Lethal

Its not a good movie, but you can laugh so much of it... It can inspire great parodies, if they were worth it... Character design was good now and then but in the run this quality was thwarted by tradition.

Extras, for example, did their parts in ways so ridiculous one could really think it was a satire, the doorman was such an excessive stereotype. The overall events could make sense but by themselves did not. Conversations were too much of an obvious attempt to explain events instead of natural happenings in the film... The best attempt at that was damaged by the oversimplification of senseless characters invited to help as a new goal once the former goal was lost...

This is just about as phony and cliché as an action flick can get. It is so phony it almost looks like a spoof because every element a spoof would laugh at is in Lethal. You have everything--an evil psychotic Russian mobster, an ass-kicking bimbo, professional terrorist mercenaries who can never hit a target 20 yards away in the open and never shoot together (they pop up one after another just to miss their target and be killed by the bimbo waving a machine gun at them). The bimbo can walk, look straight ahead and still see a guy aiming at her from behind. And of course, they all love holding a gun to your head and telling you all about their emotional problems leading to them becoming terrorists, giving you plenty of chance to escape. Watching this movie, you almost scream "will you shoot her already!" To add insult to injury, a building where they develop space-age military technology must be guarded by a horny useless nerd. You can get in with someone's ID and of course the entire office floor is conveniently empty in the middle of the day, no computer is locked, no files are encrypted. But I'm sure if they were, any bimbo could quickly "break" the encryption or guess the password. And you guessed right, dear readers, you hear a police siren literally a second after the last shot is fired.

Unless you are a bad action movie craved masochist, do not watch this movie. The acting is horrible, the storyline is weak, a very low budget film. The star can kill 20 of the enemy's goons in one minute (the bad guys are the same guys used over and over again, there might only be 3 or 4 actors and they wear full body black outfits that make them indistinguishable from one amother)

Do not spend any money on this movie - if you want to waste some money, send it to me instead.

As an action film, "Lethal" is a joke: amateurish and underbudgeted (they didn't even hire extras for the scenes set on the streets or in office buildings!), with very bad fight choreography, editing and camera placement (which even manages to miss a few hits in the fight scenes). But, let's be honest here: the only possible reason you could have for renting this film (unless you're a Lorenzo Lamas fan!) is that the video cover features a good-looking woman in a black tank top holding a gun. And the film actually does feature a good-looking woman in a black tank top holding (and shooting) a gun (and occasionally two guns). Her "serious" acting is painful, but her tough-chick act is engaging, and she has really great abs. As for her co-stars, Frank Zagarino almost manages to come out of this looking decent, and Lorenzo Lamas, playing the bad guy, tries for a Russian accent, which at least shows that he doesn't take himself all that seriously. (*)

The direction is shocking! Fight choreography is poor! There's a real lack of fluidity in the scenes.. Check out the kicked over table that magically stands on it's side in an instant !

The leading lady was hot though...! Probably not enough for most people to bother with this one !