1987 action movie
Bad Movie Rating: 3/5 (Josh: 3/5; Fred: 2/5; J.D.: 3/5)
Rating: 4/20
Plot: A cop in LA teams up with a Japanese fellow to bring down the yakuza.
I've seen the name Ulli Lommel a few times when researching for Bad Movie Club, but this is our first dip into his filmography. The best-worst thing about this movie is the editing. I can't believe how poorly this thing was edited. There's a scene early on that makes it clear that Lommel or whoever put all this together doesn't have any idea how to tell a story visually. The hero, a guy with a mustache who apparently doesn't own any shirts, and his girlfriend are in a pool where I figured she was about to get shot and end up naked and face down in the pool like in a Neil Breen movie. And then it cuts to the two of them in a kitchen where they talk about having intercourse. The hero really seems to want to do it right there in the kitchen. And she says that they should do it in the pool instead, so it cuts to them in the pool once again. Why the hell did we need to go to the kitchen?
The jumpy editing keeps things largely incoherent throughout, but the action sequences give them some competition for the most inept thing about Overkill. Body parts are lopped off, bloody bullet wounds look incredibly fake, and lots of people fall in pools. There's a big climactic shoot-out near what I thought was the end of the movie, and I had trouble figuring out who was shooting at whom and why they were doing it. There's a random masked character who is decapitated (oh, spoiler alert), and I didn't have a clue who that was even supposed to be or what side he was on.
A dope 80's score, a shocking twist, and a touching scene involving a guy and a horse nearly save the day.
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