Minor action movie
My review was written in June 1990 after watching the film on Shapiro Glickenhaus video cassette.
Good stunts and pyrotechnics are the draw of the direct-to-video feature "Cartel", recently screened to foreign buyers at the Cannes market.
Miles O'Keeffe adopts an Elvis accent for his role as a charter pilot arrested in a frameup of drug runners. He escapes from prison after a run-in there with gangster Don Stroud and sets about avenging the murder of his beautiful sister Suzanne Slater.] Plot runs out of steam in a hurry due to overemphasis on the action scenes. Film's ruthless, cynical ending is just another paean to vigilantism.
O'Keeffe is too low-key to arouse sympathy while Stroud has fun with his scenery-chewing villain. Beautiful Suzanne Slater is arresting as the blonde heroine (not to be confused with similar blonde B-movie bombshell Suzanne Snyder).
Good stunts and pyrotechnics are the draw of the direct-to-video feature "Cartel", recently screened to foreign buyers at the Cannes market.
Miles O'Keeffe adopts an Elvis accent for his role as a charter pilot arrested in a frameup of drug runners. He escapes from prison after a run-in there with gangster Don Stroud and sets about avenging the murder of his beautiful sister Suzanne Slater.] Plot runs out of steam in a hurry due to overemphasis on the action scenes. Film's ruthless, cynical ending is just another paean to vigilantism.
O'Keeffe is too low-key to arouse sympathy while Stroud has fun with his scenery-chewing villain. Beautiful Suzanne Slater is arresting as the blonde heroine (not to be confused with similar blonde B-movie bombshell Suzanne Snyder).
- lor_
- May 19, 2023