Open Fire

Its clear that Jeff got on something strong to play this role, he was not natural, but i guess every way is good to advance a career.

He never kept those gains LOL still the movie is really good for a b type movie if you can find it highly entertaining.

Pretty good time waster, but of course not exciting, just agreeable, especially for the body count game. You count the number of terrorists at the start, then calculate the number of terrorists smashed by the John McLane clone, surrogate, and check if it matches. That's the only interest in this kind of scheme. It is action packed, lousy, involuntarily funny and that's all. You don't have those kind of films released now in 2022, or in a very confidential way, on streaming only, not even DVDs. In the nineties, in France, they could even be seen in movie theaters. But it is history now. Try to enjoy, just try.

Patrick Kilpatrick's (Death Warrant) antagonist Kruger (a released convict) and his goons take over a power plant and hold hostages so they can orchestrate a plan to make off with some diamonds and live happily ever after. The only problem for them is one of the hostages happens to be McNeil's (Jeff Wincott) father, and McNeil is a former FBI agent who is haunted by his partner's death, which he feels responsible for. When he hears that his father has been taken hostage this is his chance for redemption so he heads into the power plant to save the day.

And the usual mayhem ensues with the bad guys taken out, after a lengthy trade in of roundhouse kicks. The action is quite good, the plot has enough things happening, though Wincott's infiltration of the plant could've been more suspenseful. It's a Die Hard style film, but its setting in a chemical plant is inspiring. Plus it's entertaining enough. You got a diabolical villain in Robert Kilpatrick.

The 1990s brought forward a lot of action movies aping the basic plot of DIE HARD. Most of those movies were not very good, and this particular effort is no exception. The heart of the movie - the action sequences - is particularly badly botched. While Jeff Wincott manages to show here that he is talented in martial arts, director Kurt Anderson doesn't manage to give the fight sequences much of a spark. They instead come across as tired and routine. Anderson also doesn't do very well with other parts of the movie. To be fair, he was obviously working with an very low budget, so the cheapness of the entire affair (except for some good photography) couldn't be his fault. But he can certainly be blamed for a slow-moving story that is totally drained of energy and tension, as well as being unable to coax a lively performance out of Wincott. The movie also shows signs it was a troubled production, with some possible post-production tinkering done to try and save things. It didn't work.

OPEN FIRE is another one of these "DIE HARD" film. I know it because I've seen it 4 times already..

Basically it stars JEFF WINCOTT as ALEX McNEIL. A former FBI agent who comes back on the job when his father gets held hostage by a group of terrorists led by KRUGER (PATRICK KILPATRICK).

In an event to save him, ALEX breaks free from the cops and slides himself into the chemical plant as he takes out the terrorists one by one..

This film is alright, but I don't know why I saw it four times.. Maybe it's because of all the action scenes it had in there..

PATRICK KILPATRICK was a very good villain in this one even though this guy had played a villain in almost every single movie he's done..

Well, see it if you can on a rainy day.. I did!