Idiot-Deluxe No Safe Haven is entirely the "level" of movie you'd expect to see Wings Hauser in. That being said, this is a movie that really has it's moments of grandeur, unfortunately those moments are diluted by several moments of boring tedium - so be plenty prepared to take the good with the bad, but fret not, the good DOES outweigh the bad.On another casting matter, one that really does wonders for the movie is the inclusion of the late-great Robert Tessier, one of my all-time favorite's of the "That Guy" category. A distinctive and charismatic character actor, always playing tough guy roles, he really seems to be enjoying himself as a freelance arms-dealer; who runs a small-time scrapyard operation "Randy's Funk and Junk" on the side. But that's not until the middle of the movie where he comes in and enlivens the party.The basic plot goes as such, when Cletes Harris's (Wings Hauser) mother and brothers are brutally murdered by a drug cartel (NFL game-rigging and the loss of 3 million dollars being key plot points), once Clete has put the pieces together after an "RJ-47" (apparently some kind of extensive and amazingly detailed background check) is discretely carried out by a friend in high standing within the federal government. After that it's all in the name of revenge from there on out - save for a little nooky along the way.One thing you'll notice is that Clete is damnably diligent in tracking down each and every one of the murderers and is vengeful as hell when he does. In one particular encounter Clete, disguised as a room-service waiter, tracks down one of the killers and once inside the room, turns into a vengeful demon - in a bow-tie. The sequence of events goes as such: firstly he holds him at gun point, then punches him to the ground, then for some fireworks, he whips out a can of lighter fluid and empties the entire can onto the killer and then forcibly drags him onto a balcony, whips out his Zippo and sets him on fire, screaming in agony the killer-on-fire jumps from the balcony to his death ten stories below. A pretty "hard-edged" and lurid sequence, but were just getting started here, as that's only the first victim. Over the course of the next hour Wings and then later the ever-entertaining Robert Tessier joins in the fun and they proceed to assassinate an entire drug cartel and a certain treacherously, traitorous ex-girlfriend who has cartel ties. Their a ruthlessly efficient duo and the baddies, whether their in the US or south of the border, do not stand a chance against them. No Safe Haven is very much a taking-out-the-trash kind of movie, that I'm ever so so fond of. And though Wings Hauser may not be a big name like Eastwood, Bronson or Stallone, but he certainly DOES - Take Out The Trash.With what's obviously a meager budget, No Safe Haven does quite a bit with it, as the proceedings prove to be colorful and we find ourselves pinballing from one scenario to the next - from explosive speedboat chase's to sleazy backseat tryst's in stripclub parking lots to NFL prime-time game-day flashbacks to infiltrating a drug-lord's compound, which goes up in flames thanks to Clete's handiwork and for good measure they throw in a helicopter shoot em' up sequence to drive home the finale. At the end of it all Clete and Randy kill the bad-guy's, but, in a departure from the movie-formula DON'T get the girl. All in all No Safe Haven is hardly a great movie - but you can certainly do a lot worse. What I really like is how hardcore this movie is in it's most violent moments, watch for the "severed head trick" Clete pulls near the end - now that's using your, er, someones head. Plus I simply seem to like anything that Robert Tessier is in, from "Hard Times" to "The Deep" even terrible bottom-of-the-barrel dreck like David Carridine's "Future Force" has some inspired moments and let's not forget he show's up in one of the all-time best episodes of The A-Team - Robert Tessier (stuntman, actor and former para-trooper) had a colorful career. Lastly, judging by the looks of it, I'd wager that No Safe Haven was a direct-to-video release - but by no means does that mean you can't have fun with it.No Safe Haven feels like a mash-up of an Andy Sidaris movie and one of your more violent episodes of Miami Vice: drugs, guns and plenty of T & A.

videorama-759-859391 This was a comeback for Hauser. And I must say, it was one I like. He co wrote it too, and it isn't a badly made film. Revenge has always been sweet but it some cases, it can never be so deadly. Hauser's brother, a grid iron player who a drug habit, who got in with some bad people, one such guy, who you don't cross, Manuel (Branscombe Richmond), who asks him to throw the game, but he doesn't, bringing hell down on him. He and his mother and his younger brother are savagely murdered. The other one, Clete Harris, a CIA operative posted thousands of miles away, is too someone you don't want to cross. There's a storm brewing through him, and how he takes out the three, is impressively smart and awesome. He strikes up a friendship with Buddy's girlfriend, who provides a shock of revelation near the end. The opening to this flick, is cheaply and trashily exciting, just the start you need, where some of the chase shot is speeded up. What a trick? These baddie mother fu..ers, find a bus full of children been blown up hysterical, which is why we find their demises hysterical. Robert Tessier is legendary as Randy, who illegally houses all this big ammunition, out in the glades, where by a little shooting display, in the wide open spaces was classic, like the pro himself. He teams with Hauser for the final and most important kill. Honestly this is a bit better action film like many of this type, as too Hauser's background and living arrangements were intriguing as some of his tricks, in his strategy of death and vengeance upon these scum. And as an added plus, we have a Chris Rea hit song. For Hauser fans and other that crave action, and revenge, here's a good actioner while being impressive too in the fact, Hauser's pen was partly responsible for this film.

christakis charalampous i saw this movie two times.cheap movie.b movie star wings Hauser.first i must say that someone has to shoot these movie companies.i don't know if they are now in the market but they are doing shits not movies.they film in Texas?Texas as Bolivia?why they took the screenplay?the actors are bad the action 4 to 10.the scenery too.this is a crap.its the second movie that i have seen with that actor.he plays like van-tam.but van-tam is not American!he is from Belgium.he speaks french better.what a mess!i know that drug dealers have private armies.this guy in Bolivia has the country's army protection.like the fascist American army who kills people around the world.

udar55 After he refuses to throw a game for some drug lords, football star Buddy Harris (Tom Campitelli) is murdered alongside his mother and younger brother. This doesn't sit well with eldest son Clete Harris (Wings Hauser), a loose cannon Government agent cooling his heels in Honduras. When he gets word, he flies back to the US to bury his family and anyone who was involved with it. Unconvinced with the sheriff's suspect, Clete uses his contacts in Government to find out this was the work of Manuel (Branscombe Richmond), who is working for drug kingpin in Bolivia. So Clete teams with weapons expert Randy aka Popeye (Robert Tessier) and heads to South America to get his revenge.Hauser always has a great screen presence and the film's in which he had a bit more creative control (he co-wrote here with his then wife Nancy Locke) always feature some little eccentric bits. This is full of them from throw away lines by Wings to a drunken parking lot fling with a floozy (Locke) to Tessier being cast as a good guy who is also a doting single father whose military obsessed son leads a squadron of geese. The action is good and appropriately over-the-top (a van explodes after a cement truck hits its open back door). Director Ronnie Rondell has done tons of stunt-work, but this is the only feature he directed. The film isn't going to change anything it the landscape of cinema, but it is an enjoyable 90 minute B-movie. Oh, there is also a scenery chewing performance of epic proportions by Native American actor Richmond, mostly known for his work on TV's RENEGADE. His interpretation of a South American drug dealer is hilarious, sounding like Cheech Marin at times. It is the kind of performance that would have Al Pacino from SCARFACE say, "Chew gotta be fookin kiddin me, mang!"