Of course it never
comes off as plausible that Arnold Schwarzenegger is a small-town sheriff, but
otherwise this isn’t a bad little action film.
It’s certainly made out of pure nostalgia for the 80s/90s school of
pre-superhero action films, which starred actual “action stars,” who were
martial artists and body-builders, not really actors. I enjoyed the lengthy set-up involving a
criminal mastermind’s escape from FBI custody and his high-speed chase towards
the Mexican border, which sends him right through Arnold ’s sleepy town. Well Arnold ’s not going to have any of that, naturally,
and tons of gunfire and car crashes later, it’s down to a showdown between the
hero and villain. So much time has
passed since the heyday of Schwarzenegger, Stallone and Van Damme that the clichés
of those films now seem like enjoyable, almost quaint traditions. A major letdown, though, are the lame special
effects that look like the most basic explosions and blood-bursts available in
whatever software the editor used.
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