J..D. (Joey Johnson) works for a courier service transporting briefcases full of money across the country - which is usually a pretty dull and routine job - until "the organisation" enters the picture, an, erm, organisation specializing in robbing money couriers. Of course, J.D.'s tough as nails, so it's not easy to rob him, and it really takes the organisation to kill both J.D.'s partner (Bill Hupfer) and his wife (Joan Becherich) to get their hands on a particularly large shipment. Now it would have been nice of J.D.'s boss the Colonel (James Jameson) to let him grieve a bit - instead he tells him to single-handedly find out who's the head of the organisation and take him and everybody who crosses his path out. And that J.D. does, helped only by his dead wife's best friend, sexy blonde Katie (Barbara Garrison), who insists on driving him around despite the danger she puts herself into, and who eventually of course falls in love with J.D. And after tortturing and killing any number of crooks, J.D. finds the head of the organisation (John H. Schmeer) - only to figure out he might have been duped by the very people he's working for ...

There are action movies, especially of the B-movie variety, that didn't make much of a splash, critically or commercially, upon their release only to be rediscovered as a hidden gem years or even decades later. Courier of Death is not such a movie, basically it's just routine action fodder based on a screenplay high on action tropes but low on substance, carried by a mostly underwhelming cast trying to make it through shoddily executed fights and shoot-outs. So no, this is not a good movie - but at the same time actually quite some fun because of its artlessness and lack of panache, so a film to utterly enjoy for all the wrong reasons.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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