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Miami: Private eye Al Connors (Loye Hawkins) is hired as a bodyguard
for Ashanti (PAtricia Fulton), the wife of an African diplomat, but once
his employers are gone, he knows nothing better to do than to try and
seduce her, and when two assassins come by to kill her, that's only a
minor bother, as he just beats them up then moves her from the five-star
hotel they were staying at to the apartment of his girlfriend (Angela
Schon) to successfully finish what he's begun. Later, Connors is hired
to free Wanda (Cathy Davis), daughter of crime kingpin Harry De Bauld
(Steve Gallon), who has been kidnapped by Big Daddy's men, but they are so
incompetent that they virtually lead him to Wanda and show little
resistance when Connors shows up to free her. Then Connors takes Wanda to
his girlfriend's place, seduces her, and only then returns her to her dad. Big
Daddy doesn't like Connors' constant interferences one bit, so he suggests
to meet eye to eye - but of course, Big Daddy has brought a sniper with
him to get rid of Connors - but luckily enough, Wanda's dad has sent a
couple of thugs around to look after Connors without his knowledge - so
the odds are evened, and in the finale, Big Daddy and Connors duke it out
to see who's left standing ... and even though Big Daddy is about double
his size, Connors beats him to death. Pretty much
blaxploitation at its worst. Obviously made on a shoestring, the film
doesn't suffer so much from its low budget but more from bad writing, a
bad direction, bad acting, bad action and the like. The writing is bad not
just because the film is completely formulaic, but also because the story
lacks proper buildup or any suspense and mainly seems to be interested in
showing what a womanizer its lead character is, the directorial effort is
flat to the point of staginess, and that several scenes have apparently
been shot twice and left in the movie following each other is almost
ridiculous, the actors are little more than amateurs and often stumble
over their lines, which is left intact in the film, and the action scenes,
mainly man-on-man fights are not only less than spectacular but also
slowly executed, and none of the actors seem to be too well-versed in
doing stunts. In other words, a film that has to be seen, but if you're
not into bad films, you'll probably never understand why.
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