Rage to Kill

My review was written in January 1989 after watching the movie on AIP video cassette.

South Africa and environs double adequately for fictionalized Grenada in the oddball actioner "Rage to Kill", a mishmash politically somewhere to the right of Clint Eastwood's "Heartbreak Ridge" but typical of today's home video fare.

James Ryan, South Africa's answer to Alain Delon, stars rather unconvincingly (amidst a welter of incorrect accents) as a U. S. racing driver hero who heads to the Caribbean island of St. Heron to see how his medical student brother (Liam Candill) is doing now that meanie Oliver Reed has seized control.

Ryan is taken hostage and organizes the students, with the aid of CIA undercover man Cameron Mitchell, to escape captivity and team up with the good-guy rebels, led by Henry Cele.

Filmmaker David Winters manages to mix in several genres, what with torture and sadism scenes, sexy coeds in the shower and his trademark aerobics class footage. Unfortunately, most of the excitement is in the opening reels and stagings purporting to be Washington, D. C. cabinet meetings are poorly cast and silly.