Richard Malone is an ex-CIA agent, who wants to forget his past and maybe start things all over again.
Travelling through the United States, Malone has to stop for a few days in a small but beautiful town, after his car breaks down.
He soon becomes a friend of a family, and discovers that an eccentric millionaire of the region, Charles Delaney, keeps all the habitants of the town under his power, by fear and coalition.
What Delaney really wants is to become the next president and, soon, dominate the world.
But Malone decides not to make things so easy for Delaney: using his CIA profit, he will challenge him and all his hired assassins...
When Burt did Shane...
A typical action movie from Burt an MGM which were rife during the late eighties, but this is noticeable for three things, Burts wonderful wig, Burts increasingly tight trouser and shirt combo, and one of the most strangest bro-mances I have ever seen.
To let someone with a moustache of that calibre stay in your house after only meeting them once is strange, but the relationship the two male leads have is beyond the volleyball scene in Top Gun.
For the rest of the movie though, it's pretty standard, if very watchable stuff. Malone becomes protector and spends the majority of the film hiring a stunt double whenever he has to run from a distance.
Nothing really happens, there is a crash, and a siege which concludes with Malone sitting in the shadows and coming into view a couple of times.
The cast are fine, and it's okay stuff to watch, if forgettable.
Travelling through the United States, Malone has to stop for a few days in a small but beautiful town, after his car breaks down.
He soon becomes a friend of a family, and discovers that an eccentric millionaire of the region, Charles Delaney, keeps all the habitants of the town under his power, by fear and coalition.
What Delaney really wants is to become the next president and, soon, dominate the world.
But Malone decides not to make things so easy for Delaney: using his CIA profit, he will challenge him and all his hired assassins...
When Burt did Shane...
A typical action movie from Burt an MGM which were rife during the late eighties, but this is noticeable for three things, Burts wonderful wig, Burts increasingly tight trouser and shirt combo, and one of the most strangest bro-mances I have ever seen.
To let someone with a moustache of that calibre stay in your house after only meeting them once is strange, but the relationship the two male leads have is beyond the volleyball scene in Top Gun.
For the rest of the movie though, it's pretty standard, if very watchable stuff. Malone becomes protector and spends the majority of the film hiring a stunt double whenever he has to run from a distance.
Nothing really happens, there is a crash, and a siege which concludes with Malone sitting in the shadows and coming into view a couple of times.
The cast are fine, and it's okay stuff to watch, if forgettable.