bought it at the bargain-bin somewhere a long time ago, and didn't really feel like watching it right away because of the ridiculous cover of a gun-toting Rick Hill standing in front of a big sheriff-star! And the cover didn't lie, the movie was a complete JOKE!

Summary: In the beginning we see a bunch of hooded thugs robbing a bunch of places apparently guarded by the Military Police, but the MP's look like interns! They have NO soldier-skills WHAT so ever! All it takes to kill them is a slight bash to the head or a choke-hold, that's IT! And the bad guys rob a bunch of weapons, which supposedly is going to be sold to some foreign buyers or something..

The hero is a small-town sheriff (Rick Hill as Jack Stieger), whose partner back in the big city was killed, thus prompting Jack to become a small town cop instead, how sad, aww, let's feel sorry for him, please.

And on top of all that, the town isn't even a real town! It's clearly made by cardboard cut-outs or some sort of super-cheap material that not even hobo's would want to live in! It's all blown to pieces at the end anyway..

Argh, I don't even wanna go on, this movie was so bad, my brain hurts trying to remember it.. but the worst thing about it was the ending:

*SPOILER*

He shoots bad guys with a HUGE machine-gun, I have NO idea how the hell he got it, since small-town cops don't usually have automatic weapons like that, but maybe he took it from some dead guys corpse and didn't want to let it go... but anyway: When he's up against helicopters (filled with machine-gun shooting madmen) or fully loaded freight-planes, he pulls out his smaller handgun and shoots: Once, Twice, Thrice, and BOOOM! The aircrafts EXPLODE!!! What kind of ammo he's been using I don't know, but it CAN'T be legal, that's for sure!

*END OF SPOILER*

All in all, I give this movie 3/10 because: 1: It made me laugh, especially at the ending with the 1-2-3 shot, and the scene when the barkeep comes out of the closed bar to face a bunch of evil looking bad guys, just to tell them: "We're closed"...what the hell was HE doing there, then?? What a moron! The bad guys obviously didn't think anybody was in there until he came out of the shop! They proceeded to beat him up and rob the place of course.

2: Robert Dryer was in it, and he's almost as cool as he was in "Savage Streets"! Plus Kas Garaz is in the film too! That's just a funny name.

and 3: What? Rick's T-shirt is sweating in one scene, and then it suddenly turns all dried up in another scene?? Must've been Robert 'Dryer' who did some kind of magic to it....oh, wait...1-2-3: KA-BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, right from the start you know what you are in for with this movie. A below average action movie from the late 80's.

At least they meant well, but it was just hard to take the movie all that serious.

Most of the acting wasn't too shabby actually, that counts for something. But of course, in a genre that was flooded with countless movies, only Rick Hill really stood out in the crowd here.

If you decide to sit down and watch this movie, you will be in for some mediocre action and some good laughs (despite the movie isn't trying to be funny). I found many of the scenes to be so far out there, that I could only laugh at it. For me, the best scene was where a helicopter exploded from three shots from the "Fast Gun". That was hilarious!

This is not one of the best movies that Rick Hill made, but if you want something to laugh about with a pinch of action thrown in, put this movie on and just disable your brain and hop along for the ride.

"No matter how fast you are, someone's always faster!"