Was not sure when this thing was made when I was watching, I was thinking late 80's but the fact Jan Michael-Vincent looked like crap and seemed out of it should have told me it was later. Dude had so much potential, watch him in Damnation Alley and he was totally charismatic. This film had some good in it as it was all about the kills; however, it really falls apart at the end and becomes to heavy handed on the one side and too goofy on the other. Not that it was winning any awards before that, but if they had stuck with the tone the set at first I could see this one being a solid six or seven score film.
The story has some sort of criminals getting away with a crime at the beginning of the film before being murdered by the completely unrealistic ice bullet from an assassin. Turns out he is greedy though and he is betrayed by whoever hired him and he is caught and sent to prison. He escapes thanks to his tall blond girlfriend, Bridgette Nielsen who still looks pretty good in this one, though she never could act and he is out to get revenge! Revenge on who you ask? Cops! Yes, turns out someone on the force paid him for the hit and it is up to Robert Davi to figure out what is going on before the assassin kills him too!
Robert Davi is good in this, I kind of like him in the investigator roll and Sonny Chibi is good as the assassin. As usual, by this time Jean Michael is totally playing his role looking as uninterested as possible and I have to wonder if they had him in a larger role before seeing how he was and perhaps cutting it down.
So, the film culminates with horrific reason that the cop paid the assassin to kill the guy at the beginning; in fact, it was a bit too horrific for a movie of this type and then the final showdown takes place on a trolley as the assassin who is super trained and could probably have easily pulled a driver from a car instead commandeers a slow moving trolley going straight. The type of scene one might expect in a Naked Gun film. Still, while not good and it certainly could have been better, it was entertaining for what it was.
