Double Crosser

I'll keep this short, because quite honestly i'm not sure what to write. I saw this film on an epic, epic day. After becoming addicted to viewing Peter O'Brian movies, yet only having The Intruder and The Stabilizer, i was yearning for something new. Thanks to an over-charging American, my friends and I were granted the pleasure of watching Double Crosser and Jungle Heat - (not yet listed) in the same day. Favourite line: "The silence is deafening".

Things I learnt: 1) If a movie over spends its budget, its likely to end the film with a massive explosion that leaves you with the conclusion, "ah well, i suppose they all died." 2) Little blind girls without walking sticks walk like Zombies and are VERY VERY annoying. 3) In Indonesia in 1990, the toy every little child had always wanted was a stuffed panda. 4)Peter O'Brians fighting techniques significantly improved between the years of 1984 and 1990. 5) If you walk in on your brother in law and your woman hanging a picture together, its clear they must be engaged in an affair. 6) If you're kidnapped once in a Peter O'Brian film, then its highly probable that the bad guys will kidnap you again. 7) Villains DO own crocodiles! but good guys rarely get eaten. 8) a friend called Ruben will ALWAYS be on hand waiting with a one man plane fuelled and ready to take, no questions asked, he'll just sit on the runway and say, "OK". 9) Beware of Theme Parks, you are likely to be attacked as you board a ferris wheel cart.

I whole heartedly recommend Double Crosser as an integral part of the Peter O'Brian experience.

So whines the frankly bloody infuriating blind daughter of all out macho man Jake, (played by Peter *God* O'Brian) after a bad guy has just disembowelled the child's cuddly toy for no apparent reason other than to demonstrate just what a rotten so and so he is.

Fear not though, for said stuffed cutie is later avenged by our hero in style who also manages to wipe out seemingly half the population of Indonesia along the way to!

Yes, any film directed by the mighty Arizal is always well worth a look and Double Crosser, although far from the prolific directors finest work is no exception. It's a joyous cauldron of crappy acting, bad dubbing, cool stunts, ridiculous plot contrivances, big shoot outs, fist fights, martial arts, explosions and curly mullets. What more could you possibly wish for in a film?!

Things to watch out for: The aforementioned blind daughter who as another reviewer quite rightly described walks like she has just wandered onto the wrong set from a zombie flick(!), some truly and hilariously daft plot twists such as when our hero is fooled (incredibly easily!) into believing that his best friend and brother in law is playing away with his new woman, a live chicken being fed to a crocodile(!), some priceless side splitting dialogue and best of all the ending in this............ To call it abrupt would be to put it mildly! - Let's just say that you'll likely be rendered utterly speechless in confusion upon viewing it, but such a ridiculous finale only adds to the movies overall charm.

Fellow bad movie lovers, grab yourself a copy of this flick; With the partnership of Peter O'Brian and Arizal, you just know it's going to be fun.