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EXCELLENT ACTION FLICK - Predictive of the Islamic terror that would soon reach America
I was a grad student at Tulane when this film came out in the late-1980s. One of my classmates (his name was Scott) kept raving about the film but I waited about seventeen years before seeing it. After seeing it, I would have to agree with Scott. <
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>Rutger Hauer gives a great performance as a former CIA agent who is called back from retirement to help defeat a group of Muslim terrorists who have blown up a Los Angeles movie theatre, killing hundreds. Gene Simmons (of the rock group KISS) is even better as the Arab terrorists' leader. <
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>When this film was made, Muslim terrorists had already launched attacks in Europe but had yet to do so in the United States. Within a few years of the release of this film, on February 26, 1993, they would set off car bombs at the World Trade Center in New York City, killing six and wounding hundreds, launching a Holy War against a United States that would not fight back until their second attack on the World Trade Center, more than eight years later

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Cameos by rest of KISS on cutting room floor
Where to begin? Age and the DVD have made films like this almost required purchases for bad-movie addicts who remember the glory days of the 1980s where violent, idiotic films were perfected to science. <
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>Wanted Dead or Alive is supposed to follow the 50s TV show that starred Steve McQueen, but it doesn't really matter much, since McQueen didn't live to see this classic and make a cameo, and since they could have made the same film without the connection. But we all know that having some kind of brand-name recognition might get one or two more people into theaters, which is why every single, two-bit TV show will be made into a film by rich movie producers who still don't understand what they're doing. <
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>The film is highly recommended for bad-movie addicts. Perhaps more valuable than Hauer, who eventually got lost making too many bad movies in the years following this one, we have Gene Simmons brilliantly portraying an evil Arab terrorist, making the film plenty relevant today as the world has been reduced to an action movie of sorts. Simmons, who is Jewish, looks to be having fun, as he was in the Tom Selleck flick, Runaway, where he played that bad guy who used to write the names of his victims on his bullets, or something like that. Why wasn't he cast in more films as a bad guy? (Simmons, not Selleck). He has the mannerisms down, he has the lines, and we all know he is one of the most shameless dollar hounds in entertainment history. I liked the touch of him blowing up a movie theater showing a Rambo matinee, you know, in case we didn't get it. <
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>Anyway, perhaps what folks remember most is the famous grenade-in-the-mouth ending, which upheld an iron-clad 80s rule: the badder the bad guys, the more violent and ridiculous the deaths. This coup-de-grace was delivered the same year that Stallone hung a guy on a giant hook in Cobra, and a year after Bronson blew up a gang leader with a rocket launcher in his apartment in the unmatchable Death Wish III. <
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>One of those cheap DVD pick-ups, the availability of such revered crap ensures you'll never be bored, and that you can always, on demand, deduct a few IQ points after slaving away for a few bucks. In the 80s, and well into the 90s, crap like this could make it to the theater. But they don't make 'em like this anymore. No, instead they make worse, more expensive crap.

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Good Rutger Film!
Rutger's the MAN! I found this film at Best Buy about 4 or 5 months after September 11th, and it just hit the spot! I had never heard of the movie but being a Rutger fan I usually will spend the money to add his films to my ever growing collection. Sometimes he's the only thing that adds to the life of some very dreary films and he's in a bunch of them. The '80's however seems to have been his decade and this film is a pretty good outing for him. <
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>It is in the B-Movie range, for sure, but it works well. Gene Simmons plays a great villain. The action and pacing of the film works well, and frankly the subject matter couldn't be more up-to-date. <
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>I wish they were making more movies like this today where the terrorists get what they deserve and the audience can enjoy the payback and feel like they are participating in the action. <
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>The very end of the film is great and it certainly is a statement that works even better today. I think most people would feel the same way as Rutger does at the end of this movie and want to do the same thing. I certainly did! <
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>For fans of action and/or Rutger hunt this movie down!