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Swill is perhaps an over complimentary adjective to describe this. Carradine provides a name, a daughter, a few extra pounds and some funding as associate producer, little else. The thing that made me give it the second star was the fact that it was filmed entirely on location in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Las Lunas, New Mexico. This means little to nothing to anyone who's not from either of those locations (Me!). And it shouldn't, but who the hell shoots a movie there? Someone with little to lose but your attention span. Fear not, you will be disappointed, inaccurate Vietnam references aside, as previous reviews may have mentioned, this is flat out bland. And this coming from a guy who likes crap.

A movie that takes its time getting started and never really gets anywhere due to the most inept villains in a film that is not a comedy. Seriously, when they are not throwing each other off a balcony, they are shooting each other, getting fish and letting the hero have another chance at them when they had the hero in a position to take out. The two heroes did not have to be good in this one, just slightly less incompetent than the villains!

The story starts out with a dude shaving and breaking up a robbery before meeting his old friend played by David Carradine. They go to this demonstration by a rich guy of a new weapon which promptly gets destroyed as the guy says he is out of the weapons business. Well, soon, an FBI agent and dude with bad temper and great hair move in to kidnap this inventor and his daughter, but they manage to mess up a lot so Carradine and his buddy Slade can literally take their time and enjoy the sights, steal a car even for no reason before stopping the doomed kidnapping mission.

About the only real star here is Carradine, though the character Slade was in a lot of B movies himself. They are okay, and the bad guy with the nice hair was alright as the short tempered main bad guy. The movie just takes too long to get going and like I said, you never get a sense that Slade and Carradine are going to lose as the villains stumble and bumble and shoot each other...

So, it had its moments, certainly was a fun watch, but not a good one. Carradine was in some good films during his time, but he was also in a lot of bad films! Granted, most of the bad ones are still entertaining in their own way. Make the villains more competent and add some better action and this one could have been good because Hans Gruber this villains are not!

All I can say is avoid this movie at all costs. I was unfortunate enough to catch this crap at 2:00 am when they run bad movies and boy is this one. Its complete garbage and a bore from start to finish. The whole film concerns some scientist who's made up a rather stupid weapon that is powerful and now some thugs want to kidnap him and his daughter to give up the secrets of the weapon. Carradine and his blonde meat head side kick now have to go a rescue him. This movie is about as bad and boring as you can get. There is nothing worthy of redemption in this film and the few action scenes are worthless and poorly done. I'm sure if Carradine took a punch from that black guy he'd either be dead or have no teeth. Why in the world or how a movie like this gets made is beyond me. If I could give it a zero I would, but heres a 1 out of ten. Stay as far away as possible!

This wretchedly made film concerns a scientist in the field of weapons technology research who has accepted responsibility for developing an "independent thinking" aviatory robotic laser weapon and who, upon the device's test implementation, is torn, for the sake of humanity, with misgivings concerning his vocation. Burdened by disillusion with his government employers, also with his awareness of widespread knavery within the related defense industry, he believes that worse is yet to come if he continues with his researching and therefore, after the initial illustration of the weapon's efficacy, in a scene mindful of a Flash Gordon serial he obliterates his weapon by remote control. He becomes targeted by a dishonourable FBI agent and a group of recreant, non-sequital intelligence agents who are plotting to kidnap him and his daughter so that the scientist will reveal his core knowledge and, to prevent this, he hires two former Special Forces veterans, played by David Carradine and Frank Zagarino, as protection. A reckless attempt is made, through abduction, to obtain the coveted artificial intelligence technology, but the principals of each side are scenario stricken by incredibly moronic scenes and stupid dialogue, aggravated by limited direction, lacklustre acting and superfluous violence combining to produce a general lack of those production values indispensable for an interesting film, even one with bantamweight objectives as in this instance.