Fugitive Rage (1996) (V)

Director:

Fred Olen Ray

Writers:

Dani Michaeli (writer)
Sean O'Bannon (writer)

Release Date:

19 November 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller

Tagline:

Armed her. Trained her. Betrayed her ... They made a big mistake.

Plot:

Tara McCormick is sent to prison for the attempted murder of a local drug lord named Tommy Stompanato...

Plot Keywords:

Women's Prison | Private Nurse | Female Killer | Panties | Female Nudity

Cast

Alexander Keith	...	Tara McCormick (as Wendy Schumacher)
Shauna O'Brien	...	Josie Williams
Jay Richardson	...	Tommy Stompanato
Tim Abell	...	James O'Keefe
Katherine Victor	...	Miss Prince
Ross Hagen	...	Ryker
Toni Naples	...	Helga
Johnny Vincent	...	Farino
Rick Montana	...	Deluca
Calista Carradine	...	Sharrisse
Nikki Fritz	...	Nurse Wendy
Beth Ulrich	...	Spider
Carroll Schumacher	...	Quarter Master
Robert Quarry	...	Judge (as Robert Connell)
Claire Polan	...	D.A. (as Claire Hagen)

Also Known As:

Caged Fear (UK)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexuality, some violence and brief language.

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Certification:

UK:18 | USA:R

If I whacked Tommy Stompanato I'd get a sex change operation and move to Bolivia!

**SPOILERS** Having murdered her sister decorated LAPD cop and SWAT team leader Alexander or should it be Alexandra Keith,Tera McCormick,is in the courtroom at the trial of her sisters murderer the "Gucci Don" Tommy Stompanato ,Jay Richardson. As Stompanato is found innocent of Keith's sisters murder she unloads a full load of lead on the startled mobster putting Keith behind bars and Stompanato in the hospital in critical condition.

Tommy is determined to have Keith done in for what she did to him but before he can get someone inside the prison to do it. Keith is put under the wing and protection of secret government agent James O'Keefe, Tim Abell, to go undercover and help bring down the Stompanato crime empire. It turns out that Tommy is involved in illegal arms dealing, a no-no, with a number of Middle-Eastern dictatorships that's interfering with the big political money contributors who's profits he's cutting into. Keith who made friends in prison with fellow woman jailbird and convicted murderer, Josie Williams, Shauna O'Brien, also get's O'Keefe to put her into protective custody to be released with a full pardon after Keith finishes her assignment.

The movie "Fugitive Rage" is a guilty pleasure to watch with Keith looking more like a Playboy Centerfold then a hard as nails crime fighter. Keith takes on the entire Stompanato Mob single handedly and at the same time is being manipulated ***MAJOR SPOILER***by her handler, and lover, O'Keefe to be killed! this after she successfully completes her mission. It's also later revealed that Tommy's second in command Frank Ryker,Ross Hagen, is in on the "fix". It was US secret service Captain Ryker who had his entire secret agent undercover unit sold out and killed by the Communist in Eastern Europe in 1989 when the Commies were still there and running the show.

the action scenes in the movie are laughable with Keith, or her stunt double, looking ridicules as she fight and shoots it out with the Stompanato mobster. Hundreds of bullets fired in Keiths direction, ,many at point blank range, completely missing their target. It's as if Keith has some invisible force field protecting her. There's also a car chase where Keith is run down and ends up on the hood, with the two mobsters not having enough sense to shoot her, and end up in a fiery car crash with Keith walking away without as much as a scratch on her.

These two same numb-skull hoodlums later try to kill Keith and O'Keefe as their sleeping in their motel room in, of all places,the infamous "Bates Motel" by driving their car through the wall! When just a few well placed bullets from a silencer would have done the job without attraction any attention, and ending up killing themselves.

It doesn't take long for Keith to get to the Stompanato Mansion and finish off the reminder of his mob and Tommy himself. It turns out that Keiths fellow secret agent O'Keefe and his boss the former Captain Ryker are who she has the most trouble dispatching;but As usual in the end, like during the entire move,luck and the movie screenplay turns out to be on Keiths side.