(Credit IMDb) A bounty hunter with a pregnant wife who is urging him to get a regular job gets framed for murder and trapped in a war between Russian gangsters.

For a B movie actor, I quite like Michael Dudikoff. He's always had a bit of natural charisma, and I grew up with American Ninja 1 & 2. He seemed to have a solid career etched out in front of him as an Action star, but that was not the case. He went the Seagal, Snipes & Van Damme route by making a slew of crappy DTV movies, and this is one of them. For some odd reason, I enjoyed this movie on my first go around with it, years ago. I have no idea what I was smoking then, but this is a rather painful experience. It actually starts out on a bit of a high note. It has a rather exciting opening action sequence, with a couple of decent scraps involving Michael Dudikoff, and some baddies. Then it all goes to hell, and the cheap budget comes into play. The storyline is extremely predictable, and there are a couple of twists I saw coming a mile away. As the movie progresses, we get plenty of dull shootouts, and unexciting, hand to hand combat. Michael Dudikoff is OK here, nothing more. He has that natural charisma, but he can do nothing with this movie. His natural charm isn't enough to make the movie worthwhile. We also get a rather mundane subplot involving Michael Dudikoff and his pregnant wife (Michelle Johnson) The movie should have done a better job at making me care about them. Billy Dee Williams seems a bit ashamed to be in this film, and phones it in completely. His part is fairly substantial, but not deserving of his talents. We all have bills to pay!

Final Thoughts: If you're an action fan, I'd look elsewhere. It's a cheap, boring experience, with not enough going for it to warrant a recommendation. You won't miss much if you choose to ignore it.

3.5/10

*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS A bounty hunter with a pregnant wife who is urging him to get a regular job gets framed for murder and trapped in a war between Russian gangsters. This actually isn't bad idea for an action/thriller movie. Too bad that the filmmakers wasted it.

Nothing made any sense in this movie. Michael Dudikoff gets captured and kidnapped at least a half dozen times by the Russian mobsters. He keeps getting away or is simply released by them even though he's suspected of killing the mob boss' faired haired boy and hair-apparent Jonish. Dudikoff gets a lot of beating in this movie – he is getting wailed on in seemingly every other scene. I would LOVE to see Steven Seagal making a movie like this one. You , Steven "Nobody can touch me" Seagal. It would be interesting.

Billy Dee Williams ("Star wars : The empire strikes back" , "Star wars : The return of Jedi" , "Batman", "Nighthawks") makes a brief appearance as the Detective Don Racine. What happened to you man ? You once had an career… During one scene you can see the microphone during the dialogue scene. Also , Dudikoff's pregnant girlfriend is flat as washboard through all the time . I guess that the filmmakers couldn't buy her a pillow and put it under the sweater.

I give it 1/10. Avoid.

Michael Dudikoff stars as Sonny McLaren a bounty hunter who finds himself hunted by mobsters when one of his prisoners is killed, when Dudikoff is transporting his prisoner to the jail (We strangely never learn where this is supposed to take place) of course the mobsters have marked him for death and now his only help comes from Detective Don Racine (Billy Dee Williams) in this terminally dull actioner which is photgraphed very poorly and just doesn't have enough action to justify the means. Michael Dudikoff actually tries to act and although he's not terrible, he fares much better in The Silencer. In all seriousness this is for only, I repeat only for die hard Michael Dudikoff fans.

1/5 Matt Bronson