Bezenby Phew! I had to work hard to get my five or six brain cells to keep up with this one, a scatter-shot film in the genre of action/court drama/prison/gangster/revenge movie. The film started off in Colombia where a DEA agent gets executed and micturated on, then jumps ahead eight months to a prison where James Belushi saves Henry Silva from getting shanked, then jumps ahead a year to a courtroom. I was beginning to think that by the time Charles Durning showed up, they'd all be in the future fighting on hoverboards (man, that would have been great).The hugely complicated plot is this: Tracy Needham convicts a Colombian drug dealer who killed her partner, so he orders a hit and her partner gets wasted (as does his wife), so Charles Durning turns up as her protector and they go after the Colombian (who in turn are trying to kill them), Belushi is now working for Silva in the mafia (or is he?) and some Fed and her Marshall are covering things up for some reason I didn't catch. Got all that?The film moves briskly enough and there's plenty of action and such like (except my disc had a glitch that missed out the climatic battle - cheers Cash Convertors!), but if you're drunk you might want to watch something with a simpler plot. I give this film a high marking because Henry Silva is absolutely brilliant here. Just wait till you see the scene where, in one of his restaurants, he offers Colombian dealers a coffee and then charges them $2.50 for the pleasure (then gets really really angry when they don't want to pay) - worth watching for that scene alone. It's alright. I must note, however, that I couldn't take my eyes off Charles Durning's frame. He's...err...a bit on the large side.

elshikh4 If you wanna be sarcastic this movie gives you more than one chance : (Tracey Needham) was taller and bigger than everybody !, (Charles Durning) was a 76 years old cop !?? having that one titan paunch ! So how in god's name he could manage to ride the motorcycle at the end being disguised as one of the road's patrol !!??, (James Belushi) was shorter than (Needham) so I bet they made him stand on something while he was kissing her ! Not to mention that he looked older than her too !!, and the nice loving cop (Patrick Ersgard) seemed all the time like (Tom Green)'s look-alike !?. Well, despite the fact that nearly all of them delivered such a wonderful performance yet all of them with-each-others had weak chemistry or some kind of disharmony ! On the other hand, the script was very good with the smart thrilling treatment for its main case, and those many points of view about justice (blind as helpless, or half blind to let us fulfill it by other ways than the law !) with strong characters, conflict, and some clever lines too (mostly for the character of the old detective Moe Ryan/Durning). But it wasn't that excellent too because some reasons; one of them is the hastiness. For big instance : the love story between the undercover officer (Belushi) and the hunted lawyer (Needham) was very fabricated ! Just 2 or 3 scenes with a dialogue about perfection and fighting for justice, then a night in bed !? (WAW if only life was like this !). Without any sort of deliberation, I think it wasn't a big problem for them to add some more scenes or dialogues to convince the characters so to convince us. And for small instance : considering the condition of (Durning)'s age and belly; why didn't they make him a retired detective who works now as private eye ?!, then look at the scenes of (Jobeth Williams) they were shot all in her office; that's boring if you ask me, moreover too damn TV for the cinematic sense of the story ! The direction handled the subject well but what is it with all of those strange cuts like an old movie from the 1940s or the old Star Wars' movies ! I didn't like it as a goofy element compared to the whole thing !. While the music was loyal to the atmosphere especially at the start it didn't keep up with the heat of the movie's rest. The lighting was generally excessive which made the image a dully shiny white for most of the time ! And finally that bullheaded determination to film maybe everything in close-ups as another typical TV movie ??! As if somebody will sue them if they did anything more !? I must admit that there were some exceptional factors like (Charles Durning)'s lovable performance (even his Rambo's war scream at the shooting was lively & harmonic), the beauty of (Tracey Needham); actually she was extremely sweet, dazzlingly fascinating, and madly sexy in a way I've never seen her whether before or after ! Like a rare mix of Meg Ryan, Melanie Griffith, and Marilyn Monroe yet in a very serious shape ! It's an old custom of mine to read the subtitles, but whenever there was a scene of her I didn't care about anything but her face !, and eventually this very script which could've been made for the big screen indeed (with the expensive stars, the nude sex scene !, couple of smashing explosives, and maybe a slick twist at the end !) Though this movie is a nice entertaining one with fair acting, well-done thrill, an acrid satire, and not completely having that easy happy ending also whereas the basic 2 drugs' lords ran away at last so justice (by the law or by bare hands) is not entirely perfect ! They wanted a TV night movie and they made one so justly. However if you felt a little frustration after watching then that's because your own belief that this movie wasn't quite just to its powerful potentials; they deserve more than that customary TV work.

SILVERBEUWULF This is really bad!Even for a tv movie,why is James Belushi getting star billing and on the front cover?He is in the film for like about 7 minutes total and on the front cover he is in a prison,he is actually in a prison for about 1 minute of the film.This is a blatant marketing scam to get people watching it because of James Belushi in it.The film itself is awfull even though I paid £5 for it.The one good thing about it is the leading lady who is very attractive,AVOID.

davidbr All films must necessarily proceed from the script. When the script is drawn from the Collected Cliches of North America and the largest line item on the budget is cocaine acquisition, the result must be worth far less than the life force used to view it. The only good thing I can say about this movie is that Tracey Needham is pleasant to look at once she wipes off the Marilyn Monroe makeup.