One of the ten films Showtime made in 1994 based on old AIP films. This was John Milius' entry - a take on biker films with middle aged vigilantism thrown in. His wife at the time, Elena Oberon plays the sexpot wife of convservative Gerald McRaney and they have a blossoming sex plot daughter in Carla Gugino. Jake Busey leads the Indians/bikers who attack the gals and take away Gugino, Searchers style. McRaney goes looking for them. (Maybe this is Milius' version of Rolling Thunder.)
I thought mom would be killed and I'm sure that was considered but maybe that was too heavy - so she just kinds of hang around. McRaney only cuts loose one scene but it's a good one - some hand to hand combat where he takes out three bikers. I'd never seen that in a Milius film and it's very well done. I enjoyed the beatniks who ran the hotel they stayed at.
It lacks some flamboyance of earlier Milius works - I expected the biker characters to be bolder (a female biker would've helped) - but it was entertaining, albeit dodgy with its man reclaiming woman thing.
No comments:
Post a Comment