Phil Hubbs Missed this classic cop duo action thriller, I think everyone did. Even though it was made in 1992 you would think it was an 80's film looking at the state of Anthony Edwards and his wardrobe. His hair cut is really something to been seen, on top of that the earring that he sports is truly unthinkable.I really can't think of many less likely or worthy to be cast in a cop buddy action flick than Edwards, the man is not the right type for action films. I still ponder how he got cast in 'Top Gun'. His partner in this is Lance Henriksen who as usual is on top form hamming it up something chronic as a Southern swamp dwelling Dixie with an alligator obsession (he lost his hand to one).The film is clearly suppose to be along the same lines as 'Beverly Hills Cops'. There is the obligatory smart ass humour throughout which isn't really that funny, chirpy little tunes of the South to give that quirky not too serious feeling and pretty much everything else you might expect from this type of film. Odd thing is there isn't that much action in the film.An original double team in the form of a slick Hollywood cop who dresses like an 80's reject and scruffy looking 'Crocodile Dundee' type from down South. I give the film that but otherwise its pretty poor stuff with not much to recommend unless you really love Henriksen and his characters (his second film based in the Bayous of New Orleans).3/10

sol1218 (Some Spoilers) When LAPD Detective Bill Keegen, John P. Feritta, tracked down who's really pushing this heavy heavy sh*t, designer drug, into L.A from New Orleans that he ended up brutally and ritualistically,Voodoo style with his heart cut out, murdered. That's when Det.Keegen got a bit too close in finding out who's the person or persons behind all this drug trafficking in town.Showing up to finish the job that his partner Det. Keegen started is LAPD Detective Mike Bishop, Anthony Edwards, and he immediately runs into a road block in nobody wanting to talk about the dangerous drugs, a cross between Crack & Ice, out on the street and the person behind them the late psycho killer and former city drug kingpin Antoine Forbes. In fact Forbes has disappeared into the Bayou some three years ago during a police shootout where NOPD-New Orleans Police Department- undercover officer Jackson Rivers, Lance Henriksen,ended up with his left hand getting chewed off by an hungry alligator when he, after Forbes blew up his drug factory, fell into the swamp!It's in fact Rivers old boss Capain "Scarface" Crawford, Rod Masterson,who suggests that Bishop team up with the now retired and hermit-like Rivers in that he knows both the city and swamps,where Det. Keegen's murderer is suspected to comes from, better then anyone Old Captain "Scarface" can think off. Meanwhile Rivers who since he lost his left hand had developed, by working out at the gym, the most devastating left hook since Sonny "The Big Ugly Bear" Liston and "Smokin Joe" Frazier had in their heydays. It's with that explosive and lethal and wicked left hook that Rivers does far more damage to the bad guys then anything he could come up with in the arsenal he has stored in his shack deep in the Bayou. It takes a while and a number of dead bodies for both the now good old cop buddy boys Bishop & Rivers to figure out who's behind not only this new drug being spread all across country, from New Orleans to L.A, but who in fact murdered Bishop's partner Detective Keegen. And as we and Bishop & Rivers soon find out those responsible were there with them all the time right under their noses but they were too blind, by looking in other directions, to notice them. And with that the two cop's lives are now in danger of being snuffed out just like Detective Keegen and anyone else who came too close to uncover their, the drug pushers, operation!***MAJOR SPOILER*** The real big surprise in the film wasn't who was behind all this murdering and drug pushing in New Orleans but the whereabouts of the what at first seemed to be deceased drug kingpin Antoine Forbes. We soon find out with the help of Forbes daughter Vicky, Besty Russell, that he's in fact alive but not quite well living, if you can call it that, in a private sanitarium outside the New Orleans city limits. We get the see what looks like a mummified Antoine Forbes as he's slowly turned around and placed in front of the camera which has the same effect on the shocked and terrified movie audience as the famous turnaround scene scene in the movie "Psycho" when we finally get to see Norman Bates mummified mother! The difference is that in the case of Forbes he's, or at least he supposed to be,alive and Moma Bates was quite dead!

Vomitron_G Yes, charismatic cult actor Lance Henriksen was basically the one and only reason I decided to watch "Delta Heat". Luckily he plays one of the leading roles - with verve, as always - and he even has a hook for a hand! Well, more like a tool, really, as he still has his hand but it's severely traumatized due to a drug-bust gone bad which had him landing in a river, after an explosion sent him off flying, where his arm got munched on by a crocodile. A strangely edited flash-back scene in slow-motion that was! But yeah, whatever.Was this movie any good? Yes and no. Parts of it play out like a cop-buddy kind of film, with Anthony Edwards & Lance Henriksen teaming up to find out who killed Edwards' partner and what all is going on with the alleged drug trafficking in the swamps. They both had okay chemistry together, so I didn't mind that. The kind of mystery plot wasn't too bad either; you basically have to figure out who the bad guys are along with the puzzling enigma surrounding the character of Forbes, the supposedly dead & crazy drug-lord. The 'guess what's going on' aspect was fairly good constructed as well. But what absolutely didn't work, was the humorous approach to numerous events. A hook-joke here, a witty line there, Edwards getting all his suits messed up, etc. And to make it worse, the musical score tried too hard to make it obvious that we're supposed to find this funny.One thing that did freak me out rather immensely though... I have to be careful how I put this or I might give away too much plot info... Let's just say at one point we get to see a severely deformed human being. The dude freaked me out completely. And while trying to wrap my head around the fact how they managed to pull off his looks with conventional make-up sfx, I completely overlooked the obvious... That was a latex dummy? I guess the image on my VHS tape was a bit blurry, because I got fooled over this one. I guess it had to be a dummy, or otherwise they must have found some seriously messed up extra out there in the Louisiana swamps...But in general, this is just the okay film to watch on a cold & rainy, Sunday afternoon. Luckily, I might add, the sensual & sexy Betsy Russel was a welcome apparition and sure heated up some scenes. I just figured out she's also starring in the last five "Saw" films or so (together with Shawnee Smith - there's another beauty from the past), so I guess that's as good as any reason to finally check them all out.

Pepper Anne I wasn't expecting much more than a B-rated (or less) cop drama. An L.A. cop (Anthony Edwards) gets knee deep in mud and crayfish in New Orleans looking for the drug lord that killed his partner. There, he partners up with one of a former cop (Lance Henriksen) with a hook.This movie was far too long and the story never really picks up. L.A. and Lousinana cop just go about roughing up their leads.There are a few funny moments. While Edwards plays the loose, cocky L.A. Cop, Henriksen is a little like Robert Shaw's charater on Jaws. He's full of witty sarcasm and has his own local way doing things. And there's a running gag of Edwards always messing up his suit.It is also speckled with bad acting from background characters. It might have played out better as a television show.Look for the character, Forbes (after the flashback), the infamous drug lord. For the short while he is in the movie, it is not an actor, but a very obvious latex dummy. Why they just didn't get one of the camera men to get on a grey wig? At least they would have blinked.