dbborroughs Review of Tough to Kill

Tough to Kill (1979)

Slow to start B action film improves at it gets down to business and the plot kicks in

[6/10 · 4 August 2009]

Story of a mercenary who infiltrates a mercenary army in order to kidnap one of the other soldiers and bring him back for a reward. the problem is that several other men find out whats going on and insist on being cut in. Once on the march the group begins to turn on each other. Slow to start action film is actually pretty good. If you have the patience to get through the first 25 minutes or so you'll find that the characters are all set up so that once things get into motion people are more than just cardboard cut outs. The print I saw is one of the ones supplied to the now defunct BCI by Crown International and its slightly choppy and seems to have been put together from a number of video sources. I mention this because I've read some reviews of this film that have mentioned poor video quality, which would be understandable since this is the type of film that probably wad a heavy renter in the VHS days and since many budget DVD companies sometimes use VHS copies as their sources you're going to get a warn picture. I like the movie and think that if you like B movie action films you'll want to give it a shot