Action Jackson (1988) is a movie in my DVD collection that I recently watched on HBOMAX. The storyline follows a Detroit police officer on the case of a power hungry business man whose business illegally eliminates the competition, moves drugs and he has visions of political power. The business man also wants revenge on the officer for ripping his sons arm off when he was caught for sexual assault. The case will lead the police officer right into the waiting arms of the business man who will try and get his revenge.
This movie is directed by Craig R. Baxley (Twilight Man) and stars Carl Weathers (Predator), Craig T. Nelson (Coach), Vanity (The Last Dragon), Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct), Bill Duke (Predator), Ed O'Ross (Red Heat), and Robert Davi (Die Hard).
This movie has everything an action genre fan would want in a movie. This has a tremendous cast with a muscle bound hero with great one liners, a worthwhile villain that takes martial arts classes and two smoking hot ladies in Sharon Stone and Vanity. There's nude scenes, tremendous action sequences and a police officer that will do anything to solve the case - kill, vandalize or blow stuff up. The shootouts and shotgun scenes are a lot of fun. My only complaint would be some of the hand to hand fight scenes were just okay.
Overall, this is an underrated addition to the action genre that's an absolute must see. I would score this a 7/10 and strongly recommend it.
