I've enjoyed a lot of Dolph Lundgren's action flicks - even his numerous low-budget sale-bin offerings. Dolph reliably brings a presence that makes them at least passable, if not all the way up to guilty pleasures.
This one's an outlier, as he plays the nerdiest DEA agent to ever leave his desk for time in the field in a non-comedy. He reminds me of Michael Douglas' geeky turn in Falling Down, first appearing in a nearly identical clothes and Poindexter glasses. The guy looks and acts like an unusually tall guy from accounting or tech support to absolutely no perceptible advantage.
Mercifully, despite his top billing, he's not the star in this rambling twisty crime tale. The plot lurches among the players with good guys turning out not so good, and bad guys who may not be all that bad. It plays out as if they had a dartboard with dozens of scenarios and used whatever the dart hit, in whatever order they were thrown.
Probably Dolph's most missable movie.
This one's an outlier, as he plays the nerdiest DEA agent to ever leave his desk for time in the field in a non-comedy. He reminds me of Michael Douglas' geeky turn in Falling Down, first appearing in a nearly identical clothes and Poindexter glasses. The guy looks and acts like an unusually tall guy from accounting or tech support to absolutely no perceptible advantage.
Mercifully, despite his top billing, he's not the star in this rambling twisty crime tale. The plot lurches among the players with good guys turning out not so good, and bad guys who may not be all that bad. It plays out as if they had a dartboard with dozens of scenarios and used whatever the dart hit, in whatever order they were thrown.
Probably Dolph's most missable movie.