The Stranger

Forget Diana Rigg, Cynthia Rothrock, Karen Sheperd, the two Lucindas (Dooling and Dickey) and even Jillian Kesner. Kathy Long is the toughest of them all, and this is her great film. She kills bad guy after bad guy in "The Stranger," most of them with her bare hands, and just looking at her swagger and those unbelievably powerful arms of hers, you know she could do absolutely anything she wanted with you in real life. ("Are you going to kill me or make love to me?" one man asks her. "I'll let you know," Kathy replies.) No wonder this film is selling for so much on EBay: for those susceptible to this kind of fantasy, it doesn't get much better than "The Stranger."

I watched this movie after stumbling across it on late night cable.I'd never heard of Kathy Long.It was immediately obvious that she was not only a real athlete,but a real martial artist.She didn't look like the typical straight-to-video actress/model pretending to throw punches.She could obviously mop up the floor with Cynthia Rothrock.As far as the content of the movie goes,if you expected Citizen Cane,you were probably disappointed.I saw exactly what I expected from a low budget martial arts movie.There was lots of ass-kicking and other forms of gratuitous bloodletting.Kathy Long pulled it off.Actresses in Hollywood are a dime a dozen,but Kathy Long combines the good looks and martial arts skills that made Jean-Claud VanDamm a star.If her acting skills are lacking,take a good look at Arnold,Chuck Norris,and Dolph Lundrgren.

I saw the stranger some years ago in the Portuguese Television. Since then I did not forgot it Kathy Long plays a great role. Her personality.., her fighting background fits perfectly in the role she does play in this movie. Actually it`s not easy to find a female playing convincingly the role of a female fighter Usually they look fake. . they look like fashion models playing the role of fierce fighters Not with Kathy Long. She is perfect for the role she does play not the least because she was a great kickboxing fighter in real life and this fact does show on , in her movies. She is the real thing Great Movie

The storyline of this movie goes that a small town in the American southwest is ruled by a evil biker gang that has already killed the sheriff's finance and has pretty much made him unwilling to take on the gang himself.

Enter Soccer Mommy on a her motorcycle and also carrying a whip.She comes in and beats up all those mean biker dudes all by herself beating them up with no trouble at all.The movie suffers from the four p's,it is predictable, preposterous,phoney,and putrid.

The star,Kathy Long,is no beauty to look at.She seems like many of these female martial arts B-movie types who do movies like these,they look beat up and have next to no sex appeal to them.Not to mention her lack of acting skills which need no mentioning anyway.

The women of this film are made to be the heroes here,the star,the murdered finance of the sheriff(She was going to give the FBI pictures of the bikers doing their crimes but was killed before she could do it.),while the men of the film are made to be the villians of the film,the cowardly sheriff,the bikers.Hollywood liberal politics at work again.

Made for feminists and girly male types,who like to see men beaten up by a woman for the sake of it,The Stranger is an action film loaded with violence, short on common sense,and hardly entertaining.High Plains Drifter it is not.Leonard Part 7 it is.

A Biker version of High Plains Drifter, but the "ghost" is way more attractive than Clint Eastwood. Surprisingly well acted considering it is a B-Movie and one of the female leads is more well known for her pornographic sexual talents than her acting. Kathy Long looks hot in a black bustier.