Tail end of peak Van Damme - he was big enough to produce and hire John Avildsen to direct and do his own cut.
It starts off interestingly with Van Damme in the desert being beaten up, Jamie Pressley driving past, Van Damme having visions of Danny Trejo.
But as the film goes on it gets increasingly confusing - Trejo is a vision then he's real, Pat Morita seems as though he's doing something big but he's hardly in it, I struggled to follow what was going on.
Over time I leaned in to the madness of the movie. Van Damme having a threesome with two blondes he's rescued. The randomness of Trejo's and Morita's appearances. A script that rips off Yojimbo then has a character at the end suggest they watch Yojimbo. The town using UFOs at the end to explain everyone disappearing. Coyote metaphors.
Van Damme produced and the film feels like it was produced by someone on cocaine, though I might be doing the man a disservice.
Action sequences are fine by the way.
Female lead Gabrille Fitzpatrick is an Aussie.
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