This starts out reasonably well, but when the bionic bikers arrive to take out cyborg Paco Queruak (Daniel Greene) it descends into silliness. From there, it's bring on the bazookas and laser weapons to turn this thing into an extravaganza of weapon fire and explosions. It wouldn't have been so bad if the screen writers explained how Paco's circuitry couldn't possibly have been damaged by taking direct machine gun fire to the chest, or survive getting waterlogged while completely submerged. Well, I guess you're not supposed to think about stuff like that, which inadvertently winds up making me think about stuff like that. As an old time pro wrestling fan, I got a kick out of those photos on the wall of Linda's (Janet Agren) establishment; you had to be quick though, to pick out Bruno Sammartino and Terry Funk, most likely matinee idols for the likes of Raul Morales (George Eastman) and his arm wrestling buddy Anatoly Blanco (Darwyn Swalve). That rattlesnake gimmick was pretty interesting but didn't get very far. As the viewer, one might have been forewarned about getting too involved with this flick, because right there at the very beginning you had this poster of a man pointing with the words 'You Have No Future'. It turned out to be a pretty accurate description of the story.
Review of Hands of Steel
