Raw Justice

I have to agree with a lot of the comments on this film. To have good character actors such as Robert Hays (Airplane movies), Charles Napier (Rambo II), David Keith (Officer & Gentleman, U-571), and Stacy Keach (too many to list); you would expect better acting. But maybe they were actually making fun on this genre of a movie. The music for some of the scenes was actually comical. The plot of the movie is basic and definitely predictable. The sound effects doesn't always match the scene. Several times you hear the cocking of the hammer of a revolver but you see the gun is not even cocked. And speaking of the revolvers, where did they get those antiques? The main bad guy is the only one who is even using a semi-auto pistol and he can't even hit the side of a barn except in one scene; two shots, two dead. But despite all of the errors and predictability, I actually somewhat enjoyed watching this flick. And of course you had Pamela Anderson for eye candy. This film is from 1995 so she actually looks great (ala Baywatch) and not as she looks today.

A action-adventure,crime drama,pseudo-comedy,buddy picture that fails practically at all levels. Robert Hays,whose career had a handful of early successes--the short-lived success of TV's "Angie" and the two wildly funny "Airplane" movies--followed by a long string of films that would elicit blank stares of confusion if mentioned to the average film viewer--"Touched",anyone?--and numerous TV projects that would not last past a year(my fave was the TV treatment of "Starman"),ends up in this flick which really has little going for it except the film debut(?) of Playboy mega-babe and "Baywatch" fixture Pamela Anderson. Her nude/sex scenes along with a very lovingly filmed shower scene with starlet model April Bogenschutz really seem to be all that makes this flick seem watchable. David Keith(here a LONG ways from "An Officer and a Gentleman" and even "Firestarter") as the gruff,angry,hard-bitten cop seems to barely register here. Stacy Keach's usual oiliness is underused here, and the film is set squarely on the shoulders of Keith,Hays and Anderson. It seems as if the writer(s) of the movie,in desperate need of a catch-phrase for Keith' s character,is best able to come up with the "Don't EVER insult my mama!"when a thug or goon he runs into calls him an S.O.B. Not very inspired,need I say.

Strictly late-night cable viewing. A cheap rental if you really must see this.

When the daughter of Mayor Stiles is murdered, the chief suspect is a shy young loser who had a date with her that night. The Mayor goes to ex-cop and bounty hunter Mace to make sure Mitch doesn't skip bail, however almost immediately Mitch is set up to commit `suicide'. When Mace is also framed from murder the pair realise that something sinister is going on and they go on the run with hooker Sarah.

Basically this film couldn't have been more see through and obvious if they had dropped the original title and called it `A Chance To See Her T*ts' - for that simply appears to be the entire raison d'etre of the film. The plot is just dumb and never really plays out logically. The characters are lazy cardboard cut outs rather than people and the film has no consistent drama of thrills. The script jumps around all over the place with actions hardly explained and things just happening - it's like the film exists in a world where sense does not exist.

The action scenes are idiotic. The yare like a bad A-Team shoot out with fights that try to be funny and fail - thus damaging the scene in more than one way! Some reviewers have praised the sex scenes and claimed them reason enough to watch the film - sorry, but no. The sex scenes are soft-core topless stuff and are just silly in the places they come. If you are watching a film for sex then go watch a porno, I cannot understand the mentality of someone who will watch a 90 minute `thriller' just because it has 10 minutes of simulated sex in it. I don't encourage porn but lets not encourage people to make more erotic thrillers! The fact that easily spotted errors were left in the film proves how little even the crew cared (look at the helicopter blades at the end, or the open hotel room where Sarah goes to be with Mitch).

The cast are awful, truly awful. Anderson was not the star she is now (?) and the film only uses her body - having her on the posters and all the promotion shows that the film was selling her, not itself. Keith is a joke; he tries to be charismatic but only succeeds in giving a bad impression of much, much better action actors. Hays is best suited to family films and spoofs, he shows that here without a shadow of doubt. He is rubbish, I cannot put it plainer than that; he is rubbish! Anderson has big breasts that look good, but why should I have to suffer her inability to act because of that. Her flat delivery of her lines are in no way compensated for by the fact she gets undressed several times. Napier and Keach are familiar faces but just as bad as they often are.

Overall this is a film that is based on the premise that people would like to see Pamela Anderson naked. This is not a film that cares about characters, logic, plotting, suspense, drama, thrills or action. It is a cold-hearted piece of exploitation and I hate it.

Once you have witnessed the scene where Pamela (as a hooker??? how cheesy is that... at least the director knows why we are watching this crap...) gets the job done, you have no more reason to keep watching this atrocity... I put a 3/10 but for a girl or anyone who thinks Pam is ugly, this movie is not even worth that...

if you want to see great acting. This is the sort of movie which has an obvious appeal to some. It's not the quality of acting. But if you watched this movie to see fine Shakespearean actors giving their all, then I have no pity for you. The movie is fun on a few levels, but should in no way be taken seriously.