Intent to Kill

Despite the endless violence, I nearly fell asleep.

Traci does her best playing a feminist hero here. And to be fair, the whole cast gave their all. But the director REALLY goofed.

Piling car chase after fistfight after senseless killing on top of each other will not guarantee a thriller. It seemed that they just decided to kill several cops when they couldn't think of anything better to film.

Angelo Tiffe made a great villain here. You did want to see him die. But early, so you wouldn't have to watch this heap of celluloid.

And whose idea was it to put classical music on the sound track? It did not help.

Violent and boring. Bad combo people.

Why do the cops only have handguns? They knew exactly what they were doing, they set up a huge undercover operation. Why did they go out of their way to hit parked cars not anywhere near them?

Yahphet Kotto is the only person here who can act, and he's phoning it in. Right after this he'd join Homicide Life On The Street and do basically the same character but massively better. Traci's stuntwork is so bad she looks like she's drunk or stoned, and they had to do a lot of editing to make her appear mobile.

Almost all of the dialogue sounds ADR'd, and very poorly. Almost all of the action sequences are done in slo-mo, but so poorly I wonder if the director was crazy or lazy or just had to fill the run time and was desperate. Plot feels like it was written by a 6 year old who spent a summer watching really bad action flicks. Hero says this, boss says that, nothing ever gets resolved. Actually the script feels like it was written by an angry 6 year old. Like he got bullied at school. His parents didn't believe him, and now he's bitter. There's a ton of utterly pointless scenes which is weird given they only had to fill 90 minutes of screen time. Traci actually disappears for about half an hour and I wonder if its cuz she was so messed up on drugs they had to shoot more scenes without her. At no point is it clear exactly how the villains relate to the heroes. All we know is there's cops and there's gangsters. The final action sequence is incredibly lazy and looks like it was shot on the same night on the same street as the opening action sequence. BUT we do get the overused cliche of our hero walking away from a fiery explosion and looking disinterested.

Its a horrible mess from start to finish and the worst part is its not so cheesy you can laugh at it. Its just bad. Also I keep hearing this was rated NC-17 because of the violence and I think everybody including the MPAA ratings board must have been high on peyote. There's no violence here which would justify an NC-17. I have seen loads of R movies with considerably more violence.

I don't want to go into the plot at all because it's the generic "tough cop, but with feelings getting a hard time from the commissioner, shooting and driving like crazy with a lot of broken glass and explosions" kind of a movie. But I like the aesthetics. The saxophon/synthesizer music, especially during a nighttime LA, the looks of the cast, the not alltoo cheesy dialogue. Tracy Lords was a perfect cast for this direct-to-video flick. And sometimes you like something for no reason than the above mentioned. So no, I don't care that the plot is thin and the movie just ends somehow. Best watched on a CRT on VHS.

Story line - very poor

Acting - mediocre to poor

Character Development - very little

Violence - heavy

Sex & Nudity - NONE

Tough cop Traci takes on a very bad drug dude, and in the end, she's the last cop still standing, mostly because it's her arrogance and stupidity that got the others killed. The best comedy moment (not intended to be funny) is when she seriously wonders what it was that she did wrong.

I expected the overall quality of the flick to be poor, and so wasn't disappointed in that regard. However, I was expecting a certain amount of eye candy, and the best this movie provided was a girl on a bicycle wearing a thong bikini. Doesn't Traci realize that nudity is the only reason her fans put up with the other inadequacies?

Traci is actually not a bad actress, but if she really wants to go mainstream and keep her clothes on, she needs to start hanging out with a better class of writers and directors. Continuing to be in forgettable flicks like this is what she's doing wrong.

Intent to Kill is one incredibly hot movie! Traci Lords does her best as a really tough female cop. She doesn't even waste time with any cheap stunts. The stunts are first rate and acting is very good. ITK is serious business in terms of action movies. The plot twists and turns are much better than most of the garden variety action films. This is a film about drug use and drug dealing! ITK has been rated NC-17 for multiple reasons. Yaphet Kotto does a great job as the captain of Los Angeles Police Department. This crime thriller kicks serious you know what! It's worth the 96 minutes. The only problem with ITK was Salvador could have been cast better; he performs good although as a drug dealer he should have performed better.