JohnHowardReid I am amazed that this spicy, action-full movie, received such bad reviews. I loved it so much that when the excellent MGM DVD wound up, I watched it again.The plot engages our interest right from the start. The movie is chock full of action. The director makes great use of his real locations. All the players, especially Tiana Alexandra and Rod Steiger, deliver excellent, hard-hitting performances.Best of all, the movie was lensed on a top budget, making great use of all the fascinating, real-life settings.In fact, all the action at the climax must have cost a fortune to film. The many stunts we see are just incredible!The script holds the attention all the way from the tense opening scenes to the rousing climax.I thought that Tiana Alexandra was a real find. No angel could be more super-beautiful or more skilled in both attack and defense in the movie's many fight scenes.

jeffreytull1960 At some point in the 1980's I guess the Shoot 'em up genre was considered to be guaranteed box-office gold. That fact must have been on the minds of the producers of this horribly made 1987 action movie. Instead of gold what we have here is pure Hollywood hokum. At its best, it is an extremely dated, nonsensical, wholly unappealing movie with the flimsiest of plots. At worst, it's downright racist with the female's lead stereotyping Asian women and their 'in-abilitee to no-talk-ee good EN-grish.' Rod Steiger does nothing to help, sleepwalking through his role as a South American drug smuggler / talent scout (yes,...really). The inane "A-Team" style, rock 'em - sock 'em, kung-fu action interspersed throughout the film does nothing to salvage this sinking ship. Neither does the attempt at a love story between the male lead and his Asian co-star. Even a hot, kung-fu kicking babe can't save this rambling, boring, beast of a movie from the weight of its own lumbering storyline, painful dialogue and grindhouse acting. Don't waste your time.It would be more entertaining to go down to the local Chinese deli and spend the evening watching the clerk clean the meat slicers.

gridoon This is, on almost all accounts, a routine mid-to-low-budget 80's action film, mostly set in Argentina, with its weakest point probably being Rod Steiger's totally boring, sleepwalking villain. So let's talk about the female star, Tiana Alexandra: She is VERY good-looking She has a charming smile She fills out a wet T-shirt and a tight sweater beautifully She can act (going from a foul-mouthed, no-nonsense cop to her undercover role as a naive young girl) She can dance She can fight (her ingenuity in dealing with the brick wall of a man "Professor" Tanaka inside a small room is certainly memorable)She can pose BEFORE the fight and take the mental advantage over her opponent.Basically, she's the only reason for someone to see this movie, and it's a shame she wasn't given a second break. If this one flopped, she should be the last person to blame. (**)

heedarmy A tired-looking Rod Steiger was given top billing for this predictable action movie although his screen time is relatively brief. The story is unoriginal and most of the budget seems to have been spent on an exciting beginning and climax - what comes in between is extremely dull.Unusually for its day, much of the action is handled by a woman and the film, despite all its faults, is popular amongst femfight devotees for the concluding scenes in which the sinuous but deadly Tiana Alexander, clad in skintight black leotards, uses martial arts to dispose of numerous opponents.