Buster McHenry is as an undercover agent for the police. His mission involves him in a robbery. Buster gets shot but Hank Storm, an Indian, helps Buster. Since Hank wants a spear in the possession of the criminals that Buster is after, they team up.
Kiefer Sutherland
Buster McHenry
Lou Diamond Phillips
Hank Storm
Jami Gertz
Barbara
Robert Knepper
Marino
Bill Smitrovich
Finch
Peter MacNeill
Denny Ransom
Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman
Red Crow
Joseph Griffin
Matt
John Di Benedetto
Corso
Kyra Harper
Nema
Joseph Hieu
Gang Leader
Dee McCafferty
Cop Outside Bar
Heidi von Palleske
Hooker In Bar
Tom Butler
Detective Geddles
Clark Johnson
JJ
David Mucci
Marino's Gang Member
David Lee
Gangbanger
Jack Blum
Keith Weinstock
Gary Farmer
George Storm
Janelle Hutchison
Annette
Director
Jack Sholder
Writer
David Rich
September 26, 2014
7
They trusted no one. Until they had to trust each other.
It suffers from the pitfalls of many other 1980s action films, such as plot holes, silly twists and predictability of formula, but there is a very good action film here that's more than a time waster for the so inclined.
Young Guns (1988) stars Sutherland and Phillips (by now firm real life friends) team up again, this time in Phioladelphia with Sutherland as a maverick copper working undercover and Phillips as a Lakota Indian. The two of them are thrown together by fate when a case Sutherland is working on goes bad and Phillips' brother is killed and a sacred Lakota lance is stolen in the process. They are complete polar opposites as characters and struggle to get on with each other to achieve their respective goals. We know they will find a happy ground and kick ass, and with the actors chemistry well founded, it works real well as a buddy buddy action piece.
Director Jack Sholder (The Hidden) has a good knack for action construction, be it shoot-outs or punch-ups, but the highlight here is a blunderbuss extended car chase through the city that wouldn't be out of place in a far bigger budgeted blockbuster. However, with the more character based sections of film the director is not so adept, struggling to get much out of Robert Knepper's villain and letting Jami Gertz wander in and out as a love interest type without any real rhyme or reason. But if frantic action is what you like, you get it here by the bucket load, just enjoy that ride and forget any hope of depth elsewhere. 6.5/10
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$16,000,000.00
Revenue:
$9,015,164.00