Chinatown Connection (1990)

This is it, Art Camacho becomes our third member of the 50 Club, after Dolph and Gary Daniels. Unlike those two, he's gotten his tags mostly for his work behind the camera, but Ty from Comeuppance made the point that this would be a perfect film for Camacho's 50th on the site, because he has a larger acting role in it. I found it on YouTube, and planned to make it happen sooner, but between other posts coming up, and me not having the time to watch it, I fell behind on it, but now we're here, making it happen. In addition to us, Ty and Brett from Comeuppance, and Karl Brezdin at Fist of the B-List have covered this too.

Chinatown Connection has Lee Majors II as a cop on the edge who needs a partner, and Bruce Ly as a cop who never uses his piece and is training potential cops on the edge to use martial arts instead of killing people--one of whom is Mr. Camacho. Majors II and Ly are on the case after a series of cocaine poisonings. Who could be doing this? Ly suspects the local heroin kingpin, even after said kingpin professes his innocence. Turns out he might be right, because the kingpin could take advantage of the poisoning to sell his own coke. Corporate takeovers are rough in any situation. Will our heroes be able to stop this?

This is 90 minutes of pure fun. It's like this movie was made with us in mind. First off, it has some great action. Bruce Ly has some great scenes, Lee Majors II is a solid cop on the edge, and then the supporting cast, including  Art Camacho, do great in their smaller roles. But then you have the fun. Like when Majors II visits Bruce Ly, whose character is married to Brinke Stevens, and she asks him if he wants something for dinner. Instead of saying "that would be nice, what are you having?" or "no thank you, I've already eaten," he's like "I'm a meat and potatoes guy," as if whatever Asian inspired meal he thought they were making would be beneath him. She tells him she's making hamburgers, which of course he's into. What does any of that mean? Should we like Ly more because he eats American food? Are we supposed to sympathize with Majors II and be like "yeah man, I'd hate to be in that situation myself, who knows what she'd serve me!"? And then someone from the police lab shows up, accepts Stevens's offer of a beer, then doesn't drink it, nor does Majors II finish his burger, so Stevens is just making food and pouring beers for people who don't end up having them. The thing is, none of it matters, it all just adds to the charm. And that's ultimately what you have here, a lot of charm with some solid DTV action.

The DTVC 50 Club, a club with only two other members, but Camacho is unique because, as I mentioned above, he's here primarily for his work behind the camera. I must confess that I didn't know who he was before I started this site, but as I was watching more and more of these movies for reviews, I noticed his name coming up more and more. As a result of that, I may not have tagged him in all the films we've reviewed that he had a part in. With Dolph at 70, and Gary Daniels knocking on the door to the 60 Club with 58, it feels like Camacho could be a ways off from catching them, but the thing is, between his work with PM and my aim to get as many of those up in the near future, and the current work he's doing with big names like Michael Jai White, his tags could come in bunches. In 1990 he was still coming into his own, and I think as an actor here he does a good enough job and it's cool to see him in something like this, but it's really the stuff  he did in stunt work, stunt choreography, second unit directing, and as primary director that made him someone where you can say, 90s action wouldn't exist as we know it without his contributions. If there's anything you can glean from his performance in this that would give us an idea of what was to come with him, I think it's the sense that he was willing to do anything it took to be a part of this business, and I think that work ethic pushed him to give us the great stuff he's given us. He always says on his Instagram how blessed he is, but we too are blessed to be able to have the hours of enjoyment his contributions have given us.

Our leads were played by Bruce Ly and Lee Majors II. They were supposed to be giving us an East meets West mash-up kind of thing, which I think was where the "I'm a meat and potatoes guy," was supposed to be taking us, but they didn't explore that enough, and I was okay with that. The fact that they only had 90 minutes, and decided to spend more time with Ly infiltrating a cheese warehouse and finding coke in one of the cheese wheels, which meant skipping the perfunctory scene of Ly and Majors II at a Chinese restaurant and Majors II struggling to use chopsticks, was a solid decision in my mind, and helped make this thing a more solid actioner. I hadn't seen much of Ly before this, as I'm not as up on the Bruce Lee clones, but it looks like according to IMDb this was one of two films he made here in the States, the other being 1989's Open Fire with David Carradine. I don't know what happened after this to cause that to stop, but that was it, he went back to Hong Kong to work. Majors II is one we've actually seen on here before, in Ice Cream Man, the Clint Howard cult classic, which was also one of Art Camacho's 50 tags, as he was the stunt coordinator in that. According to IMDb, that was it for him, as he hasn't done anything since.

Look at that beautifulness down below. Bruce Ly, leaning against a wall, with that hairdo, a red Members Only jacket and tie. I was trying to think from a sartorial standpoint where that ranks on the all-time outfit list. Maybe it's something I should put together and start ranking. I mean, it definitely kills Sasha Mitchell's pants in Kickboxer III, and David Bradley's fanny pack doesn't even come close. I'd have to go back through the old posts and see, but this might be the best ever. I mean, I dig the simplicity of a good Richard Norton Canadian tuxedo, but do you really want to take the Pepsi Challenge with that against what Ly is rockin' below? I didn't think so. I was only 11 at that time, so I wasn't anywhere cool enough to wear something so sublime, but I think even being 11 I still count in the rule that says when a look come back around, you shouldn't wear it if you were around when it was first popular. So I was too young in 1990, and now it's lost to me forever, I can never wear something so fantastic, I can only look on in both awe and envy, as Mr. Ly wows us with his sartorial acumen.

Finally (as if there could be a finally after that paragraph), I think it's good to give Art Camacho a second paragraph since this post is in honor of him entering the 50 Club. I was trying to get a sense of how many potential tags he could have left, to see if he could potentially pass Dolph for most all-time. As best as I can tell, it would be close based on what he has out there now, and of that what I'd be able to get my hands on; but the thing is, he's still working, so his total is only going to go up. By the same token, Dolph is still working too, so he could put some space between him and Camacho. One thing I think I'll try to do is focus more on his directorial work and see if we can get that as complete as possible--some of his films aren't available, so we'll probably never be able to make it complete. By my count we have 11 of the films he's directed, which puts him 7th all-time, but Fred Olen Ray's 15 is second all-time, so he's not as far off from moving up that list. His next one, Ruthless with new DTVC favorite Dermot Mulroney, is supposed to be out soon, so I can't wait to check that one out.

And with that, let's wrap this up. As far as I can tell, YouTube here in the States is the best way to go, unless you can find it on VHS. This is the late 80s/early 90s DTV action you came for, so it's a shame it's not available in more places. And a final congratulations to Art Camacho for becoming the third member of the 50 Club. For the kind of hard worker he is, and for the great work he's given us over the years, it's more than deserved.

For more info: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099261

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The Courier (2019)

Back in June of this year, I had Will from Exploding Helicopter on the podcast to look at two films from Olga Kurylenko. The first was High Heat, costarring Don Johnson, and the second was this film. With the names in this alone, it should've been a sure bet, but as we've seen here on the DTVC, it's often the sure bets that turn out to be duds.

The Courier has Olga Kurylenko as, you guessed it, a courier. Her job is to drop of a special camera to a London apartment so a witness, Amit Shah, can give closed-circuit testimony in a trial in Washington, DC involving crime boss Gary Oldman. When she gets there though, she discovers her package is actually poisonous gas, so she gets Shah out of there with the hope of saving him so he can testify. Not so fast though, dirty US government agent on the scene William Moseley locks down the apartment building's garage and allows Oldman's hired goons the chance to take her and Shah out. At the same time, his boss, Dermot Mulroney, is back in the States thinking Moseley is trying to help keep Shah safe. Will Kurylenko survive and get her and Shah out of there alive?

Let's start with the good: Kurylenko is great, she's exactly the badass action lead you'd want in a flick like this. Now for the bad. The movie is longer than it needs to be, and to pad it out, we get these sequences of Oldman under house arrest that aren't that great, and almost feel grafted in. Moseley is trying to give us his best Oldman from The Professional, and I don't know how well he pulls it off, giving us a not-so-great baddie combined with Oldman's grafted on baddie which both give us nothing to work with while we're in scenes that don't have Kurylenko in them. That's a problem, because as great as Kurylenko is, there's only so much you can do in a confined space like an apartment parking garage before it feels like we're spinning our wheels--no pun intended. And then we have Amit Shah's character, which is just a screaming guy who's more annoying than entertaining. I'm not sure why films add characters like this, because annoying the audience should never be a goal of a filmmaker. Finally we end the film with the most expected twist ever with Dermot Mulroney's character--so expected in fact that had they not gone with it, it would've been more unexpected than the fact that they did it. If you're a Kurylenko fan though, this does deliver, which may be enough to merit a watch.

Speaking of Kurylenko, this is her 5th film on the site, which seems like a small number--and it is--but in the all-time ranking of women stars on the DTVC, she's only three behind Kathleen Kinmont, who is second on the list after Cynthia Rothrock and her immense 42. Granted, between her and Kinmont are 8 names, including newly inducted Hall of Famer Shannon Tweed (7), another Hall of Famer in Julie Strain (6), Andy Sidaris mainstay Dona Speir (6), and one of the all-time greats, Vivica A. Fox (7). If anyone could pass those names though, it's definitely Kurylenko, as she has some great stuff coming down the pike, and she's carving out a name for herself as one of the best action leads in the business. This is one that, while the film itself is lackluster, her performance is still great, and to me that's always the sign of a great star. She's been getting great reviews for her performance in Boudica: Queen of War, the newest Jesse V. Johnson flick, so I can't wait to see her in that one.

As far as Gary Oldman, this is our first time seeing him on the site, and to be honest, I'm not sure why he's in this at all. He doesn't do much beyond sit in a robe with his eye patch and bark orders on the phone or eat nice meals set to classical music. Obviously he provides a name on the tin that, when combined with Olga Kurylenko in leather pants, garners the streams a film like this is looking for, but when you actually get stuck in and find out the Oldman you're getting feels grafted on as an afterthought, it's kind of not worth it, no matter how great Kurylenko is in her scenes. If you were to tell me a film was employing "Gary Oldman in an eye patch" padding I'd tell you that sounds fantastic, but the reality unfortunately isn't as much fun as the idea. Considering it's been over 1200 posts before we had our first Gary Oldman film, I don't know when we'll see him again, so if this is it, it's a shame it wasn't under better circumstances, but I guess it's nice that we even had him at all. 

Mr. Dermot Mulroney is back. We last saw him with a Grecian Formula mustache over a gray beard in Section 8, which was a fantastic turn as a baddie. Here he's an agent on the phone, one we're just waiting until the big reveal that he's actually a crooked cop in the employ of our be-eye-patched baddie. He is perfect for the government agent or higher-up detective role though, he looks great in a suit, does a great job talking on the phone, or scowling behind a desk, and can pull off being earnest when we know full well that he's on the take, we're just waiting for the big reveal. It looks like at this stage he's gone full-on DTV, so we should be expecting to see him on the DTVC even more in the coming year or so--we already have The Getback in the can from when Ty and I discussed it on a previous podcast episode. Hopefully he does more than just playing government agents on the take, but if not, at least he's good at it.

Finally, going back to the Oldman performance, I looked in the IMDb trivia, and there were some great, snarky fake entries for that. One said "Gary Oldman only accepted the role after the director agreed to alter all the actor cues 'sit', 'walk' and 'run' in the script to 'sit down sipping a beverage'." Another said "Gary Oldman stated his role [in this] was one of the most physically intensive of his career to date." I love this kind of thing, but I feel like IMDb should lean into it a bit more. Right now you only have a thumbs up or a thumbs down to say that the trivia is helpful or not. Why not include a laughing emoji option? Like the one on The Fast and the Furious that said the filmmakers originally intended to cast Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, and Dustin Diamond; or the ones you see on a lot of the Seagal films' entries, like A Dangerous Man, that had this gem in the trivia: " 'A Dangerous Man' is not only the title of the film but a smart nod to Steven Segal himself, who has been known to become a 'dangerous man' when he is hungry." On the other hand, I get too why IMDb might not want a laughing emoji for the joke trivia: without it, there's still that sliver of hope that the joke trivia is actually real, and we all could use a little more hope in our lives, couldn't we?

And with that, let's wrap this up. As of this writing, The Courier is actually available on Netflix here in the States. It has its flaws, and could've been better for sure, but if you're a Kurylenko fan, it's worth a watch. Also if you're a Kurylenko fan, check out the podcast episode on her that I did with Will from Exploding Helicopter, from June 13th of this year, number 127 in the archives.

For more info: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8075016

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A Time to Die (1991)

With the unfortunate passing of Richard Roundtree, I wanted to do a post in honor of him, and saw that this PM flick he was in is available on YouTube, so I figured I'd make it happen. In addition to us, Ty and Brett at Comeuppance, Chris the Brain at Bulletproof, and Simon at Explosive action have all covered this--and in addition to them, IMDb says Entertainment Weekly and TV Guide have also covered this, but the links on the critic reviews page are no good.

A Time to Die has Traci Lords as a fashion photographer who was set up in a drug bust and now has to take pictures for the LAPD for her community service. She also has a son living with her estranged husband that she wants to gain custody of again. One night, on a date with detective Jeff Conaway, she sees the guy who busted her, Robert Miano, and decides to follow him after he leaves. She ends up catching him killing a pimp, and she has all the juicy pictures of it. She has no idea how high in the department this conspiracy goes, so she keeps it to herself, and hopes to use it to blackmail Miano into clearing her name. That should work out well.

This is another fun PM flick. It's right around the time Ring of Fire comes out, so has more of that less action early period PM feel than the full-on exploding car flips every ten minutes feel we're used to with them, but we still do get our exploding car flip, so there's that. Traci Lords also puts in a great performance, which really anchors things; plus Roundtree, despite being relegated to angry police chief--full mustache and all--elevates that part to something more, which adds to the proceedings. On top of that, you have Miano as a great baddie, and the novelty of Jeff Conaway is as good as you'd want--even if he seems a bit handsy with Lords, more on that later; not to mention we have the classic PM quirks, like an angry lesbian couple that seem to always be in trouble with the law, Lords's son who wears business suits to school, and a fashion shoot Lords does with two models who do some choreographed dance routine while she takes their pictures. If you're looking for a fun 90s thriller, this is worth checking out.

While Roundtree's part wasn't big here, it was pure Roundtree, total leading man, commanding every scene he's in, so much so that I thought he was going to end up having a bigger role in this than he did. And I think that's the biggest travesty of his career, is that he didn't get more of those major leading roles, and while Hollywood's loss was our gain with films like this, it was also our loss too, because it would've been great for us to see him in those major leading roles too. Roles that his contemporaries got, like Harrison Ford or Michael Douglas, but that weren't made available to African American actors at the time like they would be later for Denzel Washington or Will Smith. And as great as those actors are, Roundtree was another level of leading man above them. Still, his iconic turn as Shaft to me is up there with Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, or Christopher Reeve as Superman--imagine if Marvel had been more on top of their film adaptations in the 70s and made a Black Panther film then with Roundtree in the lead? And that's the legacy Roundtree leaves behind, perhaps he didn't get the roles a star with his screen presence deserved, but the roles he did get, he hit out of the park, especially Shaft, and with it he influenced a generation of action film fans like myself, because I don't think I'd be here writing this blog if it weren't for TNT showing all the Shaft films in the early 90s.

The star of the film is Traci Lords, with this being the first of three films she did for PM in the early 90s. It's crazy to think she was only 23 here, as she's playing someone older, maybe like late 20s/early 30s with an established career, ex-husband, and a child. She's already holding her own at this age in scenes with Roundtree and Miano, let alone someone like Conaway. We all know Traci Lords's story with her start in the Gentleman's Cinema industry, but she wouldn't have been able to successfully pivot her career after the way she has if she didn't have the talent to pull it off, which she shows here. This is only her fourth film on the site, which seems low because she's done a lot of direct to video stuff, but in looking at her bio, a lot of it is stuff like this, where she's the lead, or if she isn't there aren't the kinds of names in it that get us to post, like Dolph or Rothrock. Considering she has two more PM flicks we'll have to do, that'll give us a start to get more of her stuff on here for sure, and I think with Shannon Tweed getting into the Hall of Fame this year, she's a candidate for a future induction herself.

In addition to her, we had Jeff Conaway and Robert Miano. Conaway played this drippy detective who's always trying to hook up with Lords, and eventually she does hook up with him. As I mentioned above, he's very handsy with her, which seems off given the disparity in their ages, but I'm sure he passed it off as "I'm just getting into character baby!" A total 70s icon who's star had pretty much faded by this point, but that's why we come to films like this, to see our favorite 70s icons make a go of it, especially after those Taxi royalty checks have been blown that month and they need a little extra bread. With Miano, I realized that I hadn't gone back and updated his tag, so he went from three films to 13, with now this movie being his 14th. He's great in this role as the creepy, villainous dirty cop, walking around with his rubber gloves on and his gun with the silencer ready to cause trouble. With now 14 on the site, I don't know if the Hall of Fame is coming, since he doesn't have a lot of starring roles, but with the amount of work he still does, I could see us doing another 16 that just happen to have him in them and him getting in on The Asylum Rule.

Usually we discuss the film's on Hall of Famer in the first post, but it worked out better that we finish with them. We're now at 43 PM flicks on the site, which puts them in a tie with Cannon for most from a studio. Between what I have in the hopper for each, PM will pass them soon, and after that it's onto the 50 Club. According to IMDb, this is the 20th film from PM, but as I mentioned above, it looks like it came out right after Ring of Fire, which to me signaled a start in the shift from thrillers like this with some action elements in it, to full on actioners, and when that shift happens, that's when we start getting those PM flicks that are some of the best actioners of the 90s, which makes PM that proper replacement to Cannon in the world of low-budget action. But even being something that wasn't a full on actioner, there's still a lot of fun to be had, which is what I love about PM flicks, chances are I'm going to get 90 minutes of fun, something that's not always a given nowadays.

And with that, let's wrap this up. As of this writing, you can catch this on YouTube. The version isn't horrible, so I think it's worth it--and it's one I have added to my PM playlist on my DTV Connoisseur YouTube channel. As far as Richard Roundtree, he truly was one of the best to do it, and will be greatly missed. Here's to you Mr. Roundtree.

For more info: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103090

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4Got10 (2015)

This is it, Dolph Lundgren's 70th film reviewed on the site, and on the weekend that we're celebrating his 66th birthday. This is also kind of the last of his DTV actioners that we have to cover of his, and it's been sitting for a while because Dolph has been putting out so much new stuff that I've prioritized those over this; but we're caught up on those ones, so figured it was time to finally make this one happen. In addition to us, Mitch from the Video Vacuum has covered this as well.

4Got10 has Johnny Messner as a guy who wakes up in the aftermath of a shootout with no memory (get it, 4-GOT-10?) and a large wound in his side. After a run in with corrupt sheriff Michael Pare, he's on the run with a van full of money, trying to figure out who he is and why he has all this cash and a large bullet wound. On his trail are Pare, drug lord Danny Trejo, and DEA agent Dolph, whose boss Vivica A. Fox wants this sorted sooner rather than later. But as we can imagine, from the cutesy off-beat Southwestern music score, no one is who they seem. Get the eye protection out when the loose ends fly together in the last 10 minutes!

This is the kind of thing that would've been semi-interesting if it had been made in the late 90s, with people like James Spader and Eric Stoltz and maybe Linda Fiorentino, but it was made in 2015 on a mid-2010s DTV budget with a mid-2010s DTV feel, which in that case, even with the prodigious cast, renders it kind of unremarkable, and no level of cutesy off-beat Southwestern music and cutesy title cards whooshing in when a new character enters the film will make it any less unremarkable--in fact, those things make it even more paint-by-numbers. Also the way the "guy with amnesia trying to solve the mystery of who he is" story unfolded, we were left with a lot of unanswered questions with about ten minutes left, which meant we had to put on those safety goggles and hunker down as all the loose ends started flying together, which they did in rapid fashion. By the same token, we get Dolph doing his best Michael Douglas in Falling Down look--which led to Mitch in his review saying he'd love to see Dolph in a sequel to Falling Down. (I also need to credit Mitch with pointing out in his review what "4Got10" meant, that it was a clever way to write "forgotten." I kept pronouncing it as "four-got-TEN," which explains why I missed it the whole time.) A DTV Falling Down sequel with Dolph in his outfit from this movie would be great; but instead we got most paintiest paint-by-numbers "who's got the money?" yarn. For free on Tubi or something, it's a good way to kill 90 minutes, and which may not be the worst thing in the world though.

The 70 Club. He was the only member of the 60 Club, let alone now owning the 70 Club before anyone even joined him in the 60 Club. And while this film was centered around Johnny Messner's character, Dolph's in it enough to make this good enough for this post. Earlier this year he talked about his battle with cancer, which I think affected his performance in Expend4bles, but it also sounds like he's doing better now, which is great to hear. The other thing about this post is 4Got10 is the last of Dolph's DTV actioners for us to review. It's been quite a ride with him, as I've said before, no one on the DTVC moves the needle like he does, and I don't know if another movie typifies that like this one. I mean, look at that image above, with the glasses, haircut, and tie--and what you can't see is that shirt is a short-sleeved shirt. Who else can wear that outfit and pull it off the way he does and look so cool and commanding doing it? In a way, when we get the twist at the end and find out his character's motives, they betray how fantastic he is here. Like that look in the picture is for a girl who works at a convenience store recording him on her phone as he goes through some bloody trash that Messner left behind. He asks the girl "do you have a good proctologist? Because if you don't stop recording me, I'm going to shove that thing so far up your ass you'll taste it and know why the company is called 'Apple.' " It's the kind of line that, if anyone else said it, we'd roll our eyes, but Dolph makes it work. Here's to you Mr. Lundgren, you're the greatest.

The cutesy title screen. Does anyone actually like them? Do the directors choose to add these in, or do the distributors tack them on after the fact? It's like "ooh, look at how we're introducing you to the players! It's going to be that kind of off-beat who's got the money?/who can you trust? kind of thing, right?" The reality is, all it does is disrupt the flow of the story, and gives us the viewer the impression that what we're about to watch is going to be as paint-by-numbers as it gets. And these "roles" don't always seem to matter either. Like when Vivica A. Fox gets the title screen saying "The Boss," what does she ever do that's really boss-y beyond sitting behind a desk and giving orders. Nothing she does impacts the plot in any kind of meaningful way. If we're going to use a title on her, she needs to play a big part--it's like Chekhov's cliche title screens, if you're going to go through the trouble to use these cliche title cards, the characters you bother to use on them need to play an integral part of the story at some point. The young lady working at the convenience store had more of an impact on the story that Vivica A. Fox did, maybe they should've freezed it and whooshed in "The Young Lady Working Behind the Counter." My advice: just don't use them at all.

As a writer myself, I'm always coming up with my own versions of copyrighted brands. In my case, I'm not so much worried that Google will come to me with a complaint, but rather creating my own thing allows me to really make it my own. Like I created my own version of McDonald's, "Von Dieter's," and while it doesn't have the turnkey understanding that something as prominent in the zeitgeist as McDonald's does, I can create more stories around my Von Dieter's because it's not tied to the idea of McDonald's as much either. Another was I created my own comic book company in my books, Aries Comics, so I can have characters outside of Marvel or DC that are my own. So with that in mind, I understand coming up with an alternative to "Google," but was "Poodle" the right option? Like "let me Poodle that," doesn't sound right, does it? And then extending it out to all the other Google products, "Poodle Maps," "Poodle Docs," "PMail"? I guess that begs the question, Mr. Writer, what would you come up with as an alternative to Google if you needed one for a story? I don't know, "Bugle"? Or maybe you go supermarket generic cereal and call it "Internet Search Engine," complete with a random cartoon animal or animals to accompany it. And then also maybe you have the character be self-aware of it, like "always prefer the generic knock-off to the name brand."

Finally, as we've been doing, Dolph gets two paragraphs in our posts. With 70 films, the question is, where do we go next? We could do the Expendables 3 and Expend4bles to complete that series. We could also do more obscure ones like Small Apartments or his cameo in Sharknado 5, or his voice work in Seal Team. He also has more movies coming, like Wanted Man and Malevolence, plus an indie flick called Showdown at the Grand that's in limited theatrical release right now, but hopefully will be on streaming soon. To be honest, I think we may take a bit of a break with Dolph until his newer stuff comes out. With 70 films, he'll be the undisputed king on the DTVC, perhaps forever, as the second highest total for an actor, Gary Daniels, is 12 behind him, and after that the only other actor with 40 is Cynthia Rothrock with 42. And by taking a break on Dolph, we can let some others, like a Fred Williamson, get more reviews on the site. So this might be it for Dolph for a while here, but I think as we take a break on his reviews, we're left with a huge number for people to go to. Essentially if you're looking up a Dolph DTV actioner on a streaming site, you can come here and see what we thought of it. I think that's really cool.

And with that, let's wrap this up. This is on all the free streamers here in the States. I think for Dolph completists or people looking for a 90-minute time killer, this will do the trick. Beyond that, I don't know that this is worth it--which is fine, you can click on the Dolph tag and see which of the other 70 films of his we've reviewed look good to you.

For more info: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4510398

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