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Actually I thought this was a pretty funny flick and particularly enjoyed the surrealistic scene in which Arnold attacks -- I guess that's the right word -- the gaggle of gangsters holed up in the quarry. He kicks out the windshield of his convertible, turns up the Stones' "I Can't Get No Satisfaction," and careers through buildings, runways, and mountains of sand while a veritable hailstorm of bullets rains down on him. The gangsters all miss, while Arnold never misses, even firing from a fishtailing Cadillac.
Robert Davi is good as usual, though God only knows whether his playing it straight was designed to be taken seriously. Boy, does he know opera. I was an atmosphere person on this film, one of the gamblers in the scene in which Arnold overturns a craps table and gets into a fist fight with several massive stunt men, knocked several times on my behind by one of these Boulder Dams with legs during repeated rehearsals and takes.
I had a good chance to poke around the set. And what amazed me was the accuracy of the detail the property department had lavished on this movie, one more of the mindless action flicks to be committed to or upon film. Arnold drives a truck through a wall and into a big room. This is the only scene in which we see the room. Yet the room is exquisitely authentic. The movie is set in Chicago, which has a considerable Slavic population, so ordinary page-sized notices pinned to the walls are printed -- printed -- in Polish. The booze is Polish vodka. It's like looking at a hair-thin engagement ring of 24 karat gold serving as a setting for a big piece of paste.
Arnold is just as believable as he's always been. His playing a man who is drunk on champagne is a sight to be savored. Kathryn Harrold is awfully attractive and deserves an anatomy award.
If you like action flicks, this should satisfy you.
score 6/10
rmax304823 20 May 2001
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