When FBI agents Peters (Michael Madsen) and Ford (Bryan Genesse) drift into some featureless smalltown, USA, they pretty much immediately stumble into a bank robbery where they shoot all of the bankrobbers but one, who gets away with the money. They then meet the sheriff (John Phillip Law), who informs them about the local bad guy Tykor (James Russo), who ... well, is pretty evil. One of his associates (Todd Spangler) has a meth lab and dies defending it when the police shows up, so that's how evil Tykor is ... or something  For some reason, he's also involved with the bank robbery, even if he's already filthy rich and this is a smalltown bank. Anyways, Tykor is also the sheriff's son, and the sheriff has also a daughter, Rosie (Claudia Christian), and a granddaughter, May (Sasha Barrese), who prove to be ideal love interests for Peters and Ford, respectively. Anyways, eventually Tykor sends a hitman (Randolph Winston Jones) to kill the sheriff and kidnap Rosie and May, upon which Peters and Ford call in the troops to blow Tykor's oiperation to kingdom come ...

This is pretty much your typical 1990s B action movie, centered around two macho heroes - who of course have pretty women by their side -, and featuring everything from an over-the-top villain with no obvious motives and a far-fetched backstory, to gun-worship to plenty of explosions to gratuitous violence. It's of course easy to dismiss this movie as cookie cutter pulp entertainment, but it's also lots of fun to watch, it moves swiftly, the action pretty much never lets up, and one can't but be amused about the many genre clichés, so in all pretty enjoyable B-entertainment.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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