This spectacularly squib-slathered, persistently pyrotechnic 90s actioner happily finds fading 70s icon, Burt Reynolds, in remarkably robust fettle! Raven Team's ill-fated Black Ops mission to retrieve code-breaking hardware proves disastrous, as the corrupt cabal of high-level politicians have their own wholly treacherous agenda. While the guilelessly purloined plot is unleavened DTV dross, watching Teflon-haired maverick,Jerome 'Raven' Katz (Burt Reynolds)chew up stogies and bullet-ravaged scenery with carnivorously unfiltered zeal provides a wealth of guilty pleasures! Solberg's noisome, unsophisticated shoot 'em up nonetheless remains a crudely crafted, manifestly entertaining, Burt Reynolds time killer!
Macho muscle head,Matt Battaglia provides decent (ish) thesping support, and lust-interest, Krista Allen's garishly pulchritudinous physiognomy is a welcome erotic distraction from all the laboured, knuckle-dragging badinage. Likeable, reliably solid character actor, Richard Gant delivers the goods, and credibly, David Ackroyd subtly underplays Washington skell, Bill Gilley. The high-test, unjustly low-balled action-tastic Raven enjoys impeccable grindhouse credentials, having been co-produced by ex-sexploitation scion, Stu Segall, and Harry 'Friday 13th Manfredi's dynamic score is quite splendid, arguably the most creative element of this riotously retrograde actioner.
Macho muscle head,Matt Battaglia provides decent (ish) thesping support, and lust-interest, Krista Allen's garishly pulchritudinous physiognomy is a welcome erotic distraction from all the laboured, knuckle-dragging badinage. Likeable, reliably solid character actor, Richard Gant delivers the goods, and credibly, David Ackroyd subtly underplays Washington skell, Bill Gilley. The high-test, unjustly low-balled action-tastic Raven enjoys impeccable grindhouse credentials, having been co-produced by ex-sexploitation scion, Stu Segall, and Harry 'Friday 13th Manfredi's dynamic score is quite splendid, arguably the most creative element of this riotously retrograde actioner.