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Don Johnson is truly one of these underrated actors, whose recent scope of work, I highly praise (Machete, Django). He just gets more impressive. In his heyday, a few years after his Miami sweats, he did this solid '89, under the radar actioner which was a perfect vehicle for him. Dead Bang escaped a cinema run, and played at an Adelaide drive in, as the additional flick, to a double feature. It deserves much more attention than that. It has a fresh premise, and his Jerry Beck cop character is the tough, new cool, unconventional cop, we instantly like, and understand. He does something really unconventional, you haven't seen in other films, after just chasing down a biker suspect.Things aren't going terribly good for Jerry. A lot of personal stuff. The personal meter is raised, when this latest homicide, is one of his own, perpetrated by a white supremacist/black hating brainwashed idiot, who avidly pours a number of shots in that unfortunate officer, after just blowing away a black store clerk. His investigations has him following the trail, across Nevada, after the culprit. Penelope Ann Miller is so sexy in her limited scenes, it's a crime, and a straight arrow, anti expletive FBI agent (Forsythe) is top form, Jeter, fun, as a condescending Woody Allen look a like shrink (my favorite scene), who Johnson puts back in his place, or chair I should say. Brad Sullivan as a fast talking, yokel cop is fun in his limited duration, Dead Bang is a well made, good action product, from the get go, with appealing performances, the film's crime, it's poor recognition, Watch and enjoy. Love the look of that triangular shaped pastry, Johnson is offered too, midway.
score 8/10
videorama-759-859391 1 September 2020
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7-4-2021 00:06:18