Traxx

1988 "This man has just blown away six terrorists, dynamited a drug smuggling compound, and baked a dozen cookies."
Traxx
5.3| 1h24m| R| en| More Info
Released: 17 September 1988 Released
Producted By: DEG
Country: United States of America
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Traxx has battled his way through El Salvador, the Middle East and Nicaragua, spitting lead with two-handed good grace. He decides to retire to a life of baking designer cookies. Running out of dough to buy more dough, he hires himself as a "Town Tamer" and begins cleaning up Hadleyville, Texas, telling the lowlife street scum, "You got three choices. Be good, be gone, or be dead." Like all bacteria, the scum are resistant: crime boss Aldo Palucci (Robert Davi) brings in the dreaded Guzik brothers to rid the town of the town tamer, setting the stage for a showdown in the streets.

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ajbird-239-973916 I was clever enough to purchase this title on VHS after I caught an airing of it back in the eighties. I have seen it at least half a dozen times since then, and just watched it again with my husband and nineteen-year-old son. We were all laughing hysterically all the way through the film. I was afraid it would not have held up after all these years, but my fears were completely unfounded. We add our voices to those who would dearly like to see this released in a higher quality format. Such an offbeat delight! My favorite scene is the GMC "product placement moment, I think.... :-) I look forward to eventually sharing it with my fourteen- year-old, but it is still a little over the top in the violence/adult theme arena, even given the highly satirical context. Shadoe Stevens is phenomenal as Traxx -- his smile alone would redeem a bad storyline -- and since the scriptwriting hits exactly the right note with my sense of humor, the smile is just a bonus. If you can manage to find a copy, and have a well-developed sense of the absurd, see this movie! If you have no sense of humor, avoid it like the plague!
audiostew OK so I won't lie friends, I didn't see this movie, but rather I was at a goodwill thrift store today buying shirts and this little VHS gem was hiding under a neatly folded pile of Cosby sweaters on a shelf near the back. I read the posterior of the cassette and couldn't believe the premise of this film. I then looked at the cover and saw Shadow Setvens, and thought to my self, "Man was this guy NOT funny on the old Hollywood Squares, or that show Dave's World". So I set it back down, covered it with Cosby sweaters, made a few glances to ensure no one had seen me pick up that movie, much less read and consider wasting an hour of my youth watching it, and I left. And my life, was never the same.
sundejr-2 So what if it's ULTRA-80's!!! It made me laugh for at least an hour after I was through seeing it. If you like "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka" then this will be right up your alley. If only it had been successful... Oh well. Shadoe Stevens is my new hero!
Robert J. Maxwell I worked as an atmosphere person on this film while it was shooting on the back lot in Wilmington, North Carolina. I was a drunken cowboy, a customer in the whorehouse parlor whose pocket was being picked by a scantily dressed employee, who was in fact a well brought up Southern Baptist girl who giggled nervously as I nuzzled her belly. My son Josh, an adopted Korean who was about eight at the time, was also an atmosphere person, playing one of the children in a kind of day care center in the whorehouse, genuinely startled when the door burst open because the move hadn't been announced. Now, as an insider on this project, I agree with other reviewers that this is one of the rottenest filthiest and altogether most execrable movies ever committed to film, the absolute nadir. I disagree with one reviewer's comment, however. The funniest gag is not the credit card decals on the whorehouse door. It is the scene in which Robert Davi (a competent actor, reserved guy, and stone opera fan) releases an inhuman amount of intestinal gas inside a closed vehicle while laughing hysterically, then lights a cigar, during which feckless act the car blows up. That's the funniest gag.