Don "Jocky" Wilson is back! This time, he's brought some arse-kicking nineties actions stars with him
to not do much at all. These include Cynthia Rothrock (from Godfrey Ho's mental Undefeatable and Godfrey Ho's hilarious Honour and Glory), Richard Norton (from Sword of Boshido and he's somewhere in Mad Max Fury Road) and Sam Jones (from Jungle Heat and One Man Force
not much of an action star there). You'd think with an ensemble like that we'd have a huge limb flinging crunch fest like Ring of Fire 2, right? Wrong. This one is more like Ring of Fire 1, what with the drama and inner turmoil and stuff.
It's not too bad though. Don "Harold" Wilson is a cop in charge of a raid but is making rash decisions that fellow cop Richard Norton doesn't approve of. Once some drug dealers find out one of their own is a cop with a police issue ghetto blaster stuffed up his jumper, the cop gets chibbed and Don orders the raid too late. Vowing revenge and with the help of hooker Lara (or Tara maybe), Don tracks the dealers down and ends up getting some else killed. Thrown off the force, can Don find redemption by working for gangsters Chris Penn in order to get a mortgage? And win back his ex-wife and child? And help Tara stay on the straight and narrow? And win back the respect of his fellow cops? And help Chris Penn leave the business and stay on the straight and narrow? No wonder he's hardly got any time to kick anyone's teeth out.
Even though the film is full of missed opportunities (Cynthia only gets one fight, Norton doesn't do much of anything, Tara never gets her boobs out) I couldn't help but like it anyway, because it's full of likable actors and does have some action, just not much by way of kickboxing. Here's to Don "Wilson Not" Wilson and his cohorts.
It's not too bad though. Don "Harold" Wilson is a cop in charge of a raid but is making rash decisions that fellow cop Richard Norton doesn't approve of. Once some drug dealers find out one of their own is a cop with a police issue ghetto blaster stuffed up his jumper, the cop gets chibbed and Don orders the raid too late. Vowing revenge and with the help of hooker Lara (or Tara maybe), Don tracks the dealers down and ends up getting some else killed. Thrown off the force, can Don find redemption by working for gangsters Chris Penn in order to get a mortgage? And win back his ex-wife and child? And help Tara stay on the straight and narrow? And win back the respect of his fellow cops? And help Chris Penn leave the business and stay on the straight and narrow? No wonder he's hardly got any time to kick anyone's teeth out.
Even though the film is full of missed opportunities (Cynthia only gets one fight, Norton doesn't do much of anything, Tara never gets her boobs out) I couldn't help but like it anyway, because it's full of likable actors and does have some action, just not much by way of kickboxing. Here's to Don "Wilson Not" Wilson and his cohorts.