Review of Overkill

Overkill (1987)
3/10
Terribly made and leaves you with so many questions
22 February 2018
The editing here is awful with shots cut out in such a way that you never see any of the action and scenes jumping around from place to place and time to time without any connection. Then there's the sound cues that cut in and out. The story is limited and the voice over doesn't do it any favours... But I've got some questions... The one scene where the lead goes undercover as a male stripper shows that the actor was SUPER proficient at exotic dancing. So I want to know this. Was he hired because he could dance simply for that one scene? It's all of two minutes and adds nothing. So it would seem silly to cast for that, but he certainly wasn't a good actor so it's hard to say why he was hired in the first place. OR was that scene written because they lucked out and hired someone who could dance? Like did they go and add a short male stripper scene just to capitalize on the skills of the guy they picked for the lead? But again, the problem there is that he's terrible, so it's hard to believe that he beat anyone for the role on talent.
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