Stone Cold (1991)
6/10
An astoundingly bad movie (that's actually rather good)
5 April 2022
Warning: Spoilers
As another reviewer wrote, it's a 'Wonderfully Over-The-Top' stupid action movie.

I actually started watching this thinking it was the Tom Selleck 2005 original Jesse Stone TV movie 'Stone Cold'.

I was about ten minutes into it before it dawned on me that I was watching the wrong movie.

I was going to give up on this total nonsense when it struck me that, despite myself, I was actually enjoying it anyway.

It's an unoriginal plot with a main actor who really can't act. But it DOES have Lance Henrikson, one of my favorite actors. And, even though he's almost unrecognizable, has ridiculously corny lines and is overacting the whole time, he actually turns in a sterling performance.

Even Brian Bosworth's wooden performance actually kinda works.

The violence is so far over-the-top it becomes good. But don't watch this movie for any redeeming qualities or concepts or anything. It IS better than 'Plan 9 from Outer Space'. But only just. Even the ending is bad - with Lance Henrikson and another simply acting out Alexander Godunov's final scene at the end of 'Die Hard'.

This is a movie that has no right to work. But I freely admit I enjoyed all one hour and 32 minutes of badly-acted violent bloodbath.

And I think you will, too.
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