Eliminar a Mc Call

My review was written in June 1989 after watching the film on Forum video cassette.

Routine action pic has its moments, making for a decent video title pitting mafia against two cons (the title combo).

Ted Prior is an L. A. cop framed by the mob but ordered rubbed out in prison so as not to spill the beans to the FBI about a mafia chieftain. His old Vietnam vet buddy Teddy (played by the filmmaker Tony Zarindast) is ordered to carry out the hit, but decides to help Prior and his martial arts expert cellmate Carter Wong escape instead.

Film loses credibility as Zarindast and his girlfriend Maureen Lavette tag along with the cons as Good Samaritans until gettig conveninetly wiped out in a siege by gangsters.

In addition to good stuntwork, best thing about the film is Zarindast's canny casting of beautiful women, especially Christina Lunde as Prior's girlfriend. Plotting is too loose to be riveting, notably the cavalier treatment of Wong's wife, Debra Lamb, who is talked about a lot, finally shown doing a striptease in a nightclub and cryptically dropped from the story.

Tech credits are up to par except variable sound.