DigitalRevenantX7
Johnny Damone, a bounty tracker from Boston, arrives in California to visit his brother Paul. But once he arrives, he finds a heavy police presence around Paul's house. Finally allowed in, Johnny discovers that Paul is the only surviving witness to a gangster's money laundering scheme & that his entire workplace of accountants have been massacred by an elite team of assassins. That night, the assassins, led by Erik Gauss, breach the house's police guard & kill Paul & his wife. Only Johnny survives. Determined to track down Gauss, he uses his skills at skip tracing to hunt down the assassins & bring them down.Bounty Tracker is an early-1990s B-grade action thriller from Image Organization, Canada's most prolific B-budget film studio. They have made everything from cheap actioners to the Scanners sequels.Bounty Tracker is an unexceptional film in almost all areas. It is filled with hand-to-hand fights to shootouts. The plot is basically a revenge story & has Lorenzo Lamas, who has starred in many cheap B-films during the 1990s & beyond (& even dabbled in some of the Asylum's works) do his best to track down & defeat Matthias Hues' deadly assassin. On the action side, the film has plenty of reasonable scenes but doesn't do much to elevate itself above the tide of similar films that came out at the time. The closest the plot gets to being original is when Lamas & his young hood friends track the gangster's car by stowing somebody inside the trunk.Lorenzo Lamas does a pretty decent job of a bounty tracker (basically another name for a bounty hunter) who takes on a team of assassins in order to get revenge for his brother's death. Matthias Hues, an actor who has played villains in everything from DROID GUNNER to DARK ANGEL, does his usual brutal manner but the film is too average to become a real minor world-beater.
swedzin
Yeah, yeah I know this is not "Renegade", but still
it has such a strong resemblance to it. First of all, we have Lorenzo Lamas, the star of "Renegade", with his usual long hair, rugged looks, martial arts skills, not that solid acting skills and he is a bounty hunter. Well
the title of the film says "Bounty Tracker", just not to think that this has nothing to do with "Renegade". Well, it doesn't
but, it still has a big resemblance! What is the matter with you, people?! When you see most of these action, martial arts films, with Van Damme, Seagal, Lundgren and all others, they are just type casted for the sake of entertainment to play themselves over and over again. They just change their names, for example Lorenzo's name here is Johnathan Damone (the usual name for a action hero, you know – John, Jack, James, George, Casey, Bill, Jericho
), forget it, he is Vince Black, aka Reno Raines and shut up. The story is, of course
a revenge story , no more, no less, in "Renegade" Lamas is seeking justice, to clear his name, and also a vengeance, nothing far from this film, in "Renegade", they kill his girlfriend, here they kill his brother
so, we all know what happens next. This is just a usual action low budget film from the 90s, so turn of your brain and enjoy yourself. The only thing I like are the fight scenes, pretty well done. We also have some interesting players here, Matthias Hues for example, I think he is pretty good for playing villains in low budget films, he is tall, menacing and he has this evil looks, but no acting skills at all. But, always has this strange charisma, you just enjoy watching him as a villain. And we also have Cyndi Pass, ah, that little sexy, sexy from the 90s, damn
90s were really hot. So, grab your chair, rent this film, if you really enjoy this kind of fun and watch it.
sveknu
A movie with both Lorenzo Lamas and Mathias Hues sounded really interesting. And I wasn't disappointed. Hues plays the bad guy as he always does, but this time he's on top instead of second in command. Lamas is of course the hero. Although the movie contains one long and very entertaining fight scene, it's not a typical martial arts movie. Hues, for example, doesn't fight a lot, and he doesn't show us that much of his skills when he does. So don't get fooled by the video-cover, where it looks like some kind of arena-fighting movie. Despite of this, the movie is good. A normal (but fitting, as always) vengeance-plot with some cool scenes makes this more than OK.
LuvsFood
Rent this one if you want to see Lorenzo Llamas kick some serious butt. Plot is a throwaway, natch, with dialogue to match. But Kurt Andersen is an action director to watch, and he serves up some great fight scenes, including a sequence in a dojo that has to be seen to be believed.