My review was written in October 1990 after watching the movie on New World video cassette.
"Terminal Force" is a 1987 action potboiler from Fred Olen Ray. Dull pic was released direct to video last year and is reviewed here for the record. Known for his fantasy pics and latterly comedies, Ray is in the soup in this venture into Al Adamson low-budget gangster plotting.
Expatriate actor Richard Harrison returns to Hollywood after many years in Europe to play a burnt-out case, suspended from the police force after he wastes a robber in a liquor store. His off-the-books status gets him an assignment involving squealing mobster Jimmy Williams, whose daughter Angela Prrcell is kidnapped by evil Jay Richardson.
There's lots of talk and little action as double crosses lead to a poorly staged final shootout.
Harrison is okay. Heroine Porcell is on display in endless seminude footage. Dawn Wildsmith delivers her reliable tough babe characterization.
Despite his billing, Troy Donahue has a nothing part as a bartender. The late Fox Harris is fun doing a bugged-out impression of Dennis Hopper circa "Apocalypse Now" as a comical informant to Harrison. Cleve Hall's turn as a bloodthirsty henchman is right out of the audience at a "Rocky Horror Picture Show" screening.
Tech credits are poverty row.
"Terminal Force" is a 1987 action potboiler from Fred Olen Ray. Dull pic was released direct to video last year and is reviewed here for the record. Known for his fantasy pics and latterly comedies, Ray is in the soup in this venture into Al Adamson low-budget gangster plotting.
Expatriate actor Richard Harrison returns to Hollywood after many years in Europe to play a burnt-out case, suspended from the police force after he wastes a robber in a liquor store. His off-the-books status gets him an assignment involving squealing mobster Jimmy Williams, whose daughter Angela Prrcell is kidnapped by evil Jay Richardson.
There's lots of talk and little action as double crosses lead to a poorly staged final shootout.
Harrison is okay. Heroine Porcell is on display in endless seminude footage. Dawn Wildsmith delivers her reliable tough babe characterization.
Despite his billing, Troy Donahue has a nothing part as a bartender. The late Fox Harris is fun doing a bugged-out impression of Dennis Hopper circa "Apocalypse Now" as a comical informant to Harrison. Cleve Hall's turn as a bloodthirsty henchman is right out of the audience at a "Rocky Horror Picture Show" screening.
Tech credits are poverty row.