Stone Cold (1991)
4/10
Love the lizard, hate the mullet.
22 April 2021
Warning: Spoilers
For former football player Brian Bosworth turned actor, the side profile is not flattering, but the eye catching shot of the muscular blonde in his jockey briefs certainly is. "You have a dog?" an FBI agent asks when he sees something moving around under a sheet. If he only knew. Bosworth picks up this huge creature (not sure if it was actually an iguana) and looks right into its eyes, and it's actually more touching than his love scenes with the woman he has in bed with him.

This is actually surprisingly an enjoyable action film with comic elements that, while certainly deserving of critically bad reviews, is entertaining enough for a sleazy early 90's action film. A poor man's Patrick Swayze as an actor, Bosworth needed to tone down on the chin which gave him the profile of the old hag from "Snow White", and yet, after a while, to begin to become endearing as he takes on a nasty biker gang filled with degenerates.

"Look what we've got here. It grown up version of Bam Bam", a rather slimy biker in a dive bar tells Bosworth, and you realize early on that this film is not going to win any screenplay awards. But you can't help but laugh with it and at it at times, and as bad as it is, I did manage to make it through, a rarity these days with most films where there's hardly any redeeming characters in the film. This takes the genre of 60's and 70's biker counterculture films to a new level, and in spite of my own snobbishness to such type of films, I did have a good time watching it.
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