Wolff rating: MOSTLY HARMLESS
Plot summary: Biker gal rolls into biker-run town and proceeds to clean it up, both figuratively and literally.
Biased, pithy comments: This could have been a fun low-budget cult flick---it's sort of an American cheap Kung Fu movie or (given the production values) El Mariachi. It missed, though, and it's sort of interesting why. First, Long doesn't quite have the acting chops. Oh, I'm being nice--she has no acting chops at all, except for her remarkable physical grace while performing stunts. She's attractive in a non-Hollywood-wispy sort of way, but mercilessly teased hair and a black bustier just don't substitute for lines delivered with some verve. Secondly, for an action movie, there are long fairly uninteresting pauses between the far-too-short fights. Perhaps they could have blown up a few fewer trucks and spent the money they saved on choreographing more moves with Long and the accomplished stunt actors they had for the biker gang. Lastly, the premise needed just a little more explaining or needed ejecting entirely; I couldn't figure out how this town could exist at all without some intervention by the National Guard. Set in a more remote location (like deep in Mexico or the wilds of the Yukon) I could believe it, or else after the fall of the American Empire, but not what they did. I did like the fact that when a tough *female* action hero shows up, she decides to piss off the biker gang by *cleaning up* their hideout and putting in throw pillows and porcelain figurines. How domestic! I'd like to see more of Long and her compatriots again, but with more fighting and less acting.
Other Notes: "It looks like the Women's Sewing Club exploded in here." Long is a 5-time world champion kickboxer. Why, may I ask, did she buy that strange beer-guzzling hat? I don't get it.
How many times I have seen it: x1
Starring: Kathy Long, Andrew Divoff, Eric Pierpoint, Jason Adams, Ginger Lynn Allen, and David Anthony Marshall.
Directed by: Fritz Kiersch