Spikeopath It suffers from the pitfalls of many other 1980s action films, such as plot holes, silly twists and predictability of formula, but there is a very good action film here that's more than a time waster for the so inclined.Young Guns (1988) stars Sutherland and Phillips (by now firm real life friends) team up again, this time in Phioladelphia with Sutherland as a maverick copper working undercover and Phillips as a Lakota Indian. The two of them are thrown together by fate when a case Sutherland is working on goes bad and Phillips' brother is killed and a sacred Lakota lance is stolen in the process. They are complete polar opposites as characters and struggle to get on with each other to achieve their respective goals. We know they will find a happy ground and kick ass, and with the actors chemistry well founded, it works real well as a buddy buddy action piece.Director Jack Sholder (The Hidden) has a good knack for action construction, be it shoot-outs or punch-ups, but the highlight here is a blunderbuss extended car chase through the city that wouldn't be out of place in a far bigger budgeted blockbuster. However, with the more character based sections of film the director is not so adept, struggling to get much out of Robert Knepper's villain and letting Jami Gertz wander in and out as a love interest type without any real rhyme or reason. But if frantic action is what you like, you get it here by the bucket load, just enjoy that ride and forget any hope of depth elsewhere. 6.5/10

ctomvelu-1 Keifer Sutherland is an undercover cop who has gotten himself in too deep, and Lou Phillips is a long-haired Indian on the trail of a stolen lance sacred to his tribe. The two team up against the bad guys, and all hell breaks loose. Plenty of car chases, shootouts and general mayhem ensue, in the best style of all those late 1980s low-budget crime thrillers. Sutherland and Phillips are always fun to watch, although Phillips is maybe a bit too stoic from time to time. The finale is high on the body count, which is all we can ask from many of these '80s action setpieces. If it all looks a bit dated now, especially Sutherland's funky-chicken hairdo, so be it. They can't all be DIE HARD or LETHAL WEAPON. Having said that, RENEGADES beats TANGO AND CASH any day.

monkey-man Today is Kiefer Sutherlands birth day and he is my favorite actor of all time so i am having a Kiefer Sutherland movie marathon and i am going to watch and comment on a few of his movies.This movie called Renegads is a good movie about an under cover cop called Buster Mchenry (Sutherland) and he is trying to find out which cops are corrupt but the under cover operation gos wrong when he has to participate in a diamond robbery and 2 people get shot.And as they are trying to escape though another building where some Indians are one of the bad guys shots one of the Indians and steals a sacred Indian spear from an exhibit and buster (Sutherland) gets wounded and one of the Indians named Hank Storm (Lou Diamond Phillips) from the exhibit follows him and captures him and fixes his wound.Hank Storm then makes buster help him find the bad guys that killed his brother and that stole the sacred spear.This is the 2nd movie that Kiefer Sutherland and Loudimod Phillips have done together the first movie was Young Guns in 1988 and they have been in 4 movies together and a couple of TV episodes over the last 17 years and on screen they have such good chemistry between them and in my opinion they should do a couple of new movies together in the near future.And if u are are a fan of Kiefer Sutherland or good action movies u should rent or buy this movie and u will really like it.Over all this movie is good and this movie is one of the most underrated movies on this web site and it is not a 4.7 out of 10 this movie is a 6 and a half out out of 10.

mwendel This is one of those films that just grows on you over time because so many of the people have gone on to such better works (and at the same time have had work just as bad, if not worse). This film just shows you how far Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Philips have come in their careers both in terms of success and acting ability - you can definitely see where Sutherland starting building up his "in pain" acting that he uses so effectively in 24.The acting is decent, nothing to scream Oscar about, the story is somewhat fleshed out, there are some cinematic holes (like the scene where Lou Diamond Philips is supposedly sitting on the front to the car while Kiefer Sutherland is driving the car backwards with the hood up - the entire scene you can see under the crack of the hood that no one was sitting there - not well thought out in my opinion), but it does keep you guessing until the very end of the movie who the bad cops are and it is a little bit surprising that there is not one, but two bad cops.Its an entertaining movie that doesn't allow the violence to run the whole show until the very end of the movie. Its got some decent twists, some mild comic relief, the requisite chase scenes and a fairly satisfying conclusion.Its a good late night rental for Sutherland and/or Philips fans.