Bottom of the barrel video
My review was written in April 1990 after watching the movie on Vidmark video cassette.
Rick Sloane's minimalist theater is a briefly diverting direct-to-video feature that could have used a bigger below-the-line budget.
Sloane has rounded up a decent cast, headed by the ubiquitous Wings Hauser as bad guy running at tv station. He assigns young Renee Estevez and Ken Abraham to retrieve a stolen videotape that recorded violence at a secret meeting. Jim Mitchum heads up federal agents who are also out to get the tape to implicate some drug smugglers.
Sloane doesn't develop his story line in an interesting enough fashion to keep one engrossed. Estevez does a good job, however, in winning sympathy in probably her biggest screen role to date, with her dad Martin Sheen popping up in a pointless cameo. Tamara Clatterbuck handles the film's pulchritude content with honors as a topless waitress.
Rick Sloane's minimalist theater is a briefly diverting direct-to-video feature that could have used a bigger below-the-line budget.
Sloane has rounded up a decent cast, headed by the ubiquitous Wings Hauser as bad guy running at tv station. He assigns young Renee Estevez and Ken Abraham to retrieve a stolen videotape that recorded violence at a secret meeting. Jim Mitchum heads up federal agents who are also out to get the tape to implicate some drug smugglers.
Sloane doesn't develop his story line in an interesting enough fashion to keep one engrossed. Estevez does a good job, however, in winning sympathy in probably her biggest screen role to date, with her dad Martin Sheen popping up in a pointless cameo. Tamara Clatterbuck handles the film's pulchritude content with honors as a topless waitress.
- lor_
- May 9, 2023