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Lethal Tender - cinema's apotheosis
In all truly great films, the dark alchemy of writer, director, actor and cinematographer forms a unified, cohesive entity powerful enough to transcend the screen. Lethal Tender is no exception.
Here we have a film about an idiotic, narcissistic policeman (Fahey) whose previous career appears to have exclusively consisted of featuring in those curious "sample" pictures which extremely low-rent hairdressers stuck in their windows in 1982 and neglected to take down owing to the more pressing business of trying to stay alive on their meagre income. He chases after Carrie Anne Moss like a magnetic greyhound fired from a gun into a magnet factory. Small wonder, then, that he is called "Detective Chase."
Chase is accompanied by a Chinese man in a hat who is gloriously and inexplicably phased out of the plot with something akin to balletic grace by the wonderful wonderful human being who penned this film.
The action takes place in a large water-purifying facility which is precisely as dull as it sounds, containing a superfluity of "ducts" and "shafts" for characters to crawl through endlessly while the despairing musician stabs woefully at his keyboards, his eyes and hopes slowly drooping.
This dreary backdrop of aching, visceral drudgery is punctuated by two things. Firstly, Fahey's brilliant ability to run whilst bent over in a prone position, and then pop his head up from behind girders like a disoriented, permed meercat. Secondly, Kim Coates.
Coates is a master craftsman of the highest order. Watch as he casually demands facts about Wisconsin from a small girl in exchange for the life of her grandfather, witness his elevation of a simple line such as "Now does anyone have any cellular phones? Cellular phones?" to a ballad of irritation. He slaughters pointless minor characters with slightly camp, apparently ad-libbed pananche, quotes Shakespeare far too many times, and nods to the moustache twirling villians of yore. Both actor and character plead with the audience, "I deserve better, I deserve better", but listen guys, you belong right where you are. Because of this performance, I will eagerly watch any film with Coates in, hoping for just another glint of this character to shine through.
In all this, it would be easy to forget Gary Busey, that big-toothed human bullock who rampaged across the dusty wasteland of thousands of stupid films on his way to the great slaughterhouse of mainstream cinema. He was allegedly bolted onto the film for some kind of tax-break, but just view the ending and realise his overwhelming necessity.
Please watch this film, if only for the mesmerising sequence where a guard uses a corpse in a ventriolquism act. You owe it to yourself, you owe it to cinema.

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Gary Busey In the Overlooked 'Lethal Weapon' of 1997
Its' sad but true, so many films these days are looked over instantly because upon theatrical release they're up against the 'Glitz and Glamour' of Hollywood's tiresome 'Blonde and Popular' tabloid menu. In 1997, an awesome action/drama took to the big screen starring Gary Busey ('Lethal Weapon'), Jeff Fahey, Kim Coates and Carrie-ann Moss. In the opening credits, famed bad-guy Gary Busey gives an opening commentary that sets the scene for this down-to-Earth and cleaver hostage/cop drama. Canadian-born actor Kim Coates (A Broadway-Based actor who played a memorable role as 'Paul Gronky' in John Grishom's 'The Client'), leads a team of trench-coated crooks into a secured water-containment facility that facilitates the filtering and distribution of water to an entire city. The plant and it's occupants become hostage to a handsome and cunning, religiously obsessed Coates and "Perfect Crime". A small group of tour members are held at gunpoint in the middle of the building..and one surviving plant supervisor is held in the control room. Jeff Fahey is a Ken-Doll looking cop who spends his desk time getting out of handcuffs on bets, and who happens to be in the right place at the right time when he is sent to the plant to control protesters. The movie picks up quickly and never deviates into a non-realistic plot..adding comedy, vulgar and violence to a smart scenerio. Carrie-ann Moss is the sexy plant worker who managed to go unnoticed in the hostage takeover, and works feverishly with Fahey to stop the men from contaminating the city's water supply. Montessi (Coates) is watched over by Gary Busey, the head of the crime where the goal is the theft of $64 mil. in a 'pay-or-pay the price' mission...with hundreds of thousands of gallons of this powerful commodity at their disposal. The movie does'nt turn into unnecessary drama at any point, although it does give a great chemistry between Moss and Fahey. Kim Coates shines in this, his biggest role yet..and gives a flawless and funny, creepy and cleaver performance that will definately do his career well in the future. Ive already said why this movie has been tossed to the side..probably the same reason you can't get it on DVD. Think of some OTHER movies that came out in 1997 that you can buy so readily available at 7-Eleven...and they suck! Why is it though that great movies like this disolve and those others live on??..Because Russel Crowe is so "cool"..because Cameron Diaz is just so "sexy"..because Meg Ryan might announce who she's marrying next..because this is this actor's or that actress's first movie since JAIL..Dont make your movie decisions based on this garbage. 'Lethal Tender' is well worth your money if your a fan of fast-paced, high energy, moderately violent and modestly smart action/dramas'. Take a break from this ridiculous American Hollywood tabloid swim everyone seems to be in these days.

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Smart and Very Reputable Hostage Drama Living Among Shadow..
From 'Cold Front' (1989 w/Martin Sheen)..to 'Blue Steel' (1991 w/Jamie Lee Curtis and Ron Silver)..I guess they'll always be worthwhile action and drama flicks that drop out of sight from time to time...But its these movies like 1997's 'Lethal Tender' that you wont be wasting you money to rent or buy. 'Lethal Tender' puts Gary Busey (Lethal Weapon), Jeff Fahey, and Kim Coates inside a city's water plant for a high-intesity hostage drama, along with Carrie-Ann Moss who plays the sexy sidekick to a cop (Jeff Fahey) who happened to be in the right place at the right time. The handsome and cool overcoat-wearing Kim Coates pulls a car of three men past the security gate posing as tour members of the water plant, which controls and purifies the entire areas water supply. Weilding guns and unloading the perfect crime puts the power of this awesome commodity in their hands, as they shut off filtration systems which in four hours will cause a major contamination. Jeff Fahey is the Ken-Doll looking cop who spends his desk time picking out of handcuffs, and who winds up on his own with a woman (Moss) who works at the plant. Gary Busey is the brain of the operation, who watches over Montessi (Coates) and takes care of the heart of their plan...the theft of $64 mil. which is covered up by this immediate danger at the water supply. The movie is smart, funny, violent and definately unique in it's storyline and casting. Canadian-born actor Kim Coates is the ultimate bad guy, playing a memorable role as 'Paul Gronke' in John Grishom's 'The Client'-1994. He also played the French villian in 1989's 'Cold Front', and does a fantastic job as the fanatical..religiously obsessed ring leader of the explosive takeover inside the building. Although hostage movies can tend to get a little farfetched, this story is much more down to Earth and easier to believe. Excellent performances are given by in all honesty a great cast, and even though they show this movie on cable TV from time to time..they edit the hell out of it and you wont enjoy it as much. A very cool action/drama flick that beats down this ...