Alicia
I love this movie so much
Spoonatects
Am i the only one who thinks........Average?
Scarlet
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
JohnHowardReid
I am amazed that this spicy, action-full movie, received such bad reviews. I loved it so much that when the excellent MGM DVD wound up, I watched it again.The plot engages our interest right from the start. The movie is chock full of action. The director makes great use of his real locations. All the players, especially Tiana Alexandra and Rod Steiger, deliver excellent, hard-hitting performances.Best of all, the movie was lensed on a top budget, making great use of all the fascinating, real-life settings.In fact, all the action at the climax must have cost a fortune to film. The many stunts we see are just incredible!The script holds the attention all the way from the tense opening scenes to the rousing climax.I thought that Tiana Alexandra was a real find. No angel could be more super-beautiful or more skilled in both attack and defense in the movie's many fight scenes.
Comeuppance Reviews
Checkers Goldberg (Alexandra), who apparently is the original Whoopi Goldberg, is a San Francisco-based federal agent. Her beauty and charm have led her into dangerous undercover work, such as dealing with drug-dealing scumbags like Danny Boy (Thompson). But she gets her biggest undercover job to date when she and partner Waldo Tarr (Dukes, who apparently is the original David Duke) must go to Argentina to stop big-time drug lord/talent scout Jason Hannibal (Steiger) and his army of goons such as Dozu (Tanaka). Evidently crucial to this crimefighting process is Goldberg's transformation into Cinderella Pu, a stereotype-Chinese character with a thick accent. Will Waldo and Checkers be able to bring down their criminal empire...and fall in love in the process? Yes...WALDO and CHECKERS.This movie is very, very dumb, not to mention stupid. It's directed by Joel Silberg, the director of the first Breakin' (1984). All we can say is...stick with Breakin'. Like Breakin', this movie does feature some noteworthy music on the soundtrack (such as theme song "Captive in the Heat"... not Catch the, but Captive in, for those keeping score at home) and cool 80's fashions. But the Martial Arts is pretty watered down and the humor is lame. This is surprising considering the movie was written by famous, lauded writer Stirling Silliphant.Alexandra is nice to look at, but she's no female Sho Kosugi, as this movie seems to be grooming her to be. Her line readings are so bad they're funny, but maybe it's supposed to be that way. Rod Steiger is on hand for some reason as the main baddie. It's a total paycheck role for this normally fine actor. They don't make him do anything too strenuous for fear that his wig might fly off.While this movie isn't totally without its merits, and has a nice cast, including fan-favorite Brian Thompson in a small role - yes, Yahoots Magoondi himself - and the always-lovable Professor Toru Tanaka - Catch the Heat (whatever that means) shouldn't exactly be a priority for your collection.For more action insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com
jeffreytull1960
At some point in the 1980's I guess the Shoot 'em up genre was considered to be guaranteed box-office gold. That fact must have been on the minds of the producers of this horribly made 1987 action movie. Instead of gold what we have here is pure Hollywood hokum. At its best, it is an extremely dated, nonsensical, wholly unappealing movie with the flimsiest of plots. At worst, it's downright racist with the female's lead stereotyping Asian women and their 'in-abilitee to no-talk-ee good EN-grish.' Rod Steiger does nothing to help, sleepwalking through his role as a South American drug smuggler / talent scout (yes,...really). The inane "A-Team" style, rock 'em - sock 'em, kung-fu action interspersed throughout the film does nothing to salvage this sinking ship. Neither does the attempt at a love story between the male lead and his Asian co-star. Even a hot, kung-fu kicking babe can't save this rambling, boring, beast of a movie from the weight of its own lumbering storyline, painful dialogue and grindhouse acting. Don't waste your time.It would be more entertaining to go down to the local Chinese deli and spend the evening watching the clerk clean the meat slicers.
heedarmy
A tired-looking Rod Steiger was given top billing for this predictable action movie although his screen time is relatively brief. The story is unoriginal and most of the budget seems to have been spent on an exciting beginning and climax - what comes in between is extremely dull.Unusually for its day, much of the action is handled by a woman and the film, despite all its faults, is popular amongst femfight devotees for the concluding scenes in which the sinuous but deadly Tiana Alexander, clad in skintight black leotards, uses martial arts to dispose of numerous opponents.
