Fatal Secret

Fatal Secret is a Swedeish action-movie from 1988. The director Mats-Helge is my absolute favourite director,and together with fantastic actors and actresses he makes superb action even in this

movie.Camilla Lunden(A famous Actress here in Sweden)is superp as the hero Kim Brown and the bad guy David Carradine,is as usual acting fantastic.So this film,my friends ,is high reccomend by me.Rating 5 (out of 5).

My review was written in June 1990 after watching the movie on Shooting Star video cassette.

"Fatal Secret" is a routine action pic made in Sweden three years ago (as "Animal Protector") and now available in video stores in the U. S. The very busy David Carradine guest stars (and gets top billing) as a drug dealer involved as a go-between in a miniwar between the CIA and KGB over a stolen computer disk.

What makes the film unusual is that women are cast in substantial action roles rather than token slots. Camilla Lunden is photogenic as a top mercenary operative who doublecrosses everybody while several other Swedish beauties get to show their action talents. Unfortunately, directors Mats Helge and Andrew Nelson show little facility for action scenes.

Another problem is that some of the cast members (including Lunden) are stuck with artificially post-ynched dialog. Use of a wind tunnel-type sound in the background as white noise is a further drawback. A-R Hellquist has some high-kicking martial arts skills but his acting is poor.

Yes, folks that´s THE David Carradine, who once made The Long Riders, Kung Fu and Bound for Glory. Here he´s gone slumming with a bunch of inept Swedish stunt men and amateur filmmakers. This DTV loser has a bunch of Helge regulars (Carradine´s one of them) running around in the Swedish countryside with plastic firearms shooting and yelling at each other in a very disinterested fashion with more bad English accents than you can count. Looks like a rejected training video for the Swedish national guard, and even has now respected actress Camilla Lundén along for eye candy. Don´t go there... 0 (of ****)