Fast Gun (1987)

User Rating:

3.6/10   

Director:

Cirio H. Santiago

Writers:

Joe Mari Avellana (writer)
Frederick Bailey (writer)

Genre:

Crime | Thriller

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Cast

Rick Hill	...	Jack Steiger
Kaz Garas	...	Harper
Robert Dryer	...	Nelson
Brenda Bakke	...	Julie Comstock
Morgan Strickland	...	'Cowboy' Phelps
Frank Diaz	...	Ramirez
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Lito Aguas	...	Nelson's Goon #3
James Brewer	...	Marijuana Runner #4
Tony Cooper	...	Marijuana Runner #3
Mel Davidson	...	Agent
Romy Diaz	...	Biker #1
Anthony East	...	Mayor Ankers
Philip Gordon	...	Marijuana Runner #5
Bobby Greenwood	...	Reporter
Joanne Griffin	...	Mrs. Rattner (+)
Jeff Griffith	...	Senator
Dieter Gruenberg	...	Nelson's Goon #4
Eric Hahn	...	DEA Agent #2
Paul Holmes	...	CIA Head
Craig Judd	...	Marijuana Runner #1
Frank Juhas	...	Nelson's Goon #8
David Light	...	Popkin
Warren McLean	...	DEA Agent #1
Ken Metcalfe	...	Rupert Jessup
Jim Moss	...	Nelson's Goon #5
Daniel Murphy	...	Nelson's Goon #6
Nick Nicholson	...	Nelson's Goon #1
James O'Neal	...	Marijuana Runner #9
Ronnie Patterson	...	Marijuana Runner #6
Kenneth Peerless	...	Biker #2
Mark Penicala	...	Marijuana Runner #10
Greg Rocero	...	Biker #3
Steve Rogers	...	Nelson's Goon #2
Judd Roy	...	Marijuana Runner #2
Vic Saad	...	Deputy
Raffael Schultz	...	Nelson's Goon #9
Elmar Schwery	...	Marijuana Runner #8
Mike Soquez	...	Marijuana Runner #7
Bill Staub	...	Campbell
Henry Strzalkowski	...	Colburn
Gary Touge	...	Nelson's Goon #7

Runtime:

82 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:R | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Company:

Concorde-New Horizons

Fast Gun? Extremely POWERFUL Gun is more like it!

I watched this movie the other night with a couple of friends, bought it at the bargain-bin somewhere a long time ago, and didn't really feel like watching it right away because of the ridiculous cover of a gun-toting Rick Hill standing in front of a big sheriff-star! And the cover didn't lie, the movie was a complete JOKE!

Summary: In the beginning we see a bunch of hooded thugs robbing a bunch of places apparently guarded by the Military Police, but the MP's look like interns! They have NO soldier-skills WHAT so ever! All it takes to kill them is a slight bash to the head or a choke-hold, that's IT! And the bad guys rob a bunch of weapons, which supposedly is going to be sold to some foreign buyers or something..

The hero is a small-town sheriff (Rick Hill as Jack Stieger), whose partner back in the big city was killed, thus prompting Jack to become a small town cop instead, how sad, aww, let's feel sorry for him, please.

And on top of all that, the town isn't even a real town! It's clearly made by cardboard cut-outs or some sort of super-cheap material that not even hobo's would want to live in! It's all blown to pieces at the end anyway..

Argh, I don't even wanna go on, this movie was so bad, my brain hurts trying to remember it.. but the worst thing about it was the ending:

*SPOILER*

He shoots bad guys with a HUGE machine-gun, I have NO idea how the hell he got it, since small-town cops don't usually have automatic weapons like that, but maybe he took it from some dead guys corpse and didn't want to let it go... but anyway: When he's up against helicopters (filled with machine-gun shooting madmen) or fully loaded freight-planes, he pulls out his smaller handgun and shoots: Once, Twice, Thrice, and BOOOM! The aircrafts EXPLODE!!! What kind of ammo he's been using I don't know, but it CAN'T be legal, that's for sure!

*END OF SPOILER*

All in all, I give this movie 3/10 because: 1: It made me laugh, especially at the ending with the 1-2-3 shot, and the scene when the barkeep comes out of the closed bar to face a bunch of evil looking bad guys, just to tell them: "We're closed"...what the hell was HE doing there, then?? What a moron! The bad guys obviously didn't think anybody was in there until he came out of the shop! They proceeded to beat him up and rob the place of course.

2: Robert Dryer was in it, and he's Fred "Hunter" Dryer's brother, that's cool. Plus Kas Garaz! That's just a funny name.

and 3: What? Rick's T-shirt is sweating in one scene, and then it suddenly turns all dried up in another scene?? Must've been Robert 'Dryer' who did some kind of magic to it....oh, wait...1-2-3: KA-BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!