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Roku has this as Blood Money, but imdb calls this Killer's Edge. Karen Black, Wings Hauser. When counterfeiters (Zdar) start flooding the market, "someone" tries to find the culprits. Wings Hauser is Jack. This one is pretty lame. But you can hardly blame him.. he was in TEN films released in 1990. How high quality could they be?? Karen Black is (blond) Barrett, and we're not really sure who she is. They don't really say. She gives a pep talk to a group of guys, and keeps saying "Let's get em, gentlemen!" About thirty minutes in, we seemed to have flashed back to vietnam (or something).. and we're not sure why. Put your hand up if you can find a story line. Terrible. And the worst scene ever filmed at the ice skating rink. What a waste of film. Just like the piano practice footage. If they left that in, what the @@## did they cut out? Fifty five minutes in, we find out that the FBI has teamed up with the local coppers to track down the bad guys. More flashbacks. Written and directed by Joseph Merhi. Produced by PM entertainment, which is probably Joseph Merhi and Richard Pepin.

This film is so diabolically bad and such a chore to sit through that writer director Joseph Merhi should pay people to view it, rather than vice versa. Beginning with a counterfeit money print shop being besieged by Robert Z'Dar and his gang of opportunists, we soon follow the FBI in the form of Karen Black and LA police in the form of detective Wings Hauser in their attempt to recover the printing plates and the counterfeit currency. The way in which one of the print shop workers is killed suggests that the killer is a Vietnam veteran, and soon Hauser makes the connection with Z'Dar, his Vietnam commander, via a series of unconvincing wartime flashbacks including a bottle shooting montage. The only compelling thing about this film is Z'Dar's face, which inexplicably looks like the actor has had cheek and chin implants, and who's look is only explained by someone referring to him as having "a big jaw". He even sports the same look in the flashbacks, so we can't blame the Vietcong. Hauser is given the annoying habit of repeating questions posed to him as his answer, though his all too few scenes of banter with Black are mildly entertaining. This is the kind of film where scenes with someone standing on a rooftop and in front of a swimming pool get the anticipated payoff, where a person can hide under a cardboard box during the siege of the print store and not be discovered, where the writer's idea of wit is "There's 458 homicides in LA and you're (Hauser) responsible for over 10% of them", and "You got change of a buck? What do I look like - a bank?!".

Made-for-video actioner, also titled "Blood Money", has prolific thesp Wings Hauser working at half-speed in an instantly forgettable film.

Wing is an L. A. cop once again, working on nabbing some counterfeiters. Enemy is gangster boss Robert Z'dar, who happens to be a vet who saved Hauser's life in Vietnam but whom Hauser hasn't seen in ages.

Script is unconvincing on the matter of how Hauser discovers Z'dar is quilty, and pic's hurried finish is a letdown. Along the way Wings tries to get girlfriend Elaine Pelino to marry him and has run-ins with miscast FBI agent Karen Black.

Hauser, as usual, shoots from the hip and is constantly getting in trouble with his superiors.