Year: 1993

AKA: Joshua Tree

Starring: Dolph Lundgren, George Segal, Kristian Alfonso, Geoffrey Lewis, Michelle Phillips

Directed by: Vic Armstrong

Action Cheorographer:

Running time: 106 minutes

Storyline
It's high-caliber action from start to finish when Wellman Santee goes gunning for his money and running for his life after his partner is killed during a botched heist. Sensation stunts and spectacular special effects push the action to the limit as he captures a beautiful hostage and takes off across the desert in a high-speed race for his life. Six thousand square miles of sand and dozens of turbo-charged super cars set the stage for a bloody, bullet-riddled showdown with a ruthless killer.
We got that off the back of the box, it sounds kinda cool, but we were in for a major disappointment when we watched the movie.

The king of straight to video releases, Dolph Lundgren stars in this movie that has only one decent action scene. Instead of wasting your time watching the entire movie, we suggest simply fast forward to the action scenes. The best scene is a cool shoot out in a warehouse full of Ferraris and Lambourghinis. The shoot out last about nine mintues and seems pretty long. Dolph dispenses each bad guy with a fine red mist. Luckily guns fall into Dolph's hands whenever he needs one. After killing a few dozen guys, Dolph tears out of the warehouse in his sports car blowing the crap out of some oil silos. The shoot out is very entertaining and you'll be cheering for Dolph and laughing at the bad guys as Dolph shoots them two, three, four, five, or six times. Also, the end features a fight between Dolph and George Segal. I couldn't help from laughing when Dolph sat on top of Segal started pummeling his face.

Although the car chases in this film are not that great they do wield a couple of somewhat hilarious goof-ups. In the sequence where Dolph races through the oil silos and blasts the crap out of them you can see a crewmember in the bottom-right foreground, most likely the demolitions expert detonating the explosives. An aerial shot taken of yet another car chase sequence shows the shadow of the helicopter doing the filming.

Our final rating of this film is based solely on the one shootout at the warehouse. The whole film should have been like that.
Rating: / 10